We are deeply saddened and concerned with the recoveries of children's remains at Canada's Residential Schools.  We fully support, and stand by, the Indigenous communities in demanding retribution and restitution from Canada's Government and Church establishments.

"Residential schools were run by the Canadian government and churches to forcibly assimilate 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children. Sweeping sexual and physical abuses were common and thousands of children died. According to Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, about 4,100 students were killed, but that number is likely to climb. Experts think it’s closer to 15,000." vice.com, June 24, 2021
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June 23, 2021, 1323 children were found in hidden unmarked graves at former residential schools across Canada and this number is rising.

The lyrics for There You Are come from a monologue Myrh recorded on June 17th as the number rose from 319.

THERE YOU ARE
across boundaries of nations, corporations
the hidden secrets are the same
from corner to corner

i shall not stand

will they keep going
on this path of no life?

our children shall birth into their wombs/wounds
how we bare them truths!
look here! you broken ones, look here
no matter how you try to smother the spirit
it is only we that/who can bring you home

we missing, hunted, we dead

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As I was working on the original, instrumental version of this track I always felt like it needed the very human touch of vocals. What I heard in my head was the unmistakable voice of Myrh @myrhyum. A huge thanks for her creative generosity...it's always a great pleasure to work with her.

There You Are | Feat. Myrh

BELIAL PELEGRIM is an electronic musician and producer whose work covers a blend of dark, sometimes cinematic music with an experimental sensibility, created with the help of electricity and dark matter. 

My new album, SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER THERE is now out on Arcanum Records:
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/something-that-was-never-there

If you're into unsettling cinematic soundtrack work, my new album with Callisto's Ghost, available in limited digipack CD or digital formats:
https://belialpelegrim.bandcamp.com/album/the-imperishable-splendor-of-the-sunfish

Also please check out the Belial Pelegrim/Beefus B project, @cabal-akademik

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