"It’s crazy how much it’s still scary to stand out there by yourself." — SATE

Blues, band nerds, Tarot cards, Toronto nightlife stories, fear, laughter. This conversation with Toronto musician SATE has it ALL. The late jazz and literary critic Albert Murray wrote about the blues as an Indigenous American tradition of resilience, an active and ongoing process or mode of confrontation and improvisation. Resilience is the blues, the blues is resilience. In her own way, SATE weaves a story of blues as a kind of grounding: in ancestry, self-identification, and — yep resilience.

SATE: stateofsate.com

Salome Bey, "You're Gonna Fall (1970)"

Andy Bey & The Bey Sisters, "Smooth Sailing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jDDtUFUgbM

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UNDER by Dyani is available now: dyani.bandcamp.com

Theme song, "Dark Beings" by LAL

Original music by Jahmal Padmore

Artwork by amad.studio

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"So many of my friends had pop star dreams and we're all at this age where we're building a life that can include our creative talents and passions in a sustainable way. It was sad for me for a bit, but now I'm ecstatic." — Matthew Progress

In this chat, Toronto-born multidisciplinary artist Matthew Progress talks about his short film TXN: A Decade In Review, commissioned by the Nia Centre, which culls the recent archive of images and sound to create a capsule narrative about Black Toronto. It had its public release (Zoom-style) the week that George Floyd's murder the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet enflamed the news cycle. It got me thinking about the way that the grace of time is often denied to immigrant and racialized communities, who are denied public histories and ensnared in cycles of outrage. Matthew and I talked about the making of TXN, our meditation and grounding techniques and, because he's also a musician, the slow unfolding of multiple creative voices.

Watch TXN: A Decade In Review: https://vimeo.com/421074565

Stream his music https://smarturl.it/t3pv65

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UNDER by Dyani is available now: dyani.bandcamp.com

Original music by Jahmal Padmore

Artwork by amad.studio

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"We're all out here trying to act like individuals [but] there is something about the individual that takes everything away from the community. We have to be aware of that." — Kris Harper

Meet Kris Harper of nêhiyawak, the excellent Polaris Prize-shortlisted band from amiscwaciy (Edmonton, Alberta). Kris talks about how the Idle No More Movement, which began in Saskatchewan in 2012, shook up his understanding of how music, made intentionally, can be transformative, why he believes that more people should identify as Indigenous, and the importance of self-determination in music-making.

Kris's Instagram post about skipping the Juno Awards: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FXSs9Fky7/

Additional tunes: "ôtênaw" and "open window" by nêhiyawak

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ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ nêhiyawak: nehiyawak.bandcamp.com

Original music by Jahmal Padmore

Artwork by amad.studio

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