#afro indies

[neges]

📍Morne Puilboreau, Haïti 🇭🇹

via @jeanoscar.a

[stickto-otherartists]

Camille Léon | Toronto 04/14/23

[everynowndthen]

"Miss Braided" by me @blavdraws

[seungrunge]

OH TODAS AS CICATRIZES QUE VOCÊ TOCOU... COMO PÔDE NÃO SE PERGUNTAR QUE, SE VOCÊ FIZESSE ISSO, PODERIA SANGRAR EM MIM DE NOVO?

[skatunenetwork]

‼️⚠️LIMITED MERCH ALERT⚠️‼️

I collabed JUST OKAY CO on my favorite pieces of JER merch yet!

I normally LOATHE merch… but Just Okay Co is sustainability sourced, Made in the USA, premium quality!

I love clothes, and love having merch that’s a quality I can be proud of

Pick it up via Just Okay Co!!!

[gravalicious]

Gustavo Urrutia

Source: Frank Andre Guridy - Forging diaspora : Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a world of empire and Jim Crow (2010: 122)

[tsulas]

Times have slowed~

[yungdeadthing]

🥹 so proud of myself for making one of my dreams come true this summer — performed my music live for the first time 🥹

[cherryobsession]

First selfies of the year. I’ve been catching up on my books otherwise.

[troythecatfish]

Here’s my personal recommendation of a YouTube channel to check out:

[neges]

Haiti from the 80s - February 21, 1986 via Haytiens

[stardustandrockets]

Do you read indie books?

I'll admit, I don't read many because a lot are only available via eBook, and I have retention issues with that format. However, since subscribing to Rainbow Crate and getting one every month, I've read more. I typically use the ebooks as work reads because it's easier to access than carrying around a full physical book. Though I guess now that they're including physical copies that'll change. 😅

This edition of The Name-Bearer by Natalia Hernandez is GORGEOUS! I love that the original cover was printed on the naked hardcover. The edges are stunning and I love that the top and bottom aren't plain like a lot of digital edges are. These special editions are top tier!

[franckbiyong]

The way Franck Biyong composes is unlike any other musician you will find. This artist has blended roots of Afrobeat to a jazz and electric sound that has a vantage point on the contemporary. His latest album is a thematic entrance into a slice of time which only he can master. This album is called Moonwatching 2.

When he approaches music, he has to find an incredible balance between these two different styles. It might not mean much as listeners, but to find that razor fine line, that is what Franck Biyong is working with. His music has a resonating power to it that fuses elements of the West with the vernacular heartbeat of Cameroon. New Crescent shows this exact sentiment, and you can hear it in the electric influences, even in the tones and monologues. It is like the opening of Maggot Brain by Parliament, where some delectable guitar notes introduce you to the rich textures. 

In tonal heaven, all the way

Leave it to Franck Biyong to genuinely surprise you. The next song has the soul of rock, but teases with tones and compositional parts that you’d never put together. He is able to manipulate the feelings of a voice you can never hear, just by how he composes. Fever might be one of my favourites from this talented artist, with elements of blues, soul and rock convening in grace. 

Music Better proceeds with a funky effect, and a unique time signature. Just this can give you a nice peek into his brain, where you’re also hearing a Hendrix like riff with percussions that are clearly having African roots. There is this cinematic edge to his music because of the experience and civil way he performs the marriage of such different genres. Moonwatching 2 is thematically perfect, these are his thoughts and muses without trying to disturb the sonic membrane of either of these genres. 

To explore, and to seek

Franck Biyong retains the key to soft soundscapes with Soldier Boy. It is a sensitive, soothing single with honey like melodies. How it all overlaps, is not even worth discussing, for it is like a door to paradise. Biyong has detailed the sounds to move from groovy to funky, rock to stylish and punchy, and the result is incredible. I’d like to pick this artist’s brain just to know how he comes up with the concepts he sees through. The guitars are really the ones shining under the lunar halo, and they differ in tone with each song. Freedom Day even has that patriotic element with the percussion building, creating an excitement. 

By the time you hear On This Road and Dreamland, you’re spellbound. If we were to send extra-terrestrial life perfect music that showcases more than one part of the world, Franck Biyong has done the necessary. Listen to his album here and dwell in fascination. 

[doormouseetcappendix]

Anthology Film series by Joseph Sylvers

Seance & Son’s Spirit Amplifier (2022) 

Corner Of Demeter and Carfax (2022)

Abdul Hazrad Meets The Plug (2022)

The Duel At Damnation Alley (2022)

Of Comforts and Cataclysms (2022)

People Maker Point & The Valley Of Rebirth (2022)

Sweet Summer Child(2022)

We Out Here (2022)

Indifference (2022)

[skatunenetwork]

✨❄️JER WINTER TOUR❄️✨

Hey friends! I got plenty of shows this winter across the country, hitting a lot of places I have yet to hit!

Just next week, I’ll be all up in the Midwest and heading down to the southeast with the LEGENDS in Vial, Boy Jr, and Penny Bored

And next year, I’ll be in the southwest with the ICONS in Devon Kay & The Solutions + Suzie True!!!!

All of these shows are gonna be killer, so if you and your friends are around here, don’t miss em. You’ll regret it!

Tickets are running low for select shows, so make sure you grab yours!!!! Head to www.JER.band for tickets!

———

w/ VIAL // BOY JR* // PENNY BORED^

11/30 - CHICAGO, IL @ REGGIES*

12/1 - MINNEAPOLIS, MN @ FINE LINE*

12/2 - IOWA CITY, IA @ GABE’S*

12/3 - ST LOUIS, MO @ BLUEBERRY HILL*

12/5 - COLUMBUS, OH @ BIG ROOM BAR*

12/6 - NASHVILLE, TN @ DRKMTTR^

12/8 - JACKSONVILLE, FL @ UNDERBELLY^

12/9 - ORLANDO, FL @ THE SOCIAL^

w/ Devon Kay & The Solutions + Suzie True

2/23 — Austin, TX @ Mohawk (Inside)

2/24 — Dallas, TX @ Three Links

2/25 — Tulsa, OK @ Mass Movement Community Arts

2/27 — Denver, CO @ Seventh Circle Music Collective

2/28 — Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad

2/29 — Phoenix, AZ @ The Trunk Space

3/1 — San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe

3/2 — Fullerton, CA @ Programme Skate

3/3 — Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman

[gravalicious]

Consuelo Serra 

Source: Jesse E. Hoffnung-Garskof - Racial Migrations: NEW YORK CITY AND THE REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS OF THE SPANISH CARIBBEAN, 1850‒1902 (2019)