19/03/2024
Northallsen is pleased to announce the fourth delivery of our Raices Series.
This time, a very diverse release with ample room for creative and sonorous experimentation while diving deep in the exploration and interpretation of our relations with nature through the music. Besides the music, an extract from the book 'Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants' by Robin Wall Kimmerer
'...In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top-the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation-and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as 'the younger brothers of Creation.' We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn-we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They've been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out. They live both above and below ground, joining Skyworld to the earth. Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away.
I like to imagine that when Skywoman scattered her handful of seeds across Turtle Island, she was sowing sustenance for the body and also for the mind, emotion, and spirit: she was leaving us teachers. The plants can tell us her story; we need to learn to listen....'
Raices IV
Preorder: https://northallsenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/raices-iv
Music By: Michal Basar, Lemna, Toffes Värld, Aleja Sanchez
Mastered at Artefacts Mastering Studio, Berlin
Original Photography by Kurkul
Graphic Design by Aleja Sanchez
Release date: Bandcamp Exclusively 2nd of April, 2024
All stores: 22nd of April, 2024
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