Black love, future and beyond. This episode of alternate realities features a mix from Ayoni.

Ayoni is a Barbadian songstress and producer, later finding home in Singapore, Indonesia and the US. Her sound and perspective, fluid as her upbringing. Ayoni’s music is lined with her experiences as a young Black woman in constant flow and crossing.

Ayoni released her debut project “Iridescent” in October 2019, followed by “The Patriots” and “ Unmoved (A Black Woman Truth),” released in summer 2020, which saw support for Spotify’s New Music Friday, Pollen, Fresh Finds and more.

alternate realities is a monthly segment hosted by black beyond

black beyond is a platform for experimental artists and activists to define alternate realities for Blackness. black beyond subverts space, allowing Black people and co-liberators to decolonize and re-indigenize social infrastructures. It interrogates understandings of Blackness outside the limitations imposed by the racist imaginary, through afro-pessimism, afro-nowism, and afro-futurism.

black beyond silences echo chambers and uplifts voices of the unheard. Allowing progressive topics which pertain to the ‘future’ to escape institutional corridors, becoming more accessible to the communities we intend to serve.