Totally agree with you Jeremy Dutcher. I am so glad you pushed the boundaries of indigenous music when you were at University! It would have been restrictive for you to follow mainstream curriculum. Love what you're doing with your music. Keep going. Your ancestors would be proud of you. Stoke the fires, and make it burn big (spiritually speaking) let the talents/gifts your forefathers handed down to you come out. Go hard! Shine bright. Make your ancestors and your communities proud!!
Him: I have a tendency to ramble. Me: REALLY? Couldn't tell! It's so good to just sit and listen to this enlightened man talk about what he does and what he believes in, though. You're a finer speaker than you think you are, Jeremy.
I love your music. I saw a movie today that used a lot of it. I can't remember what the movie was called but I recognised your music right away. I lived in NW Ontario for about 20 years and I loved being able to go to the big celebrations held by the indigenous people's. I always took my little girl and we watched the dancers in the jingle dresses and listened to the drumming and singing and it just stirred my soul. We could hear it from my house at night. I found it soothing but I felt it open my mind too, hearing the depth and intricate beauty in it. We are back in my home in Scotland now but I have a lot of love for the indigenous people's in Canada and the States I loved feeling connected to it. Thank you so much for your music.
You know what I really like is Indian music. EAST INDIAN. Indians are from India. But I mean people like Ravi Shankar, of course, but I also mean the people who came together to compile the Mira Bhajans, and I heard this ROCKING hymn to Mother Kali just yesterday for the first time that I kept on replay basically all day today, and I think you're right, eh: white, Western music is put on a pedestal, while a lot of other stuff is just so much more engaging. "Nipuwoltin", for example: half the time when I listen to it, I belt it with you, but the other half of the time, I just have to sit there and marvel, because there's structure to it, sure, but you have the Acadian sound with the fiddle and that, AND the traditional sound with just the rattle that you did live on the CBC. I don't know which version I like better: album, or just you alone with the rattle. Either way, I think it's my favourite on the album. A song that is good enough to make me want to sing along is no rare. A song that is good enough to make me shut the feck up and just listen...THAT is rare. I may be all of five feet tall, but I'm not a shy woman, and yes, I can sing. not like you. It goes you, my vocal teacher, then me. He loves you, by the way. Knew about you even before I did, but when I found out about you, Mario (my teacher) was a happy man.
Yeah, by the way, they're called "neuter" pronouns. Gender-neutral words like "they", except not clunky and awkward because the language isn't designed around dichotomies. Sanskrit has them, too. They have she/he, but also a REAL gender-neutral or gender-fluid pronoun, though I don't know what it is. But the point is, you're not required to choose. The God Krishna swapped sexes all the time: there was a magical pond near where He grew up where, if you dove in, you'd come out as the opposite sex, so She/He would be able to sleep with all the pretty girls, take a dive into the pond, and then sleep with all the pretty boys, and no one would be the wiser. In Hinduism, too, there isn't this rigid binary of she and he when it comes to relationships: it is perfectly consistent with their belief systems for people to have lovers or even spouses of all sexes. I'm a student of Eastern Philosophy, eh, just for some background. But seriously, I DON'T GET the huge problem the white West has with homosexuality. It's literally as exclusive as being left-handed. Oh, and guess who's left-handed. You. And me. And my sister. See what I mean?
Thank you for posting this, SO glad I was able to hear this conversation. Fantastic!!
Totally agree with you Jeremy Dutcher. I am so glad you pushed the boundaries of indigenous music when you were at University! It would have been restrictive for you to follow mainstream curriculum. Love what you're doing with your music. Keep going. Your ancestors would be proud of you. Stoke the fires, and make it burn big (spiritually speaking) let the talents/gifts your forefathers handed down to you come out. Go hard! Shine bright. Make your ancestors and your communities proud!!
Jeremy Dutcher you are lovely.
Him: I have a tendency to ramble.
Me: REALLY? Couldn't tell! It's so good to just sit and listen to this enlightened man talk about what he does and what he believes in, though. You're a finer speaker than you think you are, Jeremy.
I love your music. I saw a movie today that used a lot of it. I can't remember what the movie was called but I recognised your music right away. I lived in NW Ontario for about 20 years and I loved being able to go to the big celebrations held by the indigenous people's. I always took my little girl and we watched the dancers in the jingle dresses and listened to the drumming and singing and it just stirred my soul. We could hear it from my house at night. I found it soothing but I felt it open my mind too, hearing the depth and intricate beauty in it. We are back in my home in Scotland now but I have a lot of love for the indigenous people's in Canada and the States I loved feeling connected to it. Thank you so much for your music.
Wonderful conversation!! Thank you!
You know what I really like is Indian music. EAST INDIAN. Indians are from India. But I mean people like Ravi Shankar, of course, but I also mean the people who came together to compile the Mira Bhajans, and I heard this ROCKING hymn to Mother Kali just yesterday for the first time that I kept on replay basically all day today, and I think you're right, eh: white, Western music is put on a pedestal, while a lot of other stuff is just so much more engaging. "Nipuwoltin", for example: half the time when I listen to it, I belt it with you, but the other half of the time, I just have to sit there and marvel, because there's structure to it, sure, but you have the Acadian sound with the fiddle and that, AND the traditional sound with just the rattle that you did live on the CBC. I don't know which version I like better: album, or just you alone with the rattle. Either way, I think it's my favourite on the album. A song that is good enough to make me want to sing along is no rare. A song that is good enough to make me shut the feck up and just listen...THAT is rare. I may be all of five feet tall, but I'm not a shy woman, and yes, I can sing. not like you. It goes you, my vocal teacher, then me. He loves you, by the way. Knew about you even before I did, but when I found out about you, Mario (my teacher) was a happy man.
Yeah, by the way, they're called "neuter" pronouns. Gender-neutral words like "they", except not clunky and awkward because the language isn't designed around dichotomies. Sanskrit has them, too. They have she/he, but also a REAL gender-neutral or gender-fluid pronoun, though I don't know what it is. But the point is, you're not required to choose. The God Krishna swapped sexes all the time: there was a magical pond near where He grew up where, if you dove in, you'd come out as the opposite sex, so She/He would be able to sleep with all the pretty girls, take a dive into the pond, and then sleep with all the pretty boys, and no one would be the wiser. In Hinduism, too, there isn't this rigid binary of she and he when it comes to relationships: it is perfectly consistent with their belief systems for people to have lovers or even spouses of all sexes. I'm a student of Eastern Philosophy, eh, just for some background. But seriously, I DON'T GET the huge problem the white West has with homosexuality. It's literally as exclusive as being left-handed. Oh, and guess who's left-handed. You. And me. And my sister. See what I mean?