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In the music video for the first song from Katherine Paul aka Black Belt Eagle Scout’s new album, My Blood Runs Through This Land, the singer walks through the foggy, black-and-white landscape of the American Northwest. The eponymous blood keeps running out of her mouth, which illustrates the ambiguity of the song and her third album: On the one hand, the blood is a metaphor for the connection between her indigenous ancestors and this country. On the other hand, it is the blood that European settlers shed in the violent takeover of this country.
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On THE LAND, THE WATER, THE SKY, Paul negotiates her connection to those three things and thus her indigenous heritage. The result is a moving piece of music in which the multi-instrumentalist symbolically reconquers this country – with such a soft and clear voice that it always seems a little like the band is playing in a different room.
Even faster, heavier songs like “Fancy Dance” have an idiosyncratic calm – despite the fuzz pedal being pushed down. But it’s always the calm before the storm – this isn’t a feel-good nature album. It’s more about self-empowerment, as also becomes clear in the finale of the album: “Don’t Give Up” is about exactly that – that Katherine Paul doesn’t give up anymore because she has finally found her peace: in land, water and sky.
Author: Elias Pietsch
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