FAQ FESTIVAL

9 November @ 20:30 – 23:30

Space is the Place curates a stage during the FAQ Festival in Den Bosch. More info soon.

BIMHUIS 50 BIMHUIS X Space is the Place | Legacy

Sun Ra Arkestra | Moor Mother & Lukas Koenig | Farida Amadou & Jasper Stadhouders | FUUTUREJAZZ

Mind-bending night with the cosmic jazz big band walking in the footsteps of legend Sun Ra and fresh collaborations between revolutionary contemporary artists.

Live with Moor Mother & Lukas Koenig

October 27th 8:15 pm

VIERNULVIER & Democrazy

Music

in Club Wintercircus

Tue 29.10

19:30 - 22:30

Club Wintercircus, Ghent

Miriam Makebaplein 2

Live with Moor Mother at Stadtgarten Saal, Cologne.

CONCERT | PROGRAMMED BY THE PUBLIC
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A figure of alternative American creation, musician, poet and activist Moor Mother explores the history and consequences of slavery and colonization.

For Musica, she extends her restorative narrative through a unique performance featuring the Pelicanto Choir. Her starting point is her birthplace, Havre de Grace, Maryland, so named for its resemblance to the port of Le Havre that Lafayette saw there. In the 19th century, the small town on the Mason-Dixon line separating the abolitionist states of the North from the slave states of the South was a crossing point for escaped slaves.

in English

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from 6 to 25€
11€ with the musica card
Refreshments and snacks on site!

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PROGRAMME
Moor Mother , Havre De Grace to Le Havre (2024 – world premiere)

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conception, music and performance | Moor Mother
trumpet | Aquiles Navarro
flute, trombone, organ and percussion | Simon Sieger

Pelicanto, LGBTQ+ Choir of Alsace

Irreversible Entanglements (IE) is a free-jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality, that consists of poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (often known as Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes.

It is a community band playing deeply improvised, rhythm music full of love and social commitment. IE came together spontaneously, organically, in April of 2015 at “Musicians Against Police Brutality,” a day of protest sound and discussion in Brooklyn. All were artists and activists of varying degrees: Philadelphia-based Ayewa and Neuringer, and D.C.-based Stewart as veterans of the Mid-Atlantic noisehardcore-experimental scene, while Holmes and Navarro as recent New England Conservatory grads Each of the studio albums that followed — 2020’s Who Sent You? and 2021’s Open The Gates — developed this legend further.

In 2023, IE signed to the fabled Impulse! Records, and released its most accomplished work to date, Protect Your Light, on September 8, 2023, primarily recorded at New Jersey’s historic Van Gelder Studios. It features eight examples of how IE’s collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa’s in-communion verses result in some of the most potent music being made in the third decade of the 21st century, music with communal light and love at its heart. Get to that love on time — don’t force history to guide you.

TICKETS HERE

MARC RIBOT/IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS + LUCA COLLEPICCOLO DJ SET

Irreversible Entanglements

La band con sede a Filadelfia, New York e DC è composta da cinque individui le cui visioni artistiche senza compromessi hanno ricevuto ampi consensi. La poetessa Camae Ayewa aka “Moor Mother”, è una figura leggendariamente prolifica e leader della comunità afrofuturista. Il bassista Luke Stewart è meritatamente il musicista più richiesto della sua generazione per quello strumento. La prodigiosa tecnica del sassofonista Keir Neuringer è accompagnata da un’urgenza espressiva. Il trombettista Aquiles Navarro e il batterista Tcheser Holmes si unirono alla band come duo esistente già da lunga data.

Formazione

Moor Mother: voce, percussioni

Tscheser Holmes: batteria, percussioni, voce

Aquiles Navarro: tromba, percussioni

Keir Neuringer: alto sax, percussioni, voce

Luke Stewart: contrabbasso, basso elettrico

LINEUP

Camae Ayewa (spoken word, electronics); Keir Neuringer (saxophone, keyboards, percussion); Aquiles Navarro (trumpet, keyboards); Luke Stewart (double bass); Tcheser Holmes (drums, percussion).

ABOUT

Five-piece collective Irreversible Entanglements got together to play at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event in Brooklyn, New York, organized to protest the death of Akai Gurley at the hands of the NYPD. Since then, this groundbreaking group has been all about addressing urgent current events. At the heart of the band is poet and spoken word artist Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother. The self-titled 2017 debut album Irreversible Entanglements received rave reviews from major media outlets. The contemporary free-jazz sound is in keeping with spiritual jazz traditions, such as those of Alice Coltrane, Sun Ra and Charles Mingus. Taking an experimental punk approach, the collective mixes these influences with grinding electronics and futuristic poetry in a melancholic exploration of “post-colonial debris”. Their latest album Protect Your Light was released on the famed label Impulse! Records. This is music that cuts and abrades and is full of rhythm, love, and social commentary.

Tuesday 9/7 2024, kl. 20:00

Irreversible Entanglements + I AM (US)

Bremen Teater , København

TICKETS HERE

Irreversible Entanglements

Irreversible Entanglements (US)

JAZZ/SOUL , EXPERIMENTAL

Free jazz, spoken word

TICKETS HERE

The Balconies of the Mercerie

Sunday 8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

If the history of jazz in the second half of the 20th century was often written around individual names, Irreversible Entanglements is in the process of leaving its mark on that of the 21st through the strength and intelligence of the collective. Composed of poet Camae Ayewa also known by her alias Moor Mother, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, bassist Luke Stewart and drummer Tcheser Holmes, Irreversible Entanglements is a free jazz collective. Their music addresses racial inequality, social justice and the African diaspora. In 2023, Project Your Light will be released on the legendary Impulse label. The group has carved out a special place for itself on the avant-garde music scene and has continued to captivate ever since. Unconventional jazz music which takes the contours of an aesthetic and political emancipation to be discovered on the last evening of the Festival.

IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS are a band who cultivate the liberation technologies of jazz and associated Black music—root, stem, and branch—into the future. The band emerged organically, out of deep friendships, mutual admiration, ad hoc formations, and a shared activist concern for the beloved legacy of all Black life and culture. International in scope yet indebted to, influenced by, and committed to their specific communities, the band pulls zero punches and reserves no energy in intrepid live sets that proclaim revolutionary love for the people.

The Philadelphia, New York, and DC-based band is made up of five individuals whose uncompromising artistic visions have received wide acclaim. Poet Camae Ayewa, a/k/a Moor Mother, is a legendarily prolific, globally leading light of Afrofuturist music, art, and community activism. Bassist Luke Stewart is deservedly his generation’s most in-demand musician on that instrument, who from his work as a radio and concert presenter boasts an encyclopedic knowledge of the music from which he draws with focused and thunderous intensity. Saxophonist Keir Neuringer’s prodigious avantgarde technique is matched by an urgency in his tone and fierce socio-political determination. Trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes joined the band as an already long-standing duo, bringing with them uncontainable energy and inventiveness grounded in classic jazz and Latin and Afro-Carribbean streams.

Their 2017 self-titled debut Irreversible Entanglements – which was recorded in a single session, the first time the five musicians all played together – arrived to wide critical acclaim, hailed by many as one of the Best Albums of 2017 including NPR, Wire Magazine, and Stereogum.

Quickly they made their mark at major festivals and venues in North America and Europe (including Washington’s Smithsonian, Utrecht NL’s Le Guess Who?, London’s Barbican, and Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival, and more), leaving audiences stunned by the their longform telepathic improvisational flights of rare power.

In 2020, their follow-up album Who Sent You? was released amidst the early weeks of the pandemic but was nevertheless met again with wide critical praise and an appearance near the top of the Billboard Contemporary Jazz charts. In The Nation, writer Marcus J. Moore said: “Irreversible Entanglements’ fearless music takes to task the police, American politics, capitalism, and racism.” Writer Andy Beta said, in his review for Pitchfork: “the jazz ensemble evokes our American topography, both physically and psychologically, by capturing what’s in the news and what’s underneath that surface.”

Their third album, the double LP Open The Gates, arrives in the fall of 2021 with an expanded sonic palette and increased emotional breadth. All three albums are co-releases on the International Anthem and Don Giovanni labels, highlighting Irreversible Entanglements’ ability to make adventurous music beyond genre, both honoring and defying tradition, speaking to the present while insisting on the future.

TICKETS HERE

The American collective, Irreversible Entanglements, is set to grace Braga for the Julho é de Jazz program, showcasing their latest creation, Protect Your Light.

TICKETS HERE

I return here to the home of this incendiary North American collective, whose members have also been a regular presence in these parts in different guises. Formed by Camae Ayewa tcp Moor Mother on vocals, Tcheser Holmes on drums, Aquiles Navarro on trumpet, Keir Neuringer on saxophone and Luke Stewart on bass, this quintet invokes most purely and urgently the communal and protesting spirit of 1960s fire music, a time of profound upheaval in which music and the fight for civil rights were inextricably linked. “We Insist!” already proclaimed Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite and decades and decades later the same cry still has to echo. Without any hint of revisionism.

From this spiritual and revolutionary legacy, they build a living mosaic of the black diaspora, from the poetry of Amiri Baraka to Nathaniel Mackey, from the reality of Gil-Scott Heron to the visions of Sun Ra and the Afrofuturist lineage as postulated in Kodwo Eshun’s ‘More Brilliant Than the Sun’ – whose urgent reissue has been endlessly postponed. Born out of the Musicians Against Brutality event in 2015, they were responsible for International Anthem’s growing recognition as today’s pivotal label, releasing their first three albums there and outlining a language that continues to be continually revised, updated, and projected into the future. The revolution that won’t be televised.

‘Protect Your Light’, released in 2023 by the legendary Impulse! has once again climbed the lists of the best albums of the year, in a continuous upward movement that finds the collective abandoning some of the improvised fury of previous treatises to take on a more reflective and paused side, in words and arrangements, with the studio taking on a more preponderant role, without this translating into less urgency. Rather, non-conformity = mutation. Navarro and Neuringer’s woodwind between roar and attentive contemplation, Holmes’ multi-resource drums in tandem with Stewart’s bass, capable of going from funk deconstruction to the most blissful free swing, and Ayewa’s always sharp and precious lyrics, from the desperate resignation of reality to the utopian liberation that inhabits minds. Essential. BS

IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS

GRANVILLE ISLAND JAZZ

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Performance Works

7:30PM$37 plus fees

TICKETS AND INFO

A free jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality, Irreversible Entanglements is “the most thrilling band in jazz right now” (NPR). Driven by poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa’s (aka Moor Mother) searing narrations of Black trauma, survival, and power, Irreversible Entanglements brings first-wave free jazz’s tradition of resistance acutely into the now. This is deeply improvised rhythm music full of love, protest, and social commitment; IE are honouring the past, speaking to the present, and making sonic claims on the future. Featuring bassist Luke Stewart, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, and drummer Tcheser Holmes, their new album Protect Your Light — on the legendary Impulse! Label — is “a major statement from artists who are as much the new wave of jazz as John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp et al were in their day.” – The Wire

IE came together spontaneously, organically, in April of 2015 at Musicians Against Police Brutality, a day of protest sound and discussion in Brooklyn. All were artists and activists of varying degrees: Philadelphia-based Ayewa and Neuringer, and D.C.-based Stewart as veterans of the Mid-Atlantic noise-hardcore-experimental scene, while Holmes and Navarro as recent New England Conservatory grads. The studio albums that followed—2020’s Who Sent You? and 2021’s Open The Gates—developed this legend further.

In 2023, IE signed to Impulse! Records and released its most accomplished work to date, Protect Your Light, primarily recorded at New Jersey’s historic Van Gelder Studios. It features eight examples of how IE’s collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa’s in-communion verses result in some of the most potent music being made in the now, music with communal light and love at its heart.

No refunds.

Irreversible Entanglements (IE) is a free-jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality, that consists of poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (often known as Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes.

It is a community band playing deeply improvised, rhythm music full of love and social commitment. IE came together spontaneously, organically, in April of 2015 at "Musicians Against Police Brutality," a day of protest sound and discussion in Brooklyn. All were artists and activists of varying degrees: Philadelphia-based Ayewa and Neuringer, and D.C.-based Stewart as veterans of the Mid-Atlantic noisehardcore-experimental scene, while Holmes and Navarro as recent New England Conservatory grads Each of the studio albums that followed — 2020's Who Sent You? and 2021's Open The Gates — developed this legend further.

In 2023, IE signed to the fabled Impulse! Records, and released its most accomplished work to date, Protect Your Light, on September 8, 2023, primarily recorded at New Jersey's historic Van Gelder Studios. It features eight examples of how IE's collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa's in-communion verses result in some of the most potent music being made in the third decade of the 21st century, music with communal light and love at its heart. Get to that love on time — don't force history to guide you.

Irreversible Entanglements Live from Bonaroo Music Festival

Special Concert at the Fridman Gallery.

Works in progress, in communion.

Visit the Fridman Gallery Website for tickets.....join us!

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Crit Night at Ace Hotel Brooklyn

Ace Hotel Brooklyn and Pioneer Works join in creative arms to foster artistic communities.

Crit Night is a seasonal series, where Pioneer Works artists-in-residence share works in progress during an intimate evening focused around experimentation and discourse.

WEDNESDAY, MAR 6, 2024

TIME

DOORS: 6:30PM

START: 7PM

LOCATION
ACE HOTEL BROOKLYN

252 SCHERMERHORN ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11217

Irreversible Entanglements

Members of Irreversible Entanglements will improvise a set of music contextualized by this passage written by Julius Lester:

“Culture in a revolutionary context must be an instrument of communication, which serves to raise political awareness and consciousness, as well as serving to further intensify the commitment of the people to revolution. Culture can also be an instrument which serves as a rock in a weary land and a shelter in a time of storm. Culture is the principal mass means by which attitudes and ideology are shaped in any society. Therefore, in a revolutionary context, the responsibilities of the cultural worker are overwhelming. These responsibilities have different demands at different stages of the revolution, and it is part of the cultural worker's responsibility to be so attuned to the needs of the revolution that [they] will not be articulating one thing when another is needed.” -Julius Lester, Revolutionary Notes (1969)

Three visionary artists unite for an incandescent collaboration of cosmic Afrofuturist jazz and uplifting anthems of resistance.

For those who are yet to be acquainted with the creative chemistry and sonic provocations of poet, musician and activist Moor Mother, visual artist and musician Lonnie Holly and jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, a spellbinding inauguration into their rapturous sound world awaits. Moor Mother’s poetic lyrics and experimental electronica interlaces harmoniously with Lonnie Holley’s rousing compositions and is complemented by the musical stylings of free-jazz radicals Irreversible Entanglements. Discover Lonnie Holly and Moor Mother’s sound world here.

For those familiar with these revolutionary artists and their powerful, prolific work, this is an unmissable chance to witness a thrilling musical rendezvous, where Moor Mother, Lonnie Holly and Irreversible Entanglements oscillate between performing together and on their own, live and mesmerisingly intimate on the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall stage.

Experience music from Moor Mother’s ‘Jazz Codes’, hailed by The Guardian as ‘a stunning continuum of Black music’, Lonnie Holly’s acclaimed recent releases including ‘Oh Me Oh My’, which was named ‘Best New Music’ by the authority that is Pitchfork magazine and material from Irreversible Entanglement’s new release Protect Your Light.

The interwoven energies of the three artists culminate in a truly magical evening of life-affirming cosmic jazz, Afrofuturist poetry, folk, blues and uplifting anthems of resistance and triumph.

Praise for the artists

‘Lonnie Holley has held a cult status among the art cognoscenti for a long time as a visual artist and performer.’ – New York Times

‘A stunning continuum of Black music… whatever its form, Ayewa lives and breathes it.’ – The Guardian (for Moor Mother)

‘One of the most emotionally affecting delineations and reimaginings of resistant Black art you’re likely to hear. Essential listening.’ – The Wire (for Irreversible Entanglements)

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It’s a triple-bill of visionary sound as outsider prophet Lonnie Holley, Afrofuturist poet Moor Mother and free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements take over the Utzon Room for a night of radical catharsis.

A liberating night of visionary free jazz, hip-hop and transcendent vision

Three of American music’s most radical acts transform the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room for a visionary night of genre-defying sound, Afrofuturist free jazz and experimental noise that will leave you shaken, liberated and uplifted.

Returning to the Sydney Opera House after a legendary performance at Vivid LIVE in 2019, Alabama-born sculptor and outsider artist turned musical shaman, Lonnie Holley live channels a vision from another world right before your eyes, creating a haunting, surrealist musical and poetic landscape of transcendence, beauty and decay that recalls the likes of Gil Scott-Heron, Alice Coltrane and Arthur Russell at their best. In a storied, mythical career encompassing and surpassing sometimes brutal and tragic beginnings to his present inspiring Blakean visions, Holley has collaborated with Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective and Julia Holter, while his latest and most ambitious record, Oh Me Oh My, features contributions from Sharon Van Etten, Bon Iver and Michael Stipe.

Making her Sydney Opera House debut, Moor Mother is the solo project of Philadelphia-based artist, Afrofuturist philosopher and social activist Camae Ayewa. Dubbing her approach “Black quantum futurism”, Moor Mother draws on experimental noise, jazz, punk, hip-hop and spoken word performance to deliver revolutionary politics over radical soundscapes across acclaimed records like Black Encyclopedia of the Air (2021) and Jazz Codes (2022).

As vocalist, Ayewa also forms one fifth of the eclectic free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, alongside bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer and drummer Tcheser Holmes. Formed in 2015 as a “vehicle for Black liberation”, the band’s radical Afrofuturist sound combines revolutionary rigour and punk spirit with funk grooves and spacious electronic sounds. This is their Sydney Opera House debut.

A freewheeling, collaborative set from legendary, relentlessly hopeful ‘cosmic southerner’ Lonnie Holley; polymath musician, poet and professor Moor Mother; and the experimental, punk-inflected free-jazz quintet Irreversible Entanglements.

Sat 24 Feb

5.30pm—11pm

Doors: 5.00pm

Mona Lawns

$75—$85 + BF

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Thu 22 Feb at The Rechabite Hall, from $44 – $49

Three of America’s most cosmic and visionary artists join forces for an incandescent collaboration.

Mystic performer and visual artist Lonnie Holley and prophetic jazz poet Moor are joined by revolutionary free-jazz ensemble Irreversible Entanglements, who will also perform new material from their Impulse! Records debut, Protect Your Light.

Lonnie Holley and Moor Mother bring their collaborative chemistry together as well as performing their own, universally acclaimed recent releases — Lonnie Holley’s Oh Me Oh My, which was named Best New Music on Pitchfork, and Moor Mother’s Jazz Codes, which The Guardian hailed as ‘a stunning continuum of Black music’.

The interwoven energies of these three artists add up to a magical, life-affirming brew of cosmic jazz, afrofuturist poetry, folk, blues and uplifting anthems of resistance and triumph.

TIME & LOCATION

THU 22 FEB

Doors 7pmThe Rechabite Hall, 224 William St, Northbridge / Yandilup

PRICING

• GENERAL ADMISSION – STANDING

  • Adult: $49

  • Festival Club: $44

Marking the Berlin debut of her new solo, this concert by self-taught bass player Farida Amadou mixes electronic sounds with acoustic percussion and drone. Composing live with her electronic bass, this new performance will evolve in direct response to audience reactions.

For the remainder of the evening, Amadou will be joined by New York-based trumpeter, composer, and DJ Aquiles Navarro. Amadou and Navarro met while performing with Moor Mother, touring Jazz Codes, and continued to improvise and record together in New York over the summer of 2023. This will be the duo’s first live concert, where they will improvise with an experimental blend of genres spanning blues, noise, and jazz.

With support by Wallonie-Bruxelles International.

Farida Amadou is a self-taught bass player based in Liège, Belgium. Combining different musical genres including blues, jazz, and hip-hop, the electric bass is her main instrument.

Aquiles Navarro is a New York-based trumpeter, composer and DJ of Panamanian heritage. He considers himself an improviser, coalescing his range of influences into a unified sonic vocabulary that can be incorporated across genre and medium.