Angel Bat Dawid - Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology '2021

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From age 11, music has been the backbone of Angel Bat Dawid’s life. Her
journey, however, has been anything but typical. But what is typical? The piano,
clarinet and voice have been a constant for Bat Dawid as her principal
disciplines, though a career in music has not been. Of music, she told the
Chicago Reader’s Leor Galil that “it’s always been my best
friend. It ain’t ever let me down.” It’s been merely within
the past year (at the time of this writing in early 2020), however, that her
incredible companionship with music has finally connected with a global
community of attentively attuned spirits.

Born Angel Elmore to missionaries in Atlanta, Georgia, Bat Dawid grew accustomed
to moving as her parent’s ministry mandated. From Georgia to Kentucky and
Kenya, the family finally settled in Chicago’s south suburbs where she
would go on to study clarinet and music education at Moody Bible Institute and
Roosevelt University, respectively.

Since 2014, Bat Dawid has recommitted herself to a life in music. Giving up her
day job, she began following in-roads through Chicago’s experimental
music community with touchstones like David Boykin’s Sonic Healing
Ministries sessions and Damon Locks’ Black Monument Ensemble along the
way. She soon formed her own improvisationally-focused collective known as The
Participatory Music Coalition and developed a unique performance residency at
Elastic Arts dubbed the Mothership 9 Multimedia Series.

Inspired by everything from the poetry of Margaret Burroughs to the music of
Yusef Lateef and even Mozart, Bat Dawid made her debut, The Oracle, with
International Anthem to wide acclaim in 2019. Eschewing conventional labels,
even those as open-ended as “jazz,” Bat Dawid describes her work in
no uncertain terms: This is Black Music.” On The Oracle, she echoes
ancestral agonies that she translates to blues and spirituals, a conversion
theory she attributes to the late Milford Graves. Though the joy of survival
never overcomes the inequity and deep-seated injustice imposed on Black life in
America, Bat Dawid is outspoken in her commitment to telling the stories that
will eventually turn the tide.

Though her introduction in 2019 was nothing short of an explosion onto the
scene, it is the future of her artistry that has us most thrilled. When asked
what’s next, Bat Dawid is lucid. “I have really big artistic goals
and hope to expand compositionally. I’ve always wanted to write a
symphony and I’m really interested in film scoring.”

A new voice has rumbled forth with clarity and intention from Chicago’s
Southside, reminding us that the past is still the present and the future is
full of radical hope.

Tracklist:
1 01. Angel Bat Dawid - Corn=Rowzz (04:11)
1 02. Angel Bat Dawid - Negro Hamlet (01:53)
1 03. Angel Bat Dawid - Sunday Meeting of Colored People at Chicago (04:10)
1 04. Angel Bat Dawid - Goree,  Or Slave - Stick (02:12)
1 05. Angel Bat Dawid - Heathen Practices at Funerals (05:56)
1 06. Angel Bat Dawid - Black Family, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862 (03:10)
1 07. Angel Bat Dawid - Jumping the Broom (06:33)
1 08. Angel Bat Dawid - El Quitrin - The Joy of Livin (02:21)
1 09. Angel Bat Dawid - Mama Bet (03:59)
1 10. Angel Bat Dawid - A Young Negress, Studying The Game Of Ouri (03:31)
1 11. Angel Bat Dawid - Husband of the Queen of Walo, Wolof (03:17)
1 12. Angel Bat Dawid - Negroes Leaving Their Home. (03:43)

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