{"id":19139,"date":"2015-02-07T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=19139"},"modified":"2015-02-06T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T18:52:35","slug":"the-power-of-music-a-tribe-called-red-looks-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2015\/02\/07\/the-power-of-music-a-tribe-called-red-looks-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of music: “A Tribe Called Red” looks ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"a-tribe-called-red-download-album-350x317\"<\/a>Ottawa’s own “A\u00a0Tribe Called Red<\/a>” keeps moving from strength to strength.<\/p>\n

NCPR listeners first met the group and their “electric pow wow” in 2012 coverage from\u00a0from David Sommerstein<\/a>, as well as PRI’s\u00a0The World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By 2013, the group was drawing notice at larger venues like South by Southwest, as in <\/span>this description from the Washington Post<\/a>:<\/span><\/pre>\n
A Tribe Called Red, a visionary trio of DJs from Ottawa, made the dance floor feel like the most ripe setting for discovery in Austin, stacking Native American pow-wow chants over bruising hip-hop beats and sternum-punching bass lines. There wasn\u2019t anything else like it at SXSW. There probably isn\u2019t anything else like it on Earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This past Wednesday, long-time Ottawa Citizen music reporter Lynn Saxberg covered a panel discussion, presented as art of “Megaphono<\/a>” – a\u00a0festival and music industry conference. Her\u00a0article includes a short video<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The panel included\u00a0Tribe\u2019s Deejay NDN (aka Ian Campeau), the group’s manager Guillaume Decouflet and their booking agent Adam Countryman, speaking about ways music can impact society:<\/p>\n
Campeau was instrumental in persuading a Nepean football team that its name was racist. \u201cThat\u2019s when I had this realization we had a lot of power,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce you realize you can change something, it gets really addictive.\u201d His next target? \u201cEnding the oppression of everybody.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, good luck with a modest little goal like that!<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, according to the Citizen article:<\/p>\n
The master plan for A Tribe Called Red involves an album release on the Pirate\u2019s Blend label in 2016, and breaking even wider in the U.S. With 2017 marking the 150th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of Confederation, \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a very important year politically,\u201d Guillaume noted, \u201cbecause these guys have become one of the voices of aboriginal youth.\u201d Twenty years from now, he predicts they will be a \u201cheritage\u201d band. \u201cLike Rush,\u201d interjected moderator Kwende Kefentse, eliciting much laughter from the audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Something to keep an eye on in the years ahead.<\/p>\n
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Original members of Ottawa’s own “A Tribe Called Red”: DJ NDN (Ian Campeau), Bear Witness and DJ Shub (Dan General). Photo by Pat Bolduc<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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