Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
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About Jeremy Dutcher’s Polaris and Juno-winning album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa,released in 2018, The Guardian wrote that it “announced the 28 year old as one of Canada’s most important new musicians.”
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.