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Zoon (Zoongide’ewin), the musical project fronted by songwriter Daniel Monkman, recently shared a brand new surprise 4-track EP entitled A Sterling Murmuration (out now via Paper Bag Records). Today, he shares a music video for the EP’s final track, “Giizhig.” The video is primarily made up of sonic waves, which not only match the mood of the song (which has this fantastic Enya vibe), but also soothe you in.
Speaking on the track, Daniel wrote:
“Giizhig is a shorter word for the phrase ‘Ingii-pawaadaan babaamaashiyaan giizhigong’ which means ‘I dreamed I was soaring around in the sky.’ Giizhig alone means ‘sky.’ As a young person, I’d find ways to escape my reality m, sometimes I’d lay in a field and watch the clouds shape shift in the sky, just like wasakeechuk, an old mythical creature that lived with the first indigenous people of turtle island.”
On his new EP, he continued:
“A Sterling Murmuration as a body of work is material from ten plus years ago. I then recorded these songs with my high school friends in Winnipeg but broke the record into a few different movements. Big Pharma was the first movement and this is the second.
The title ‘A Sterling Murmuration’ comes from the movement that a flock of birds do for safety from predators. They use this technique for other reasons such as warmth at night, also to exchange information about feeding areas. I feel very connected to this concept, I see it in humans and how we need a strong community to protect each other. isolation played a role in this body of work and is supposed to display the danger in isolating. while in this state we set ourselves up to be in harms way by outside forces but breaking out and embracing humility and community you can finally transcend into a healthy trajectory.”
