Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia of the Air - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes is a new full-length by Philadelphia-based artist, poet, and musician, Camae Ayewa, who performs under the name Moor Mother. A sonic black hole is a place where fluid moves so fast that it traps all sound. To be entangled in it's gravity is to feel the pressure of an unjust system - corruption so powerful that it drowns out whatever you throw at it. Analog fluids are resistance - individuals who work to create and preserve community in the face of immense darkness and cosmic pressure. Begun in 2017 as a sonic counterpart to Ayewa's art show at New York performance space, The Kitchen, Analog Fluids was refined through exhaustive touring. It tracks Ayewa's emergence into an expanded artistic ecosystem, with contributions from a distinctive set of friends and collaborators like Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Zonal), King Britt, Saul Williams, Giant Swan, and Bookworms.

Coming out on July 1, Jazz Codes is Moor Mother's second and latest album for Anti- and a companion to her celebrated 2021 Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Jazz Codes uses free jazz as a starting point but the collection continues the recent turn in Moor Mother's multifaceted catalog toward more melody, more singing voices, more choruses, more complexity. In it's warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, and other Black classical traditions, Jazz Codes sets the ear blissfully adrift and unhitches the mind from habit. 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.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, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other musicians who share her drive to dig up the untold. She has performed and recorded with the free jazz groups Irreversible Entanglements and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and made records with billy woods, Mental Jewelry, and YATTA.

Galahad guitarist Lee Abraham releases his latest solo album. The album is the follow-up to 2021's 'Only Human', and is Lee's tenth solo . The album deals with an array of subjects such as the conflict in Ukraine, mental health struggles, past childhood memories and a centrepiece epic about mythical sirens of the sea. 'Origin Of The Storm' features guest appearances from a number of musicians including Clive Nolan (Arena, Pendragon), Mark Spencer (Galahad, Twelfth Night), Marc Atkinson (Moon Halo, solo), Paul Drew (The Studio Rats), Alistair Martin (Cosmograf live band), and the excellent Peter Jones (Camel, Tiger Moth Tales, Red Bazar, Cyan).