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Al compas del mundo - programa 66 - Native American music

A couple of programs back the topic was Romani music – not to be referred to as “Gypsy” any more. Because they said so. At that time I flippantly remarked that you’d likely not get stomped  were you to throw around names like Blackfoot, Flathead, and Gros Ventre (Big Belly) – as long as you didn’t get caught. That admittedly facetious time is up! The Halluci Nation stands up here to make it right. AKA A Tribe Called Red, these youngsters are in your face if you’ll let them in. The message of identity they spout is of the utmost importance – to them and society as large. Their electronic hiphop vehicle is to be expected. It’s the way of the entire world of young folk. 20-something Mongolian sheep herders are rapping in studios (or yurts?) these days and it sounds an awful lot like what’s heard here. I want to know what they’ll all be singing together around the campfire in twenty years, as melody takes a back seat to spittin’ rhymes? But that’s a whole other tangent. A Tribe Called Red is smart enough to honor the past and not just project to the future. Enrolling an elder like Buffy Sainte-Marie was a brilliant and logical move. Heck, that old activist probably enrolled them. And then the Black Lodge Singers came along and made my day. Listen to the “Flintstones” carefully. You’ll hear Native tongue in familiar fashion and then suddenly: “The all-American family, the Flintstones say, the Rubbles too, they all sing yabba-dabba-doo, yabba-dabba-doo.” Too perfect! A dada-esque statement by descendants of the first all-American families.



 TRACKLIST Native American music first broadcast on RadioActiva Mar 2, 2023

01 Georgia Anne Muldrow - Seminole Unity Chant

02 A Tribe Called Red - Suplex (with Northern Voice)

03 Akwesasne Women Singers - Ka'satstenhserowanen (Women's Power Song)

04 Inez Jasper - Stick Game Jam with Big Phil

05 The Papago Molinas - Number 7

06 Buffy Sainte-Marie – Codine

07 A Tribe Called Red with Buffy Sainte-Marie - Working for the Government

08 Jennifer Kreisberg - Deer Song

09 Black Lodge Singers – Flintstones

10 Pura Fe - Find the Cost of Freedom

11 Taboo - Stand Up-Stand N Rock, No DAPL

12 Fawn Wood - Remember Me

13 Lakota Peyote-healing Song

14 The Halluci Nation - The Virus with Saul Williams, Chippewa Travellers

15 Ulali and BC Smith - Forgive Our Fathers Suite

 



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