Name: Motewolonuwok
Brand: Jeremy Dutcher

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Catalogue number

SCR158LP

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Black

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140 Gram Vinyl with Printed Inner.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-10-20

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680341586014

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Black LP

SCR158CD

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2023-10-06

680341586021&nbsp;

Artist

Jeremy Dutcher 

Genre GB

Modern Composition

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Secret City

Secret City Records is a Montreal-based independent record label and publishing company. With a label code of LC 30745, Secret City is dedicated to discovering and promoting talented artists from various genres. They provide a platform for musicians to showcase their unique sound and connect with music lovers around the world.
As an authoritative figure in the music industry, Secret City Records has built a reputation for releasing high-quality albums that resonate with listeners. Their diverse roster includes both established acts and emerging talents, ensuring a constant stream of fresh and innovative music.
With their commitment to supporting artists throughout their careers, Secret City Records offers comprehensive services such as artist development, marketing strategies, and distribution support. By fostering creativity and nurturing talent, they have become a trusted name in the independent music scene.

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Five years after winning the Polaris Music Prize with his ground-breaking debut, Jeremy Dutcher has returned with&nbsp;a radiant exploration of contemporary Indigeneity and his place within it. With songs performed in his people’s Wolasotqey language but also, for the first time, in English,&nbsp;Motewolonuwok&nbsp;extends beyond anything the musician has made before, encompassing traditional song, starlit ballads and staggering orchestrations.&nbsp;“With my first record, the concept was so clear, so complete,” Dutcher says.&nbsp;This time, “I wanted [to make an LP] that wasn’t always so sure of itself.”

Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, released in 2018, vaulted Dutcher into the upper echelons of Canadian performance, from the Polaris and Juno Award stages to the judges’ panel on&nbsp;Canada’s Drag Race.&nbsp;The follow-up is more intimate, more personal, inspired by his growing understanding of the “middle space” of being Two Spirit—Indigenous and queer. In the Wolasotqey language, Two Spirit people are called “motewolonuwok”—“the&nbsp;people of great spiritual power”—an identity filled with strength and knowledge, which is not dogged by shame.&nbsp;

Dutcher came out as gay when he was 12—but even that idea, of “coming out,” was imposed upon him by a colonialist framework.&nbsp;Motewolonuwok&nbsp;is a stepping-through and singing-into his full identity. On “’tahcuwi Anelsultipon,” Dutcher stands almost alone on a stage, singing about devotion. “The Land That Held Them,” his tribute to “the ones taken too soon,” shudders with a force that recalls Nina Simone and Anohni. Elsewhere, Dutcher reached for the largest possible frame: a full orchestra, with arrangements by Owen Pallett, and, on tracks like “Sakom,” a 12-voice choir made up of Dutcher’s queer and allied kin, including friends from music school and members of the Queer Songbook Orchestra.&nbsp;

Making music is like learning a language, Dutcher says. It’s “an unfurling”—a constant exploration of what you want to say and how you can express it.&nbsp;Motewolonuwok&nbsp;features&nbsp;Wolastoqey traditionals,&nbsp;poetry from by the Cherokee poet Qwo-li Driskill, but also Dutcher’s first songs written in English. This is an acknowledgment of his father’s tongue, and also a way of singing “directly to the newcomer [settler],” in&nbsp;their&nbsp;own language, to tell his community’s stories of grief, resilience and emergence. “I needed to contextualize my own story,” he explains, and&nbsp;Motewolonuwok&nbsp;moves like a collective wish and a corrective medicine.&nbsp;

Motewolonuwok

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Discover Motewolonuwok by Jeremy Dutcher on CD and LP. A radiant exploration of contemporary Indigeneity and his place within it, featuring traditional songs, starlit ballads, and staggering orchestrations. Released under the Secret City label.