Hello and welcome!
Hello and welcome to this week's tunes from Turtle Island. I'm your host Andrew GJ.
Tonight or today depending on when you're listening I've got a pretty mixed bag. Singer-songwriter,
country, rock, industrial, traditional, pop, some res metal, some reggae and some hip hop,
and probably a few more genres in there as well. I started off tonight's show with the
Greenlandic Innu musician Varnar. That was a track called Kwaadulu, if I've got the
pronunciation right. In English it means raven. And I'm going to continue with the,
and I'm going to continue with the Prairie States, a bit of country rock for you. They're
led by the Cree musician Matt Cardinal and this track is called Nowhere Town.
I just thought it was a two-lap speed trail with a bone alley he said she said nowhere town
I just thought it was a name on a tag that you missed,
save your blank, kind of one horse stopping ground Didn't know it mean the world someday
I just thought it was a nowhere town
We used to burst bird lights on the 55th side We were kings of those county roads
We had homecoming queens and getaway dreams Had a good and didn't even know
I didn't know it mean the world someday I just thought it was a two-lap speed
trail with a bone alley he said she said nowhere town I just thought it was a name on a tag that
you missed, save your blank, kind of one horse stopping ground Didn't know it mean the world someday
I just thought it was a nowhere town
A little bit of nowhere town
It's got my first beer, my first smoke, my last football game
My first kiss, my first heartbreak, my first everything I just thought it was a two-lap speed
trail with a bone alley he said she said nowhere town I just thought it was a name on a tag that
you missed, save your blank, kind of one horse stopping ground Didn't know it mean the world someday
I just thought it was a nowhere town
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To the highest mountain peak Let your soul seek
The deepest part of me Fly with me
To the highest mountain peak Let your heart speak
Fly away, fly away with me
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That track was from Space Leopard and Push Audio with Maria Mallon and the Chickasaw artist Tabitha Fair.
It was called Fly Away Soulmate from the album Mac Ruckus.
I'm going to follow that with a track that brings me back to the early 80s, the likes of Ministry, Front 242 and Revco.
This is the Danae or Navajo band Signal 99.
This track, Revolutions, is from 2021.
Close your eyes and don't speak.
Feeling shadows touch my feet.
You're drifting off, are you growing?
I'm drifting off because I'm weak.
Run and hide in the institution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Off to the east, pray for evolution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Break yourself from past evolution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Child has gone for the revolution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Feel my eyes begin to ache.
The only truth is all fake.
Feel my body start to shake.
Control your juice for all to see.
I'm drifting off because I'm weak.
Run and hide in the institution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Off to the east, pray for evolution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Break yourself from past evolution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Child has gone for the revolution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Run and hide in the institution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Off to the east, pray for evolution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Break yourself from past evolution.
They will take us and never bring us.
Child has gone for the revolution.
It heaves and hardens where it fell.
Its eyes are dry as I am drawn.
And I want to believe in something else.
It rains its hands and begins to thread.
It still expands and I am stoned.
And I want to believe in something else.
I am stoned and I want to believe in someone else.
And I want to believe in someone else.
I still want to believe.
It lays its lips and failed to see.
Its nails are long and I am gone.
And I want to believe in somewhere else.
I still want to believe.
And that was the Wabanaki artist Marley Obonsawin and Magdalena Abrego.
That track was called Believer.
Next I'm going to play a request from Moe from the Netherlands.
It's a song of resistance and resilience.
It's by the Mohawk artist Leila Stats.
It's from 2021 and it's called White Pine.
This song deserves an introduction.
The Haudenosaunee call the white pine the tree of peace.
The peacemaker's journey tells the story of how our nations came together and buried their hatchets,
buried their weapons underneath the roots of the white pine.
I took this song with me to the Wet'suwet'en territory to defend the Wenzikwa, their sacred headwaters.
I remember that moment standing on that bridge with matriarchs and elders and land defenders and chiefs
and watching as hundreds of police mobilized against us coming up to the bridge.
There was military greens across the side with sniper rifles, attack dogs pulling at their chains, helicopters overhead.
And as I watched this wall of violence coming towards us, something inside of me said, Leila, sing.
An acapella on my own on this broken bridge.
I sang for a wall of police.
I sang even if no one listened.
I sang.
White pine, I come in peace.
White pine, down on my knees.
White pine, meeting the white pine.
Even your hate is high, meeting the white pine.
Bury your hatchets and lower your guard.
Calling all enemies open your heart.
Bury your hatchets and lower your guard.
Calling all enemies open your heart.
At the white pine, meeting the white pine.
Brothers and sisters must rise up again.
Remember the peacemaker's journey within.
Brothers and sisters must rise up again.
Remember the peacemaker's journey within.
At the white pine, meeting the white pine.
Even your hate is high, meeting the white pine.
Come pray for peace.
Come down on my knees.
Come pray with me.
At the white pine, meeting the white pine.
Bury your hatchets, lower your guards.
Calling all enemies, calling all enemies.
Come pray with me.
At the white pine, meeting the white pine.
Golden skin, I'm sinking. You always like the skin of water.
And I know, when I'm wrong, I'm wrong, you're right.
Would you let me sing tonight in the only way I know?
Yeah, don't tell my love I'm comfortable, six underwater.
Don't tell my love I'm comfortable, don't even bother.
Don't tell my love I'm comfortable, six underwater.
Don't tell my love I'm comfortable, don't even bother.
In the deep dark of my mind, I could leave you all behind.
Because the truth, it doesn't matter.
And I'd choose to be kind, leaving all my loved ones blind.
The fear and shame would leave me shattered.
Oh, would you let me go when I let you know?
Oh, the reasons that I faltered.
So can you let me know when I let you show?
Back me, for all of this was a turn.
Don't tell my love I'm comfortable, six underwater.
Don't tell my love I'm comfortable, don't even bother.
Shaking like a phone, cause I'm all alone.
Sabotage my land where I can build a home.
Now I'll never get another dance to try and fix this romance.
Now here I am, I'm breaking like a dog.
As I put the head to stay inside of this fog.
All the skeletons in my closet are the reasons that I've lost it.
So don't tell my love I'm comfortable, six underwater.
Don't tell my love I'm comfortable, don't even bother.
Oh, could you let me go when I let you show?
Don't tell my love I'm comfortable, don't even bother.
Don't tell my love I'm comfortable, six underwater.
Am I trouble?
Have I fallen from grace?
I really don't know.
Do the lines on my face suggest I've not been sleeping well?
If I'm being honest, I have been going through hell.
And I don't think I've seen the end of it.
But oh well, I could have it a lot worse I guess.
Even though it feels like my life's a mess almost all the time.
Oh well, I'll try to make the best of the situation.
Even if it feels like manipulation, I'll just try to smile.
Oh well.
She said, boy, do you want to dance? Good Lord, got to that feet.
But she broke me down and she drugged me out on a dance floor.
She whispered in my ear, if you let me I'd fill your wildest dreams.
Then she sunk her teeth into my neck and drank my blood.
But oh well, I could have it a lot worse I guess.
Even though it feels like my life's a mess almost all the time.
Oh well, I'll try to make the best of the situation.
Even if it feels like manipulation, I'll just try to smile.
Oh well.
Oh well, I could have it a lot worse I guess.
Even though it feels like my life's a mess almost all the time.
Oh well, I'll try to make the best of the situation.
Even if it feels like manipulation, I'll just try to smile.
Oh well.
Slowly growing old.
I'm lost in the dark.
Feeling dark around me.
Slowly growing up.
Slowly growing back.
Every time I get up, they pull me down.
Further into the dark.
All alone in the clouds.
You're biasing yourself up.
Wrapped in tables by the camp.
You're the more than one on the call that's running your sword.
We've been dreaming from within.
Right about now.
You're biasing yourself up.
Wrapped in tables by the camp.
You're the more than one on the call that's running your sword.
We've been dreaming from within.
Right about now.
You're the more than one on the call that's running your sword.
We've been dreaming from within.
Right about now.
You're the more than one on the call that's running your sword.
So there you go, two and a half minutes of Metalcore.
I did say I was going to have some Red's Metal on the show.
That was the Dene or Navajo band, Condemn the World, with a new single called Slay the Demon.
Just put your nerves at rest if you weren't quite into that.
I know some people aren't.
My next track is some very gentle reggae.
It's from Two Islanders.
The first being Brother Mikey who has Tiano ancestry.
Tiano people are the indigenous people of the Caribbean.
He's along with the Hawaiian artist Lopaka Roots.
And this is a new single. It's called People Gonna Use.
I guess it is what it is.
I won't walk a thousand pounds on my own before I take another step
And lay off the value of my worth
It's not enough, not enough to show you some love
It's not enough, not enough, do you think that I owe
Well enough is enough and I'm drawing a line
I'm putting my foot down this time
I'm setting some boundaries
Setting some boundaries
It's not enough, not enough to show you some love
It's not enough, not enough, do you think that I owe
Some people gonna use
Always
Some people gonna love you, love you, love you
Till they don't need you no more
Some people gonna use
Some people gonna love you, love you, love you
Till they don't need you, need you, need you
Some people gonna use
Always
Some people gonna use
But my roots are really might get a good lifestyle
Well I've been hated and loved the same time
And I've been working hard just to get mine
And I can only tell you all the little things
But a missing recipe is all in what you bring
More complications that you put into the bowl
Too close to focus that you bring into the flow
Add just the tablespoon, compassion to the mix
Put some lyrics in, put them with the twist
Just a pinch of love is all we really need
Tossing the clever at 420 degrees
Get what you're getting, see it all come back around
Cause it's a gift you gotta put in a sound
Cause I would never use, I never could abuse
This love for music that I never could refuse
The Baka roots and brother Mikey on the flow
We take our muses and we show them the mountain
Some people gonna use
Always
Some people gonna love you, love you, love you
Till they don't need you no more
Some people gonna use
Some people gonna love you, love you, love you
Till they don't need you, need you, need you
Some people got you, got enough
Do you think that I owe?
Some people gonna use
I'm setting some boundaries
Setting some boundaries
It's not enough, not enough
To show you some love
Some people gonna use
I'm setting some boundaries
Setting some boundaries
Some people gonna use
Always
Some people gonna love you, love you, love you
Till they don't need you no more
Some people gonna use
Some people gonna love you, love you, love you
Till they don't need you, need you, need you
Some people gonna use
Always
Some people gonna love you, love you, love you
Till they don't need you no more
Some people gonna use
Some people gonna love you, love you, love you
Till they don't need you, need you, need you
Some people gonna use
Faking conversation
To try to get you off of the phone
Guess I'll never really know
But I choose to believe
That our hearts go to heaven
Prove to me that you respect me
And watch my favorite made-for-TV movie
Maybe then if you impress me
I'll let you touch my pussy
Tell me I'm so special
And you lube me to your shower
Could drown me if you wanna
Cut my hair and honor it
And then you can have me more than constantly
When I ask for your forgiveness
You respond with the distance and time between us
300 minutes and all you got was this lousy T-shirt
Tell me I'm so special
And you lube me to your shower
Could kill me if you want it
I could grow your garden
And fulfill your final fantasy
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
and that goes out to my friend Toby, who's just lost one of his very friends.
My next track is from the Inuit artist Jorini.
It's from the album named Jorini,
and the name of the track, which I'm not sure if I'm going to get the pronunciation right,
is Atsan-i-Pilit.
I'm so special
And you lube me to your shower
Could kill me if you want it
I could grow your garden
And fulfill your final fantasy
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
That was a new single, it was called All Dogs Go To Heaven,
And that was the Cree Mate singer-songwriter Sisto Ray.
God, you're my love
Oh, my love, you're my love
God, you're my love
Nus es sem, nus es sem, nus es sem
Nipahigwa wiwiwipisu
Guapimawakimusumak
Nus es sem, nus es sem, nus es sem
Kapita guti en hu ta
Kapita guti en isa
Gita dami hena
Nus es sem, nus es sem
Nuaniska egwa, nuaniska egwa
Ipiwapakoma wapanoma
Nuaniska egwa
Nus es sem, nus es sem
And so that was Darlene Auger and Violet Netanyahu
from the 2017 album Cree Women in Lullaby
that was called Wipisu, or in English, Swing.
And next up I've got another Cree artist, Fontine.
This is from her 2023 album Yarrow Lover
and the track is called Yarrow Lover.
You say that we are in the shittiest part
of a wrong calm
Well I say that you're right
but would you let me hold you tight
until the morning
I don't wanna miss your laugh
I wanna hear it every day my sweet baby
But there's a time for everything
and I'm afraid that ours is up my little lady
I know you're gonna find another
my little Yarrow Lover
You're like lavender in summertime
and I miss the days when you were mine
And I loved it when you kissed my nose
and how you look when the light hits you just right
I know you're gonna find another
I know that you're gonna find another
my little Yarrow Lover
Someday you're gonna find someone
to settle down in a small town with
just like you always wanted to do
but I could not give that laugh to you
I don't wanna hold you back
so it seems I've gotta go my own way
But before I go can I kiss your face
and remember the times that I kissed you
all over the place
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I know you're gonna find another
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
I know that you're gonna find another
Yeah, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know
I know that you're gonna find another
my little Yarrow Lover
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I know you're gonna find another
my little Yarrow Lover
And that was the experimental Cree artist Chu Chu
from the newly released album Human Experience
That unfortunately was my penultimate track of the night
and it was called Go Somewhere Else
I'm gonna leave you with another reggae track
It's from the Lilouat Statem band The Spiritual Warriors
along with the artist Gio The Voice
It's from the album Indigenize and it's called Mekisiso
I'll be back next week
I hope you come and join me for another eclectic mix of tunes from Turtle Island
Same time, same channel
But until then
Adieu, kau svajsiton molve i kuidev bus
Srečno pot, pazite nase
Gute reise, past auf euch auf
State al sicuro, riguardatevi e buon procedimento
Travel well, stay safe, take care out there, ciao
The sun is shining on your beautiful face
No need for makeup
And you fill my cup
You fill my heart
You fill my soul with love
And I'm so grateful that you chose me
To be a part of your life
Emane tis na glukvaca
What can help me in chief?
Mekisiso
And I know there's been times when it's been so hard
But we put our heads down and faced the storm
And we can do anything, anything together
Because we were meant to be
Side by side by side, beside forever
Emane tis na glukvaca
What can help me in chief?
Mekisiso
Been looking at smiles that look in your eyes
Especially when you're looking at mine
Hope in my heart, hope in my mind
Had all that I need, a beautiful find
Love every moment, the good and the bad
The feelings I felt, these feelings I have
Just want you to know I appreciate you
Your spirit, your answers, the things that you do
If I could go back, I would not change a thing
The joy that you bring is red blood when I sing
Wanna give you the world, the stars and the moon
Cause you are my rock, my world and my roots
Wrote you a song to remind you of love
To bring us back to the first time we hugged
Back when we met, a beautiful pause
Been hooked up since, now you're on my trail
Emane tis na glukvaca
What can help me in chief?
Emane tis na glukvaca
What can help me in chief?
Make a season