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F r o m W i k i p e d i a , t h e f r e e e n c y c l o p e d i a
American poet, musician, and activist
Musical artist
Camae Ayewa ,[5] (born November 19, 1981[6] ) better known by her stage name Moor Mother , is an American poet, musician, and activist from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .[7] She is one half of the collective Black Quantum Futurism , along with Rasheedah Phillips ,[8] and co-leads the groups Irreversible Entanglements and 700 Bliss.[9] [10]
Early life and career [ edit ]
Ayewa was born in Aberdeen, Maryland , where she grew up in a public housing project.[11] [12] She moved to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania to study photography at the Art Institute.[13]
In 2016, Moor Mother released a studio album, Fetish Bones , on Don Giovanni Records .[14] The album, which was released alongside a 122-page book of poetry,[13] was included on year-end lists by Pitchfork ,[15] Rolling Stone ,[16] and The Wire .[17]
In 2017, she released a studio album, The Motionless Present , on The Vinyl Factory .[18] It featured collaborations with Geng , DJ Haram, Mental Jewelry, and Rasheedah Phillips.[19] The same year, she released a collaborative EP with Mental Jewelry, titled Crime Waves , on Don Giovanni Records.[20] [21]
She served as one of the guest curators at the 2018 Le Guess Who? music festival.[22] [23] In 2019, she released Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes .[24]
Ayewa co-leads and provides lyrics and vocals for the "liberation-oriented free-jazz collective" Irreversible Entanglements .[25] She met the quintet's members through musical and activist endeavors: bassist Luke Stewart shared bills with her band the Mighty Paradocs; saxophonist Keir Neuringer worked with Books Through Bars , whose events Ayewa has emceed; and the trio of Ayewa, Stewart, and Neuringer was followed by the duo of trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes at a 2015 Musicians Against Brutality event following the shooting of Akai Gurley .[9] The group performed in the inaugural season of the Kennedy Center's "Direct Current" contemporary culture showcase,[26] and their releases have been included in best-of lists in Magnet ,[27] NPR Music ,[28] The Quietus ,[29] and Stereogum ' s "20 Best Jazz Albums Of The 2010s".[30] The band's instrumentalists also performed on Ayewa's debut theatrical work, Circuit City .[31]
In the fall of 2021, Ayewa began serving as an assistant professor at the University of Southern California 's Thornton School of Music .[32]
Discography [ edit ]
Studio albums [ edit ]
With Irreversible Entanglements [ edit ]
Ayewa performing with Irreversible Entanglements
With 700 Bliss [ edit ]
Compilation albums [ edit ]
Manufacture of Indigo (2015)[46]
Clepsydra (2020)[47]
Anthologia 01 (2020) (with Olof Melander) [48]
Live albums [ edit ]
Offering: Live at Le Guess Who (2020) (with Nicole Mitchell) [49]
Crime Waves (2017) (with Mental Jewelry) [50]
Guest appearances [ edit ]
Fhloston Paradigm - "...All" from After... (2017)[51]
Show Me the Body - "In a Grave" and "Everything Hate Here" from Corpus I (2017)[52]
Lushlife - "I've Seen It Before I Was There" from My Idols Are Dead + My Enemies Are in Power (2017)[53]
Eartheater - "MMXXX" from IRISIRI (2018)[54]
Reef the Lost Cauze - "Splinters" from The Majestic (2018)[55]
Screaming Females - "End of My Bloodline (Remix)" from Singles Too (2019)[56]
Art Ensemble of Chicago , We Are On the Edge (Pi , 2019)
Zonal - "Body of Wire", "In a Cage", "System Error", "Medulla", "Catalyst", and "No Investigation" from Wrecked (2019)[57]
Harrga -『À Vif』from Héroïques Animaux de la Misère (2019)[58]
Armand Hammer - "Ramses II" from Shrines (2020)[59]
Sons of Kemet - "Pick Up Your Burning Cross (feat. Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid)" from Black To The Future (2021)[60]
The Bug - "Vexed (feat. Moor Mother)" from Fire (2021)[61]
madam data - "In the emptiness beyond emptinesses..." from The Gospel of the Devourer (PTP , 2021)
Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris (RogueArt , 2023)[62]
Celestaphone - "Tithes" from Paper Cut From the Obit (2023)[63]
Shapednoise - "Poetry" from Absurd Matter (WEIGHT LOOMING, 2023)
Remixes [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Blais-Billie, Braudie (October 19, 2017). "Moor Mother Shares Three-Hour Piece: Listen" . Pitchfork . Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Willems, Jasper (January 17, 2017). "Distorting The Present: DiS Meets Moor Mother" . Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on January 19, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Dandridge-Lemco, Ben (March 1, 2018). "Take a trip to Moor Mother's Philadelphia in this new mini-doc" . The Fader . Archived from the original on June 13, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ "Moor Mother" . Apple Music . Retrieved May 1, 2024 .
^ Ravens, Chal (January 11, 2018). "Moor Mother review – howl of apocalyptic fury is kept to a whisper" . The Guardian . Archived from the original on February 21, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Duplan, Anaïs (March 14, 2017). "Moor Mother Explains Black Quantum Futurism" . Vice . Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ a b Camp, Zoe (April 2, 2020). "The Revolutionary Free Jazz of Irreversible Entanglements" . Bandcamp Daily . Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ "700 Bliss discuss their debut album Nothing To Declare | The Skinny" . www.theskinny.co.uk . Retrieved September 25, 2022 .
^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (April 20, 2017). "Moor Mother: 'We have yet to truly understand what enslavement means' " . The Guardian . Archived from the original on July 24, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Rachel, T. Cole (December 19, 2017). "Performance artist Moor Mother isn't afraid of confrontation" . Interview . Archived from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ a b Pelly, Jenn (October 26, 2016). "Moor Mother: Hardcore Poet" . Pitchfork . Retrieved February 3, 2021 .
^ Iadarola, Alexander (September 6, 2016). "Moor Mother's New Track Is a Reminder of the Agitating Power of Noise" . Vice . Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Lozano, Kevin (December 9, 2018). "The 20 Best Experimental Albums of 2016 (page 2 of 2)" . Pitchfork . Archived from the original on April 3, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Weingarten, Christopher R. (December 28, 2016). "20 Best Avant Albums of 2016" . Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on April 11, 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ "Listen to The Wire's Top 50 Releases of 2016" . The Wire . December 26, 2016. Archived from the original on February 1, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Ravens, Chal (February 21, 2017). "Moor Mother announces The Motionless Present LP featuring DJ Haram and PTP's Geng" . Fact . Archived from the original on February 22, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Kalev, Maya (March 22, 2017). "Moor Mother Tells The Story Behind Every Track On Her Radical New Record" . The Fader . Archived from the original on April 1, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Gordon, Jeremy (May 10, 2017). "Moor Mother x Mental Jewelry – "Hardware" " . Spin . Archived from the original on September 8, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Kelly, Kim (June 13, 2017). "Philly Producers Moor Mother and Mental Jewelry Team Up on 'Crime Waves' " . Vice . Archived from the original on May 13, 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Welsh, April Clare (May 24, 2018). "Moor Mother, Asia Argento set to curate Le Guess Who? 2018" . Fact . Archived from the original on May 27, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Amin, Tayyab (December 8, 2018). "Le Guess Who? 2018: Fringe global sounds and community outreach in Utrecht" . Fact . Archived from the original on December 9, 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Yoo, Noah; Bloom, Madison (November 8, 2019). "6 Albums Out Today You Should Listen to Now: FKA twigs, Mount Eerie, Moor Mother, and More" . Pitchfork . Archived from the original on June 19, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
^ Ng, Ivana (May 2020). "Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You?" . DownBeat . Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ "Irreversible Entanglements - DIRECT CURRENT: Millennium Stage (March 13, 2018)" . The Kennedy Center . 2018. Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ Meyer, Bill (December 15, 2020). "Best of 2020: Jazz/Improv" . Magnet Magazine . Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ "The 100 Best Songs Of 2017" . NPR . December 13, 2017. Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ Smith, Stewart (December 13, 2017). "Complete Communion: The Best Jazz Of 2017" . The Quietus . Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ Freeman, Phil (January 9, 2020). "The 20 Best Jazz Albums Of The 2010s" . Stereogum . Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ Beta, Andy (October 14, 2020). "Moor Mother: Circuit City" . Pitchfork . Retrieved February 2, 2021 .
^ "USC Thornton Welcomes New Faculty" . USC Thornton School of Music . August 3, 2021. Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved September 3, 2021 .
^ Lozano, Kevin (September 29, 2016). "Moor Mother: Fetish Bones" . Pitchfork . Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ Miller, Julie (February 24, 2017). "Moor Mother previews new record of poetry and soundscape with "This Week" " . WXPN . Archived from the original on February 26, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ "Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes by Moor Mother" . Apple Music . Archived from the original on October 7, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "True Opera | Moor Jewelry" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on May 31, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
^ "Circuit City, by Moor Mother" . Moor Mother . Retrieved October 9, 2021 .
^ Yoo, Noah (September 23, 2020). "Moor Mother to Release New Album Circuit City This Week" . Pitchfork . Archived from the original on October 21, 2020. Retrieved October 20, 2020 .
^ "BRASS, by Moor Mother & billy woods" . Moor Mother . Retrieved August 9, 2021 .
^ "BRASS from Moor Mother & billy woods" . Backwoodz Studioz . December 11, 2020. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2020 .
^ "Black Encyclopedia of the Air, by Moor Mother" . Moor Mother . Retrieved October 9, 2021 .
^ "Jazz Codes, by Moor Mother" . Moor Mother . Retrieved July 4, 2022 .
^ "Irreversible Entanglements, by Irreversible Entanglements" . International Anthem . Retrieved March 6, 2021 .
^ Beta, Andy (March 25, 2020). "Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You?" . Pitchfork . Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ Scherstuhl, Alan (June 24, 2020). "Jazz Is Built for Protests. Jon Batiste Is Taking It to the Streets" . The New York Times . Retrieved February 1, 2021 .
^ "Manufacture of Indigo | Moor Mother" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on June 9, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
^ "Clepsydra | Moor Mother" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on June 16, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
^ "Anthologia 01 | Moor Mother and Olof Melander" . Bandcamp . Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
^ "Offering - Live at Le Guess Who | Nicole Mitchell and Moor Mother" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on June 9, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
^ Blanning, Lisa (June 14, 2017). "Moor Mother x Mental Jewelry - Crime Waves" . Resident Advisor . Archived from the original on July 4, 2017. Retrieved May 13, 2019 .
^ "After... | Fhloston Paradigm" . Bandcamp . Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "Corpus I | Show Me The Body" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on December 24, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "My Idols Are Dead + My Enemies Are In Power | Lushlife" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "IRISIRI | Eartheater" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on January 2, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "The Majestic | Reef The Lost Cauze" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on December 22, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "Singles Too | Screaming Females" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on December 24, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "Wrecked | Zonal" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on January 2, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "Héroïques Animaux de la Misère | Harrga" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "Shrines | Armand Hammer" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on December 22, 2020. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
^ "Sons of Kemet" . SHABAKA HUTCHINGS . Retrieved December 19, 2021 .
^ "Fire by The Bug" . Ninja Tune . Retrieved September 10, 2021 .
^ Fordham, John (January 27, 2023). "Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris to Paris review – devoted heirs carry the torch" . The Guardian . Retrieved March 17, 2023 .
^ Celestaphone. "Paper Cut From the Obit | Celestaphone" . Bandcamp . Archived from the original on August 15, 2023. Retrieved September 2, 2023 .
^ "Mandela Effect by Gonjasufi" . Apple Music . Archived from the original on December 22, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "You Can't See Inside of Me by What Cheer? Brigade" . Apple Music . Archived from the original on December 22, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
^ "Because I'm Me (Remixes) - EP by The Avalanches" . Apple Music . Archived from the original on January 3, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
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