Today Jeremy Dutcher dropped the music video for Take My Head.
The third single is taken from the upcoming album called Motewolonuwok which comes out on October 6, 2023 via Secret City Records.
A sweeping slow burning, powerful and emotional piano jazz-pop vibe and second track in English.
About the track by Jeremy:
“Take My Hand” is another offering from Jeremy sung in English with lyrics written by Basia Bulat and embraces the legacy and power of the intemporal love song as a piano ballad.
Inspired by a calling from Maggie Paul – an Indigenous Passamaquoddy elder, teacher and song carrier who has travelled around the world to share Wabinaki culture – who told Jeremy to “show the young people how to love again,” “Take My Hand” is meant like a prayer to share that love can renew all things, all relations, all histories. “A song first shared by an elder and lyrically crafted by a friend,” Dutcher tells us, “this song has been a collective coming together.”
Reflecting on the multiple meanings of this song, Jeremy’s sister-in-law added another layer to his creation: “You’re not even singing to a person; you’re singing to the language,”
“Maybe this is a love song to language revitalization itself and all those working towards linguistic survival of Wolastoqey, and all indigenous languages” concludes Jeremy.
The video, directed by tranquilo; Pia Perez and Sylvain Chaussée, features Dutcher and honours Dancing Bear (Gayle Pruden) a Two-Spirit jingle dress dancer from the Anishinaabe nation. The video “is a 16mm visual poem, and celebration of Indigenous expression; past, present, and future,” Perez and Chaussée tell us. “A love song to the Wolastoqey language, and Indigenous languages across Turtle Island. Produced and shot, on Dish with One Spoon Territory.” Jeremy adds: “Many thanks to all those who have held me and shown me how to love, the trans and Two-Spirit elders who have shown their light so that all the rainbow children may find their paths, return to the circle and our ways. You have always been medicine.”
Take My Hand gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
Jeremy Dutcher – Take My Hand [Music Video]
