[ Jagjaguwar / LP ]
Release Date: Friday 19 July 2024
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Geographically, Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsin project, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family. Bezhikiins Jennings grew up singing within the powwow tradition, around the Lac Du Flambeau and Lac Courte Oreilles reservations in Central Wisconsin. He now makes his home in Northern Wisconsin, on the Bad River reservation on the shores of Lake Superior. He's joined on the album by his adopted brother, Rainey, a Red Lake Ojibwe powwow singer from Minneapolis who now makes his home within his wife's Oneida Nation on the shores of Lake Michigan.
The collaboration between these three musicians first began at the Eaux Claires festival in 2015. The festival was being organized on Ojibwe's ancestral homelands, and the organizers didn't feel right without the inclusion of the native communities who lived nearby. Bizhikiins Jennings remembers getting an invitation to play the festival and thinking "I wish more people would say this - that instead of reading from some land acknowledgement, that they would say 'we're gonna give your people space and just invite you to do what you wanna do.'" The open-endedness of the initial invitation and the "let's just do something together" spirit continues to inform Bizhiki's process.
Recording steadily over the course of years - and between several projects from Bizhiki's members, including two solo albums (Joe Rainey's Niineta and S. Carey's Break Me Open) - the trio chipped away at an expansive, ambitious and unique record that sounds like no other music being made today. Unbound is a collaboration between a group of singers and musicians at a particular time and place, exchanging ideas in an open-ended dialogue deeply considering the resources that we're trying to share, generations into the future.
A1. Franklin Warrior
A2. Unbound
A3. SGC
A4. She's All We Have
A5. Rez News
A6. Nashke!
B1. Float Back By
B2. Trying To Live
B3. Gigawaabamin (Come Through) (feat. Mike Sullivan)
B4. Call Me Home
B5. Medicine River