The creative thunderbolt occurred at the South by South West festival, where the Eastern Medicine Singers, Algonquins from the Rhode Island region, and New York composer and guitarist Yonatan Gat met. Five years later, an incredible first album where the pow-wow tradition, jazz, rock and avant-garde music meet. The hypnotic power of indigenous dance rhythms reveals a striking modernity, primed first with the jazz colors of the young improviser Jaimie Branch on the first side of the album, then with the dashes of electric guitars of Gat, who let off steam especially on the second side in a tribute to the pioneer Link Wray (Sunrise Rumble), a musician belonging to the Shawnee people who showed the way to the rock sound by using distortions from the end of the 1950s. To this mixture is added a luminous work of electronic orchestration — the veteran of the ambient Laraaji and the great composer no wave Iku Mori put their grain of salt into it — and manipulations in the studio. Visionary and unique!
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