Obomsawin, Alanis
Bush Lady (180 Gr)
Bush Lady is the only recording ever made by Alanis Obomsawin, a member of the Abenaki First Nations and best known as
one of Canada's most accomplished and decorated documentary filmmakers. Less well known is that Obomsawin began her
artistic career as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s, part of a broad movement of Indigenous artists from across North
America rallying in new assertions of cultural consciousness, political rights, and reckonings with oppressive colonial
history. She was invited by Folkways to perform at Town Hall in New York City in the early 1960s and spent that decade
primarily identifying as a singer, channeling traditional songs hand-in-hand with modern composition. Twenty years
later, amidst her burgeoning film career, Bush Lady was born of sessions sponsored by CBC Radio in 1984. Unsatisfied
with these recordings, Obomsawin reclaimed the master tapes, remade the album, and issued it on her own private press in
1988. This unique, profound, magical reco rd has been out of print and gaining cult status ever since. Constellation is
honored to be working with this legendary Canadian cultural icon to issue a newly remastered version of Bush Lady on
audiophile 180gram vinyl.
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
15-06-2018
Label
Item-nr
1007538
EAN
0666561013318
Availability
Not in stock