Episode 5 - Status / Non Status picks The Such by By Elevator

Status/Non-Status is Anishinaabe community worker Adam Sturgeon.  Formerly known as Whoop-Szo. His debut record Warrior Down was released in 2019.  (You’ve Changed Records). Sturgeon’s music wrestles issues of colonialism, disenfranchisement, and the disconnection amongst generations of Indigenous people from their communities, languages, land, and identities. These issues are important to Sturgeon, whose grandfather, was required to give up his Anishinaabe roots to provide a better life for himself and his family. In doing so he was defined as “non-status” a term he has embraced in his moniker. His latest record 1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years was recorded in Mexico and is a wild mix of psychedelia, moccasin gaze, with a political message of reclamation