New CD from Saskatchewan

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Apprentice to the Mystery is the newest album from Eekwol, a.k.a Lindsay Knight, a hip hop artist from Muskoday First Nation in Saskatchewan. She has been writing and performing for the past eight years, but people are now beginning to stand up and take notice. She performed at SkyDome in Toronto during the Canadian Aboriginal Festival in November, and the video for Too Sick, the first single from the new album, is getting airplay on MuchMusic.

Eekwol had a hand in writing 11 of the 13 cuts on the album, merging hip hop and Aboriginal culture and tackling topics from culture loss and abusive relationships to self-confidence and self-doubt. The remaining two songs are musical interludes-Apology, described in the liner notes as "a lil' roundance moment" by Marc Longjohn of the Young Scouts, and Ahaso, a hauntingly eerie interlude by Mils, Eekwol's producer and brother.

Also joining Eekwol to perform on the album is Hookie Monster, who is featured on the song Callin' Me back.