This album was recorded over the last three years, during the process I came closer than I've ever come to death (hunting accident), found new perspectives on life through love and gratitude, gained new friends and family. Starry Skies Opened Eyes, my first epiphany as a child staring at the stars, losing myself in the blackness between light.

Thank you Peter Robinson, Zak D. Wass, Denise Den Herder, Moe Clark, Jesse Hughey, Nate Quiroga, Benjamin Verdoes, Nick Polley, Robert Lang Studios, Bob Banghart, Samantha Crain, OCnotes, Vox Mod, Meghann O'Brien, Marie-France Roy, Sax G, Cabin Games, Christian Petersen, Budo, Redskin, Erik Blood, Catherine Harris-White, Nep Sidhu and The Black Constellation. 
Thank you to all involved with these sounds, Nova, Scarlet & Elliott I love you. 

Mixed and Mastered in Seattle, WA in The Robot Room by P Smoov 

Album Art by I Want You Art and Design

Starry Skies Opened Eyes

You and I should try again

This album was recorded over the last three years, during the process I came closer than I've ever come to death (hunting accident), found new perspectives on life through love and gratitude, gained new friends and family. Starry Skies Opened Eyes, my first epiphany as a child staring at the stars, losing myself in the blackness between light.

Thank you Peter Robinson, Zak D. Wass, Denise Den Herder, Moe Clark, Jesse Hughey, Nate Quiroga, Benjamin Verdoes, Nick Polley, Robert Lang Studios, Bob Banghart, Samantha Crain, OCnotes, Vox Mod, Meghann O'Brien, Marie-France Roy, Sax G, Cabin Games, Christian Petersen, Budo, Redskin, Erik Blood, Catherine Harris-White, Nep Sidhu and The Black Constellation. 
Thank you to all involved with these sounds, Nova, Scarlet & Elliott I love you. 

Mixed and Mastered in Seattle, WA in The Robot Room by P Smoov 

Album Art by I Want You Art and Design

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 03 Summer Time Kiss

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 02 Starry Skies Opened Eyes

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 01 Constellations Shine

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 08 Yéil

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 07 You And I Should Try Again

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 05 Perfect Mistake

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 11 From Another World

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 10 Melodies And Bass

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 04 Lifted The Evening

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 09 Lanáalx

Silver Jackson - Starry Skies Opened Eyes - 06 We Drowned In Our Own Love

Perfect Mistake (Budo Remix ) 

From Silver Jackson's - Starry Skies Opened Eyes
Perfect Mistake ft. Iska Dhaaf & OCnotes
silverjackson.bandcamp.com 

Silver Jackson - Perfect Mistake (BUDO Remix)

Kill The Indian, Save The Man 
This exhibition unites respect, relationship and homage to our communities, a harmony with land and environment, and a history of survival through sculptural installation, sound, moving image, performance, collaboration and adornment. The lens of colonial violence is often disregarded as a “necessary tragedy” to tame a final frontier with pioneering homesteads, while colonial mathematics only recounts the recent settler generation. 
These works dissect, reconnect and map the real history of settler violence as experienced by First Nations peoples. New collaborations and creative discourse have been constructed, including work by Leonard Getinthecar (Nicholas & Jerrod Galanin) and No Pigs In Paradise, a collaboration with Nep Sidhu. 
A Supple Plunder, by Leonard Getinthecar is a clarification of gross colonial perversion, honoring twelve Unangan men who were bound together and shot with one bullet, which lodged in the ninth man. No unveiled memorial, no national holiday, not even a school honoring these ancestors exists. No dollar bill memorializing the lives lost defending our homeland. No trial. No error. 
No Pigs In Paradise as described by Nep Sidhu, 
“...speaks to an understanding of the specific histories of First Nations’ women and a clear understanding of women as essential to the restoration of First Nations’ societies. First Nations women are reaffirmed as the integral component to the reestablishment of balance and harmony. The path exists and the end goal is clear. The right path in this instance starts with protecting the women – leveraging ornament, textile, ceremony, incantation so they can be prepared to lead their families, communities and societies to an exalted, harmonious and prosperous status quo.” 
The legacy of human rights violations experienced by First Nations people, including and as a result of the genocide, still reverberate today evidenced by the epidemic of rape, homicide and kidnapping against First Nations women, the quick sale economy of First Nations culture, the misappropriation of our visual language, active amnesia and the blatant disregard for place and the history of our land. 
The works contained within this exhibition push forward long standing conversations, artistic and discursive, within First Nation communities and amongst their allies about the most efficacious ways to restore harmony and balance. As people whose existence has always been dependent on the earth, uplifting our women, restoring our land and reinstituting our values are not contradictory acts. Rather these ideas run parallel and are the basis for a self-determined perseverance.
credits
released April 16, 2016 
Ed Littlefield, Nicholas Galanin, OCnotes, Zak D. Wass 
Breakpoint Mastering 2016 
The cover art image is a still frame from Nep Sidhu and Nicholas Galanin's video installation "Indian Land" shot & edited by Stephan Gray.



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