“Even ten years after its premiere, Lowak Shoppala’ still succeeds in constructing a nuanced vision for affirming Chickasaw culture and sovereignty…It asks settler listeners to understand their own position within historic and on-going settler-colonial structures to engage in more ethical relationships with Indigenous communities, knowledge, and land. More importantly, the album produces a space that fundamentally affirms the value and reinvigorates the vitality of Chickasaw and Muskogean listeners’ language, stories, cultural traditions, and communities.” Commissioned by American Composers Forum in 2006 and premiered in 2009, Jerod Tate's Lowak Shoppala’, a work for orchestra, children’s chorus, and narrator, is now commercially available for the first time on Azica Records. Read Jacob Kopcienski’s full review of Lowak Shoppala', which stands out “for its privileging of Chicksaw stories,” on I Care if You Listen at the link in our bio #NewMusic #Composer #JerodTate #AlbumReview #Lowa...