Nuxalk Radio Records

27/06/2024

Hear the Nusximta album on Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM OR on-demand at https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

Here's part of the radio station crew live broadcasting the album release celebration on June 7, 2024. Stayed tuned for a rebroadcasting airing...

📸: Matthew Wheelock

27/06/2024

Listen to the new Nusximta album played daily on Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM or NuxalkRadio.com

Play the album on-demand: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

Here's part of the radio station crew live broadcasting the album at the release celebration on June 7, 2024. Stay tuned for a rebroadcast airing...

📸: Matthew Wheelock

26/06/2024

CBC’s Daybreak South with Chris Walker interviews Qwaxw about the Nuxalk Radio ‘Nusximta’ album (21 June 2024).

Listen to the album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

22/06/2024

Qwaxw interviewed about the Nuxalk Radio ‘Nusximta’ album on CBC’s Daybreak North with Carolina de Ryk (21 June 2024).

Listen to the album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

21/06/2024

"Nuxalk Radio Station in the Bella Coola Valley has released a new album featuring songs in the Nuxalk language entirely.

"It was really fun and challenging," Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack), one of the 16 artists featured on the album, told Coast Mountain News. "We are doing this for ourselves to celebrate our language and the stories that are from our culture. It is a really beautiful story-telling album."

Recorded entirely during three weeks in October 2024 in a temporary studio near the Bella Coola River, Nusximta is available on all major streaming platforms.

It features different genres and varying abilities when it comes to speaking It7nuxalkmc, Nuskmata said.

There are two eight-year-old girls singing a song about a dragonfly, another is a rap song about learning the language, she gave as examples of the variety.

Several of the artists sang on other people's tracts doing backup vocals, she added.

Nuskmata has three songs featured on the album.

One is a memorial song for her father Dayton Mack (Musq'lst). It is a traditional hand drum song she recorded live.

Her second song is a lullaby for her granddaughter that she wrote for a baby uplifting ceremony in the community when her granddaughter turned one-years-old.

"These songs are public to encourage our people to learn them and use them," she said.

Her third song, titled Ista Nts Ali, is an uplifting empowering dance song for Nuxalk women, Nuskmata explained.

"It talks about the supernatural feminine and where we come from. It's about our identity, it's about where we come from, our worth as Indigenous women and about seeing ourselves in a loving way, which is built into our language."

Songs on the album have a lot of depth, and when she was writing Ista Nts Ali, it became like poetry.

The song has a big story referenced within each verse.

"I'm just reminding women that we come from a powerful beautiful place."

When people listen they will hear sound effects from Nuxalk potlatches and dances like deer antlers, a log drum and a thunderstorm.

"They are cultural cues our people will recognize right away."

Nuskmata said they hope the album is inspiring for not only their community, but other communities to use music as a way of learning and celebrating Indigenous language.

Initially they wrote the songs, for the most part, in English before translating them.

"In the translation process the songs became more beautiful because there were words we had to shift or we had to use a better word in Nuxalk. When you translated it back it was a richer song."

Through that she appreciated how the Nuxalk language shapes her people.

"A word in my song is about reciprocal generosity and big teachings about that and reminders of how to be in the world. All the songs are very deep and very meaningful and I think that is because they are in our language."

It is the first album produced on the Nuxalk Radio Station label. It also celebrates the 10th anniversary of the station.

“For 10 years, the Nuxalk Radio Station has played Indigenous music in a variety of different languages from all over the world, but we have had little-to-no new Nuxalkmusic entirely in the Nuxalk language to broadcast on-air so we decided we needed to do something about it," noted Slts’lani (Banchi Hanuse), co-founder of the Nuxalk Radio Station and executive producer of the album in its liner notes.

"Nusximta features Nuxalk Radio hosts Tatala, Ximximana and Q’xta-also known as the local seasoned rapper Rollah Mack, Nuxalk Radio’s tech genius and radio host Qwaxw, Nuxalk land protector and musician Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack), Nuxalk chef Ximana (Nola Mack), Nuxalk language champion Staltmc Wilhpun, eight year-old girls Ts’ikwalhm and K’ipt who sang a song written by Umq’umklika, music prodigy Coastyn Hall on the piano and our token q’umskiwa (white guy) Randy Brook on wind instruments."

Montréal music producer David Hodges provided guidance and assistance and artist and multi-instrumentalist Milan André Boronell produced the album."

21/06/2024

Tune in to Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM 10am PT today (June 21st) to hear Umq’umklika with host Tatala on the It7Nuxalkmc show.

They will be sharing the pronunciation of the lyrics of the song "Xiku" that Umq’umklika and Tatala wrote for Nuxalk Radio's Nusximta Album.

Xiku (1:16) performed by 8 year old Ts'ikwalhm and K'ipt.

Listen to the album here: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

(📸: Matthew Wheelock)

21/06/2024

June 21st - Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM celebrating 10 years of existence. ✊

Listen to Nuxalk Radio 'Nusximta' album:
https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

20/06/2024

"Language preservation is crucial to upholding the cultures of Indigenous peoples, allowing for the passing down of knowledge and stories through generations. ...To help preserve and revitalize this language, Nuxalk Radio was created a decade ago. And furthering its mission, the station just released the first-ever album 100 per cent recorded in Nuxalk. Combining Indigenous sounds with touches of EDM and hip-hop, it’s an impressive and emotional feat. ...

Nusximta by Nuxalk Radio can now be streamed on major streaming platforms: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio "

Article by Vicki Duong

19/06/2024

Tune in to Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM 10am PT Wed, June 19th to hear Tatala and Ximximana on the It7Nuxalkmc show.

They will be sharing the pronunciation of the lyrics Tatala wrote on Nuxalk Radio's Nusximta Album.

Track 3 - Ascmanwastuumx (3:14)
Track 7 - Uts'ii stlhilh Nuxalkmcilh (3:07)

Listen to the album here: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

16/06/2024

Qwaxw will be on Nuxalk Radio’s It7Nuxalkmc show 91.1 FM at 10am PT Mon, June 17, 2024 with host Tatala.

They will be sharing the Nuxalk language pronunciation of the lyrics of the songs he performs on Nuxalk Radio's "Nusximta" album.

Track 1 - Susqwimtmacwaw (3:42)
Track 5 - Nucwtsalus (4:36)
Track 8 - Wa skulhlxsaalhts (3:03)

Listen to the album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

15/06/2024

Rollah Mack (AKA radio host Q’xta) will be on Nuxalk Radio’s It7Nuxalkmc show 91.1 FM at 10am PT Tues, June 18, 2024 with host Tatala.

They will be sharing the Nuxalk language pronunciation of the lyrics of the song he performs on Nuxalk Radio's "Nusximta" album.

Track 12 - It7Nuxalkmctmacw (2:20)

Listen to the album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

(📸 Rollah Mack with his biggest little fans at the Nuxalk Radio album launch of Nusximta | photo by Slt'slani BanchI Hanuse).

12/06/2024

Wilhpun Deborah Nelson will be on Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM at 10am PT Thurs, June 13, 2024 with host Tatala on the It7Nuxalkmc show.

They will be sharing the Nuxalk language pronunciation of the lyrics of the spoken word song she performs on Nuxalk Radio's "Nusximta" album.

Track 11 - Anutsnmilh (1:36)

Listen to the album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

12/06/2024

Ximana Nola Mack will be on Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM at 10am PT Wed, June 12, 2024 with host Tatala on the It7Nuxalkmc show.

They will be sharing the Nuxalk language pronunciation of the lyrics of the song she performs on Nuxalk Radio's "Nusximta" album.

Track 6 - Axw Ku Kwmanu (3:04)

Listen to the album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

11/06/2024

Listen to Nuxalk Radio's Nusximta album:

Listen to the album

11/06/2024

Nuxalkulmc (Nuxalk Territory)'s very own Caley Watts (Cree) has a single "White Buffalo" officially released today.

You may have heard the track on Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM through the Indigenous Music Countdown show. Get the new track here and vote for the song: https://bio.to/CaleyWatts

11/06/2024

Tune in to Nuxalk Radio 91.1 FM 10am PT today to hear Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack) on the It7Nuxalkmc show with host Tatala.

They will be sharing the pronunciation of the lyrics she wrote for songs on Nuxalk Radio's Nusximta Album.

Track 2 - Ista Nts Ali (3:05)
Track 4 - Ti syut-s alh Siyani (2:11)
Track 9 - Nusq’lst Skwanat (3:08)

Listen to the album here: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

11/06/2024

CBC Radio show L'actuel with Jérémy Laniel played track 12 It7Nuxalkmctmacw of the Nuxalk Radio Nusximta album. Have a listen…

Hear the full album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

Vocals by Rollah Mack
Harmony vocals: Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack)
Background vocals: Tatala, Qwaxw and Wilhpun
Written by Rollah Mack, Wilhpun and Milan André Boronell
Translation: Tatala
Produced and Mixed by Milan André Boronell
Mastered by Kristofer Harris
Native American Flute: Wilhpun
Drums: Tatala
Piano: Milan André Boronell
Bass Guitar: Milan André Boronell

10/06/2024

CBC Radio show Vibin' with guest host Joseph Otoo played Nuxalk Radio song track 2 “Ista Nts Ali” (1 June 2024). Lara Hoshizaki caught it while listening to 88.1 FM in Vancouver BC.

Hear the full album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

Vocals by Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack)
Additional vocals: Tatala, Spsana (Victoria Moody)
Lyricist: Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack)
Written by Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack) and Milan André Boronell
Translated by Tatala, Snxakila Tallio
Produced and Mixed by Milan André Boronell
Mastered by Kristofer Harris
Drum Kick: Rollah Mack
Bass Guitar: Milan Andre Boronell
Additional drum: Milan André Boronell

10/06/2024

L'actuel radio show with Jérémy Laniel played track 12 It7Nuxalkmctmacw of the Nuxalk Radio album. Have a listen…

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Hear the full album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio��

Vocals by Rollah Mack�
Harmony vocals: Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack)�
Background vocals: Tatala, Qwaxw and Wilhpun�
Written by Rollah Mack, Wilhpun and Milan André Boronell�Translation: Tatala�
Produced and Mixed by Milan André Boronell�
Mastered by Kristofer Harris
Native American Flute: Wilhpun
Drums: Tatala
Piano: Milan André Boronell
Bass Guitar: Milan André Boronell

10/06/2024

CBC Radio show L'actuel with Jérémy Laniel played track 12 It7Nuxalkmctmacw of the Nuxalk Radio album. Have a listen…

at 16:16 mark: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/l-actuel/episodes/754374/rattrapage-jeudi-6-juin-2024/5��

Hear the full album: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio��

Vocals by Rollah Mack
�Harmony vocals: Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack)�
Background vocals: Tatala, Qwaxw and Wilhpun�
Written by Rollah Mack, Wilhpun and Milan André Boronell�Translation: Tatala�
Produced and Mixed by Milan André Boronell�
Mastered by Kristofer Harris

Native American Flute: Wilhpun
Drums: Tatala
Piano: Milan André Boronell
Bass Guitar: Milan André Boronell

10/06/2024

Here are the Nuxalk Radio artists from the Nusximta album.

Left to right: Qwaxw, Nuskmata (Jacinda Mack), Rollah Mack, Ximximana, Tatala, Ximana Nola Mack, Wilhpun, Ts'ikwalhm, K'ipt, Coastyn Hall

Hear the album on all major streaming platforms: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

10/06/2024

Qwaxw and Sqwasmana Siwallace MC the Nuxalk Radio album launch of Nusximta on June 7. 2024.

Listen to the album on all major streaming platforms: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

08/06/2024

Nuxalk Radio has released debut album "Nusximta" on all major streaming platforms: https://ffm.to/nuxalkradio

07/06/2024

Setting up for the BIG event tonight. Got colourful tents out for the hot weather. EXCITED.

Nuxalk Radio Album Launch Celebration
5:30pm Friday, June 7
Snuqaax, Bella Coola Fall Fair Grounds

:: Food & Artisan Vendors ::

Nuxalk Radio releasing album Nusximta on June 7, 2024 on all major streaming platforms.

Join us. All welcome:
Can't be there? Listen LIVE tune in: 91.1 FM or NuxalkRadio.com

05/06/2024

Nuxalk Radio Album t-shirts are hot off the press.

Limited edition t-shirts $50 ($45 for locals). Only 100 available in the following sizes:
XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL
Bella and Canvas Unisex Tee (Black Heather Triblend)

First come, first serve at the:

NUXALK RADIO ALBUM LAUNCH
5:30pm Friday, June 7th
Snuqaax, Bella Coola Fall Fair Grounds

Nuxalk Radio is releasing an album Nusximta on June 7, 2024 on all major streaming platforms.

06/05/2024

Nuxalk Radio is releasing the album "Nusximta" June 7, 2024 on all major streaming platforms.

The music is entirely in the Nuxalk language.

This is the first album produced by the Nuxalk Radio Records label.

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Join us. All welcome:

Nuxalk Radio Album Launch Party
5:30pm Friday, June 7
Snuqaax, Bella Coola Fall Fair Grounds
:: Food & Artisan Vendors ::

📅 FB calendar event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2859508667531179/

06/05/2024

Join us. All welcome:

Nuxalk Radio Album Launch Party
5:30pm Friday, June 7
Snuqaax, Bella Coola Fall Fair Grounds
:: Food & Artisan Vendors ::

Nuxalk Radio is releasing an album "Nusximta" on June 7, 2024 on all major streaming platforms. The music is entirely in the Nuxalk language. This is the first album produced by the Nuxalk Radio Records label.

📅 FB calendar event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2859508667531179/