"Stomp All Night" delivers all the primal energy the title suggests, inspired by Muscogee Creek social dances. Vignettes and "licks" of songs and poems also appear on I Pray for My Enemies, ranging from the epiphany of "We Emerged from Night in Clothes of Sunrise" to the playful "trickster" piece "Rabbit Invents the Saxophone." Both feature Harjo's soulful sax. She says, "We lost our way in the dark, forgot who we were, then had to find our way again." "Once the World Was Perfect" is based on a version of a Muscogee Creek creation story, which describes a time similar to now. "Calling the Spirit Back," from an early collection of Harjo's poems, and the new song "How Love Blows Through the Trees" - written when COVID-19 reached her home in Tulsa, OK - echo the suffering of a world experiencing a pandemic. Some of Harjo's defining poems appear here - "An American Sunrise," "Fear," "Running" and "Remember" - refracting her own experience as a Native American woman of her culturally defining generation. The album opens, however, with a traditional Muscogee song "Allay Na Lee No." "Music travels," she says, adding, "It travels through history, ancestors and especially loves ports and waterways." Her words and music, older and newer, get a fresh new identity here. Harjo defines songs and poems as distinctly different expressions, and both are featured in the 16 tracks that make up I Pray for My Enemies. Harjo's stepdaughters sing harmony vocals, and her husband Owen Sapulpa plays surdo drum on the album. Additional players include renowned Iraqi oud master Rahim Alhaj trumpeter Dave Carter and percussionist/backing vocalist Lisette Garcia. He assembled an all-star band to explore Harjo's work, featuring Peter Buck (R.E.M.) on electric guitar and feedback Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) on electric guitar solos Krist Novoselic (Nirvana) on acoustic guitar and Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) on electric guitar solos. Martin holds it all together with drums, upright bass, keyboards and production duties on I Pray for My Enemies. Harjo and Martin describe it as "funkified spoken word" inspiring "elegant jazz, urban soul, and inner city, reservation grit." Harjo sings and speaks her poetry, as well as playing saxophone and flute, on an album she describes as "very much of-the-moment." Latin Grammy-winning producer, composer and founding father of the historic Seattle music scene, Barrett Martin brings a new dimension to Harjo's unique sound-world - her words and music spoken, sung and explored in a vibrant mix of classic instrumental sounds. The Meters – Funkify Your Life (Anthology)Label:Rhino Entertainment Company – R2 71869Format:2 × CD, CompilationĬountry:USReleased:1995Genre:Funk / SoulStyle:FunkTracklist 1-01Cissy Strut3:07ġ-24(The World Is A Bit Under The Weather) Doodle-Oop2:37Ģ-12(Doodle Loop) The World Is A Little Bit Under The Weather3:52
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