C2C2C - Nunavut

Nunavut, is the fourteenth and final episode in the series debut of Coast2Coast2Coast presenting the new recorded music of emerging and established Canadian artists across genres from each province and territory. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Welcome to Coast to Coast to Coast on Acoustic Avenue. I'm Ted Crouch, your host in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, with co-producer Joe Little in Calgary, Alberta. On Acoustic Avenue, we recognize with respect and gratitude that these lands where we live, work, and make our music remain home to a number of indigenous nations and people. We acknowledge this land out of respect for the indigenous nations who have cared for Total Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of the settler peoples until this day. Today, we visit Nunavut, Canada's largest province territory, with a total area of over two million square kilometers, encompassing one-fifth of Canada's total landmass. If Nunavut were a country, it would be the fifteenth largest in the world. And the music is absolutely fabulous. Susan's 25-year journey as a singer-songwriter has led her to reflect on living a life she never imagined, but was struggling to understand who she was. Susan was also engaging her own inner artist and falling in love with performing, sharing stories and singing. From her 2022 album The Crossing, We Play Tiki Tao Mata. Kelly Fraser was a Canadian inok hip hop singer and songwriter whose second album, Sedna, released in 2023, received a Juno nomination for Indigenous Music Album of the Year. It refers to the story of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the sea, which Fraser decided to modernize in this album. We play the title track. From a Glulek, a small and vibrant Inuit community located north of the Arctic Circle comes Terry Uyura, juggler, actor, and musician. He toured the globe with art circuit, the only Inuit Circus troupe in the world. His most recent album, Onoah, which translates to night in English, was released in 2023. And we play Noja Roja. Here is Susan the Blue Cart, Kelly Fraser, and Terry Ouyara.

SPEAKER_15 2:55

Ticket-do, tiki-doe, ticket-doe, tiki-do, ticket-doe, ticket-doe, like it's a big out, kick it out, tick it out, it dine knocked out in a way, in the way.

SPEAKER_16 3:52

In a wee, in a week, in a to you never matter, take it down matta. I know only care, it's a lao, but si bullet. I know only care, it's a man out, but take it out, take it out, take it down, matter.

SPEAKER_07 7:44

No one showed the boy to you and me.

SPEAKER_06 8:38

I got what you want, I got what you need, all you gotta do is brave on me.

SPEAKER_07 8:46

Tell me I'm beautiful, tell me I'm powerable, all you gotta do is say to me that you wanna spend a life in the ocean, safe in the sea. If you wanna show me a devotion, come with me.

SPEAKER_19 16:36

This is Joey now yoke with Siva Northern Haze and Shona Setana Siri Ev, and you mariline, you're laughing so you know, I do be good I see là où I do my good stuff to go start to go to bag, all the burden, annual balancing, aula big, bad, bivana pita, mau, ballaramata, put bata, machine, and then it's a big one.

SPEAKER_10 22:39

Here's another child. Yes, I see your smile. Here's another song for you that you'll understand. Yes, you'll understand when your timeless days have gone. Beyond your vision, and you'll know you can't hold on. No. And as you hear the laughter, you'll soon realize it's just a memory. You've always had in mind to find the world. Yes. You find your way around until you find out it's just a dream. You can hear the wind blow. You sing yourself the tune. You heard years ago. She reminds you of those days. The wind's so cold, so strong, yeah, so cold. I can understand what you have to say.

SPEAKER_11 26:04

I live in a place where the temps drop, but we don't stop. Always feeling weird standing round the cops. Even though I didn't do shit, that's just how it be. Intergenerational trauma passed on the meat. We have trouble being around the authority. But this pain ain't something you can always seek. You ain't always wounded when you bleak. Riding disperse, tryna rehearse, losing the words. Too many people riding the hearts, beveraging dirt, flipping reverse. It doesn't work when shit get worse. Try my best, put to the test, just like the rest. Living in my territory, walking with my head down, my feet dragging on the ground. Living in my hometown. I saw everything. Once I lifted my head up, I got hit with people in anger, feeling of danger, hanging on hangers. Taking a shock, out of the bottle. What will I wager? Weighing the stakes, do what it takes, lifting the anchor, hoping a boat before I choke, empty the chamber, before it pop, hop, pops. Y'all gotta stop. Tellin the youngins not to talk. Feelin' so stuck, about to drop. I'm in the rut. I had enough. Don't wanna die. What you implot, ain't in my mind. Why do you hate? Instead of luck. There's no debate, what have to be done? Shake on the change.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

And Tanya, you can do it.

SPEAKER_02 34:43

Why did you have the world was a hot bed? Come at the fellow.

SPEAKER_20 36:59

Windy days in canvas tents. Hunting down yellowing shields, glassy lakes, long big fields. Now you know let go streets with no name. Loud and quiet molen flashing pain. Dulcy clear frosty windows dirty mirrors.

SPEAKER_17 40:57

Into words, into ideas, into anger, into hatred, into violence. Exhale large fears and large words that tumble back onto you. It's easy to get very small fears, they whisper and they travel to your mind. Observe them and thank them. Observe them and thank them for trying to protect you. They're trying to protect you, they're trying to protect you. Exhale acknowledgement of the beauty within your instincts and the courage to love small fierce inhale hard love and suck, and the smell and reborn grief, eat, swallow, devour all the goodness and the love that is given to you. Inhale all the goodness and the love that is given to you.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Each month we have been visiting Providence or territory and introducing the new recorded music of the emerging and their homeland. This is the final episode of the hardest.

SPEAKER_01 45:50

In the cold Arctic air or in the busyness of the city, Kit Delair are there. Kit Dilrea take our blood, like how the Halopillui take our young. The sound of Kit Dilrea, it's not music to our ears. Since the dawn of time they've been around. I wonder how much more they've seen. Carrying the DNA of all before us, merging our distant past into our future. Kitty will always be with us.

SPEAKER_00 57:24

This series has recently been presented in British Columbia, Ontario.