Symbiont
Jake Blount (Performer, Producer), Mali Obomsawin (Performer, Producer), Jeanne Meserve (Performer), Sidy Maiga (Performer), Joe Rainey (Performer), Taylor Ho Bynum (Performer), Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings (Publisher)
From the first notes of 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
Music CD, English, 2024
Smithsonian Folkways, Washington, DC, 2024