Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
by Nicole Mitchell
- Type: Album
- Released: 5 May 2017
- Label: FPE
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:14:24
- Community rating: 3.62/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the celebrated flutist and composer directs her Black Earth Ensemble through a deeply afrofuturist concept piece. Blending traditional acoustic instruments with electronics, shakuhachi, and spoken-word poetry, the performance constructs a complex sonic narrative about a utopian society existing in an alternate dimension.
Genres
Descriptors: Soulful, avant-garde, conceptual, improvisation, instrumental
Tracklist
- Egoes War (7:36)
- Sub-mission (5:35)
- The Chalice (2:49)
- Dance of Many Hands (5:48)
- Listening Embrace (12:06)
- Forestwall Timewalk (4:54)
- Staircase Struggle (9:48)
- Shiny Divider (8:06)
- Mandorla Island (10:22)
- TimeWrap (7:15)
Credits
- Nicole Mitchell - primary artist, flute, electronics, composed by, arranged by, lyrics by
- Damon Locks - artwork
- Tatsu Aoki - bass, shamisen, taiko
- Tomeka Reid - cello, banjo
- Alex Wing - electric guitar, oud, theremin
- Jovia Armstrong - percussion
- Kojiro Umezaki - shakuhachi
- Ren茅e Baker - violin