Vocalist Moor Mother has graced our stage several times with the raw improv group Irreversible Entanglements. Recently her multifaceted catalog has steered towards more melody, singing voices, and choruses. The album Jazz Codes sprung from a book of poems written in honor of jazz and blues icons such as Woody Shaw, Amina Claudine Myers, and Mary Lou Williams. On the record, she collaborated with DJ/producer Olof Melander, and various singers and rappers. Now for the first time Moor Mother will present the album live, with a band featuring renowned jazz performers.
The songwriter, composer, vocalist, poet, and educator Camae Ayewa spent years organizing and performing in Philadelphia’s underground music community before moving to Los Angeles to teach composition at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. She released her debut album as Moor Mother, Fetish Bones, in 2016, and has since put out an abundance of acclaimed music. She has collaborated with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nicole Mitchell, billy woods, Mental Jewelry, and YATTA. Through her work, Ayewa illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework for perceiving and adjusting reality through art, writing, music, and performance, informed by historical Black ontologies.
This concert is a collaboration with The Rest is Noise – a program part of the Muziekgebouw for music “often so original, you can’t label it.” Where our program meets, we program under ‘BIMHUIS & The Rest is Noise presents’.
Moor Mother vocals, Kyle Kidd vocals, Alya Al-Sultani vocals, Soweto Kinch alto sax, Aquiles Navarro trumpet, Luke Stewart double bass, Lukas Koenig drums, Dudù Kouaté percussion
