Sunday 16 February 2020, 7.30pm
'This is not noise made to merely disturb aesthetic sensibilities; this is noise designed to exorcise generations of ancestral trauma.' – WIRE
Very special three-day residency from Moor Mother, aka Philadelphia based interdisciplinary artist, Camae Ayewa!
Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a 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 four collaborative performance groups: Irreversible Entanglements, Moor Jewelry, 700bliss and ZONAL.
In late 2016, 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 appeared on numerous end of the year list from Pitchfork, Noisy, Rolling Stone, and Spin Magazine. She has since released 'The Motionless Present' commissioned by CTM X VINYL FACTORY 2017, as well as fronted the groups Irreversible Entanglements and Moor Jewelry and 700bliss. Thanks to her unstoppable energy, she has recently peformed at a host of vital festivals including Borealis, CTM, Le Guess Who?, Unsound, Flow, Rewire and Donau.
Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes was released on Don Giovanni in November 2019 to mass critical acclaim.
'Moor Mother makes music that feels halfway between necromancy and warning. These songs are a rejoinder to that erasure, and a proposed antidote to an anti-Black capitalism that insists cultural debts be forgotten.' – PITCHFORK
Since recording the Chopped and Screwed Mixtape with Micachu and the Shapes and the London Sinfonietta, Brother May has worked with a varied cast of sonic pioneers, including Joe Goddard of Hot Chip, Matthew Herbert, Ben Vince, Kwes, Moor Mother, Tirzah and Kate Tempest while supporting visionary artists such as Ryuichi Sakomoto, Arca, Charles Hayward and Mount Kimbie at sold-out London dates: his endeavours haven’t gone unnoticed either, with publications like FACT Magazine and The Fader paying close attention, as well as radio support from NTS and BBC Radio 6. Brother May has also worked with prestigious London venues the Barbican and Camden Roundhouse. Brother May is a founder of the CURL Collective and performs with his – CURL - label mates Mica Levi and Coby Sey at international festivals such as CTM Festival, Earth – BBC Radio 3 – Late Junction and Rewire Festival. After proving his talents as a sought-after collaborator. He released his debut LP, Aura Type Orange – an album produced by Mica Levi with support from AWAL, Dazed and Mix. Brother May is mesmerizing, electrifying and thrillingly distinctive and he can clearly exhibit his talent as a lyricist, producer and creative talent.
