MOOR MOTHER

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• June 6 Ticket → buy here

• MOOR MOTHER "Shinkolobwe" Ticket → available on DICE (buy here) & at the door

Moor Mother

Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a musician, poet, visual artist, and Professor of Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music. Recognized as one of the most radical voices in contemporary music, her work bridges experimental electronics, free jazz, and classical music with the raw energy of punk, rap, and noise.

Deeply rooted in Afrofuturism, she explores Black history, colonial trauma, and liberation through the creation of "sonic maps"—immersive soundscapes built from field recordings and archival collages that journey into buried histories and speculative futures. A prolific artist and activist, she co-leads the jazz group Irreversible Entanglements and the collective Black Quantum Futurism with Rasheedah Phillips.

Shinkolobwe

Shinkolobwe, which premiered at the Venice Biennale 2025, is a sonic excavation of trauma, resistance and the residual violence of extractive capitalism. Named after the Congolese uranium mine operated by the Belgian colonial regime and linked to the production of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the multi-artist work traces the material inscription of imperial violence on the process of natural history.

Distortion mimics fracture, silence holds the weight of testimony, and sonic residue becomes a medium for reckoning.

Through experimental electronics, spoken word, archival material and ancestral lamentation, Shinkolobwe becomes a kind of disturbed archive which refracts, folds and collapses time upon itself. The performance draws a line from the radioactive soil of Katanga to the enduring environmental and psychological fallout experienced by those still living in the mine’s shadow. The work refracts their stories through layers of sonic residue, refusing closure and inviting listeners into the unsettled aftermaths of colonisation, ecological warfare, and stolen futures.

Click here to listen to BATTITI DAL VIVO on Rai Radio3 from Biennale Musica 2025, featuring MOOR MOTHER

Aquiles Navarro is a New York-based trumpeter, composer and DJ of Panamanian heritage. He is also the CEO & Founder of River Down Records, a label that focuses on documenting and expanding the creative sounds and minds of Panamá. Hamid Drake is a prolific, highly regarded percussionist known for his work in avant-garde jazz and improvised music, Chicago's Hamid Drake has an expansive style that incorporates Afro-Cuban, Indian, and African percussion elements. Pasquale Mirra is among the most engaging and productive vibraphonists in the international and Italian jazz scene. He studied percussion instruments at Salerno’s Conservatorio Statale di Musica and attended specialization courses at Siena Jazz and he graduated in Bologna’s Conservatorio Statale di Musica. 

Cover Photo Credit: Ebru Yildiz