Moor Mother explores memory and violence on Black Encyclopedia of the Air

Featuring Pink Siifu, Brother May, Black Quantum Futurism, Lojii, and more.

Interdisciplinary artist Moor Mother is releasing a new album, entitled Black Encyclopedia of the Air, via ANTI- this September.

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Recorded at home in March 2020 at the start of the pandemic, the thirteen track album explores memory, the future and violence, “all of them wafting through untouched space like the ghostly cinders of a world on fire, unbound and uncharted, vast and stretching across the universe.”

It also features collaborations with artists including Brother May, Lojii, Pink Siifu, Nappy Nina, Maassai, Black Quantum Futurism, and Yatta.

Black Encyclopedia of the Air follows her collaborative BRASS album with billy woods.

Pre-order Black Encyclopedia of the Air here in advance of its 17th September release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

1. Temporal Control Of Light Echoes
2. Mangrove (featuring Elucid & Antonia Gabriela)
3. Race Function (featuring Brother May)
4. Shekere (featuring Lojii)
5. Vera Hall (featuring Bfly)
6. Obsidian (featuring Pink Siifu)
7. Iso Fonk
8. Rogue Waves
9. Made a Circle (featuring Nappy Nina, Maassai, Antonia Gabriela & Orion Sun)
10. Tarot (featuring Yatta)
11. Nighthawk Of Time (featuring Black Quantum Futurism)
12. Zami
13. Clock Fight (featuring Elaine Mitchner & Dudu Kouate)

Photo by: CoolDad Music