The Eleventh Hour: Songs for Climate Justice

Gliding Through The Atmosphere

Look at What the Light Did Now

Look at What the Light Did Now (feat. Samantha Crain)

Close the Distance (Mar 66 Remix)

Indian Yard

Born into Rain (feat. Tunia)

Back in That Time (feat. Qacung)

Knives

A Feeling Undefined (feat. Nick Hakim & Iska Dhaaf)

Light the Torch

Get Yourself Together

Close the Distance

Gently to the Sun (feat. Tay Sean)

Synthetic Gods

At Tugáni

We Just Sit and Smile Here in Silence

Nicholas Galanin is one of the most vital voices in contemporary art. Born in Sheet’ka (Sitka, Alaska), Galanin is Tlingit and Unangax̂; he creates from his perspective as an Indigenous man. His work calls for an accounting of the damages done to land and life by unfettered capitalism while envisioning and advocating alternate possibilities. For the 2020 Biennale of Sydney, he excavated the shape of the shadow cast by the monumental statue of Captain James Cook, a call for the burial of monuments to violent histories, which  ArtNEWS and Artsy called a defining work of 2020. Land Swipe—a painted deer hide that depicts the NYC subway map, marked with selected sites of police violence against Black youth—was called one of “the most important art moments in 2020” by The New York Times. His work spans sculpture, video, installation, photography, jewelry and music; advocating Indigenous sovereignty, racial, social, and environmental justice, for present, and future generations.

His debut as Ya Tseen (“be alive,” and a reference to his Tlingit name Yeil Ya Tseen) is Indian Yard, his first album for Sub Pop.  Rich with emotional range and sharp awareness, Indian Yard explores love, desire, frustration, pain, revolution, and connection through the magnetic expressions of an Indigenous mind. Created by one of the world’s foremost Indigenous artists, the irrepressible Indian Yard is an intense illumination of feeling and connection.

Ya Tseen

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