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MOOR MOTHER
The Great Bailout (CD)
Anti
Cat: 27980 2. Rel: 11 Mar 24
Broken Beat/Nu Jazz/Nu Soul
| Track 1. Guilty (feat Lonnie Holley & Raia Was) |
| Track 2. All The Money (feat Alya Al-Sultani) |
| Track 3. God Save The Queen (feat Justmadnice) |
| Track 4. Compensated Emancipation (feat Kyle Kidd) |
| Track 5. Death By Longitude |
| Track 6. My Souls Been Anchored |
| Track 7. Liverpool Wins (feat Kyle Kidd) |
| Track 8. South Sea (feat Sistazz Of The Nitty Gritty) |
| Track 9. Spem In Alium |
Camae Ayewa AKA Moor Mother has long talked about wanting to work with an orchestra, applying her verbal Afro-futurism and free-jazz experimentation to the classical domain. She recently did just that, delivering a grandiose live interpretation of her ninth album, The Great Bailout, alongside the London Contemporary Orchestra. It makes perfect sense: while the album itself is not fully orchestrated, it's a conceptual work dissecting the British slave trade, slavery and colonialism. Musically, there are two central focal points: her spoken word vocals and the beautiful singing of Lonnie Haley. These two vital voices weave in and out of sound worlds rooted in dark ambient, lo-fi hip-hop beats, free jazz instrumentation, out-there samples and clandestine aural textures. It's naturally raw, moody and weighty, but more importantly it's also a genuine masterpiece that deserves your attention.