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Khu.éex' - Silver Jackson AKA Nicholas Galanin - Arias Hoyle AKA Air Jazz, Qacung Stephen Blanchett and more ...
Photo Left - See Khu.éex at the Seattle Aquarium on Valentine’s Day!
Photo Right - Day 1 in the studio for making soundtrack material for the upcoming documentary of Khu.éex': the Magic of Noise.
Steve Moore, Skerik, Captain Raab, Gene Tagaban, myself and Randall Dunn at the helm
to craft exquisite ambient backdrops for the story of our evolution. (Preston Singletary shared on Facebook)
Khu.éex (Website)Khu.éex’ Band Interview: Uplifting Alaska Native Culture with Genre-Defying Musical Fluidity (Redefine Magazine)
For a band like Khu.éex’, whose music is an Alaska Native language revitalization tool, and whose self-professed focus is “raising awareness of social issues, stemming from the Native American struggle, that branch out to serious issues that affect all people,” having a flexibility of roles and worldviews is vital." ( Khu.éex' on Facebook shared)
Nicholas Galanin ( Ya Tseen) Shared ‘Look at What The Light Did Now’ on Facebook
Nicholas Galanin - “My friend Sterlin Harjo, the creator of the acclaimed FX series Reservation Dogs,
invited Samantha and I to cover Little Wings classic song ‘Look at What The Light Did Now’ for an episode in season 2.
This was a high honor to contribute to one of what I would consider the best episodes of streaming television being made today.
It's tough to capture love and Indigenous mourning, though I feel as if this episode did so in an elegant and powerful way.”
Released in conjunction with the start of National Native American Heritage Month (Sub Pop Records)
Ye´il Ya-Tseen (Instagram)
High Dive's INDIGENOUS HERITAGE DAY CELEBRATION featuring Portland based Indie Rock band Black Belt Eagle Scout
with Seattle-based Native FunkRockJazzFusion ensemble Khu.éex' on Friday November 25!High Dive (Facebook)
UPCOMING SHOWS - https://highdiveseattle.com/
KHU.ÉEX' (Official Website)
Photo right - "A bathroom selfie for my subscribers but this @j.okuma jacket is too fire to hold back from ya’ll." Yéil Ya-Tseen (Instagram)
Screen capture left from PIER SOUNDS 2022 PIER 62 Seattle, WA | FREE SATURDAY AUGUST 20, 6–9 PM and SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 3, 6–9 PM Friends of Waterfront Seattle presents Pier Sounds: an annual free concert series on the waterfront. 2022 features sensational local artists including the Black Constellation Collective, Porter Ray, Ya Tseen, Shaina Shepherd, Fly Moon Royalty, Breaks and Swells, and NighTraiN at Pier 62! All ages welcome
Screen capture left - Preston Singletary Glass (FB) is at Blue Rain Gallery (FB)
Join Preston Singletary and Dan Friday at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, on August 19th and 20th for Glass Blowing Demonstrations during their Annual Celebration of Native American Art!
Screen capture left - from Downtown Summer Sounds - Khu.éex’ (Facebook)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 AT 8 PM EDT
117 S Washington St, Seattle, WA 98104
Downtown Summer Sounds (Downtown Seattle Association)
KHU.ÉEX' (Official Website)
Áak’w Rock finds a “side” stage at Celebration: Fundraiser for Indigenous music festival. (KTOO Public Media)
Àak’w Rock organizers are hoping to tap into support from this year’s Celebration-goers for their 2023 Indigenous music festival.
The group is raising money at its Àak’w Rock Side Stage event, with four nights of “pay what you can” performances at the Crystal Saloon, starting Wednesday, June 8th. They include Indigenous artists Stephen Qacung Blanchett, Albino Mbie, Sunny Porch, Air Jazz, Ya Tseen, Daniel Firmin, Garden of Agony Unplugged and the Marc Brown Band.
ÁAK’W ROCK SIDE STAGE - A Fundraiser for Áak’w Rock 2023 June 8th - 11th, 2022 @ The Crystal Saloon |218 Front St. Juneau, Alaska
FUNKNSTUFF’s Top 25 Albums of 2021
This past year was not without its challenges wrought by continuing hardships of the pandemic, but 2021 is thankfully behind us. From a musical perspective it was another rhythmically stimulating 12 months, especially as far as new funk, soul and other groove-centric releases are concerned.
Khu.éex' (Official Website)
Rachel Goodman’s top alt-rock and alt-pop songs of 2021. L to R; Row 1: Paul McCartney and Phoebe Bridgers; Maxïmo Park; Kings of Leon; Black Country, New Road; Wet Leg, The War on Drugs. Row 2: BC Camplight, Cannons, Strand of Oaks, Hovvdy, Ladyhawke, Fences, Sea Wolf, Courtney Barnett. Row 3: Sharon Van Etten, Rostam, Makthaverskan, Japanese Breakfast, Cola Boyy, Tkay Maidza, Adult Books. Row 4: Bad Bad Hats; The Reds, Pinks and Purples; Mogwai; The Goon Sax; Pearl Charles; Jason Collett, Ya Tseen. Row 5: Lord Huron, Wavves, Bachelor, Sam Gellaitry, Sleater-Kinney, Geese, Angel Du$t.
35 best indie songs of 2021, with Paul McCarthy, Phoe Bridgers, Ya-Tseen By Rachel Goodman (Riff Magazine)
Yéil Ya-Tseen (@nicholasgalanin)• Instagram
Artists at the Center presents: Khu.éex’!! Join us this Sunday December 5th at 12:30pm
at the Armory Stage for this free event. More info:
http://www.seattlecenter.com/events/event-calendar/artists-at-the-center-khueex
Khu.éex' (Official Website)
Khu.éex' -- WOOch album release party on November 26th!
High Dive 513 N 36th St, Ste G Seattle, WA
Air Jazz 9:00 - 9:30 pm ... Daisy Chain 9:45 - 10:30 pm ... Khu.éex' 10:45 - closeHigh Dive, Solid Sound, and Preston Singletary Present:
Indigenous Heritage Day Celebration featuring Khu.éex'. Tickets available now:
https://www.tixr.com/groups/highdive/events/indigenous-heritage-day-celebration-ft-khu-ex--29270
0n 'Ancestors Calling' Episode - CBC Reclaimed featured Khu.éex' (Nov 3, 2021)
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-184-reclaimed
This week, we explore interconnections between Black and Indigenous artists, communities, and musical forms. From jazz and funk, to powwow rock and trip hop, it’s the sounds of Ancestors Calling. (Jarrett Martineau CBC Reclaimed)
Khu.éex' (Official Website)
NPR article link - Ya Tseen: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert
The video itself was filmed at the Sheet'ka Kwaan Naa Kahidi community house, which is modeled after customary Tlingit Long Houses.
Minutes can quickly turn into an hour listening to Ya Tseen's music, which uses a combination of electronic and acoustic elements to create an inviting atmosphere. But his words are often far more cutting, literally so on "Knives," which hides an ominous bent under an otherwise dreamy texture. It's the first song off the band's debut album, Indian Yard.
Yéil Ya-Tseen (@nicholasgalanin)• Instagram
Rock Aak’w Indigenous Music Festival (Line up)
Nov 5 - Nov 7It will take place virtually during Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month, on November 5 - 7. Rock Aak’w will feature 14 Indigenous groups from around the world. Performing virtually from afar are Snotty Nose Rez Kids, Pantayo, Supaman, Pura Fe. Performing virtually from Centennial are Pamyua, Ya Tseen, Albino Mbie, Native Jazz Trio, Witty Youngman, I Sing. You Dance., Air Jazz, Nicole Church, Marc Brown, Daniel Firmin and more. This is Juneau Alaska's first Indigenous Music Festival.
Tickets now available!
‘The sky’s the limit’: Hopes are high for upcoming Indigenous music festival
Are you ready to r-Aak’w? By Michael S. Lockett (Juneau Empire)
As National Native American Heritage Month nears, Juneau, prepares to celebrate in high style as it hosts a first-of-its-kind event, the Rock Aak’w Indigenous Music Festival.
Rock Aak’w is co-sponsored by the Juneau Arts and Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, Tlingit & Haida, WESTAF, Alaska Airlines, KTOO, the Juneau Radio Center, and Sealaska Heritage Institute.
YouTube Video link - Ya Tseen - Performance & Interview (Live on KEXP at Home) 44:42 minutes
YouTube Video link - Ya Tseen - Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home) 20:32 minutes
Yéil Ya-Tseen (@nicholasgalanin)• Instagram
Instagram Video link - Qacung On That Day (Feat. AirJazz)
YouTube Video link - Qacung On That Day (Feat. AirJazz)Pamyua co-founder’s new album features some of Alaska’s best-known Indigenous pop artists
by Chandre Szafran, KTOO
Stephen Blanchett (@qacung) • Instagram
In honor of the victims and survivors of the Residential/Boarding School system, we are making this song, “Residential School” (from our upcoming album “WOOch”), available for free download.
https://khueex.bandcamp.com/track/residential-school
Khu.éex' (Official Website)
Preston Singletary Glass (Official Website)
TikTok video link - New Ya Tseen live in studio radio session coming soon - Nicholas Galanin
Screen capture At Tugáni - Ya Tseen (TikTok Video link)
It’s here and it’s beautiful! Our new record on wax thank you @subpoprecords
#subpop #yatseen #indianyard - Nicholas Galanin (@yatseen) TikTok
Nicholas Galanin (@yatseen) TikTok
Visit the Khu.éex' Indiegogo to support the production of the new album "WOOch" at: https://igg.me/at/WOOCH/x#/
Perks for Indiegogo Contributors range from music by Khu.éex’ to glass art by Preston Singletary (co-founder and bassist for Khu.éex’) - including this blown glass Tlingit Berry Basket. Hear the first song from "WOOch" now at: https://khueex.bandcamp.com/
Screen capture of Ya Tseen's Official Video "Close the Distance" On April 30th, 2021, Sub Pop will release Indian Yard, the debut record from Sitka, Alaska project Ya Tseen.
WATCH YA TSEEN’S OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR “CLOSE THE DISTANCE” FROM INDIAN YARD, THE GROUP’S SUB POP DEBUT Posted by Abbie Gobeli (Sub Pop Records, Feb 10, 2021)
Indian Yard is now available for preorder on CD/LP through Sub Pop. LP preorders through megamart.subpop.com, select independent retailers in North America, the U.K., and Europe will receive the standard LP on black vinyl.
Wé tlʼátk áwé át sa.áx̱ - Listen to the land A Nicholas Galanin film
Written and Directed by Nicholas Galanin •Premiered Oct 20, 2020
Translation and Narration - X̱’unei Lance Twitchell. Camera - Merrit Johnson. Music Tlingit Rowing Song Contributor Names Michael O. Ossorgin (arranger). Mt. Edgecumbe School Boys Chorus (singer) Michael O. Ossorgin (recordist) - 1950. (date) Hatred - No More Water - Meshell Ndegeocello -2020.
Chapter & Verse: The Gospel of James Baldwin - a 21st-century ritual toolkit for justice each month of fall 2020. Inspired by James Baldwin’s truth-telling treaty on justice in America, The Fire Next Time, and our current endlessly changing world, this is a call for revolution in the form of an ongoing gift during turbulent times.
Nicholas Galanin (Official Website)... Silver Jackson (Musical Artist)
Silver Jackson is one of the many aliases of Sitka, Alaska-born artist Nicholas Galanin: he also uses his Tlingit name Yéil Ya-Tseen.
Khu.éex’ Live Performance - Seattle Reads Oct 15, 2020
Khu.éex' (Official Website)
Preston Singletary Glass (Official Website)
Khu.éex', a funk/rock band co-founded by internationally known glass artist Preston Singletary, as they share their music and stories behind their most recent album Héen.
Hoonah Exit This piece is a Deshetan (clan) entrance and exit song, a traditional song from the traditional village of Hoonah. Permission was granted by the clan leader for use in our band. It’s one of the most well known melodies of the Tlingit. It’s been reinterpreted as a Miles Davis kind of jam.
Khu.éex' Members - Preston Singletary (Bass), Bernie Worrell (Keyboards), Skerik (Saxophone), Gene Tagaban (Vocals), Sondra Segundo (Vocals), Nahaan (Vocals), Captain Raab (Guitar), Stanton Moore (Drums), Stanton Moore (Drums), Clarissa Rizal (Vocals), Randall Dunn (Producer & Audio Engineer)
Additional Khu.éex' Members - Tim Kennedy (Keyboards), Steve Moore (Trombone, Keyboards), Davee C. Carpenter (Drums, Percussion), Indrayani Barker (Vocals), Ed Littlefield (Drums), Denny Stern (Percussion), Hans Teuber (Sax & Keyboard)
Arias Hoyle AKA Air Jazz - 12 Songs Relased Sept 17, 2020
Revisiting Ix̱six̱án, Ax̱ Ḵwáan (I Love You My People)
Seven amazing tribal citizen youth (Jacob Brouillette, Marcel Cohen, Bradley Dybdahl, Arias Hoyle, Keegan Kanan, Geri Rodriguez and Kenndra Willard) directed, rapped and produced this music video “Ix̱six̱án, Ax̱ Ḵwáan (I Love You, My People)” that illustrates their love for their culture and indigenous life in Southeast Alaska.
Revisiting Hoonah Exit - Khu.éex' at Nectar
Khu.éex' (Official Website)
Preston Singletary Glass (Official Website)
Hoonah Exit This piece is a Deshetan (clan) entrance and exit song, a traditional song from the traditional village of Hoonah. Permission was granted by the clan leader for use in our band. It’s one of the most well known melodies of the Tlingit. It’s been reinterpreted as a Miles Davis kind of jam.
Khu.éex’ began with a chance meeting between Preston Singletary and the late Bernie Worrell through a campaign where Worrell was raising funds for a tour bus to bring the music to the people. Singletary invited Worrell to play at his birthday party, where Singletary sang Worrell a traditional Native song to welcome him. Worrell sat down at his keyboards and began improvising on the melody that was still lingering in the air. He created a spontaneous, psychedelic and soulful composition right on the spot which birthed a new direction in his music. The next day Worrell asked Singletary’s band, “A Little Big Band” (a Native funk/soul band), to be the opening act for his show. After the concert, Worrell shared with Singletary that he had several exciting ideas and that they should record together. An amazing union was formed and Khu.éex’ was created.
Khu.éex' Members - Preston Singletary (Bass), Bernie Worrell (Keyboards), Skerik (Saxophone), Gene Tagaban (Vocals), Sondra Segundo (Vocals), Nahaan (Vocals), Captain Raab (Guitar), Stanton Moore (Drums), Stanton Moore (Drums), Clarissa Rizal (Vocals), Randall Dunn (Producer & Audio Engineer)
Additional Khu.éex' Members - Tim Kennedy (Keyboards), Steve Moore (Trombone, Keyboards), Davee C. Carpenter (Drums, Percussion), Indrayani Barker (Vocals), Ed Littlefield (Drums), Denny Stern (Percussion), Hans Teuber (Sax & Keyboard)
Revisiting Nicholas Galanin's Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan
In 2008, Galanin's work was featured in "Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture" exhibition at the The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. It was co-curated by Kathleen Ritter and Tania Willard, and featured the work of twenty-three aboriginal artists.
Galanin's entry, entitled Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan, is a two-part looping video of dance and music that mixes elements of traditional Tlingit and hip hop. In the first video, David “Elsewhere” Bernal is popping to a customary Tlingit song. In the second, Dan Littlefield appears in customary Tlingit regalia and dances to electronic music. The Tlingit song contains the words used in the title of the piece, Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan, which is pronounced "soo HAYdee shoe GAK tu tahn" and means "We Will Again Open This Container of Wisdom That Has Been Left in Our Care".[9] In 2012, the work was featured in "Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art" in an exhibit hosted by the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, Massachusetts.[10][11] Nicholas Galanin's Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan (Wikipedia)
Nicholas Galanin (Official Website)... Silver Jackson (Musical Artist)
Silver Jackson is one of the many aliases of Sitka, Alaska-born artist Nicholas Galanin: he also uses his Tlingit name Yéil Ya-Tseen.
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