Tracklist
1 | Enlightenment | |
2 | Destination | |
3 | Capetown | |
4 | Black Family | |
5 | What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black | |
6 | London | |
7 | We Hearby Declare the African Look | |
8 | We Are Starzz | |
9 | VIKTORious Return | |
10 | Tha Wicked Shall Not Prevail | |
11 | Melo Deez from Heab'N | |
12 | Dr. Wattz n' em | |
13 | HELL |
LIVE was mostly recorded on November 1st, 2019, at Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin, Germany, during the 2019 edition of JazzFest Berlin. For Angel Bat Dawid and her band Tha Brothahood – which includes Deacon Otis Cooke, Viktor Le Givens, Xristian Espinoza, Norman W. Long, Dr. Adam Zanolini, and Asher Simiso Gamedze – it was the first stop of their first European tour.
LIVE uses Angel Bat Dawid's compositions "as vehicles for ecstatic group improvisation, featuring a sundry ensemble of multi-instrumentalists and singers. It features plenty of the bracing instrumental work you might expect from a free jazz album, but also seems intent on capturing the full expressive range of the human voice." (Pitchfork)
Angel Bat Dawid: “I hope that this album will uplift and raise awareness to the world that we are still not in a good place when it comes to the relationship between whites other races. Universities, festivals, organizations etc that were built over 50 years ago, even though they have changed outwardly, have not changed internally, and still uphold the principles of their founders, who were racists. We still got a long way to go. And music is a great place to start in repairing this age old, distorted reality.”