Quick recording made on December 11, 2011 with a MacBook Pro through Reaper.
Two tracks of steel-string guitar - one slide, one fingerpicked.
Percussion is a bass drum, laid out powwow-style, played with jazz brushes. 

Track inspired by A Tribe Called Red and Dan General/DJ Shub's recording of General Generations as heard here: http://ethnomusicologyreview.ucla.edu/journal/volume/16/piece/471

General Generations (acoustic demo)

First track of a set of improvisations, January 3, 2012 at the Dupont Rehearsal Factory in Toronto.

Recorded on a Zoom H2 and edited in Reaper. 

Mike Barber - electric upright bass
Melody McKiver - drums

Title is "inspired" by the atrocious band that was messing up The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army (how?!) next door. We thought that A) a Six Nations (Haudenosaunee) Army would be a big improvement over Seven Nation Army and that B) said Army should storm in and confiscate the band's instruments.

Six Nations Army

Reckoning EP, released on December 15 2017.

Recorded in one take, composed, engineered, mixed, and produced by Melody McKiver. Mastered by Grey Market Mastering in 2016.

Ningodwaaswi

Naanan

Niiwin

Niswi

Niizh

Bezhig

Live recording, Toronto December 1 2019 at the Harbourfront Centre. Co-presented by Jumblies Theatre and Soundstreams. Movement III of Odaabaanag for String quartet & electronics, composed by Melody McKiver (2019). 

Recorded voice - Josephine King
Violin 1 - Timothy Ying
Violin 2 - Aysel Taghi-Zada
Viola - Kathleen Kajioka 
Cello - David Hetherington

Odaabaanag - III. Josephine King - December 1 2019

Live recording, Toronto November 30 2019 at the Harbourfront Centre. Co-presented by Jumblies Theatre and Soundstreams. Movement II of Odaabaanag for String quartet & electronics, composed by Melody McKiver (2019).

Recorded voice - Garnet Angeconeb
Violin 1 - Timothy Ying
Violin 2 - Aysel Taghi-Zada
Viola - Kathleen Kajioka 
Cello - David Hetherington

Odaabaanag - II. Garnet Angeconeb - November 30 2019

Live recording, Toronto November 30 2019 at the Harbourfront Centre. Co-presented by Jumblies Theatre and Soundstreams. Movement I of Odaabaanag for String quartet & electronics, composed by Melody McKiver (2019).

Recorded voice - Tom Chisel
Violin 1 - Timothy Ying
Violin 2 - Aysel Taghi-Zada
Viola - Kathleen Kajioka 
Cello - David Hetherington

Odaabaanag - I. Tom Chisel - November 30 2019

Two-Spirit Anishinaabe musician and composer.

Melody McKiver

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