Moor Mother (US)
現在フィラデルフィアを拠点とするMoor Motherは、ミュージシャン、詩人、ビジュアル・アーティスト、ワークショップ主催者など多彩な活動を行っているマルチ・アーティストである。世界各地の無数のフェスティバル、大学、ギャラリー、博物館などでパフォーマンスを行っている。ソロ以外にも、ヴォーカリストとしてフリー・ジャズ・バンド、Irreversible Entanglements、フィラデルフィアの盟友Mental Jewelryとのアブストラクト・ヒップホップ（？）ユニットMoor Jewelry、DJ Haramとのユニット700blissのメンバーとしても活動しており、その底知れぬバイタリティーと多彩なクリエイティビティーには脱帽だ。サイファーでラップをすることから始まったという彼女の存在は、アフロ・フューチャリズム、パンク、ジャズ、ヒップホップの全てを完全に内在化し、体現している。
2016年のデビュー・アルバム『Fetish Bones』はThe Wire誌の年間ベスト・アルバム３位に選ばれた他、主要音楽メディアで絶賛を受けた。また地元のコミュニティーに根ざしたアーティスト／アクティヴィスト・コレクティヴ、Black Quantum Futurismのメンバーとして執筆やジンの出版、ワークショップの主催にも携わり、人種・性差別、家庭内暴力、貧困や格差社会といった問題の啓蒙と改善を目指し、献身的な活動を行っている。
Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician, poet, visual artist, and workshop facilitator, and has performed at numerous festivals, colleges, galleries, and museums around the world, sharing the stage with King Britt, Roscoe Mitchell, Claudia Rankine, Bell Hooks, and more. Camae is a vocalist in three collaborative performance groups: Irreversible Entanglements, Moor Jewelry and 700bliss.
As a soundscape and visual artist, Ayewa’s work has been featured at Baltic Biennale, Samek Art Museum, Vox Populi, Pearlman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago, ICA Philadelphia, Bergan Kunstall, Hirshorn Gallery, and in an upcoming 2018 solo show at The Kitchen NYC. As a workshop facilitator, Camae has presented at Cornell University, MOFO Festival, Moogfest, Black Dot Gallery and others. Camae is co-founder and curator of Rockers Philly Project a 10-year long running event series and festival focused on marginalized musicians and artists spanning multiple genres of music.
As Moor Mother she released her debut album Fetish Bones on Don Giovanni records to critical acclaim. Fetish Bones was named 3rd best album of the year by The Wire Magazine, number 1 by Jazz Right Now and has appeared on numerous end of the year list from Pitchfork, Noisy, Rolling Stone, and Spin Magazine. Moor Mother was named by Rolling Stone as one of the 10 artists to watch in 2016 and named Bandcamp ’ s 2016 artist of the year. Moor Mother released a 2nd LP called the Motionless Present commissioned by CTM X VINYL FACTORY 2017. Moor Mother has appeared in the Quietus, Interview Magazine, The Guardian, Crack, Pitchfork and others. Moor Mother’s schedule has included Berhaign, Borealis, CTM Festival, Le Guess Who, Unsound, Flow and Donau Festival, Rewire, Boiler Room and MOMA PS1.
As a durational performance artist Camae has been commissioned by Moog Festival, Vox Populi Gallery, Icebox Gallery and others. Camae is also a writer and poet her first book of poetry called Fetish Bones released on The AfroFuturist Affair small press. As a member of Black Quantum Futurism Collective (BQF), she has been a part of two literary works and several zines, and has been featured in exhibitions at the Schomburg Center, Rebuild Foundation, Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art, and Serpentine Gallery and more.
Camae Ayewa is a 2016 Leeway Transformation Awardee, a Blade of Grass 2016 Fellow as part of Black Quantum Futurism, 2017 Pew Fellow, and 2017 The Kitchen Inaugural Emerging Artist Awardee, and Rad Girls 2016 philly artist of the year. She has been an in artist in residency at West Philadelphia Neighborhood Time Exchange and WORM! Rotterdam residency, and featured with Black Quantum Futurism at Transmediale Festival in Berlin 2017
https://soundcloud.com/moor-goddess
https://moormother.bandcamp.com/
https://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/
PLAYING: 12/1 (SAT) OCTAVE
