Heading to Paris tomorrow to participate in a conversation @The Musee du qual Branly. Convos connected to a collaboration between two very very phenomenal musicians: Master kora player Balileke Sissoko from Mali and the beyond extraordinary flautist(and former AACM President ) Nicole Mitchell from Chicago wholl be there with members of her black Earth Ensemble .Occasional perk of being a literary ninja with radically Black pretensions.The panel Im on is for some silly reason called Beyond Black. Told Mama Tate this and she immediately went Beyond Black? Where is that? Thats some place its not even possible to go. My sentiments exactly, Ma.The Musees program notes say The formation Beyond Black raises the question of a new musical space, both hybrid and universal, a common musical language in which musicians can identify, discover, transform, without falling into the complacency of a political valuing of skin color. To moi this false flag offers us a hard choice-- either well spend a hour having nuanced dialogue with The Artists about The Music and their process, or we just play that clip where Mr Baldwin explains to pinkskindid Europeans why theyre The Nigger and not him.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:19:10 +0000