Listen to Budo's Remix of Silver Jackson's 'Perfect Mistake'

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Rhymesayers producer Budo offers a mellow rework of Silver Jackson's "Perfect Mistake".

Leading up to the full fledged release of his brilliant sophomore album, Starry Skies Opened Eyes, Silver Jackson enlists help from some Sitka-to-Seattle-to-Brooklyn connections to find Budo taking the reigns on this bubbling, electronic remix of lead single "Perfect Mistake".

The track features sonic contributions from Iska Dhaaf (Benjamin Verdoes & Nate Quiroga) and OCnotes, with psychedelic visuals from the talented Christian Petersen of IWantYouStudio.

Budo flips the acoustic original into a loping, beat-based shimmering remix that sits comfortably next to the rest of the album's sonic experiments and electronic flourishes. Kick back and enjoy the ride.

STREAM: Silver Jackon's "Perfect Mistake" (Budo Remix)

Listen to all of Silver Jackson's Starry Skies Opened Eyes here and download the album from silverjackson.bandcamp.com.   

 

PREMIERE: Stream Silver Jackson's New Album "Starry Skies Opened Eyes"

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Silver Jackson's remarkable new album, Starry Skies Opened Eyes, bursts with life and an artful spirit of experimentation. Welcome to the future-now sounds of Indigenous expansion.

Silver Jackson is the musical alias of multi-talented Tlingit/Aleut artist Nicholas Galanin, whose recent adoption into the rising art and music collective known as the Black Constellation represents both a bold progression of the "expanding now" he is developing alongside his interstellar kin—Shabazz Palaces, Erik Blood, THEESatisfaction, OC Notes, Nep Sidhu, Khalil Joseph and Maikoyo Alley-Barnes—and an emergent model of creative collaboration and community.

Starry Skies Opened Eyes, Jackson's second album, is an effortless evolution of his style and aesthetic, where electronic-inflected, acoustic folk experiments abound with clever melodic turns and spiralling harmonies, fading and swimming through percussive clicks, crackles, and looping rhythms.

Recorded over a three year period that saw Jackson narrowly escape death in a hunting accident, the album traces his path to newfound perspectives "on life through love and gratitude...friends and family".

Starry Skies Opened Eyes is a record of resonance, transformation and re-emergence—of Jackson "losing [himself] in the blackness between light", drifting through dark horizons, reflecting the sky. This introspective illumination unfolds in a dream-like flow of cosmia, echoing out over the album's 11 tracks.

From the ambient swirl of the album's title track, "Starry Skies Opened Eyes", to the implicit critique of colonialism expressed in "Lanáalx" (the Tlingit word for "wealthy"), Starry Skies Opened Eyes is suffused with a restless spirit of interconnected being. Jackson traverses the shifting sonics of this polyvocal landscape with melodic dialogue textured by a host of collaborators, including Samantha Crain, OCnotes, Benjamin Verdoes, Jesse Hughey, Erik Blood, and Catherine Harris-White.

As the album's loping, final track "From Another World" arrives, with the hopeful prose of guest vocalist THEESatisfaction's "Cat" (Harris-White), it becomes clear that this is "rugged unexplored terrain / yet the rain still washes it anew".

Starry Skies Opened Eyes is a brilliant addition to the expanding universe of the Black Constellation and a bright spark in dark times. It is the sound of a future-now, where Indigenous presence is an act of creation, continually being renewed.

Stream Silver Jackson's "Starry Skies Opened Eyes"

 

Starry Skies Opened Eyes is available for pre-order now and will be officially released on November 14, 2014.

DOWNLOAD: Strummin' Dog - "Locked Into Something"

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Despite being born and raised in the Alaskan town of Sitka, Strummin' Dog (aka Dave Galanin, father of Nicholas Galanin) plays the blues like he's from down the bayou. His newest album, Signify, is a mix of original tunes and his own spin on works by the greats like Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Charley Patton. Locked Into Something is a Strummin' Dog original and it has me feeling my East Van desk chair is leaned back in a smokey blues bar, or maybe rocking on a Southern porch... either way it's just what you want from the blues - hazy, hot and hitting the low notes of your soul with a steel guitar and a rich deep voice.

You can get Signify at CDBaby, Bandcamp and iTunes.

 DOWNLOAD: Strummin' Dog - "Locked Into Something"

Silver Jackson's New Album: It's Glimmering Now

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It’s Glimmering Now, the new album by multi-instrumentalist Silver Jackson (aka visual artist Nicholas Galanin), was recorded in the artist's living room in Alaska. Created during a ‘dark’ period of divorce and loss of loved ones, the project gleams light.

Perhaps it's the number of guest producers, vocalists and musicians that Silver Jackson had contribute to the album, or perhaps it's part of his already varied artistic practice, but the sound is hard to pin down. Which is not to say it's lacking cohesion - the songs on the album keep each other good sonic company in their eclectic mix of electronic and acoustic sounds, samples, sung vocals and spoken pieces.

Download the album now from silverjackson.com. You'll be glad you did.

Tracklisting:

  1. On A Boat w/Denise Denherder, Thanny Bean, Nick Polley
  2. Elliott w/Denise Denherder, Thanny Bean
  3. For Wade w/ Niki Bell, Denise Denherder, Thanny Bean, Nick Polley
  4. I Wrote A Red Rose w/Denise Denherder
  5. La Lionne w/ Zak D. Wass
  6. It's Always Good w/ Micah Middaugh & Trevor Hobbs (of Breathe Owl Breathe), Little Wings, Aeriel East
  7. Glad I Found You w/ Nat Baldwin, Little Wings
  8. Stones Throw w/Micah Middaugh & Trevor Hobbs (of Breathe Owl Breathe), Little Wings, Denise Denherder
  9. Our Love w/ Oc Notes
  10. The Life I Live w/ Psmoov, J. Bradley
  11. It's Glimmering Now w/ Oc Notes, Reva Devito
  12. Grown w/ Oc Notes, Denise Denherder
  13. Love Is... w/ Budo, Andrea Moreno-Beals (of Breathe Owl Breathe), Astronomar, friends and family
  14. What A Day w/ Denise Denherder, Sonny Smith