BIBFRAME Work

Title

Symbiont

Type

• Monograph
• Music Audio

Contribution

• Obomsawin, Mali, 1995- (performer)
• Meserve, Jeanne (performer)
• Bynum, Taylor Ho (performer)
• Blount, Jake (performer)
• Rainey, Joe (performer)
• Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings (publisher)
• Maiga, Sidy (performer)

Subject

• Folk music (LCSH)
• Musique folklorique--États-Unis (RVM)
• Electronica (Music) (LCSH)
• Afrofuturisme--Chants et musique (RVM)
• Popular music--2021-2030 (LCSH)
• Afrofuturism--Songs and music (LCSH)
• Rock music--2021-2030 (LCSH)
• Électronica (Musique) (RVM)
• Folk music--United States (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Rock music (LCGFT)
• Électronica (RVMGF)
• Folk music (LCGFT)
• Rock (Musique) (RVMGF)
• Electronica (Music) (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Classification

LCC: SDD 86296 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• performed music

Note

• Produced by Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin.
• Jake Blount, vocals, synthesizers, guitar, percussion, fiddle, banjo-ukulele, banjo ; Mali Obomsawin, vocals, bass, percussion, synthesizers ; with additional musicians.

Supplementary content

• technical information on music
• historical information
• history of performer or ensemble
• biography of creator

Summary

From the first notes of the radical new collaborative album and document of Black and Indigenous futurism from Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin, the listener is met with rising tidewaters, massive droughts, and the appearance of an iconoclastic uprising amidst the world's indifference. Questions of future or present tense swirl around the music as the duo unspools the intertwined threads of racial and climate justice. Amid rumbling synthesizer drones, the thrum of banjo, and the thwack of drum machines, a whisper of truth can be heard: this crisis has been unfolding for centuries.

Table of Contents

Prelude (feat. Jeanne Meserve) (:50) -- What's you gonna do when the world's on fire (3:12) -- No hiding place (feat. Sidy Maiga) (3:19) -- My way's cloudy (feat. Joe Rainey) (3:20) -- Mother (4:28) -- Stars begin to fall (feat. Taylor Ho Bynum) (3:45) -- The green road (2:59) -- Live humble (4:16) -- In the garden (4:18) -- Come down ancients (2:59) -- Old Indian hymn (3:19).

Authorized Access Point

Symbiont

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• Date: 2026-09-11T20:23:42.500786+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24145041

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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• Description language: eng
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