Lay Me Down

Taarsilerpoq sila A.O'85.mp3

A TASTE OF YESTERDAY

Clown

gold piece (prod. sebraca)

Coyote stories are central to the Syilx people’s oral traditions. For countless generations, the Syilx have taught their children valuable lessons through the misadventures of Coyote, or Sənk̓lip. Sənk̓lip is a mischievous, flawed figure. He’s selfish and boastful. His desires get him into troubles that are often comedic. And yet the Creator favours him. Syilx children are entertained by his foibles, but they also learn from his mistakes. As Sənk̓lip learns from his failings, so do the Syilx children who are rapt in his tales.

This idea, of learning through failure, is central to Francis Baptiste’s new album Sənk̓lip, the Trickster.

Baptiste is a songwriter who sings in both English and Nsyilxcən [nah-silk-sen], his Native language, which is currently an endangered language, with fewer than 100 fluent speakers. Through his music, Baptiste tries to keep his language alive. Every song is an opportunity for him to teach Nsyilxcən vocabulary to his son, himself, and anyone else who’s listening.

A divorced, recovering addict, Baptiste balances being a single father and being a middle-aged musician, trying to survive in BC’s most expensive city with a musician’s meagre income. Sənk̓lip, the Trickster chronicles his struggles with fatherhood, addiction, and depression, through the lens of the urbanised Indigenous experience.

“My son is born-and-raised East Van. I’m from the Osoyoos Indian Band Reservation. My struggle is how to instil in him a real sense that he is a Syilx man without growing up on the Rez. This album is my attempt to cope with that struggle and address it.”

If We Let It

This is the first of three sets of all original music. All three sets of music were completed in a 3 year time frame and recorded at Stanhope Studios. They are part of a larger project called My Trilogy of Songs. This first set is called Stan's Sweet Songs.

Will or Surrender

Love for real

39 OK.mp3

Made with vocals, guitar, and samples of me lighting a jay.

Lyrics:

Everybody everywhere keeps telling you you're scared
It was told to you by listening to the conversation snare
They're lying to carpet and shuffling through your hair
They listen to your crying books and cover them with care

And logically you see the lie, but you don't try to change
Because the person that you love will only ever see you strange
And the words you try to use, well they will never be the same
As the way you mean them in your brain, you're alone and you're insane

We're all alone in here
We're on the phone with fear
Our hope has flown, my dear
We're all alone how weird

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Dingo Paisley is a non-binary independent musician/producer who got their start in LA making experimental lo-fi tunes at college. Since then, they moved to St. Petersburg, Russia and had been playing gigs and writing music there, until the war started in 2022. After a brief stint in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, they moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Finally, after many years away, they have returned and have found a new home in Chicago.

Some of their major influences are, Daniel Johnston, Brian Wilson, Animal Collective, Courtney Barnett, The Velvet Underground, Grimes, Stereolab, Aphex Twin, The Avalanches, et al. ;)

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Dingo Paisley

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