Free Jazz. Straight out of New York. Not for the faint of heart.

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Tracking the Spiritual Jazz Revival

From its roots in the ‘60s to today, the genre remains a profound force for connection and expression.

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Moor Mother – Fetish Bones (2016, US)

As randomly chosen by survey[1] on Mastodon, our next spotlight is on number 684 on The List, submitted by platenworm.

I think it would be a disservice to attempt to sum up this album, the debut from poet, visual artist, and musician Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa. Like all of Moor Mother’s work, it’s a difficult listen, some might think it requires CWs. But it’s a necessary listen. Her work is necessary. It’s truth, it’s harsh, it’s protest in sonic form. As the Bandcamp description says:

Fetish Bones is not an album meant to help you forget. It is made so that you will remember the injustices that we bear witness to and participate in.

If you dig this one, I highly recommend going down the Moor Mother/Camae Ayewa rabbit hole. Perhaps track down Ayewa’s debut book of poetry of the same title, also released in 2016. Or check out other Moor Mother releases, such as that from last year, The Great Bailout (which made my personal AOTY list). Or look up her various collabs, such as her collab with ZONAL or her collab with SUMAC coming out in April (thanks Pauxlll for those tips!). Or take a while to peruse the website for the Black Quantum Futurism collective, “an interdisciplinary practice founded by Camae Ayewa and Rasheedah Phillips that synthesizes quantum physics with Afrodiasporic principles and ontologies of time, space, ritual, text, and sound, yielding an innovative framework for the creation of counterhistories and alternate futures.” Or look up the free jazz group Ayewa is in, Irreversible Entanglements (my entry point to Ayewa), perhaps starting with their 2017 s/t or their AMAZING 2024 Tiny Desk Concert. I swear, if you have 27 minutes and click on that last link, you might even find yourself equipped with some courage, perhaps even a smidgen of hope, to face what’s coming, what’s here.

  • The survey choices that initially led to this spotlight were “You’re the letter from Jesus on the bathroom wall”, “You’re mother superior in only a bra”, and “You’re the same kind of bad as me”, after an earlier survey with “You’re the head on the spear”/“You’re the nail on the cross”/“You’re the fly in my beer”/“You’re the key that got lost”. The second option was the winning selection, and so the survey result was translated as picking the second album in The List that contained a word in the phrase – in this case, “mother”. ↩
  • #1001OtherAlbums #Afrofuturism #avantgarde #CamaeAyewa #experimental #freeJazz #IrreversibleEntanglements #ListenToThis #MoorMother #music #musicDiscovery #Musodon #poetry #protestMusic #spokenWord

    The List

    This is the alphabetical list (ordered by first letter of [first] artist). For the numbered list, go here. An asterisk (*) beside an album title indicates that it also appears in the 1001 Albums Yo


    1001 Other Albums
    Super soirée en compagnie de Irreversible Entanglements dans le club de l'Antipode et Jean-Louis Brossard à la sélection de disques.


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    Was listening to Moor Mother, which led to finding this amazing Irreversible Entanglements Tiny Desk Concert from last year.  

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKnifgh9dEQ

    #MoorMother #IrreversibleEntanglements #TinyDesk

    Irreversible Entanglements: Tiny Desk Concert

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    We Talk About
 | Irreversible Entanglements Live
    https://t.co/DS1W2vTvHT
    "We Talk About Freedom and Lives" annuncia Camae Ayewa in arte Moor Mother

    (segui il link)

    #live #irreversibleentanglements #locomotivclub #bologna

    #sotd #playlist #nowlistening #spotify #newmusic #alt


    We Talk About
 | Irreversible Entanglements Live

    “We Talk About Freedom and Lives” annuncia Camae Ayewa in arte Moor Mother (segui il link) #live #irreversibleentanglements #locomotivclub #bologna

    LA XXV ORA

    Irreversible Entanglements – Chicago to Texas

    https://wgom.org/2024/02/23/irreversible-entanglements-chicago-to-texas/

    Irreversible Entanglements – Chicago to Texas | WGOM

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