Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and musical instrumentation from folks living in Ontario's Niagara Region. A community conversation about our complicated relationship with emancipation and the human right to be free, Freedom: A Mixtape is a compilation album that is part protest and part celebration. It is history and the present moment all at once, a reminder that this moment is part of a larger, ongoing movement. Familiar pains are felt deeply in moments both bygone and bitingly present, setting the tone-and stage-for action.
Analog field recordings and soothing talk-radio energy give voice to the residue of intergenerational trauma, the depths of colonialism, resilience amidst oppressive conditions, and a clarion call that joy is a birthright for everyone. With emotional precision and softness, Freedom: A Mixtape offers a radical reminder that in our bleakest moments, we rise up through love of self and community.
Freedom: A Mixtape is a declaration that all Black lives matter, weaving together original songs, stories, poems, and music into a community conversation about our nuanced relationship with emancipation and the human right to be free.
Analog field recordings and soothing talk-radio energy voice the impacts of colonialism, intergenerational trauma, resilience amidst oppressive conditions, and the belief that joy is a birthright for everyone. With emotional precision and softness, Freedom: A Mixtape offers the radical reminder that in our bleakest moments, we rise up through love of self and community.
• Contributing artists include: Philip Davis, Penny J Bowers, Kattawe Henry, Barry Stewart, Diana Myrie, Vicki-Lynn Smith, Tethered the Ghost, Howard J Davis, Alex Ring, Roselyn Keleda-Sedra, Iain Ellis Lidstone, Eve Atoms, Jermaine Marshall, and Yung Dashiki
