symbiont

From the first notes of symbiont, the radical new collaborative album and document of Black and Indigenous futurism from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, the listener is met with rising tidewaters, massive droughts, and the appearance of an iconoclastic uprising amidst the world’s indifference. Questions of future or present tense swirl around the music as the duo unspools the intertwined threads of racial and climate justice. Amid rumbling synthesizer drones, the thrum of banjo, and the thwack of drum machines, a whisper of truth can be heard: this crisis has been unfolding for centuries.

 

Track Listing

1	Prelude	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Jeanne Meserve	00:50
2	What's You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin	03:12
3	No Hiding Place	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Sidy	03:19
4	My Way's Cloudy	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Joe Rainey	03:20
5	Mother	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin	04:28
6	Stars Begin to Fall	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin feat. Taylor Ho Bynum	03:45
7	The Green Road	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin	02:59
8	Live Humble	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin	04:16
9	In the Garden	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin	04:18
10	Come Down Ancients	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin	02:59
11	Old Indian Hymn	Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin	03:19