UNBOUND (LP)

Unbound opens with a single, trembling chord that rises and descends before meeting a warm, beguiling voice, a voice singing in a tradition that's been heard in this northern riverc ountry for millennia. The music that follows is a soulful dialogue between the ancient tradition of powwow singing anda c ontemporary musical palette. On Unbound, the powwows tyle of singing is entwined with synthesized voice modulation,a nd hand drumming is accented with electronic samples and beats - the harmonies and resonances are equal parts culturala nd musical. Geographically, Bizhiki is almost wholly a made-in-Wisconsinpro ject, a collaboration between Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings, Joe Rainey and the multi-instrumentalist Sean Carey (S. Carey), who for years has been a secret weapon within the Bon Iver family.Bez hikiins Jennings grew up singing within the powwowtr adition, around the Lac Du Flambeau and Lac Courte Oreillesre servations in Central Wisconsin. He now makes his home inNor thern Wisconsin, on the Bad River reservation on the shores of Lake Superior. He's joined on the album by his adoptedbr other, Rainey, a Red Lake Ojibwe powwow singer from Minneapolis who now makes his home within his wife's OneidaNat ion on the shores of Lake Michigan. The collaboration