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This week from Superman. Small time Giants Alisa p. Boogie the beach and Simon Lynch also speak with pocket frailing our featured artist. I'm Alexa Salit inviting you to stay with us. From her Olympic gold Olympic gold the Olympics the Olympics the list the Olympic. Gold. Lynette Music from Rita off her album tattoo an album that features songs all sung in her native Nick took language before that we heard heart beats a broken heart from Greenlanders small time Giants Super Man with his single why and we opened with a mix of frailties from initial knob a singer songwriter Ansley Simpson that's off her album break wall I'm Alexa Salit And you're listening to earth songs the latest in modern indigenous music this week we're speaking with our guest Palko frailing thank you for being with us all thanks for having me Yeah absolutely and you know give us a little history on yourself as an artist I know this is your debut album or listening to today but you know tell us how you got to this point in your life when did you start creating music well at the age of 5 started taking piano lessons fortune enough to have parents that really promoted music my dad was very active musician and saw they set me up with piano lessons from 5 till age 13 I remember when I was younger started writing a few songs and nothing serious but you know I remember playing around with that idea and then I had 4 years as a violin and kind of took a break from age 13 to $16.00 wanted to step away from classical music and so I took a couple year break and when I was 16 I started playing out with my dad and I picked up the bass guitar and that was my 1st introduction really playing out live and just fell in love with it and so today as we mentioned we're playing music from your debut album Letting Go tell us about this album title in where the name comes from. About a year and a half ago I was doing a 40 fast spiritual fast and a lot of messages came surrounding the theme of letting go and it was about letting go of things that were weighing me down personally and spiritually so other doors would open up my last child was moving out of the home and going to college and that was a milestone in rewarding but difficult at the same time for me so I saw things surrounding that involved letting him go and holding things back that might be beautiful in the moment can actually cause him to wither you don't allow them to go and I thought more about letting our loved ones go and it's their time to walk around and even ourselves walking on money give our final breath to The Creator and walk on so it was kind of a full circle message for me and so that's one of the main songs on this album for me and wanted to include then pedal but also just letting things go has helped me free up time for music at this point in my life and music brings a lot of healing to me and hopefully to other people listening to this and this album you know there are some subjects you hit on this far is alcoholism homelessness and via mental activism there are some subjects you like to touch on on this album why was it important to include these in this album for you. Well most of the songs in the album are pieces of me they were inspired by dreams or relationships that I had most There's very few songs I've written about 24 songs and there be 12 of them on this 1st cd most of them are coming from a deep connection at some level memory a dream that I've had and so I kind of feel like that's where some of my strongest songs and messages come from and each one of them was had a different point in my life what was going on then so I kind of write him as they come to me. Well you know let's get into the album. Joins us this week for his debut album Letting go this is woman in water. As our featured artist this week on earth songs we just heard women in water tell us about this track. Well this is actually one of the highlights of my career so far was the song and getting to record it with Michael butcher I'm sure you know Michael butcher he's a great musician and he's been off for a little while due to his accident but I had the fortune of playing with him at a show in 2014 November I believe and we really hit it off with each other and struck up a friendship and then I lost touch with them a little bit not knowing that he had had an accident and lost some fingers and so that put him out of music for a while so when I realized that I reached out to a woman and I said Mike we should write a song someday you know and not sure where that was going to go but I threw it out there and maybe a year went by and all sudden one day I got an email from almost half of a song and this idea and it had a nice melody put to it and so I really put my heart into it and where the next week or 2 wrote the other half to the song and it's because another probably 5 or 6 months but we finally went to the studio and recorded it and thought it turned out as great we're both very concerned about the water and that fact that's where we met was a woman a water symposium in the quarter a reservation we've connected on a lot of environmental issues like Standing Rock and things like that so we're very concerned about protecting the water and understand the spiritual aspects of the water so this song you know helps promote that message and you work with other artists in creating the music on this album yeah it's it's kind of a full band sound most of us songs for example on women in water Mike was playing guitar and vocals along myself I was playing some native flute band cable on the drums and Charlie Strong in the bass and this particular song was produced at the White House Productions by Marty taken and myself in months. Palko frailing joins us today we've got more music coming up from him and we'll be right back to continue our conversation visit with songs music on Instagram or find us on Facebook to keep up to date on your favorite indigenous music if you heard a song earlier in the show and didn't catch the name or who the artist was you can find a full playlist of today's show at songs dot net stick around after the break we've got a lot more music ahead I'm Alexis Salie and you're listening to earth songs brought to you by native voice one. Thank you for listening to earth songs I'm Alexis Salie We're back with our featured artist this week Palko Frey like from his album Letting go this is where were you. A. That's where were you off the album Letting Go tell us about the song well where were you was inspired by a dream they have in 2008 of Walter percent he was a native activist from Redcliffe reservation in Wisconsin I believe you are tribe I'm from elect viable tribe and Ojibwe we're going through a challenging period at that time politically and he came to me during those difficult times with some messages and I had never really been a so-called activist but he was showing me things ahead of time and I took it to heart and became more involved in trying to protect a tribe lot of things transpired around those dreams and one of them was somebody dropped a cd off of my dental office his full time and it said my codes on it and I didn't know if we dropped it off or what it meant plenty of time to look at it long story short I came to realize that Walter besets name was Macoutes the spirit name and it was the story about Walter set in some of his political speeches he gave in one was said to protect their earth gathering and he was talking about someday our grandchildren are going to be able to rise up and start asking questions like Where were you when they poisoned my rivers where were you when I can eat the fish no more and he said we will be too feeble to run we're running out of time and so I took all of those emotions and I remembered the words from that speech and what I had seen in my dreams and put it together in this song you know that kind honors Walter beset and all the work that he did protect the Earth mining in the Lake Superior so to carry on his legacy a bit and also to carry on his message through the song it as were you when they damn the rivers were you when I can eat the fish no more it's a song that I guess it would be a political folk song but with a native contemporary thing. Yeah this is a great track and so who would you say are some of your influences when you are working in music or when you started creating your own music who were some of your major influences Well of course my dad he's been my number one influence musically and I grew up with music in the house even when I was in a woman before I could play I was always surrounded by music so when I was 5 and he started me on piano lessons I realized they could play by ear and I could play hundreds of songs that I had already put in my memory bank like Brian Stone cowboy and things like that just because of being surrounded by me Dad but then I guess I was older country way on Jennings Johnny Cash will hate beard when Nelson those trying to songs and when I got into college start of us into playing more Harry tape in Don McLean and things like that and a little bit of everything at that point well you definitely hear those influences in your music yeah and I say lately I actually try not to listen to a lot of radio because artistically I want to try to be original and ironically what comes out I mean it's not that we don't Jenning songs and classic country songs that I really love that it doesn't seem to be what comes out of me in fact I never quite know what's going to come out of me I just let it flow. Exactly yeah well let's check out another one from the album like joins us this week this one's called homeless man. 2 2 2 long. Live is a much better it's a rainy night. In the city. That's homeless man from Palko félix are featured artists this week on earth songs he joins us today as we check out some music from his debut album letting go So what's the story behind this track. Well in 2016 in March as visiting my daughter out in Seattle and we were walking around downtown I was just taken aback by how many homeless people were on the streets and I used to sing that in northern Wisconsin I think partly the climate is more conducive to it there but I just felt heartbroken at how many people where I was taking it all in there was a man I remember he's carrying everything he owns backpack and he had to pack it all up because he didn't know what park bench he was going to be sleeping on the next night and I watched him as he had to pack everything up and I remember all the signs and this one sign said I feel invisible and I would try to give a little money as they couldn't but I watch most people they would not even take time to make eye contact with those people during our stay there there was a homeless man that claimed this 4 story tree and he stayed up there for over 24 hours in protest and he caused quite a disturbance to the traffic flow and actually was on national t.v. But he finally did come down safely and what the end result was they filed a restraining order against him in the tree so I thought they missed the mark on our last night there we went out to a really nice restaurant and we left there with a dog you beg and one of the ladies we were with have a doggy bag so we walked out of the restaurant and there was a black person that came out of the left in the darkness and if they reached out to his hands it looked like a worn leather gloves I had never seen hands that look like that and all these mental images and motions were collecting in me and that night I went to bed and I could tell it was a song trying to come out and by 2 30 in the morning I finally got up and by 530 morning a wrote the song homeless man had a way to get back to Wisconsin to play at the you know the guitar but I had 4 minute song in my head so it's a really beautiful song. Yeah well some of the songs that we listen to today are you know it seems like your indigenous culture plays a part in your songwriting you know is it important for you to share your native roots in your music oh yeah definitely my father's non-native my mother's native I grew up off the reservation but close to it and it was until I was 37 now I'm 49 that I started waking up spiritually in my native roots kicked in and I started having lots of vivid dreams and it really changed of course in your life and put me on a more spiritual path that has changed my music it's changed the reasons for man music it's definitely part of who I am and I don't just write native songs but I don't shy away from sharing that side of me so you know yeah well you know I'm so happy that you were able to join us today and share your music with our listeners and you know want to thank you for being on earth songs today and sharing your music well thank you this is quite an honor for me want to find out more about a lick his music can be found on cd baby dot com or by visiting Palko félix dot com for a full playlist of today's show go to Earth songs dot net there you'll find more information on today's featured artist earth songs bringing you the latest in modern Indigenous Music Up ahead we've got tracks from Simon Lynch buggy the beat and Cilla and rise now from Elisa p. 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