Black Encyclopedia of the Air Moor Mother

• 1 Temporal Control Of Light Echoes 02:59
• 2 Mangrove 02:09
• 3 Race Function Limited 02:37
• 4 Shekere 02:10
• 5 Vera Hall 02:28
• 6 Obsidian 01:33
• 7 Iso Fonk 01:37
• 8 Rogue Waves 02:23
• 9 Made A Circle 02:47
• 10 Tarot 05:54
• 11 Nighthawk Of Time 01:13
• 12 Zami 02:01
• 13 Clock Fight 02:08
• Total Runtime 31:59

Info for Black Encyclopedia of the Air

Eine aussergewöhnliche Mischung aus experimentellem Spiritual Jazz und Poetry-Hiphop, verwoben mit den für sie typischen soundscape-artigen Texturen, die in ein Album münden, daß mehr als bisherige MM-Alben vom Rapgesang geprägt ist, aber gleichzeitig auch mit dem Verweben von Beats, waberndern Noise-Sounds, einem Allerlei aus Stimmen und Sounds und Instrumenten, Livepercussion und Rhodesklängen und Flöten und avantgardistischer Lautmalerei mit einem Bein in kunstvoller Electronic, mit einem Bein bei einer ganz eigenwilligen Version von gesellschaftskritischem Hiphop und mit einem dritten Bein beim Avantgarde-, Free- und SpiritualJazz zuhause ist. Das Album dreht sich inhaltlich um die Erforschung von Erinnerungen, Prägung und Zukunft,. Es weht durch einen unberührten Raum wie die geisterhafte Schlacke einer brennenden Welt, ohne Bindungen an Konventionen erstreckt es sich über die Weitläufigket des Universums. MM fasziniert mit einem geisterhaften und mysteriösen Look, zu dem auch der Einsatz mäandrierender, seltsam anmutender Samples gehört. Entstanden mit dem Soundscape-Künstler und Produzenten Olof Melander.

"Mit ihrem jüngsten Album macht sie diese Kämpfe nicht nur hör-, sondern auch greifbar für alle, die bisher noch vom ständig wachsenden Œuvre der Konfrontation zurückgeschreckt sind. Fernab vom Ausverkaufs-Verdacht bietet Black Encyclopedia Of The Air einen neuen Zugang zu ihrer Musik an, ohne andere Türen zu versperren. Es empfiehlt sich, ihn anzunehmen, bevor schon das nächste Werk um die Ecke kommt." (Elias Ott, bedroomdisco.de)

Moor Mother

Camae Ayewa aka Moor Mother
is a national and international touring musician, poet, visual artist, and workshop facilitator, and has performed at numerous festivals, colleges, galleries, and museums around the world, sharing the stage with King Britt, Roscoe Mitchell, Claudia Rankine, Bell Hooks, and more. Camae is a vocalist in three collaborative performance groups: Irreversible Entanglements, MoorJewelry and 700bliss.

As a soundscape and visual artist, Ayewa’s work has been featured at Baltic Biennale, Samek Art Museum, Vox Populi, Pearlman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago, ICA Philadelphia, Bergan Kunstall, Hirshorn Gallery, and in an upcoming 2018 solo show at The Kitchen NYC. As a workshop facilitator, Camae has presented at Cornell University, MOFO Festival, Moogfest, Black Dot Gallery and others. Camae is co-founder and curator of Rockers Philly Project a 10-year long running event series and festival focused on marginalized musicians and artists spanning multiple genres of music.

As Moor Mother she released her debut album Fetish Bones on Don Giovanni records to critical acclaim. Fetish Bones was named 3rd best album of the year by The Wire Magazine, number 1 by Jazz Right Now and has appeared on numerous end of the year list from Pitchfork, Noisy, Rolling Stone, and Spin Magazine. Moor Mother was named by Rolling Stone as one of the 10 artists to watch in 2016 and named Bandcamp ’ s 2016 artist of the year. Moor Mother released a 2nd LP called the Motionless Present commissioned by CTM X VINYL FACTORY 2017. Moor Mother has appeared in the Quietus, Interview Magazine, The Guardian, Crack, Pitchfork and others. MoorMother’s schedule has included Berhaign, Borealis, CTM Festival, Le Guess Who, Unsound, Flow and Donau Festival, Rewire, Boiler Room and MOMA PS1.

As a durational performance artist Camae has been commissioned by Moog Festival, Vox Populi Gallery, Icebox Gallery and others. Camae is also a writer and poet her first book of poetry called Fetish Bones released on The AfroFuturist Affair small press. As a member of Black Quantum Futurism Collective (BQF), she has been a part of two literary works and several zines, and has been featured in exhibitions at the Schomburg Center, Rebuild Foundation, Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art, and Serpentine Gallery and more.

Camae Ayewa is a 2016 Leeway Transformation Awardee, a Blade of Grass 2016 Fellow as part of Black Quantum Futurism, 2017 PewFellow, and 2017 The Kitchen Inaugural Emerging Artist Awardee, and Rad Girls 2016 philly artist of the year. She has been an in artist in residency at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange and WORM! Rotterdam residency, and featured with Black Quantum Futurism at Transmediale Festival in Berlin 2017.

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