Moor Mother or Moor Mother Goddess is an experimental music project by Camae Ayewa , a musician and poet from Philadelphia, USA.
His work has been labeled "hardcore poetry," "power electronics," "slaveship punk," and "protest music." Ayewa himself rejects categorization, preferring to identify himself through terms such as "time traveler" and "truth teller." A self-described Afrofuturist, he uses loud sounding sounds and lyrics to redefine concepts of memory, history, and the future in afrocentric or afrodiasporic traditions.
Ayewa is one half of the collective Black Quantum Futurism, along with Rasheedah Phillips of Afrofuturist Affair. She has appeared in punk band The Mighty Paradocs, and also co-founder Rockers! Philly, a "series of events and festivals focusing on marginalized artists". In June 2016, Ayewa and Phillips opened the Community Futures Lab, an "afrofuturist community center" in North Philadelphia where they lead workshops and teach, provide space for artistic practice, and fight gentrification in the area.
His debut album Fetish Bones was named one of the top experimental albums of the year by Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and one of the best albums of the year by < i> The Wire .
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Biography
Camae Ayewa is an interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. He grew up in the city of Aberdeen, Maryland. Zodiac sign is Scorpio.
She has performed at festivals, colleges and universities sharing the stage with King Britt, Islam Chipsy, and Claudia Rankine. Camae is one of the founders and organizers of Rocker! Philly, a 10-year series of events and festivals focusing on marginalized artists. As a workshop facilitator he works with programs centered on youth, non-profits, and shelters. As a fundraising event curator, Camae has worked with and served on the council of Girls Rock Philly, and assistant coordinator of The Afrofuturist Affair, the premier afrofuture organization in Philadelphia.
Camae is also a poet and author of the upcoming Fetish Bones poetry book and an avid zinemaker and collector. He is a member of the Black Quantum Futurism Collective, who released his first book, "Black Quantum Futurism theory and practice Vol. 1" . and has been featured at Schomburg Center, as well as installing installations at the Rebuild Foundation and Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art.
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Activism
Black History
The work of Ayewa as Moor's Mother is very much underground, and her powerful poetic form seeks to reconstruct a previously unseen narrative. On his album Fetish Bones album, Ayewa creates a rough sonic landscape, with aggressive lyrical lyrics that run through black history. 'I've bleed since 1866/dragged myself bloody into 1919/And bleeds through the summer slaughtered by whites,' he spat in the opening path, Creation Myth .
Both as a Moorish Mother and with Black Quantum Futurism - the collective she is part of with partner Rasheedah Phillips - the Ayewa seeks to recapture black history, to reevaluate the past. The way he describes his music tells. An array of hip-hop, punk, free jazz and dissonant electronics, he previously called his music with a phrase that contained 'punk slaveship'.
In an interview with The Creative Independent he said: "America is a very strange place when you do not know exactly where your family came from, or your language, or even the legacy of a black woman or an African woman. What's the history? It's part of my nature: want to know more, and know that the narrative has been controlled. "
Feminism
Another central theme for Mother Mother is the conquest of women around the world. "We think of some type of macho alcohol guy who beat a woman," Ayewa said in an interview with Crack Magazine. "But that's just a fraction of what's happening around the world.Any nine seconds around the world, women are harassed! It's very difficult because it's like an accelerated system to allow this to happen.The different areas make few steps to provide protection more, or an easier way, but it's a slow thing.It's weird that it just happened. "
Indeed, on his latest note The Motionless Present , Ayewa talks about how issues such as domestic violence continue to destroy local communities.
Workshop on poetry
Camae Ayewa gave a poetry workshop called "Anthropology of Consciousness." It's like sharing skills and exchanging information on how to create and write about the environment.
Discography
Albums
References
External links
- Don Giovanni Records website
- Mother Goddess Moor Discography on bandcamp website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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