Description
aja monet – when the poems do what they do – New 2 LP Record 2023 drink sum wtr Vinyl – Poetry / Jazz / Soul / Blues
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i am
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why my love?
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black joy
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unhurt
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weathering
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the perfect storm
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the devil you know
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what makes you feel loved
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for sonia
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yemaya
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11.
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castaway
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12.
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give thanks
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13.
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for the kids who live
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about
In when the poems do what they do, aja monet appears as a woman of letters and storm, her poems do not roar in pentameter – but rather in storm surge because, “Who’s got time for poems when the world is on fire?!.” And this work isn’t one to pull apart into one liners, these are poems of things felt. There is a fullness here that can’t be encapsulated in even the boundaries that language offers.
aja is joined in effort on this album by musicians Christian Scott (trumpet), Samora Pinderhughes (piano), Elena Pinderhughes (flute), Luques Curtis (bass), Weedie Braimah (djembe) and Marcus Gilmore (drums). Together, creating music that is insistent and unrelenting.
When you finally reach the end of this album, you are left with a similar feeling you get when heartbroken, the gravity of barrelling back down to earth, sopping wet with tears, out of breath, overcome with love, despair, hope, and all too aware that all of this, is over far too soon. When the poems do what they do, they do absolutely everything.