Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa is the debut album by Canadian composer and tenor, Jeremy Dutcher – which involves post-classical rearrangement of his Wolastoq First Nation traditional music. Granted access to the Canadian Museum of History, Jeremy discovered wax cylinders from 1907 of his ancestors singing forgotten songs and stories that had been taken from the Wolastoqiyik Nation generations ago. The album is Jeremy’s contribution to his heritage and community in attempts to revitalize the Wolastoq language to the world, which has less than 100 fluent speakers from birth. This collection of ground breaking post-classical arrangements is truly one of a kind and recalls the mood of Rufus Wainwright's operatic performance or the haunting pop of Anohni.
Product Details
- Black 12'' vinyl 140g
- Single with credits and lyrics printed on inner-sleeve
- Cardboard sleeve
- 16-bit/44.1k
- 320 kbps
- Secret City Records
- April 6, 2018
Musicians
- Piano / Voice
- Electronics
- Soprano
- Percussions
- Cello
- Cello
- Violin
- Violin
- Viola
- Double Bass
- Fiddle
Production Credits
- Bufflo & Jeremy Dutcher
- Pascal Shefteshy
- Jonathan Kaspy
Compositions
- All songs adapted by Jeremy Dutcher from wax cylinder recordings of traditional Wolastoq songs made in the early 1900s.