Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother, has always been one to cite her sources. In addition to performing as a member of Philly-based free-jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, the contralto wordsmith has frequently paid homage to the jazz, blues, and gospel canons in her solo work, beginning with her 2016 debut, Fetish Bones, and continuing through last […]
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Afrofuturist MC and sound artist Moor Mother delivers a fierce indictment of violence and oppression
The music of Philadelphia MC and sound artist Moor Mother, aka Camae Ayewa, didn’t come to life for me until I had the chance to see her perform earlier this year, and suddenly her chaotic, psychedelic layers of samples and electronic noise made sense. After more than a dozen digital-only releases, in 2016 Ayewa dropped […]