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Freedom Journal: Antidotes to Violence

by Brandon Wint

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Obsession 03:36
Obsession Of saying Sandra was hanged, left to sway like a dim lantern in a cage; Walter fled and the bullets chased his blood into the grass; name gathering, deciphering dash and body cams, citing the maroon of Philando’s wet shirt; anniversaries, dates repeating names, tombstones floating over the heads of our buried; weeping into laptops, finding on a sister’s arm the purple lake of bruise, on a neck the spangled red of stranglehold; and being asked, still for brutality’s signatures, to prime our gums with verses to find in a throat’s pink chute something reasoned as essays to say, the bones glinting between toes are ancestors’, the vault of the bank is full of our blood, the anthem singing only a graveyard the land yellowed varicose; our caskets, unmarked.
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Interlude 03:25
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Water Dance 04:02
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Antidote 02:47
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Freedom Journal: Antidotes to Violence is an album that arose out of the racial violence--and the varied responses to it-- in 2018 and 2019. More specifically, the album is an iteration, an evolving thought pattern concerning how anti-Black racism and white supremacy came to be, and how they might be undone within Brandon Wint's lifetime. This album is one articulation among many, about the experience of being Black in North America, with its attendant histories, joys and tough reconciliations.

The album is indebted to the work of such thinkers and writers as Christina Sharpe, Robin DG Kelley, Cedric Robinson, Dionne Brand and others--though my own thinking and reading on the aforementioned subjects in incomplete, I thank these writers for giving me a literary, poetic and historical path to walk, think and study through.

Thank you to the Canada Council of the Arts for funding this re-worked iteration of the project, and to my friends and collaborators who helped these poems and songs come to life.



Thank you Karimah, Tyson, Andreas, Daniel, Jane, Brian, Shammy, Alyssa and Lebogang for your skill, patience, grace and friendship.

** All of the poems (as distinct from Freedom Journals) on this album also appear in print in the book Divine Animal, which can be found here:

writebloodynorth.ca/products/divine-animal

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released February 18, 2022

Producer: Brian Raine, Cameron Browne (Radical Imagination 1, Incantation: Memory of Water)

writing and vocal performance: Brandon Wint
sung vocal: KARIMAH
bass: Andreas Wegner
drums: Daniel Stadnicki
keys: Tyson Kerr

"Interlude" was composed by Jane Berry and arranged/produced by Brian Raine

Album art by Adanna Chinonye

Recorded in Edmonton, Alberta and Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Brandon Wint Edmonton, Alberta

Brandon Wint is a writer and performance poet based in Canada. His devotion to creativity, love and Divine understanding is evident in all of his poetic work. He is a two-time Canadian slam champion, an arts-educator and artist of national distinction. ... more

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