![]() ![]() In the past year, the Providence-based artist has been on tour with The Soft Moon, The Body, and fellow Rhode Islanders Daughters, and contributed vocals to Full of Hell’s new record, Weeping Choir, to name just a few things.Īnd honestly, thank god. Almost two years after the release of her second album as Lingua Ignota, the mighty All Bitches Die, the momentum only seems to be rising. She’s also co-founder of the Black Quantum Futurism collective, which she runs with Rasheedah Phillips, and with whom she opened North Philly’s gentrification-battling art space, Community Futures Lab. įurthermore, Ayewa is one half of experimental club project 700 Bliss, her thunderous collaboration with DJ Haram. In the same year, she made songs out of the poems of Pat Parker, June Jordan, and Maya Angelou, which she collected under the title She Who Comes with Her Own Things. In 2015 she released a record called Sleep Study One & Two, which she described as, “SONGS MADE WHEN EVERYONE IS SLEEP AROUND 2AM – 5AM SEEING WHAT CAN BE MADE WHILE SOMEONE IS SLEEPING NEXT TO YOU AND NOT WAKING ANYONE UP,” and samples bands including Slayer, Fugazi, and Pantera. In her music, she takes on systemic racism and misogyny on 2016’s Fetish Bones, she raps, “I’m bell hooks trained as a sniper” on “Tell Me About It,” she repeats, “Everything ain’t okay,” and “Drunk as fuck with a loaded AK,” with a gasping, furious growl, while a voice is heard warbling in the distance. Ayewa is a storyteller-she calls herself a time-traveller and a truth-teller-and her Bandcamp bio embraces the terms “chill step,” “blk girl blues,” “witch rap,” “ coffee shop riot gurl songs,” “funeral jazz,” and “black ghost songs,” among others. The most recent record, Grudge2, is full of rippers, including the Katy Perry Vine–sampling opener “PSA,” on which Glass roars, “ Daring to be different is a cliché / Nonconformity is passé…Get fucked up the ass by your peer group.”Ĭamae Ayewa, noted Scorpio, Afrofuturist, community activist, and poet from Philadelphia, is best known for the potent compound of power electronics, free jazz, and protest music she makes as Moor Mother. ![]() Dreamcrusher creates music and experiences designed to rip you out of your comfort zone and out from behind your smartphone.ĭreamcrusher’s extensive discography is just as textured and eviscerating. In the flashes of light, you might see them writhing on the ground, crashing into the crowd, getting right up in people’s faces and grabbing them by the collar, and dragging them across the room. They begin almost every performance with the scent of incense, before easing you into their playfully cacophonous, head-banging, ass-shaking sound. It’s about being present-in your body, in your environment, in the midst of fellow humans, IR fricking L. It’s a full-on, full-body sensory experience. Luwayne Glass is the Wichita, Kansas–born noise musician melding industrial with punk, soul, and Vine snippets, whose live show everyone on the planet should be required to attend at least once. “Grab my hand, let’s enter the void,” screams Dreamcrusher on a recent cut called “Youth Problem,” and that’s pretty much how everything feels right now. There’s something about the catharsis inherent in this kind of music that really hits the nail on the head of our current moment, and I mean that as graphically and violently as possible. Much of it is angry, much is poignant, much is fun, and much of it is all of the above. Dominick Fernow and his label Hospital Productions put on big ol’ festivals every year, Wolf Eyes’ John Olson runs an insanely popular meme account, normies are hip to Pharmakon and Eartheater, and there’s a podcast about Merzbow that’s so hype even he knows about it.Ī lot is happening in the very amorphous zone where harsh noise, techno, and experimental electronics collide. It’s more like a jagged universe at this point-a long way from Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Metal Machine Music, if you hadn’t noticed. The landscape of noise and experimental music is mind-bogglingly vast.
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