Another year of our favorites in Top Album Cover Artwork, and once again, we interview musicians and artists on the often-underappreciated work that goes into creating a product that not only tickles...
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Vivian Hua 華婷婷In contrast to modern patterns in music consumption comes our annual Album Covers of the Year feature, where, instead of forgetting album artwork even exists, we hyperextend ourselves to assert that it is an artform that is vitally connected to the...
Judy Nelson"We're a young company going about the music industry in what we think is the standard way, but it turns out we've been doing it pretty differently. There's no ethos or philosophy, per se. We're not looking for our label to be the topic of a...
2014 marks the sixth year of Northside Festival, which is a three-day barrage of shows, both free and pay, across Brooklyn venues. On an annual basis, Northside does a nice job of including a range of up-and-coming bands across all genres in...
La Femme bring their sexy Frenchness, Tei Shi pimps out her vocal skills to UK musicians Glass Animals, Craft Spells return with Nausea, and Hiatus and Shura get lost in an afterlife dust cloud.
"When I listen to Portuguese hip-hop, or West African music, or even punk in the US, I don’t always know the lyrics, but I feel the life that exists in the music. Most of our music is in Spanish, and we have played for audiences where Spanish is not...
Every year, we interview a number of musicians and artists for the intimate details and philosophical underpinnings of their album cover artwork. It’s an ever-massive undertaking, but we make sure to include ever genre, from doom metal to disco...
The information boom of the last 15 years has given people a thirst for crate digging. What started on illicit pirate blogs has blossomed into a healthy industry of re-issue labels, and still, the race is on, to find the dustiest, mustiest rarity...
![JJJJJerome Ellis Interview: Blackness, Dysfluency, and Music to Open Up Time -- by Miles Ginoza @weeaboo.diaspora
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* JJJJJerome Ellis speaks with a stutter. He asked that his stutters be included in the transcription of this interview as a gesture towards others who speak dysfluently, so that they might see themselves recognized... *
With the release of his late 2021 record and book, The Clearing, the Virginia-based, disabled Black musician and writer presents to the world a new kind of performance... The Clearing builds on an essay he wrote for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies in 2020. titled, “The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness and time,” which argues that the stutter is a space for temporal possibility and political resistance rather than a burden.
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By weaving recordings of spoken passages from the original academic essay together with ambient soundscapes, trap beats, and jazz improvisations, Ellis turns essay into performance, a way to embody and explore the radical possibilities of his stutter across an hour-long album. In this way, the listener is invited to experience the stutter, to witness the ways it disrupts rigid definitions of linear time, to cultivate patience in the face of the unknown.
#jjjjjeromeellis #NNATapes #JeromeEllis #GlottalBlock #Disabled #Jazz #Poetry #SpokenWord #TheClearing #BlackWriter #BlackMusician #Dysfluency #DysfluentWaters #Blackness #PoliticalResistance #Resistance #MLKDay #NorthernSpyRecords #Stutter #Stuttering #AncestralTime #TakeTime #SlowDown @nnatapes @jjjjjeromeellis @northernspyrecs](https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/272034959_990360011859209_123041203805632831_n.webp.jpg?_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=MTJlxv2z-oAAX97r9Bd&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=AL-3X8kEAAAA&oh=00_AT8xx_7NwV1Ye-5g4-aiQZd2g0tVqnLNrT3Ct1eaDK4nxQ&oe=61F0AC46)
![JJJJJerome Ellis Interview: Blackness, Dysfluency, and Music to Open Up Time -- by Miles Ginoza @weeaboo.diaspora
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LISTEN TO THE RECORD
& READ THE INTERVIEW:
http://bit.ly/redefinedisfluency
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* JJJJJerome Ellis speaks with a stutter. He asked that his stutters be included in the transcription of this interview as a gesture towards others who speak dysfluently, so that they might see themselves recognized... *
With the release of his late 2021 record and book, The Clearing, the Virginia-based, disabled Black musician and writer presents to the world a new kind of performance... The Clearing builds on an essay he wrote for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies in 2020. titled, “The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness and time,” which argues that the stutter is a space for temporal possibility and political resistance rather than a burden.
[...]
By weaving recordings of spoken passages from the original academic essay together with ambient soundscapes, trap beats, and jazz improvisations, Ellis turns essay into performance, a way to embody and explore the radical possibilities of his stutter across an hour-long album. In this way, the listener is invited to experience the stutter, to witness the ways it disrupts rigid definitions of linear time, to cultivate patience in the face of the unknown.
#jjjjjeromeellis #NNATapes #JeromeEllis #GlottalBlock #Disabled #Jazz #Poetry #SpokenWord #TheClearing #BlackWriter #BlackMusician #Dysfluency #DysfluentWaters #Blackness #PoliticalResistance #Resistance #MLKDay #NorthernSpyRecords #Stutter #Stuttering #AncestralTime #TakeTime #SlowDown @nnatapes @jjjjjeromeellis @northernspyrecs](https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/272056901_352181096433976_8589679357470220711_n.webp.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=8ae9d6&_nc_ohc=uxc4RFKV2H4AX8AcRGW&_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=AL-3X8kEAAAA&oh=00_AT_jHGwDcdKYxH5hhf8KPmZIwGjuR4L6YoZe1E6u5w1d7Q&oe=61EFC9B9)
