Satch Hoyt - Un-Muting (10")

Satch Hoyt
Un-Muting
Isle of Jura
Australia, 2025
10"

Astonishing new project by the artist & musician Satch Hoyt, unmuting ancient African instruments that have long been incarcerated in Western museums, “exiled into the vitrines of empire, their voices stilled by taxonomic theft,” as scholar Tavia Nyong'o puts it. In Hoyt’s hands, these ancestors speak & breathe again. I highly recommend his illuminating interview with my fellow Valley Free Radio programmer Erin Alexa of Throughlines. Tip!