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Tracks of the Week 29.01.22

Tracks of the Week
Between 1894 and 1947 in Canada, the residential school system made attendance at Christian-administered boarding schools mandatory for all Indigenous children. Separated from their families and culture and subject to widespread physical and sexual abuse, around 150,000 children were placed in the system over a hundred-year period until the last residential school closed in 1997. In 2015 a national...

Tracks of the Week 22.01.22

Tracks of the Week
Illuminating a story from their national history, this week the composer Pepa Päivinen and the percussionist Jussi Miettola recount the Finnish Civil War, as layers of woodwind and flute, the Seagull Merlin strummable dulcimer, drums, and vocals conjure the condensed breath and curtailed destinies of a bitter conflict which after its springtime conclusion left a lingering cold. From the...