KBCS Presents: Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin w/ guests *partially seated at Tractor – Seattle, WA

KBCS Presents: Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin w/ guests *partially seated at Tractor – Seattle, WA

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Don’t miss this upcoming event in Seattle, WA Happening on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at Tractor. Doors open at 8:00 PM.

Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin are two award winning performing artists who have joined forces on their upcoming Smithsonian Folkways release, symbiont (2024). Blount, (pronounced: blunt) is a renowned interpreter of Black folk music recognized for his skill as a string band musician, and his unprecedented Afrofuturist work in sound archives and song collections. In his hands, the banjo, fiddle, electric guitar and synthesizer become ceremonial objects used to channel the insurgent creativity of his forebears. Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation) is a celebrated composer and bassist-vocalist in free jazz and experimental music. Known for her evocative and ground-breaking debut Sweet Tooth (2022), Malis work as a composer and bandleader centers on the imprint of Indigenous music traditions in jazz and American genres, using historical, archival, and community research as a spine for improvisation. Obomsawins shoegaze project with guitarist Magdalena Abrego Deerlady also released music in early 2024 and has quickly won over young punks and sad girls across Indian Country cinching Malis reputation as an artist uncontainable by genre.On symbiont, Obomsawins and Blounts genrequeer approach to their respective traditions has earned a place in some of the very same archives from which they extract their repertoire. In defiance of genre categories, revisionist histories and linear time, Blount and Obomsawin have fashioned an Indigenous and Afrofuturist folklore that disintegrates the boundaries between acoustic and electric, artist and medium, and ancestor and progeny.

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Event Venue - Tractor

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Date And Time

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 @ 08:00 PM
 

Venue

Tractor
 

Location

5213 Ballard Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107
 

Event Category

Seattle

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