Burn Out

"It’s crazy how much it’s still scary to stand out there by yourself." — SATE Blues, 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.com [stateofsate.com] Salome Bey, "You're Gonna Fall (1970)" Andy Bey & The Bey Sisters, "Smooth Sailing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jDDtUFUgbM We need to take care of each other. Learn more about Encampment Support Network Toronto: instagram.com/esn.to.4real [https://create.acast.com/episodes/1c01a0c5-98d8-4e8e-8d08-29e23ad27d6e/instagram.com/esn.to.4real] UNDER by Dyani is available now: dyani.bandcamp.com [https://dyani.bandcamp.com/album/under] Theme song, "Dark Beings" by LAL [https://lalforest.bandcamp.com/] Original music by Jahmal Padmore [https://www.instagram.com/jahmalpadmore/] Artwork by amad.studio [https://amad.studio/] Support the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnout [https://supporter.acast.com/burnout] Subscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.com [anupa.substack.com] Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout [http://supporter.acast.com/burnout]. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out 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 Progress In 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/421074565 [https://vimeo.com/421074565] Stream his music https://smarturl.it/t3pv65 [https://smarturl.it/t3pv65] We need to take care of each other. Learn more about Encampment Support Network Toronto: instagram.com/esn.to.4real [instagram.com/esn.to.4real] UNDER by Dyani is available now: dyani.bandcamp.com [https://dyani.bandcamp.com/album/under] Original music by Jahmal Padmore [https://www.instagram.com/jahmalpadmore/] Artwork by amad.studio [https://amad.studio/] Support the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnout [https://supporter.acast.com/burnout] Subscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.com [anupa.substack.com] Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout [http://supporter.acast.com/burnout]. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out 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 Harper Meet 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/ [https://www.instagram.com/p/B9FXSs9Fky7/] Additional tunes: "ôtênaw" and "open window" by nêhiyawak We need to take care of each other. Learn more about Encampment Support Network Toronto: instagram.com/esn.to.4real [https://create.acast.com/episodes/c5ecf896-1407-4343-852b-ff727ebc9241/instagram.com/esn.to.4real/] ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐊᐧᐠ nêhiyawak: nehiyawak.bandcamp.com [https://nehiyawak.bandcamp.com/] Original music by Jahmal Padmore [https://www.instagram.com/jahmalpadmore/] Artwork by amad.studio [https://amad.studio/] Support the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnout [https://supporter.acast.com/burnout] Subscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.com [https://create.acast.com/episodes/85805262-bfa7-4a00-b15f-cdbf9604f433/anupa.substack.com] Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout [http://supporter.acast.com/burnout]. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out 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 Black Back 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.4real [instagram.com/esn.to.4real/] Sarah Tai Black: sarahtaiblack.com [sarahtaiblack.com/] Original music by Jahmal Padmore [https://www.instagram.com/jahmalpadmore/] Artwork by amad.studio [https://amad.studio/] Support the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnout [https://supporter.acast.com/burnout] Subscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.com [https://create.acast.com/episodes/85805262-bfa7-4a00-b15f-cdbf9604f433/anupa.substack.com] Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout [http://supporter.acast.com/burnout]. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out 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 Padmore [https://www.instagram.com/jahmalpadmore/] Artwork by amad.studio [https://amad.studio/] Support the podcast 💸 supporter.acast.com/burnout [https://supporter.acast.com/burnout] Subscribe to the newsletter 💌 anupa.substack.com [anupa.substack.com] Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/burnout [http://supporter.acast.com/burnout]. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for privacy and opt-out information.