Jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid has introduced a brand new album that she made with the multidisciplinary artist and musician Naima Nefertari. The album, Journey to Nabta Playa, is out on Could 2 by way of Spiritmuse. Main the full-length is the brand new track “Procession of the Equinox.” Hear it beneath.
Dawid and Nefertari’s new album takes inspiration from Nabta Playa, an historic astrological stone circle within the Nubian Desert. It was additionally impressed, partially, by the late kids’s books creator Virginia Hamilton’s The Folks Might Fly: American Black Folktales: “They are saying the folks might fly,” Hamilton wrote. “Say that way back in Africa, among the folks knew magic. And they might stroll up on the air like climbin up on a gate. They usually flew like blackbirds over the fields. Black, shiny wings flappin towards the blue up there.”
Revisit Pitchfork’s assessment of Angel Bat Dawid’s 2019 debut, The Oracle.
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Journey to Nabta Playa:
01 Neptune Desert Sounds
02 Nabta Calling
03 Bishmillah
04 Procession of the Equinox
05 Exorcism: Clearing the Electromagnetic Area
06 Heru: The Oasis
07 Black Stones of Sirius
08 Prayer [ft. Dr. Asar Hapi]
09 Burial: String Quartet in E Minor by David Ornette Cherry
10 Chariots of Expanse (Folks Might Fly)
