ALOK shares 'The Future Is Ancestral' album working with artists from Brazilian indigenous communities
"I feel honoured to be able to serve as a platform to amplify the voices of indigenous ancestry"
ALOK has shared his new album 'The Future Is Ancestral'.
The project involves over 50 musicians - artists featured hail from eight different local Brazilian indigenous communities - and is available on all digital platforms now.
Each track crafts narratives of innovation, resiliance and cultural resurgence, with the record forged around the message of importance of preserving indigenous roots.
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There are invitations to listen to the sound of nature, words on following the paths of ancestors and shifting perspective, traditional prayer and calls for resistance, hip-hop cuts yearning for ancestral homelands, battle cries and reflections on the Brazilian cultural origin, centring on the strength of indigenous words.
"I feel honoured to be able to serve as a platform to amplify the voices of indigenous ancestry," ALOK says. "'The Future Is Ancestral' is not just a musical project; it is a movement to reforest the imagination of our society and its perception of indigenous peoples and the importance of their presence in multiple territories,"
The body of work has been acknowledged by UNESCO as a relevent action for the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, with all of its profits going directly to the Indigenous artists and communities who co-created the project.
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You can check out 'The Future Is Ancestral' album here, available now.
Niamh Ingram is Mixmag's Weekend Editor, follow her on Instagram