'You tried to bury us, but we were seeds and so we grew.' First Nations artists are leading a global Indigenous renaissance.
A unique fusion of Indigenous language, opera and jazz, the album was built around rarely-heard Wolastoqey songs, unearthed in wax cylinder recordings from the early 1900s.Advertisement
Canadian First Nations artist Jeremy Dutcher will bring his unique blend of opera and Indigenous language to Sydney Festival.The 29-year-old is a fluent Wolastoqey speaker, but his proficiency was hard-won. “I was studying for a German test and I just had this moment of realisation of like, German will be fine. German doesn't need me,” he said.
“Through our songs we assert our sovereignty, which is to say that you tried to bury us, but we were seeds and so we grew.”Rhett Wyman “There's so much in our languages… they're so different from any European language, because they put us in relationship to the land. You can't separate those two.”
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