KRISTI LANE SINCLAIR JOINS RED MUSIC RISING, SHARES NEW SINGLE “BREAK FT. KELLY FRASER”
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The beautiful, brash, and bold Haida/Cree artist Kristi Lane Sinclair is today sharing the new single, “Break ft. Kelly Fraser”, her first new music to be released Red Music Rising. Sinclair’s well-polished, brutally honest songwriting delves into far too common experiences of violence, surfacing to breathe with softness and grit. She describes her songwriting approach as “visceral,” with music and lyrics written together in the moment. Her songs combine severity with symphony, weaving sharply gorgeous string sections alongside the howl of heavy riffs.
On the new single, she says “‘Break’ is a very different kind of arrangement. It doesn’t really sound like anything I’ve ever done before, there’s mostly just this pulse, this heartbeat of drums and of voices chanting. This is one example of a song where I asked the girls in the studio to portray ancestral voices in their singing within the song’s narrative. It was our chance to incorporate the amazing voice of Kelly Fraser, whose throat singing runs throughout the track.”
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Sinclair released her first album, the self-produced I Love You, in 2010, and followed it with 2013’s By The Sea Alone. In 2015, she released Dark Matter, which earned the Best Rock Album honour at the 2017 Indigenous Music Awards. The making of that album was documented in a six-part APTN series, Face The Music. Her last record, The Ability to Judge Distance was released in 2018. Be on the lookout for more new music in the very near future.