Burn Out

"It’s crazy how much it’s still scary to stand out there by yourself." — SATEBlues, band nerds, Tarot cards, Toronto nightlife stories, fear, laughter. This conversation with Toronto musician SATE has it ALL. The late jazz and literary critic Albert Murray wrote about the blues as an Indigenous American tradition of resilience, an active and ongoing process or mode of confrontation and improvisation. Resilience is the blues, the blues is resilience. In her own way, SATE weaves a story of blues as a kind of grounding: in ancestry, self-identification, and — yep resilience.SATE: stateofsate.comSalome Bey, "You're Gonna Fall (1970)"Andy Bey & The Bey Sisters, "Smooth Sailing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jDDtUFUgbMWe need to take care of each other. Learn more about Encampment Support Network Toronto: instagram.com/esn.to.4realUNDER by Dyani is available now: dyani.bandcamp.comTheme song, "Dark Beings" by LALOriginal music by Jahmal PadmoreArtwork by amad.studioSupport the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnoutSubscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"So many of my friends had pop star dreams and we're all at this age where we're building a life that can include our creative talents and passions in a sustainable way. It was sad for me for a bit, but now I'm ecstatic." — Matthew ProgressIn this chat, Toronto-born multidisciplinary artist Matthew Progress talks about his short film TXN: A Decade In Review, commissioned by the Nia Centre, which culls the recent archive of images and sound to create a capsule narrative about Black Toronto. It had its public release (Zoom-style) the week that George Floyd's murder the death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet enflamed the news cycle. It got me thinking about the way that the grace of time is often denied to immigrant and racialized communities, who are denied public histories and ensnared in cycles of outrage. Matthew and I talked about the making of TXN, our meditation and grounding techniques and, because he's also a musician, the slow unfolding of multiple creative voices.Watch TXN: A Decade In Review: https://vimeo.com/421074565Stream his music https://smarturl.it/t3pv65We need to take care of each other. Learn more about Encampment Support Network Toronto: instagram.com/esn.to.4realUNDER by Dyani is available now: dyani.bandcamp.comOriginal music by Jahmal PadmoreArtwork by amad.studioSupport the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnoutSubscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"We're all out here trying to act like individuals [but] there is something about the individual that takes everything away from the community. We have to be aware of that." — Kris HarperMeet Kris Harper of nêhiyawak, the excellent Polaris Prize-shortlisted band from amiscwaciy (Edmonton, Alberta). Kris talks about how the Idle No More Movement, which began in Saskatchewan in 2012, shook up his understanding of how music, made intentionally, can be transformative, why he believes that more people should identify as Indigenous, and the importance of self-determination in music-making.Kris's Instagram post about skipping the Juno Awards: https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FXSs9Fky7/Additional tunes: "ôtênaw" and "open window" by nêhiyawakWe need to take care of each other. Learn more about Encampment Support Network Toronto: instagram.com/esn.to.4realᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ nêhiyawak: nehiyawak.bandcamp.comOriginal music by Jahmal PadmoreArtwork by amad.studioSupport the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnoutSubscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"People talk a lot about the political potential of film, but they don't talk about the harmful effects and what happens when that image and that sound reaches you in the audience." — Sarah-Tai BlackBack at it with writer and film programmer Sarah-Tai Black, the brains and generous spirit behind the Toronto screening series "Black Gold." Sarah-Tai talks through the need for radical thinking around programming Black films, the perils and violence of institutional art in the name of social justice, what it means to be "politically bimbo” 💁🏾‍♀️ and much more. Apologies to the Britney stans for my brain fart — I absolutely am familiar with the Blackout-era track "Piece of Me"!!!We need to take care of each other. Learn more about Encampment Support Network Toronto: instagram.com/esn.to.4realSarah Tai Black: sarahtaiblack.comOriginal music by Jahmal PadmoreArtwork by amad.studioSupport the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnoutSubscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The new episodes of Burn Out (coming soon!) are a response to the protests for justice and police abolition in the United States.... *and* a continuation of what Burn Out has always been: a place for artists to talk about resilience, survival, pleasure, and sustainability within systems of oppression and dysfunction. I just wanted to make that clear.Original music by Jahmal PadmoreArtwork by amad.studioSupport the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnoutSubscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.