Kinnie Starr - Edge of the Knife (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2020) [Hi-Res]

Edge of the Knife (SG̲aawaay Ḵ'uuna in Haida) is a 2018 Canadian drama film, the first feature-length movie to have been made exclusively in the Haida language.
The music for this moody, meditative film was composed by Kinnie Starr, who immersed herself in this supernatural drama about the precarious mental health of the young man in the film, Adiitsii, who is drawn into madness by the spirit of the forest, a metaphor fit for life in 2020. Life is razor sharp, and if we step without care, we can get cut.
Film scoring--and ambient music-- is not a departure for Starr, who first started making music by layering urban and rural sounds using a 4 track cassette recorder as she traveled the Americas doing graffitti. Starr's earliest compositions were soundscapes of languages gathered on buses, birds in trees, and trains thudding under bridges. This is a little known fact about Kinnie Starr, who for the last 25 years of her career became known for breaking barriers between genres in a variety of styles, most recently with the alternative hip hop record Feed the Fire and the pop single with Amanda Rheaume, The Best.
Neither are the themes explored in Edge of the Knife soundtrack new. "Creating the soundtrack for this entirely Haida language film," says Starr, "was a chance for me to empower the narrative of the film, but also to try to get inside some healing of my own because I was managing a brain injury during composition. The guttural moans and dark melodies apply to the film, but, like all art-making, reflect outwards, in this case into the nuanced nature of head injury, of injury and trauma itself, of finding balance in an imbalanced world."
Edge of the Knife, with its brooding dark tones, ominous textures, and evocative, is a soundscape that perfectly captures the protagonist's descent into madness, and resonates deeply with 2020's global crises and state of environmental, political, and Covid unrest.
Perhaps the music in this soundtrack, and the era we are in, can best be expressed in an old Haida saying "the world is as sharp as the edge of a knife; as you go along but you have to be careful or you will fall off one side or the other."

Tracklisting:
01. Kinnie Starr - Over the Water (4:35)
02. Kinnie Starr - Rivers Move Fast (2:15)
03. Kinnie Starr - Breathe Harder (3:02)
04. Kinnie Starr - All I See (6:14)
05. Kinnie Starr - Light Comes In (4:00)
06. Kinnie Starr - Proprioception (4:28)
07. Kinnie Starr - The Ground Is Uneven (1:55)
08. Kinnie Starr - Run Run Run (2:06)
09. Kinnie Starr - They Found Me (6:49)
10. Kinnie Starr - Back out To the Water (6:31)