Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – symbiont (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:50 minutes | 386 MB | Genre: Folk, World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
From the first notes of symbiont, the radical new collaborative album and document of Black and Indigenous futurism from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, the listener is met with rising tidewaters, massive droughts, and the appearance of an iconoclastic uprising amidst the world’s indifference. Questions of future or present tense swirl around the music as the duo unspools the intertwined threads of racial and climate justice. Amid rumbling synthesizer drones, the thrum of banjo, and the thwack of drum machines, a whisper of truth can be heard: this crisis has been unfolding for centuries.
Tracklist:
01. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – Prelude (00:50)
02. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – What’s You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire (03:12)
03. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – No Hiding Place (03:19)
04. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – My Way’s Cloudy (03:20)
05. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – Mother (04:28)
06. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – Stars Beging to Fall (03:45)
07. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – The Green Road (02:59)
08. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – Live Humble (04:16)
09. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – In the Garden (04:18)
10. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – Come Down Ancients (02:59)
11. Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin – Old Indian Hymn (03:19)
