Tory J: Deerlady, Under Exile, Tharun Sankar
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Tory J, co-host of KEXP’s global Indigenous music show “Sounds of Survivance” talks with Isabel about how sound and music inform Indigenous life, dispelling myths about Indigenous peoples through his show, and his deep love of Rez Metal. He shares three new songs touching on shoegaze, metal, jazz, plus one foundational track.
Then, Music Director Chris Sanley shares why she’s dancing and weeping to the new single posthumously released from hyper-pop icon SOPHIE.
Songs featured:
- Deerlady - "Seeing Two"
- Under Exile - "Throne of Ashes"
- Tharun Sankar - "In Between"
- David Maxim Micic - "Smile"
- SOPHIE - "Reason Why (feat. Kim Petras & BC Kingdom)"
Listen to the full songs on KEXP's "In Our Headphones 2024" playlist on Spotify or the “What's In Our Headphones” playlist on YouTube.
Listen to Sounds of Survivance with Tory J and Kevin Sur every Monday from 3-5am PT, or anytime on the 2-week archive, at KEXP.org or the KEXP App.
Hosted and produced by: Janice Headley and Isabel Khalili
Mixed by: Emily Fox
Mastered by: William Myers
Editorial director: Larry Mizell Jr.
Our theme music is “好吗 (Hao Ma)” by Chinese American Bear
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In Our Headphones. |
| 0:05.0 | Your chance to discover the songs KEXP |
| 0:09.0 | DJ's don't want you to miss. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Janice Hedley and I'm Isabel Kelly and this is your |
| 0:16.0 | never-ending source for new music discovery from listener-powered |
| 0:20.0 | K-E-X-P. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Isabel Kellele and today on in our headphones I'm joined by Tori Jay, co-host of Sounds of Servivance, K-E-X-P's Global Indigenous Music Show. |
| 0:35.0 | Tori, thanks so much for being here to share music with us today. |
| 0:38.7 | Yeah, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:40.3 | It's awesome to be here. |
| 0:41.5 | When I had your co-host, Kevin Sir, on the show with me. It's awesome to be here. When I had your co-host, Kevin Sir, on the show with me back in April, we talked about his |
| 0:47.3 | intentions for the show and how his life path and his background in music |
| 0:52.4 | led him here. And I hoped that we could start our conversation learning about your background and what brought you to Kex P. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, so I'm K-E-X-P from Tahoele on the mouth of the Quonalt River. |
| 1:05.0 | So for accessibility sake, that's like the southwest corner, the Washington State Peninsula on the |
| 1:10.2 | Quinao Indian Reservation. |
| 1:11.6 | I always like to emphasize the fact that I come from the mouth |
| 1:15.0 | rather than coming from the state, |
| 1:16.8 | just to decenter Washington statehood. |
| 1:20.3 | Just because it, you know, Quinal Indian nation pre-exists the state of Washington and |
| 1:24.9 | pre-exists all of these borders and that spirit of being from the mouth being from |
| 1:30.6 | the water and being from a place where you could hear the ocean 24-7 is like really what |
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