Receiving a
wide physical release two years after its inception, Moor Mother’s performance
with flutist Nicole Mitchell at the 2018 Le Guess Who Festival in Utrecht,
Netherlands, is finally available for us working shlubs who can't budget for a
holiday romping between the tulips. Moor Mother was one of the curators of the
festival in 2018 and the recording of her's and Michell's showcase from the event has been released under the
title Offering.
Through noise, and clutter, and heaving poetry, Offering constructs a sonic astral
plain, projected from the core of nature's metaphysical womb into the minds of Moor and Michelle, the energy of this transfer flowing out of their figure tips, mouths, and feet
in a blazing dark glow of kinetic heat. Like arch lightning leaping between
steel polls, the two performers commune in a display of meditative angst and
evocative enlightenment as a single being, pushing back against the trespasses
of ego, which imprisons the human mind and confines its potential to parochial
prejudices and material drek, condemning the soul to wither on the vine as
the body hurtles towards oblivion. Chewing at the flesh that cages that part of
us that resonates in unison with the transcendent cerebral tapestries of Alice
Coltrane and the armistice aiming mind armada of Sun Ra, they kick at what is
assumed natural to find the pre-material architecture of deadmen's reasons and
to make breathable cracks in clay jars that house badly segregated realities.
With sound and light and truth these entangled threads of sonic silk, wool,
medical gauze, and dogs hair form a net in which to catch all of the thoughts that
clutter and confound the conscious, allowing them to be sifted for the embers
of light that hide within. Disjointed rhymes for rumination on the
restitution of one’s place in the universe. Brew some tea, take a deep sip,
tune in to the frequency coming from your stereo speakers and place your mind in
the palms of a higher power.
Grab a copy of Offering from Moor Mother's Bandcamp here.
