#Mimi Jones

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Listen/purchase: Nite Bjuti by Nite Bjuti

Night Bjuti's eponymous debut album (pronounced Night Beauty)taps into women's legacies, freedom, magic and love with ritual jazz, blues and the electronic blessings of Sun Ra. The Black woman trio of vocalist Candice Hoyes, bassist Mimi Jones and percussionist Val Jeanty named themselves after a Haitian folk tale about a deceased girl who reclaims her skeleton to recapture her life. Hoyes'prayerful utterances, Jeanty's remixing of ceremonial rhythms and Jones' agile bass does sound like avant-garde jazz for the dead at times. They are the first group of its kind and improvisation is at the center of their creative process that excavates ancestral memories with a balance between the linear and the abstract.

The deeper conceptual moments found in "Witchez" and the rumbling rhythm and poetry of "Mood (Liberation Walk)" is akin to Shabazz Palaces' celestial hip-hop funk. Zora Neale Hurston's letter to W.E.B. Dubois proposing a cemetery for eminent Black artists and Carrie Mae Weems's Kitchen Table Series of photographs are referenced on the album that moves more like a single composition instead of individual songs. Hoyes says, “We are expressing the kind of pillaging, the uprooting of women in ways personal, intergenerational, familial, sexual, past and present." "Stolen Voice" protests the erasure of Black women's history and reclaims it at the same time with Jeanty's whirlwind sequences, Jones' trancey bass grooves and Hoyes' piercing notes. The layers of intensity are felt in Hoyes' vocals expressing sorrowful wails commemorating past wrongs but quickly morph into furious condemnation after striking decibel shifts. The trio is living somewhere in the same universe occupied by Ursula Rucker, Robert Glasper, Flying Lotus, Burnt Sugar, The Last Poets and Kendrick Lamar but they have their own unique space. Night Bjuti's official debut inventively combines protest, healing, love and truth-telling into an enchanting movement of sound.

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New Video: Nite Bjuti Shares Woozy Contemplation of Black Girlhood and Womanhood

New Video: Nite Bjuti Shares Woozy Contemplation of Black Girlhood and Womanhood @candicehoyes @Val_Inc @WhirlwindRecord @MoraMayAgency @mimijonesmusic

Nite Bjuti (pronounced as Night Beauty) — Candice Hoyes, Val Jeanty, and Mimi Jones — is an an acclaimed trio of Afro Caribbean improvisational artists, who use electronics, vocalism, bass, Haitian rhythms, sampling and spoken word to cultivate their narrative journey. The trio draw inspiration from a a centuries’ old Hatian folk tale called “Night Beauty,” about a girl whose bones begin to sing…

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Fresh (2022)

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Daisy Edgar-Jones in FRESH (2022), directed by Mimi Cave.

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GINA’S HAIR 💇🏾‍♀️

one - adonis, two - paula by @sheabuttyr, three - tahliah, four - fae by @greenllamas, five - sydney, six - nebula, seven - avalon, eight - fuchsia, nine - akasha by @ebonixsims, ten - bea, eleven - daya by @simtric, and twelve - najlaa (tysm to the creators! i highlighted the ones that i know are black so <3)

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FRESH (2022): I know things are a little different, but it's still me, you know? Still the guy I was at the bar that night. — More spooky season edit

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Fresh Mimi Cave. 2022

Street 245 Powell St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1G3, Canada See in map

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fresh (2022) dir. mimi cave

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FRESH (2022)

Director - Mimi Cave, Cinematography - Pawel Pogorzelski

"It's about giving. Giving yourself over to somebody. Becoming one with somebody else, forever. And that's... That's a beautiful thing. That's surrender. That's love."

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Mimi and Rosie for the soul <3

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He is good enough to eat

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Nite Bjuti Demand Recognition For The Illustrious Negro Dead

Nite Bjuti's  "Illustrious Negro Dead" is an urgent request to preserve storied Black legacies and is the second single from their debut album. The trio was inspired by Zora Neale Hurston's 1945 letter written to preeminent Black intellectual W.E.B. DuBois suggesting he create a cemetery to honor all Negro celebrities. Candice Hoyes fervently recites bits of Hurston's proposal as Val Jeanty and Mimi Jones's percussion and bass create a spooky nighttime kind of vibe. Hoyes is concerned about Black artists not dying in "conspicuous forgetfulness." She elaborates, "Although we improvised these words in the studio on Sept 21, they resound this week. Art is meant to break the cycles of oppression and offer new ways of being." 

Nite Bjuti's plea happening at the time of the year when Black music fans and critics share opinions on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations recognizing prominent Black artists. This is also a period where the Hip Hop Alliance is working to raise its profile to further the mission of having all hip-hop and R&B artists fairly compensated with benefits. Hurston's issue almost eight decades ago is still relevant when superstars like Beyoncé are used to bring ratings to Grammy Award Shows but can't take home Album of the Year after four nominations. Or when Michael Jackson's game-changing Thriller album 40th Anniversary Tribute gets canceled at the American Music Awards. "Illustrious Negro Dead" is an observation that all Black creatives of note are still not being fully acknowledged for their work. Nite Bjuti's newest release is a prayer to remember, honor and sustain the legacies of those artists both living and dead. The group's full-length album comes out on April 14th. 

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Title: Fresh

Rating: R

Director: Mimi Cave

Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jojo T. Gibbs, Andrea Bang, Dayo Okeniyi, Charlotte Le Bon, Brett Dier, Alina Maris

Release year: 2022

Genres: comedy, thriller, horror

Blurb: Frustrated by scrolling dating apps only to end up on lame, tedious dates, Noa takes a chance by giving her number to the awkwardly-charming Steve after a produce section meet-cute at the grocery store.

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Daisy Edgar-Jones in FRESH (2022), directed by Mimi Cave.

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Fresh (2022) dir. Mimi Cave