#Angel Bat Dawid

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VA - Red Hot & Ra: Nuclear War - A Tribute to Sun Ra: Volume 1 - takes on  “Nuclear War” by Georgia Anne Muldrow, Angel Bat Dawid, and Irreversible Entanglements!

01. Georgia Anne Muldrow - Nuke’s Blues (Feat. Josef Leimberg) (written by Georgia Anne Muldrow, Josef Leimberg & Sun Ra) Georgia Anne Muldrow - Vocals / Track / Synth Josef Leimberg - Trumpet / Piano Taso Anastasios - OP1 keyboard / engineer 02.-04. Angel Bat Dawid - Nuclear War: A Cosmic Myth Science Trilogy (Written by Angel Bat Dawid & Sun Ra) The Cosmic Ensemble Angel Bat Dawid - Piano, Clarinet, Vocals, Synths Jaden Berkman (Jaytheziah) - Bass, Guitar, Flute, Saxophone Alejandro Salazar - Percussion The Cosmic Children Rayna Golding, Mahari Ajani Collier The Cosmic Choir Monique Golding, Phillip Armstrong, Camila Isabel, Tramaine Parker, Erica Nwachukwu Arranged & Mixed by Angel Bat Dawid Inspired by Sun Ra’s Nuclear War 05. Malcolm Jiyane Tree-o - We're Not Buying It (Feat. Grandmaster CAP) (written by Fani Malcolm Jiyane, Nhlanhla Masondo & Sun Ra ) Ayanda Zalekile - Electric Bass & Vocals Gontse Makhene - Percussion & Backing Vocals Grandmaster CAP - MC Lungile Kunene - Drums & Backing Vocals Malcolm Jiyane - Piano, Keyboards & Backing Vocals Tubatsi Moloi - Electric Guitar, Flute & Backing Vocals 06. Irreversible Entanglements - Nuclear War (Written by Sun Ra) Keir Neuringer - Saxophone Tcheser Holmes - Drums Aquiles Navarro - Trumpet Luke Stewart - Bass Camae Ayewa - Vocals

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Moor Mother — The Great Bailout (ANTI-)

Photo by Ebru Yildiz

Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother, has a genuine claim towards being one of the busiest artists working today. Over the past five years she has taken part in more than ten albums, with sounds spanning unpredictable hip-hop experimentation to free jazz odyssies. The Great Bailout represents yet another left turn, taking sonic inspiration from glitch and concrete poetry and working with noise veterans such as C. Spencer Yeh and Aaron Dilloway to put together something truly haunting. On this record, Moor Mother bears witness to centuries of violence, death and horror at the hands of European colonialism and white supremacy. She spits its debris back at the listener and forcing us to contend with our ability to remain nonchalant in its seemingly never-ending cycle.

The first thing heard on this record is not Ayewa, but rather the intonations of Raia Was and Lonnie Holley over the twinkling harp of Mary Lattimore. Was’ fluttering vocals could not contrast more with Holley’s powerful warble, but both convey the dread and weariness that come with continuing to survive in a society that offers nothing but death in return. Three minutes into the track, Ayewa sets the scene for the rest of the record: “Taxpayers of erasure, of relapse, of amnesia, paying the crimes off.” This is perhaps the condition of being an everyday citizen, living in a state that never shook off the ghosts of colonialism, if it ever even tried in the first place. On “ALL THE MONEY,” over an ominous dub-inflected beat, Ayewa lists off British national landmarks and the years they were established, building up to the British Museum, one of the world’s largest resources of stolen cultural landmarks. “They heard about the kingdoms of gold,” Ayewa states. “They heard about the books of mathematics, philosophy and rituals.” The title of the album could be interpreted a number of different ways, but in this context it is clear that Europe stole so much from Africa to bail out its own moral and spiritual failures.

One of the highlights of the album is “LIVERPOOL WINS,” which features Aaron Dilloway contributing a typically clattering, ugly backing track. “Payouts, bailouts, just enough to build the city, a country, an infrastructure, a financial revolution, a stronger christianity, a whiter God, a period of enlightenment,” lists Ayewa. “Who builds death like this?” This question resonates through the entire record. Towards the end of the record “SOUTH SEA,” featuring the contributions of Chicago jazz mainstay Angel Bat Dawid and her vocal group Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, feels like a requiem for what’s been lost, both material and immaterial, in the fray of colonialism. “How many have to be slaughtered in front of you before you choke on your own tears?” Ayewa asks. “Before your brain convinces you that you are already dead and if you are still breathing, you shouldn’t be?” It’s difficult to listen to these questions without thinking of horrific images from Gaza, Sudan and the Congo, all of which are stark reminders that the same forces that bailed out Europe are continuing to fuck up the world to this day. There isn’t a singular, clear message of hope on The Great Bailout, but in documenting the rage and despair built into life under such a ugly and evil system, Moor Mother has provided something just as valuable — if not more so— in understanding the struggles of the present day.

Levi Dayan

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Angel Bat Dawid, "Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit" #NowPlaying

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Artista: Sons of Kemet Álbum: Black To The Future Ano: 2021 Faixas/Tempo: 11/51min Estilo: Afro-Jazz/Dub/Afrobeat Data de Execução: 04/09/2023 Nota: 6,0 Melhor Música: Pick Up Your Burning Cross (feat Moor Mother & Angel Bat Dawid)

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Angel Bat Dawid - RECORDARE-Recall the Joy

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Angel Bat Dawid - Black Family

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Angel Bat Dawid's Cover Of Sun Ra's Nuclear War Is Remixed By Oui Ennui

Oui Ennui has remixed Angel Bat Dawid's cover of Sun Ra's "Nuclear War" as part of the Red, Hot + Ra tribute album. The Sun Ra tribute which is part of the Red Hot series came out last month. Ennui and Dawid have worked together in the past specifically, their 2020 album Message From The Daoui. The remix of "Nuclear War" is a combination of calm and chaos. The layers of sounds encompassing multiple voices including Sun Ra's build anxiously with the fear of a war-inducing button push. There are three other versions of "Nuclear War" on the remix EP from Sanford Biggers, Dennis Bovell and Joel Tarman. Ennui's remix is streaming now and the EP will officially be released on July 14th. Red, Hot + Ra: Nuclear War is the first album tribute to Sun Ra from the Red Hot organization and there are plans for more over the next two years. The late jazz visionary was a pioneer of Afrofuturism and was an early user of synthesizers. "Nuclear War" was recorded in 1982 and released as a 12" in Britain and as an album exclusively in Italy two years later. The album was released in the United States in 2001. 

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new album every day [09.06.2023]

Angel Bat Dawid - Requiem for Jazz

this is far and away one of the most interesting albums i've heard in a while! Requiem for Jazz is a near hour-long album-meets-sermon which speaks on the struggles of african americans, empowerment, and the importance of jazz. it's packed with confronting music which challenges norms from beginning to end, with vocals that will affect you in phenomenal ways. if you want a one-of-a-kind listening experience, look no further!

my favourite tracks: KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav' Merci, CONFUTATIS-Repression, SANCTUS- Holy, Holy, Holy

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VA - Red Hot & Ra - Nuclear War : The Remixes - the Red Hot Org's Sun Ra tribute album performed/remixed by Dennis Bovell, Kronos Quartet, & others

1. Malcolm Jiyane Tree-o (Feat. Grandmaster CAP) - We're Not Buying It (Dennis Bovell Dub) 2. Angel Bat Dawid - Nuclear War! (Oui Ennui Cosmic Off-Ramp Ouimix) 3. Sun Ra - Nuclear War (Moon Medicin x Sanford Biggers Remix) 4. Sun Ra - Nuclear War (Joel Tarman x Kronos Quartet Remix)

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V/A — Red Hot and Ra: Nuclear War LP (Red Hot)

Since its origins in 1989, the Red Hot Organization has created benefit compilations, enlisting famous performers, usually from the pop ranks, to sing standards from the Great American Songbook. Red Hot and Ra: Nuclear War LP has a different brief. Free jazz and adjacent artists use Sun Ra’s iconic riff on “Nuclear War” (“It’s a m—er f—er, don’t you know, If you push that button your a– gonna go!”) to engage politically and urge de-escalation.

Sun Ra was living near the Three Mile Island disaster site, and this is what spurred him to write “Nuclear War” in 1981. Those of us who came of age during or after the end of the Cold War thought that the fear of mutually assured destruction might be able to be successfully contained; even, eventually, abolished. As the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia demonstrates, the specter of WMD, and concerns for the security of nuclear power plants, have returned to the forefront of our awareness. 

Georgia Anne Muldrow, joined by trumpeter Josef Leimberg, begins the recording with a blues-inflected song that, while referencing the original, provides additional lyrics and loose-limbed riffing. It is a nice touch that the first track isn’t merely a straight cover of the original. In fact, all of the subsequent artists mine the source material for inspiration, but take the music in expansive, often surprising, directions. 

Angel Bat Dawid contributes a three-movement, half-hour long suite that features her group the Cosmic Ensemble, a small instrumental cohort and a group of backing vocalists (“The Cosmic Choir”). While she also sings and plays keyboard, Dawid’s clarinet playing often takes center stage, with bent notes, sustained passages, and fluent soloing all performed with considerable facility. The Cosmic Choir appears in movements one and three, but it is in movement two, “Nuclear War!,” the most referential to the original, that their full-throated cries first rise to the fore. The final movement, “Kiss your a_ Goodbye”, continues to have the chorus chant unison melodies, only to break into harmony with a bright soprano solo. Dawid is at the piano, playing a soulful riff that urges on both vocalists and instrumentalists. Partway through, the texture returns to a cappella chorus, with one-on-a-part overlapping phrases. The ambience is mournful and ominous to the end, which seems altogether appropriate. 

Malcolm Jiyane’s Tree-O, joined by Grandmaster CAP, performs “We’re Not Buying It.” The lyrics include the title as a call and response refrain, with verses about the oppressive nature of warfare and the dangers of WMD. There is strong support from the rhythm section, but plenty of room is left for Jiyane’s funk-tinged piano soloing and flute from Tubatsi Moloi. 

To conclude the LP, Irreversible Entanglements, one of the best free jazz groups around, perform an extended version of the original. Camae Aweya (Moor Mother) provides intense vocals, saxophonist Keir Neuringer and trumpeter Aquiles Navarro play aggressive, angular solos, bassist Luke Stewart uses bow pressure to create scratchy melodies and drummer Tscheser Holmes supplies polyrhythms and muscular fills.  The piece builds to a gale storm of activity, including trippy electronics, one worthy of the Arkestra yet in its own distinctive orbit. The group pulls back near the close, building up from forceful rhythm section playing to modal melodies in saxophone and trumpet. It seems to be a postcard from the maelstrom with which Irreversible Entanglements send off the music. 

Over the next two years, Red Hot plans to release two more LPs related to Sun Ra. The multiverse awaits. 

Christian Carey

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Angel Bat Dawid, "Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit"

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Angel Bat Dawid, ascolta "Recordare - Recall The Joy"

Il nuovo album di Angel Bat Dawid sarà intitolato “Requiem For Jazz” ed è un album dal vivo registrato a Chicago all’Hyde Park Jazz Festival del 2019. L’album sarà pubblicato il 24 Marzo 2023 ed è anticipato dal brano “Recordare – Recall The Joy”:

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Angel Bat Dawid - "Impepho"

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1:03 PM EDT August 19, 2024:

Sons Of Kemet, Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid -   "Pick Up Your Burning Cross" From the album Black to the Future (May 14, 2021)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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On Our Own Side - An Aziraphale/Crowley Playlist

Devil In A Dress - Tami Neilson // London - Angel Bat Dawid // Someone Like You - Aurelio Voltaire // Trouble In Paradise - Rufus Wainwright // Flowers of Ours - The Asteroid No.4 // It Might As Well Be Spring - Nina Simone // Mile Magnificent - molly ofgeography // I Should Be So Lucky - Kylie Minogue // The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen, Rufus Wainwright // Evil Side - The Dirty Nil // Less Than Holy - Vixey // Paradise Lost a poem by John Milton - The Used // That’s What Heaven Feels Like - The Dirty Nil // All The Angels - My Chemical Romance // Babylon - Dirt Poor Robins // All Alone - The Black Dawg, Billie Piper, LuckySS // My Love - The Asteroid No.4 // to me - Pinkshift // I’m Sticking With You - The Velvet Underground // Ride The Wild Wind - Queen