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Format: LP
Label: 577 Records
Year: 2022
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
A1 Amina (The Dutchman's Three Buttoned Suit / Poetry Iz Labor)
A2 Leautoroiography
B1 The Shrimpy Grits
B2 Sad Dictator (I Wanna Make Freedom)
PERSONNEL:
Thomas Sayers Ellis, bandleader poet
James Brandon Lewis, tenor sax
Luke Stewart, bass
Melanie Dyer, viola, vocals
Nettie Chickering, voice
Jenna Camille, piano, vocals
Randall Horton, poet
Devin Brahja Waldman, alto sax, synthesizer
Bonita Lee Penn, poet
Heru Shabaka-ra, trumpet
Brandon Moses, guitar
Warren "Trae" Crudup, III, drums
In Paris, HAGL channel the outspokenness of Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), one that goes in all directions, that makes absolutely everything a target and that liberates what it touches, it is a gathering of the tribes, an assembly and an assemblage of poets and musicians who use the same miraculous weapons.
Contributors from DC include bandleader Thomas Sayers Ellis, bassist Luke Stewart, drummer Warren Trae Crudup III, pianist Jenna Camille, and guitarist Brandon Moses.
Label: 577 Records
Year: 2022
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
A1 Amina (The Dutchman's Three Buttoned Suit / Poetry Iz Labor)
A2 Leautoroiography
B1 The Shrimpy Grits
B2 Sad Dictator (I Wanna Make Freedom)
PERSONNEL:
Thomas Sayers Ellis, bandleader poet
James Brandon Lewis, tenor sax
Luke Stewart, bass
Melanie Dyer, viola, vocals
Nettie Chickering, voice
Jenna Camille, piano, vocals
Randall Horton, poet
Devin Brahja Waldman, alto sax, synthesizer
Bonita Lee Penn, poet
Heru Shabaka-ra, trumpet
Brandon Moses, guitar
Warren "Trae" Crudup, III, drums
In Paris, HAGL channel the outspokenness of Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), one that goes in all directions, that makes absolutely everything a target and that liberates what it touches, it is a gathering of the tribes, an assembly and an assemblage of poets and musicians who use the same miraculous weapons.
Contributors from DC include bandleader Thomas Sayers Ellis, bassist Luke Stewart, drummer Warren Trae Crudup III, pianist Jenna Camille, and guitarist Brandon Moses.