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Louise Erdrich is, without a doubt, a beloved writer. The Minnesota Native American author has won nearly every literary award out there — including a Pulitzer for “The Night Watchman” and a National Book Award for “The Round House” — and her stories captivate, haunt and delight millions of devoted readers.She can accept the praise. But the title beloved? She's not into it.That's just one of the many stories that unspooled over the course of Erdrich's conversation Tuesday night on stage with MPR News host Kerri Miller for Talking Volumes. Talking Volumes: Louise Erdrich In front of a sold-out crowd, Erdrich talked about how growing up in the Red River Valley — where her new novel, “The Mighty Red,” is set — shaped her, why writing villains is a particular kind of torture and how the relatable and generous relationship between Crystal and Kismet in “The Mighty Red” was influenced by her own experience raising four daughters. And oh yes. Why she squirms at “beloved.”It's a funny, surprising, candid and warm conversation, the third in the 2024 Talking Volumes season. Powwow singer Joe Rainey was the musical guest. There's one Talking Volumes event left: Another Minnesota author, Kate DiCamillo, will join Miller on Oct. 29 for the finale of the 25th anniversary season. Tickets are available here.
On today's episode, I talk to musician and academic Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings. Originally from Stevens Point, WI, Dylan is an enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. As an academic, he received his Masters from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and is currently completing his PhD. He's also on the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board and is associate director of the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute at Northland College. As a musician, Dylan began singing at pow-wows when he was a kid, in drum groups like Midnite Express and IronBoy, with fellow singer Joe Rainey. But it wasn't until 2015, when he and Joe were given free reign to do what they wanted at the Eaux Claires Festival that Bizhiki was born. Their first album Unbound was just released on Jagjaguwar in July, and folks, it's great! This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter. Check out my free philosophy Substack where I write essays every couple months here and my old casiopop band's lost album here! And the comedy podcast I do with my wife Naomi Couples Therapy can be found here! Theme song by the fantastic Savoir Adore! Second theme by the brilliant Mike Pace! Closing theme by the delightful Gregory Brothers! Podcast art by the inimitable Beano Gee!
Rock, Country Rock, Funk, Dance, Dub Step, electro-soul, Alt Folk, Latin, Hip Hop, Americana, from mucicisns of the Navajo, Mohawk, Taos Pueblo, Cree, Métis, Mi'kmaq, Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, Purépecha, and Chickasaw Nations. Brought to you by Tunes From Turtle Island and Pantheon Podcasts. If you like the music you hear, go out and buy/stream some of it. :) All these artists need your support. Tracks on this week's show are: Mozart Gabriel - Clarity Hataalii - Burn Don Amero - Right Where I Wanna Be Blue Moon Marquee - What I wouldn't Do Handsome Tiger - ODISSEIA Jodie B - Commander Nancy Sanchez - Money Pa'la Fiesta Graeme Jonez - Summer Love On Man & Tailor & Joe Rainey & Andrew Broder - United (Why Cant We Say Enough) Joe Rainey & Andrew Broder remix Wolf Castle - Uligimoo J25 - Potential Willie Dunn - Yellowhead's Song Tyler Ogimaa & Seymour Munny & Nucky Jmc - Wanted To Kyle McKearney - Wedding Day Connor Chee & Tess Remy-shumacher - Elegy Gdubz & Indigenous - Sun Dance Ghostkeeper - Raven Frederick Elsner & Andachan & LOParty - Nutaaliorpunga LOParty remix Willows - Li bwe Joyslam - Real World Jessa Sky - DREAMIN' Carolina East - I'm Not Scared Mic Jordan - Mind Like Mine Tirrel Thomas - Long Way To Go Shawn Who & Iron Boy Singers - HOKA! Cee ElAssaad & QVLN - Ore Yeye O All songs on this podcast are owned by the artist(s) and are used for educational purposes only. All songs can be found for purchase or streaming wherever you get your great music. Please pick up these amazing tracks and support these artists. More info on the show here.
Geographically, Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsin project, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (aka S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family. The collaboration between these three musicians first began at the Eaux Claires festival in 2015. The festival was being organized on Ojibwe's ancestral homelands, and the organizers didn't feel right without the inclusion of the native communities who lived nearby. The open-endedness of the initial invitation and the “let's just do something together” spirit continues to inform Bizhiki's process. Recording steadily over the course of years — and between several projects from Bizhiki's members, including two solo albums (Joe Rainey's Niineta and S. Carey's Break Me Open) – the trio chipped away at an expansive, ambitious and unique record that sounds like no other music being made today. On Unbound, the powwow style is entwined with synthesized voice modulation, and hand drumming is accented with electronic samples and beats. The harmonies and resonances on this album are equal parts cultural and musical. Links: Secretly Society Podcast Link Secretly Society Podcast Store Link Secretly Society General Information Link Bizhiki: Bizhiki Website Link Bizhiki on Instagram Bizhiki on X Bizhiki on Facebook
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it's Joe Rainey! His new project, Bizhiki, with Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings and Sean Carey, have made one of 2024's best albums, “Unbound.” The combination of traditional and ceremonial rhythms and singing melded with contemporary production and instrumentation results in a moving, powerful album unlike anything else. We talked a lot about Rainey's history with pow wows and pow wow singing while growing up on the south side of Minneapolis before digging into songs that have stuck with him. We get into the all-time greatness of Buddy Red Bow, formative connections with 90s R&B luminaries like SWV, Donny Hathaway's romantic notions, sadness in Willie Nelson's voice, wake singing, Nevad Brave, and so much more.Listen to all of Joe's picks HEREBizhiki “Unbound”Joe Rainey “Niineta”Songs of Our Lives is a podcast series hosted by Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis that explores the music that's made us and left a certain mark. Whether it's a song we associate with our most important moments, something that makes us cry, the things we love that nobody else does, or our favorite lyrics, we all have our own personal soundtrack. Join Foxy Digitalis on Patreon for extra questions and conversation in each episode (+ a whole lot more!)Follow Foxy Digitalis:WebsitePatreonInstagramTwitterBlueskyMastodonThe Jewel Garden
Cette semaine à mâmawi musique, Moe Clark nous présente l'oeuvre de Joe Rainey, un chanteur de pow-wow ojibwé originaire du Minnesota qui mélange les techniques d'enregistrement audio analogiquess aux sonorités électroniques expérimentales modernes. Elle poursuit ensuite avec Renata Yazzie, une musicologue, pianiste et écrivaine dinée originaire d'Albuquerque, au Nouveau-Mexique, qui est en autre la fondatrice d'une organisation qui offre des bourses aux étudiants autochtones qui poursuivent une carrière dans la musique. Avec Danika St-Laurent Maheux, assistante à la recherche. Photos : David Guttenfelder et Renata Yazzie
On this week's episode of the Pickathon Podcast: at the top, Zale gives us some updates on the progress of Pickathon getting a conditional use permit. Zale then sits down with contemporary Powwow artist, Joe Rainey, to talk shop about bringing Powwow music to the forefront of today's music scene, the art of utilizing recording tech and tapes to create a wholly unique sound, and how the power of faith in your culture, yourself, and in others can take you beyond your own wildest dreams. Check out Joe Rainey's ever growing creative archive of Powwow music and culture at soundcloud.com/rainmanmnx. And be sure to buy his albums on Bandcamp at joe-rainey.bandcamp.com! . Please remember to rate, review and subscribe wherever you get your podcasting on! . And check out the Pickathon Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/Pickathon where there's exclusive content meant for the true music lovers, and independent festival goers. . Thank you all for listening!
Community groups are in Minneapolis are calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. And in a speech Wednesday morning, President Biden continued to pledge support for Israel while promising aid to people in Gaza. A U of M professor will help break down the latest in the war. Wednesday is Minnesota Now's second birthday! Happy Birthday to us. We've picked some of our favorite stories from the past year.That includes a conversation with a woman who is one of 15,000 Minnesotans with an incarcerated family member, a landowner who is trying to help address climate change, amazing archival audio of musician Lead Belly and electronic powwow music from Minneapolis musician Joe Rainey. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.Subscribe to the Minnesota Now podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
To celebrate two years of Minnesota Now, the team picked their favorites from the past year. Cathy's pick: Lead Belly's private Minneapolis show“Minnesota Now and Then” is a recurring segment on Minnesota Now. We shared this unique story on our show on May 31. Folk and blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, known by his stage name Lead Belly, had just finished a tour of Minnesota college towns, when he turned up at a friend's Minneapolis home and gave a short concert.It was a moment that would have been lost to music history, except that somebody decided to record it.“I loved the way the producers wove together the lost to time audio with their distinctive storytelling,” said MPR News host Cathy Wurzer. Aleesa's pick: How does incarceration affect a family?Back in January we spoke to Nakisha Armstrong from Hopkins. She hasn't spent a holiday with her dad for over 30 years. He is incarcerated. The father of her two teenage sons, is also incarcerated for the last 15 years.Her experience is not unique. Nakisha is one of 15,000 Minnesotans who have a parent or close relative incarcerated.”Sometimes the conversations we have on Minnesota Now aren't easy. But we are thankful for the people every day willing to be honest with us and Cathy about the sometimes difficult parts of their lives,” said Minnesota Now senior producer Aleesa Kuznetsov.Alanna's pick: Curbing climate change with non-farming landlordsWe learned this year that land use, including agriculture and forestry, is one of Minnesota's largest sources of greenhouse gases. It's second only to transportation.And there's a group of people with some power to help shrink that pollution. They're people who own farmland, but who don't farm it themselves. They own more than a third of the state's farmland.Back in April, MPR News talked to Meg Nielsen who is part of a group called Climate Land Leaders. They recruit and train landowners to try to store carbon and reduce emissions.“I thought this conversation brings together two things we've been talking about on the show this year: family transitions that everyone goes through in some way or another and people feeling the impact of climate change or trying to adapt to it. I also remembered it because of something that, when it happens, is one of my favorite parts of working on this show — when we hear back from people directly that a conversation is resonating with them,” said Minnesota Now producer Alanna Elder.Gretchen's pick: Joe Rainey's avant-garde powwow We've played the music of Joe Rainey on the show on the Minnesota Music Minute segment. He's from the south side of Minneapolis and a citizen of the Red Lake Nation who fuses powwow with experimental electronic music. “I love that this show gives us opportunities to meet our neighbors, even with they are famous musicians with growing buzz nationally and internationally. Joe Rainey is so talented. But in this interview he seemed so down to earth a like someone I'd want to hang out with,” said Minnesota Now producer Gretchen Brown. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. Subscribe to the Minnesota Now podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. We attempt to make transcripts for Minnesota Now available the next business day after a broadcast. When ready they will appear here.
Vozes da América do Norte e da Europa01 – Judd Greenstein - Sing Along02 – Joe Rainey - b.e. son03 – Joe Rainey - jr. flip04 – Gruopo Texto Poetico - Un Cietro Tiempo de Desconcierto05 – Santosa - C.S. n.206 - Giovanni Bignone - MaschinengewehrProdução, gravação, edição e locução: marcelo brissacMúsica “Drácula” usjoeada no prefixo e sufixo, autoria de marcelo brissac e livio tragtenberg
Vozes da América do Norte e da Europa01 – Judd Greenstein - Sing Along02 – Joe Rainey - b.e. son03 – Joe Rainey - jr. flip04 – Gruopo Texto Poetico - Un Cietro Tiempo de Desconcierto05 – Santosa - C.S. n.206 - Giovanni Bignone - MaschinengewehrProdução, gravação, edição e locução: marcelo brissacMúsica “Drácula” usada no prefixo e sufixo, autoria de marcelo brissac e livio tragtenberg
Joe Rainey is a Pow Wow singer. He is not used to singing solo, because pow wow is inherently communal, but this debut is every bit as powerful. The album is Niineta, released on Justin Vernon and the Dessner brothers' 37d03d label, showcases his command of the style - faithful to tradition - accompanied by cinematic, bass-heavy production from Andrew Broder. Join Sonosphere as we dive into the sounds of contemporary pow wow fused with vast experimental and electronic oceans of sound. Joe Rainey lent his voice and experience to this episode and I think him for sharing his story through his learning of, preservation of and lifting up of pow wow and indigenous music. For more visit www.sonospherepodcast.com
Joe Rainey creates a unique fusion of powwow and experimental electronic music. He is from south Minneapolis and is a citizen of the Red Lake Nation. Rainey's debut album has gotten quite the buzz both in the Midwest and nationally.
In studio Fabio Barbieri. Musiche: Tim Buckley, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Bondo, Cluster And Brian Eno, Joe Rainey, Michael Rault, Byrds, Mamas And Papas, America, Simon And Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills And Nash, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan.
Repertório 01 – Joe Rainey - phil's offering 02 – Colon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano - Study Nº103 – Colon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano - Study Nº204 – Colon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano - Study Nº3c05 – Colon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano - Study Nº5Produção, gravação, edição e locução: Marcelo BrissacMúsica “Drácula” usada no prefixo e sufixo, autoria de Marcelo Brissac e Livio Tragtenberg
This week on the show, Joe Rainey. Hailing from Minnesota, he's a pow wow singer of the Red Lake Ojibwe tribe. He's known for collaborations with Bon Iver, Chance the Rapper and Alan Sparhawk of Low, and in May he released his debut solo album, Niineta on Justin Vernon's 38do3d label. Created in conjunction with producer Andrew Broder, it pairs his vocals with samples culled from his vast collection of pow wow tapes, thundering percussion, and dense, thickly layered electronic soundscapes. With its double-meaning titles like “No Chants” and “Easy on the Cide” nodding toward Rainey's understated sense of humor, Niineta takes on a collage-like quality that bends time. He joined us from to discuss his days traveling the pow wow circuit, how the collaboration with Broder came to be, and his teenage interest in rap. Thanks for checking out Transmissions. If you dig the show, please consider leaving a five star rating or a review—or just forwarding your favorite episodes to a friend. We're a part of the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Next week on the show: Sam Cohen.
This week on our weekly interview podcast, a wide-ranging interview with Clem Burke of Blondie. He joins us to discuss the band's early years, interactions with luminaries like Robert Fripp and Georgio Moroder, the fashion forward cultural shift, disco, and Numero Group's monumental box set collection: Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982. A game conversationalist, Burke brings a quick wit and sharp intellect to this chat, which traces the group's evolution, early days, and his work as a case study documenting the physical condition of drummers. Thanks for checking out Transmissions. If you dig the show, please consider leaving a five star rating or a review—or just forwarding your favorite episodes to a friend. We're a part of the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Next week on the show: Joe Rainey.
Repertório: 01 – Joe Rainey - easy on the cide - 05'58''02 – Joe Rainey – bezhigo - 5'05''03 – Joe Rainey - can key - 4'25''04 – Joe Rainey - turned engine (feat. Allie Bearhead) - 3'57''05 – Joe Rainey - ch. 1222 - 3'24''Produção, gravação, edição e locução: Marcelo BrissacMúsica Drácula usada no prefixo de Marcelo Brissac e Livio Tragtenberg
Welcome to another episode of Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. This week on the show, Daryl Black Eagle Jamieson and guitarist Yonatan Gat join us to discuss their collaborative work as Medicine Singers, which pairs the powwow drum and the voices of the Eastern Medicine Singers with Yonatan's electrified guitar and contributions from experimental composer Joe Rainey, Ikue Mori of DNA, Thor Harris of Swans, previous Transmissions guest Laraaji, and the late jamie branch. Tapped into a kind of frenzied energy, the album is an overpowering force, and it features a transcendent cover of Link Wray's immortal “Rumble.” Ahead of a performance September 24 at Pioneer Works with guests Lee Ranaldo, Laraaji, and Thor Harris, Jamieson and Gat join us to discuss their collaboration. A quick word: sorry about some of the audio in this one; there was an issue with a connection, but the conversation is more than worth it. Thanks for checking out Transmissions. If you dig the show, please consider leaving a five star rating or a review—or just forwarding your favorite episodes to a friend. We're a part of the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Next week on the show: Medicine Singers.
Kelly Hall-Tompkins is a professional violinist and multi-disciplinary entrepreneur whose love for music, coupled with her grandmother's loving spirit, inspired Music Kitchen: the pioneer organization to bring top classical music artists in concert into homeless shelters. Kelly talks with Garrett (1:02:00) about Music Kitchen's origins, the impact it's had on patrons, and how we all can change the world by leading with compassion. Scott celebrates Maestro Jeri Lynn Johnson and Joe Rainey, Garrett highlights the music of Reena Esmail and Flutronix, and the guys unpack the week in news, social media, and advocacy. Playlist: Joe Raposo - "The Electric Company" Theme Gracie's Corner - "Counting Coins" Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 2 "Finale" Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals - "In The Colors" Joe Rainey - "bezhigo" Reena Esmail - Charukeshi bandish Ofra Haza/Eden Riegel - "Deliver Us" perf. Kelly Hall-Tompkins & Mark O'Connor - Double Violin Concerto (Mark O'Connor): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwONXB2Ke-k Kamala Sankaram - "Hooking In" (Music Kitchen Virtual Premiere and Behind the Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABrA0QXY5EI) Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - "Candy Candy" (perf. Flutronix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMUjsbh13o8) More: Music Kitchen: http://www.musickitchennyc.org/about.htm Jeri Lynne Johnson Featured on MSNBC: https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/career-growth/she-was-told-she-didn-t-look-maestro-so-conductor-n1296979 Racial Acoustics: https://between.substack.com/p/racial-acoustics?sd=pf Ohio lawmaker wants to teach the Holocaust ‘from the perspective of the Nazis': https://www.jpost.com/international/article-702341 Nathalie Joachim Speaks: https://twitter.com/NathalieJoachim/status/1545766497326333952?s=20&t=ZyENI_TTB1-k5J5uM6zmpw
On today's episode, I talk to musician Joe Rainey. Originally from South Minneapolis, Joe is A member of the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe people and began attending and singing at pow wows from an early age, as well as becoming a pow wow singing archivist. Eventually ending up in Wisconsin, Joe began guesting with different musicians, working with people like Alan Sparhawk of Low, Bon Iver, Chance the Rapper, among many others. This eventually led to his debut album Niineta, which he composed with producer and artist Andrew Broder and which was released at the end of May on Justin Vernon's label 37d03d! This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.
Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Joe Rainey's Gift for Pow Wow Singing and Collaborative Music MakingOn today's show, we talk with Joe Rainey (Red Lake Nation), an Ojibwe Pow Wow singer, music archivist, and collaborative music maker. Joe grew up in south Minneapolis and now lives in Wisconsin with his wife and five children.In this conversation, Joe Rainey shares his love of music, pow wow singing, and appreciation for the many people who have influenced and encouraged his unique journey and career path as a professional music maker. We loved hearing about Joe's creative process and how his experimental debut LP called “Niineta”, came into being during the pandemic. The release of “Niineta” will be celebrated at a performance party at First Avenue's 7th Street Entry, on June 27th, 2022. Learn more here: https://first-avenue.com/event/2022-06-joe-rainey/Check out more of Joe Rainey's music here: https://joe-rainey.bandcamp.com/ and here: https://soundcloud.com/rainmanmnxNative Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/
Pow Wow singer Joe Rainey, of the Ojibwe community in Minneapolis. fuses traditional melodies and “vocables” (Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork) with the producer Andrew Broder in something of an avant-hip hop partnership, although in addition to beats, there are field recordings, industrial-sounding processed drums, string arrangements, and vocal processing. He describes his music as being on the same river, but a different boat from other pow wow singers and groups. Rainey's album Niineta—the title means “Just Me” in Ojibwe, and which he further explains is “my contribution to contemporary indigenous music” – was released on Justin Vernon and the Dessner brothers' 37d03d label, to which Rainey is signed. The music is rooted in traditional drum and dance music, where for years Rainey always had a hand-held recorder or voice memo rolling, even recording calls from incarcerated family members singing. These field recordings became part of the whole album's unique woven fabric of voice-as-instrument pieces, combined with samples and sometimes with altered by electronic processing, all layered with Rainey's own singing, which can celebrate or console, and “conveys a clear message: We're still here. We were here before you were, and we never left”, (Bandcamp.) Joe Rainey and Andrew Broder perform remotely. - Caryn Havlik Set list: “Bezhigo”, “Can Key”, “No Chants” Watch "Bezhigo": Watch "Can Key": Watch "No Chants": Niineta by Joe Rainey: Niineta by Joe Rainey
Niineta opens unexpected. A call from inside the penitentiary. It's a cousin of Joe Rainey's – but one he considers close enough to call a brother. It's a striking opening for a striking album that explores the traditional indigenous songs he grew up singing at Pow Wow, set to modern production. The music is both faithful and new. It's a celebration of the communities carrying on these musical traditions and an opportunity to share that cultural wealth with the world.
Reporter Sophia Donskoi sits down with Joe Rainey and Rushabh Nagori of UCLA's Bruin Review for a conversation about fake news and social media.
This week we lost someone we both really loved. Joe Rainey has supported us from the beginning. As a matter of fact, he was the first guest we ever had on our podcast. It was October 24, 2014 when Joe barged into the studio. In today's' episode we remember Joe and throw it back to that day!
We remember and honor our good friend, Joe Rainey, we talk to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and hear the great thing Froggy is doing. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Capitol Records vp of pop promotion Joe Rainey shares insights on the label's latest successes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.