New album Sweet Tooth from Wabanaki bassist, composer, and songwriter
Mali OBOMSAWIN HIGHLIGHTS CENTURIES OF CLEVER ADAPTATION AND
RESISTANCE THAT HAVE FUELED THE ART AND CULTURE OF WABANAKI PEOPLE.
Written as a compositional suite, the album, released in October 2022
on Out of Your Head Records, blends Wabanaki stories and songs with
compositions addressing contemporary Indigenous life, colonization,
and continuity. Its at once intimately personal, featuring field
recordings of relatives at Odanak First Nation, but also conveys a
larger story of the Wabanaki people. The compositions reveal threads
that bind together blues, jazz, hymns, folk songs, and Native
cultures, and foreground the breadth of Indigenous contributions to
these genres. Telling Indigenous stories through the language of jazz
is not a new phenomenon, OBOMSAWIN EXPLAINS. My people have had to
innovate endlessly to get our stories heard - learning to express
ourselves in French, English, Abenaki but sometimes words fail US, and
we must use sound. Sweet Tooth is a testament to this. Sweet Tooth is
a celebration of Indigenous innovation, and an ingeniously envisioned
debut for this composer-bandleader. Limited tickets will be sold at
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