Mich Cota Kija / Care Vinyl

As a two-spirit woman, raised by a native father and a white mother in Southern Ontario, Cota began composing small melodies on the piano from the age of three to create her own sacred space in an intensely religious home. Inspired by her countryside surroundings, she would ingrain herself in nature, imagining herself in a place free of theology and restraint.

This is something Cota has carried with her throughout her creative existence. Her music is a way of navigating past traumas while exploring her queer experience, with open, unapologetic sincerity. The song titles on the album, are represented in both Algonquin and English; its dynamics oscillate between a restrained delicacy and a roaring exultation while its painful assertions blossom into a strengthened authority.