Photo by Ebru Yildez

With her forthcoming album, The Great Bailout, Moor Mother mastermind Camea Ayewa creates a portal to centuries ago where the dark history of British Colonialism in turn would change the trajectory of the Black experience from that point forward. It’s an ugly portrait of history, as the questions she surfaces on its latest preview, “ALL THE MONEY”, place into frame with blunt force the reality that most Western empires have been built on the broken backs, the blood, and the ideas of the African people for their own rich gains. “Who helped build the country? / Who’s getting deported? / Who’s without citizenship?,” she asks. Its composition, created alongside new age jazz instrumentalist Vijay Ayer, presents itself like an omen of dark clouds over clattering piano and a distant boom as British-Iraqi soprano Alya Al Sultani’s voice haunts in pursuit. Ayewa’s spoken word poetry looms closer and closer, like a time traveling debt collector returning to their due. The storm keeps raging, however, with the bank only growing higher…

Directed by: Cauleen Smith

Moor Mother’s The Great Bailout will be released March 8th on ANTI- Records.