Aja Monet 'You Make Holy War'
Video from Aja Monet for the captivating spoken word track You Make Holy War. Shot and edited by Cam Be, it’s haunting, as is the poem. A perfect collaboration between poetry, music and visuals.
Anthony Joseph 'Time'
If you love conscious spoken word, if you love conscious spoken word you can dance to, hell, if you love conscious spoken word you can dance to on a hot evening with the windows open and the volume dial up high, go get this!
Denice Frohman 'Feels Like Home'
Denice Frohman is an award-winning poet, lyricist, and educator, whose multicultural upbringing inspires her to explore the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and the “in-betweeness” that exists in us all. 2013 was a big year for Denice, with major wins, collaborations, and a new album.
Candy Royalle: 'Twelve' Cinepoems
Sydney based Candy Royalle has this month released the ninth instalment of her video series, TWELVE.
Ikol Santiago: Hip Hop Boricua
Last week, Puerto Rican hip hop artist Ikol Santiago released this video for a track from his April ’13 album Iguacas.
Wage Beauty 'The Alchemy of Storytelling'
“A story of poetry, graffiti, and medicine for all you who have ever felt abused by discourses so damaging and boring, when what we need is beauty.”
Pataphysics 'Asylum is a Crime'
Essential hip hop. Pataphysics is Pat Marks, Melbourne-based soulful guerilla hip hop artist. Musician and revolutionary poet with insightful rhymes, in both English and Sri Lankan. Latest video hits home, hard.
Aja Monet 'Autohistoria Teoria'
Cuban-Jamaican, Brooklyn born, Paris-based. Poet, activist, teacher, Aja Monet’s beautiful, inspiring video with Cam Be.
Impunité! Senegal Activist Hip Hop
Essential hip hop. Senegalese activist hip hop collective Y’en A Marre (Fed Up) have united with Amnesty on the single ’100 COUPABLES : Impunité! Nous avons besoin de Justice’.
Omar Musa 'In Amsterdam'
New video from Australian poet Omar Musa. “A beautiful moment of clarity I experienced in Amsterdam.” Only two minutes of your time, a meditation from a rapper with a tender heart.
Benin City 'My Love'
Just dropped from Benin City, video by Charlie Behrens and free downloads of new single My Love:
Anthony Joseph & Mop Mop
Just found this, hot track! (thanks to Groovalizacion for the heads-up on this album tonight!) Trinidad-born, UK-based poet Anthony Joseph (featured in last December’s Caribbean-flavoured La Danza Poetica) collaborates with Andrea Benini (Italy/Berlin) and Mop Mop, funk/afro/jazz/Italo band.
Beats Artistry: Hiatus & Shura
So many layers in Cyrus Shahrad’s music. So much restrained emotion in Shura’s voice. And this video (by Tom Jobbins), so simple, also very very complicated (much the same could be said about these musical collaborations).