Black Belt Eagle Scout
Black Belt Eagle Scout fait son grand retour avec un nouveau single « Don’t Give Up ». Il s’agit de la première nouvelle sortie de Black Belt Eagle Scout depuis At the Party With My Brown Friends de 2019, un album » enveloppé dans des tourbillons de production dream-pop… [qui] représente une sorte de résistance plus douce et plus subtile » (Pitchfork), et son premier album, Mother of My Children. Don’t Give Up » est une chanson sur la sensibilisation à la santé mentale et sur l’importance que joue mon lien avec la terre dans mon propre parcours de santé mentale », dit Paul. Elle a écrit le morceau sur une période de deux ans, en commençant juste avant la pandémie, en 2020, lors d’une résidence d’écriture de chansons en territoire salish du littoral, et en terminant en novembre 2021 alors qu’elle participait à nouveau à cette même résidence.
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Black Belt Eagle Scout – moniker of Swinomish, WA-based multi-instrumentalist Katherine Paul – returns with a new single/visualizer, “Don’t Give Up.” This is Black Belt Eagle Scout’s first new release since 2019’s At the Party With My Brown Friends, an album “encased in swirls of dream-pop production…[that] represents a softer, more subtle sort of resistance” (Pitchfork), and her debut, Mother of My Children. Throughout “Don’t Give Up,” Paul’s heartfelt vocals are wrapped in gauze, rising over guitar, percussion, and mellotron. « ‘Don’t Give Up’ is a song about mental health awareness and the importance that my connection to the land plays within my own mental health journey,” says Paul. She wrote the track over the course of two years, first starting right before the pandemic in 2020 at a songwriting residency in Coast Salish territory and ending in November 2021 while attending that same residency again.
n conjunction with “Don’t Give Up,” Black Belt Eagle Scout is offering a special charity t-shirt design benefiting the Chief Seattle Club, an organization that helps houseless Natives in Seattle get off the street. Seattle happens to be one of the biggest places for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People epidemic. Having a safe place to turn to like Chief Seattle Club could help some people have an option to get out of human trafficking.
Over the last many months, Black Belt Eagle Scout’s music has been featured in episodes of Reservation Dogs. Additionally, Paul is featured on Sleater-Kinney’s upcoming Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album, out October 21st. On November 25th, Black Belt Eagle Scout will take part in the second annual Indigenous Heritage Day Celebration at the High Dive in Seattle, Washington. And next year sees Black Belt Eagle Scout head overseas for her first EU/UK tour (dates are below). “Don’t Give Up” hints at more to come from Black Belt Eagle Scout in 2023.