2016 Grammys Best Historical Album Nominee
Largely unheard, criminally undocumented, but at their core, utterly revolutionary, the recordings of the diverse North American Aboriginal community will finally take their rightful place in our collective history in the form of Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966–1985. An anthology of music that was once near-extinct and off-the-grid is now available for all to hear, in what is, without a doubt, Light In The Attic’s most ambitious and historically significant project in the label’s 12-year journey.
Native North America (Vol. 1) features music from the Indigenous peoples of Canada and the northern United States, recorded in the turbulent decades between 1966 to 1985. It represents the fusion of shifting global popular culture and a reawakening of Aboriginal spirituality and expression. The majority of this material has been widely unavailable for decades, hindered by lack of distribution or industry support and by limited mass media coverage, until now. You’ll hear Arctic garage rock from the Nunavik region of northern Quebec, melancholy Yup’ik folk from Alaska, and hushed country blues from the Wagmatcook First Nation reserve in Nova Scotia. You’ll hear echoes of Neil Young, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Cash, and more among the songs, but injected with Native consciousness, storytelling, poetry, history, and ceremony.
The stories behind the music presented on Native North America (Vol. 1) range from standard rock-and-roll dreams to transcendental epiphanies. They have been collected with love and respect by Vancouver-based record archaeologist and curator Kevin “Sipreano” Howes in a 15-year quest to unearth the history that falls between the notes of this unique music. Tirelessly, Howes scoured obscure, remote areas for the original vinyl recordings and the artists who made them, going so far as to send messages in Inuktitut over community radio airwaves in hopes that these lost cultural heroes would resurface. Released May 25, 2016
Full Album https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9TzFaz2KhXubU5TbHBqMU1EWDQ/view?usp=sharing
- Willie Dunn, "I Pity the Country"
- John Angaiak, "I'll Rock You to the Rhythm of the Ocean"
- Sugluk, "Fall Away"
- Sikumiut, "Sikumiut"
- Willie Thrasher, "Spirit Child"
- Willy Mitchell, "Call of the Moose"
- Lloyd Cheechoo, "James Bay"
- Alexis Utatnaq, "Maqaivvigivalauqtavut"
- Brian Davey, "Dreams of Ways"
- Morley Loon, "N'Doheeno"
- Peter Frank, "Little Feather"
- Ernest Monias, "Tormented Soul"
- Eric Landry, "Out of the Blue"
- David Campbell, "Sky-Man and the Moon"
- Willie Dunn, "Son of the Sun"
- Shingoose with Duke Redbird, "Silver River"
- Willy Mitchell and Desert River Band, "Kill'n Your Mind"
- Philippe McKenzie, "Mistashipu"
- Willie Thrasher, "Old Man Carver"
- Lloyd Cheechoo, "Winds of Change"
- The Chieftones, "I Shouldn't Have Did What I Done"
- Sugluk, "I Didn't Know"
- Lawrence Martin, "I Got My Music"
- Gordon Dick, "Siwash Rock"
- Willy Mitchell and Desert River Band, "Birchbark Letter"
- William Tagoona, "Anaanaga"
- Leland Bell, "Messenger"
- Saddle Lake Drifting Cowboys, "Modern Rock"
- Willie Thrasher, "We Got to Take You Higher"
- Sikumiut, "Utirumavunga"
- Sugluk, "Ajuinnarasuarsunga"
- John Angaiak, "Hey, Hey, Hey, Brother"
- Groupe Folklorique Montagnais, "Tshekuan Mak Tshetutamak"
- Willie Dunn and Jerry Saddleback, "Peruvian Dream"
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