Motewolonuwok is a landscape of rolling hills, gullies, open horizons and bright stars. The Two-Spirit 2018 Polaris Music Prize winner composes this scene with an earthbound orchestra and populates it with 12-person choirs made up of his close friends. It’s a defiant, gorgeous, collective taking-up of sonic space, brought to an emotional fulcrum on “The Land That Holds Them.”
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