Last year, Moor Mother brought listeners into her Black cosmic atmosphere with arguably her most cohesively defined listen yet with her first release for ANTI-, Black Encyclopedia of the Air. Prolific and faceted as always, be it in her own name and other projects like her free jazz ensemble Irreversible Entanglements or the avant rap-pop duo 700 Bliss, Camae Ayewa has taken less than a year to bring forth a bookend to Moor Mother’s previous work with Jazz Codes, an album which she goes even deeper into the ether with a seance of Black creativity’s most brilliant, unheralded minds lifting through her.

The details in her sonicsphere are even richer because of the virtues and politicism invoked in her art and in collaboration with communal forces of spiritual nature (a host of guests appear through, including Melanie Charles, AKAI SOLO, Mary Lattimore, and her Irreversible Entanglements crew.) It moves her poetic rap mantras through new age jazz conversations and electronic multiverses that rupture enlightenment throughout. Further meditating on history, Jazz Codes unlocks the past’s truths through Moor Mother’s singular futurism.

Highlights: “UMZANSI”, “RAP JASM”, “BARELY WOKE”

Moor Mother’s Jazz Codes is available now on ANTI- Records.

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