After Willowan English-language album released in March, Mimi O’Bonsawin offers Boreal, In french in the text. Both testify, in the official languages, to the Abenaki origin of the artist. Notable gesture, in these years when identity and belonging are loaded words. Who is this Franco-Ontarian? She comes from this country of coexistence that is less difficult than it seems, where Daniel Lanois built a North American world for himself (listen River, it comes from its source): nature beyond the limits of the territory. Culture is not compartmentalized either. So, Tell me what you see, the inflections indicate, is sung in Quebecois. Ancestors are no less celebrated in Rooted. Very good. But the music of this seventh disc, apart from a few percussions and songs, is without much relief. Curiously, where Elisapie, singing popular songs in Inuktitut, clearly defines herself, Mimi O’Bonsawin only manages to combine everything by leveling. The gesture, we understand, is not the manner.
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