Saturday November 30 * 8pm * $15 * TICKETS

Jamal Moore - wind instruments, percussion, electronics
Thomas Stanley - electronics, efx
Luke Stewart - basses, electronics

Jamal Moore and Luke Stewart have each solidified their presence within a volatile moment in contemporary music marked by resistance and a self-determining embrace of the great lineage of Black Music, Ancient to the Future. As Ancestral Duo, Baltimore native Moore and Mississippian Stewart summon the fullness of an art that must simultaneously generate form and content while never deviating from the most mature consideration of the bittersweet, conflicted truth of this human condition.

Fifteen years ago, Thomas Stanley created Bushmeat Sound as a cabinet of small instruments with novel sounds. Convinced that what Sun Ra called Tone Science was a therapeutic intervention requiring, not necessarily music, but certainly tones, he aimed his sound art at the semantic architecture of Imperial consciousness -- the consciousness of slaves and masters. With Stewart (and turntablist/broadcasting legend Bobby Hill) Bushmeat built a noisy psychicsoul band called MOM² -- in fact, a sonic fountain of nourishing milk for noetic (r)evolution.

The concert on the last day of this month reunites the trio whose successful back-to-back Chicago/Detroit, summer of 2015 dates were dubbed the Mecca and Medina Tour. Moore/Stanley/Stewart build musical models of a sustainable future, a future in which the unknown land of Justice has been pulled firmly beneath our feet.

<http://downbeat.com/news/detail/reinventions-luke-stewart>
<http://downbeat.com/news/detail/jamal-moore-of-organix-trio-surveys>
<https://musicovermind.org/sixisnine.pdf>

<https://atlanticrhythms.bandcamp.com/album/blacks-myths-ii>
<https://topology.bandcamp.com/album/hardship-the-land-and-the-shining-sun?fbclid=IwAR1B1BbUBk9SZUNfIDFFoRSosTpwbItRldDeVaQdpwDnZ_9KoTzmsS3o9fM>
<https://eatbushmeat.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-blue>