Segal Sessions: Kathia Rock

Aug 29, 2021 - Aug 29, 2021 | Studio

Kathia Rock : UAPEN-NUTA Terre de nos Aïeux
Kathia Rock is a multidisciplinary artist who has been pursuing a career in the performing arts for over 20 years. She has been involved in numerous research and creative projects for which she has received grants and won multiple awards. She has taken part in festivals all over the world; her repertoire includes some forty original songs and thirty or so collaborations or interpretations.

Her musical universe is inspired as much by the urban environment as by her community of Uashat mak Mani-Utenam, near Sept-Îles on the Côte-Nord. With a warm, powerful and transcendent voice, she composes and interprets melodies that draw their sources from the ancestral repertoire of her people, as well as from traditional contemporary folk-rock fusion music. She passes on her culture, from the ancestors to the new generations, through music, storytelling and theatre - in a spirit of coming together.

Songs

KANITUET lyrics and music Kathia Rock/Jean-Frédérik Messier
Everything was white, the crust of the land was white, behind them was their story. Great Manitou help me to follow in the footsteps of Papakassiku, the master of the caribou.

UASHTE lyrics and music Jean-Pierre Fontaine
Grandmother Moon guides our steps through our dreams. She listens to our prayers and welcomes us in our doubts, our fears and softens, with a glance.

MENUASH lyrics and music Kathia Rock
Could you stop and contemplate the beauty? Could you stop and listen to the sound of my blood flowing?

PEIK TSHISHEK lyrics and music Kathia Rock
One day I will find a way to thank you.


NE PUATETI lyrics and music Kathia Rock/Jean-Frédérik Messier
I dreamed of my departure, I dreamed of my life and I left, far, far away, towards endless horizons.


TSHIN NEMUSHUM lyrics Joséphine Bacon music Kathia Rock
You, who have seen the change in the paths, you who are the holder of this thousand-year-old knowledge. Do not leave me in doubt of what we were and what we are.


YOU AND ME lyrics and music Louise Poirie
Where the paths go astray, where the path heals, where the river runs or the stream roars, there will always be you and me.


UAPEN NUTA traditional Innu song (the Innu "Oh Canada")


OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND lyrics and music Louise Poirier
In honour of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
History with a hatchet impinging on us and trashing us, chewing us up and spitting us out; we have lost our place.


NUKUM lyrics and music Cyril Fontaine
Love, tenderness and thanks to the women who give life.


THE TREE THAT CALLS TO YOU
I would have liked so much to grow, to be the tree that calls to you.
To grow and to soar, I wanted you, my so beautiful life. To lead you to the end of the world on the Mishta Shipu.


SHATSHITUN lyrics and music Kathia Rock
Touch me, my moon is full, you will see the pulse of my body drumming in my veins.


THE WALK lyrics and music Kathia Rock/Jean-Frédérik Messier
When doubt overwhelms me, when my steps become heavy, when time becomes suffocating, help me.


TSHIATAPMETAN lyrics and music Kathia Rock
Through your eyes, peace. In your eyes, in me, the strength to go on.


UITSHNAN lyrics and music Kathia Rock
I have little time to tell you of my turmoil, my mad grief for your life that is going away.
Mother, stay a little longer.