Moor Mother: The Great Bailout

International touring musician, composer, poet, visual artist, and curator, Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa’s music is a statement for the future as well as a way to honor the present and its historic connections to a multitude of past realities. Her work uses Afrofuturism as a narrative tool, recognizing its ability to empower marginalized Black and Indigeous people, and acting as an agitator in shaping Afrodiasporan past and future narratives. Ayewa is also a vocalist and musician in three collaborative performance groups: free jazz group Irreversible Entanglements, post-punk duo Moor Jewelry, and club/noise duo 700Bliss. The Great Bailout is Moor Mother’s ninth studio album and third with ANTI-Records, with production contributions on various tracks from Mary Lattimore, Lonnie Holley, Vijay Ayer, Angel Bat Dawid, Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, Aaron Dilloway and more. Called “the poet laureate of the apocalypse” by Pitchfork, Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments and voices that take on themes of Afrofuturism and collective memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop and beat poetry in mind.