How do you engage the evocative gift that is Moor Mother’s latest album The Great Bailout (ANTI-)? Only by following the trail of verbal and sonic poetry delivered. Only by letting Moor Mother and her co-conspiring collaborators – Lonnie Holley, Mary Lattimore, Alya Al Sultani, Kyle Kidd and more – be the tour guide.

Coming out on March 8, The Great Bailout is Moor Mother aka Camae Ayewa’s ninth studio album a, with production contributions on various tracks from Mary Lattimore, Lonnie Holley, Vijay Ayer, Angel Bat Dawid, Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty, Aaron Dilloway and more. Ayewa’s music contains multitudes of instruments, voices and cacophony that take on themes of Afrofuturism and collective memory with the forebearers of jazz, hip hop and beat poetry in mind.

“Research is a major part of my work, and researching history – particularly African history, philosophy and time – is a major interest,” Moor Mother said of the music’s focus on the effects of British colonialism. “Europe and Africa have a very intimate and brutal relationship throughout time. I’m interested in exploring that relationship of colonialism and liberation, in this case in Great Britain.”

Today she has also shared the album’s first track. “Guilty” – featuring Mary Lattimore, Lonnie Holley and Raia Was – is a tender, atmospheric song that starts our tour through the haunting, rendered by the gentle, almost melancholic instrumentation and calling forth the crimes that were paid off but still live. Listen + watch the song’s new lyric video below.

TOUR DATES
2/22 – Prospect, Australia @ Perth Festival 2024
2/24 – Berriedale, Australia @ Mona Foma 2024
2/26 – Sydney, Australia @ Sydney Opera House
2/28 – Melbourne, Australia @ Melbourne Recital Centre
5/8 – London, UK @ Southbank Centre (Unclassified Live w/ the BBC Concert Orchestra)
5/13 – London, UK @ St. James the Great