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Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin feat. Joe Rainey - "My Way's Cloudy"
Listen to Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin's "My Way's Cloudy," from their album
symbiont. About the song, the artists write:
"We entered a Providence, RI studio to record My Way’s Cloudy on a clear fall day. When we walked outside again, the sky was thick with smoke from Canadian wildfires, carried down on the breeze.
Climate change’s many consequences travel like smoke, imperiling bodies and communities as surely as they shroud the sky. The music of
symbiont is an attempt to join our peoples in sound and movement as we stave off death together. The spiritual “My Way’s Cloudy” was collected from formerly enslaved Black people at the Hampton Institute—mere miles from where Jake’s family originates. Our arrangement features instrumentation from our respective musical traditions and vocals from renowned Red Lake Ojibway singer Joe Rainey. The video was filmed at the Penobscot Nation featuring Selena Neptune-Bear and her two nieces Carmella and Layla Bear."