Name: Jazz Codes
Brand: Moor Mother

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375 Media

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Release date

2022-07-29

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5229322

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Moor Mother

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Anti

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Jazz

Active since 2012, Moor Mother is an artist who specializes in producing a unique blend of blk girl blues, project housing bop, and black ghost songs. With her distinctive style and powerful voice, she has captivated audiences worldwide. Through her music, Moor Mother explores themes of identity, race, and social justice. Her thought-provoking lyrics and experimental soundscapes have earned her critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base. Experience the raw emotion and undeniable talent of Moor Mother's music today.

Anti- is an American independent recorded label founded by [a=Andy Kaulkin] in 1998, their first release was Tom Waits "Mule Variations" (1999).


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Jazz Codes is Moor Mother's second and latest album for Anti- and a companion to her celebrated 2021 release Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Jazz Codes uses free jazz as a starting point but the collection continues the recent turn in Moor Mother's multifaceted catalog toward more melody, moresinging voices, more choruses, more complexity. In its warm, densely layered course through jazz, blues, soul, hip- hop, and other Black classical traditions,Jazz Codes sets the ear blissfully adrift and unhitches the mind from habit.Through her work, Ayewa illuminates the principles of her multidisciplinary collaborative practice Black Quantum Futurism, a theoretical framework forperceiving and adjusting reality through art, writing, music, and performance,informed by historical Black ontologies.The songwriter, composer, vocalist, poet,and educator Camae Ayewa spent years organizing and performing inPhiladelphia's underground music community before moving to Los Angeles toteach composition at the University of Southern California's Thornton School ofMusic. She released her debut album as Moor Mother, Fetish Bones, in 2016, and has since put out an abundance of acclaimed music, both as a solo artist and incollaboration with other musicians who share her drive to dig up the untold.

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