selected works
In a society that champions constant and speedy evolution, one has to ask where are we in a rush to and why? Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Arima Ederra untangles that question, re-learning her relationship with time on sophomore album, A Rush to Nowhere.
With bright, childlike earnestness, Ederra sang of love, lineage, and a longing for freedom on her 2022 debut An Orange Colored Day, solidifying her as a force in the new wave of indie-facing R&B acts. Reuniting with producer Teo Halm and numerous close collaborators, Ederra now delivers a grittier, hardened and more evolved work. Across the album’s fifteen tracks, she explores the question of time; the transience of memory, our compulsion to outrun the present, relinquish control and surrender to the slow unraveling of our future.
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Time Stands Still: Arima Ederra Interviewed
Three People, One Volume: The Deli Girls interview
Since 2013, New York based group Deli Girls have established an electrifying, riotous legacy that dares to not only call out injustice by name, but to scream it from the rooftops.
Deli Girls’ founder, Danny Orlowski, has served as the fiery vocal centerpiece for the band throughout its many evolutions. Orlowski has worked with a myriad of musicians over the years to craft the group’s unique sound, a medley of nu-metal to punk to electronic-noisy catharsis.
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An interview with visual poet jellystone robinson
The south-side filmmaker discusses their upbringing, creative process, and forthcoming screenings.
Formerly a National Youth Poet Laureate, jellystone robinson is now creating visual poetry that honors the memory of Chicago’s south side while redefining how sound, self, and sensuality are communicated on film.
Robinson, a Black, agender digital artist and filmmaker from Bronzeville, just wrapped a yearlong Filmmaker’s Mixtape Challenge, which involved making a new no-budget film each month.
Read more on Chicago Reader
Moth To A Flame: Fana Hues Interviewed
From performing The Wiz in high school, to earning a prominent feature on Tyler The Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost, Fana Hues brings incandescent light to every stage, studio, and city she’s graced since her debut in 2020. Her vocal performance evokes the clarity and sensuality of some of the greatest soul and neo-soul artists, yet her art is informed by so much more: film, nature, family, community.
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Album of the Day - “LOVE.JONES”
Theodore Witcher’s iconic 1997 film Love Jones is a classic Black love story that follows the relationship of writer Darius Lovehall and photographer Nina Mosley—played by Larenz Tate and Nia Long. The Los Angeles duo THEY. evoke the seductive spirit of Witcher’s film on their fourth album, an evocative body of work that beautifully weds old- and new-school R&B, drawing on both the sultry, hip-hop-infused stylings of CrazySexyCool as well as the crackling electricity of TRAPSOUL.
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Sumthin’ Wicked this Way Comes: Dissecting Sleep Paralysis w/ BbyMutha
As a Chattanooga-born rapper, the bloodline of Three 6 Mafia seeps into the fabric of BbyMutha’s music. The deep horror movie influence on early Memphis rap is translated into this ominous sonic abyss she creates on her newest album, sleep paralysis. The sophomore LP delivers new layers of performance and experiments even further with her alternative sound, her cadence switches, and her darker imagery.
Historically, Black people are wiped not only from past and present memory but the imagined futures many science fiction and fantasy authors, filmmakers, and artists create. Traditional media does not make space for the future of Black culture in these imagined worlds. But Afrofuturism gives Black people a place to also imagine and dream far into the future. To carve this imagination aligned with the unique qualities of Black culture.
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Afrofuturism in Media: Reclaiming Black Narratives