alternate realities
05.26.21
Wander through the vast musical terrains of alternate realities, with Khari Lucas of Contour.
CHILD STUDIO
Contour is a songwriter/composer/artist with an artistic voice that reaches into several disciplines, music being the primary vehicle for his expression. His current musical output exists somewhere between jazz, soul, and psych rock, but he considers himself a student of all areas of music, and intends to cover as much sonic and thematic ground as possible over his artistic life. His work explores such themes as self-exploration, self determination, love and it’s iterations, isolation, and cultural context among others.
CHILD STUDIO
Contour’s Khari Lucas has also participated and contributed to the black beyond collective soundscape ritual via dublab and its workshop series in collaboration with NAVEL LA.
Follow Contour’s work and support their recent project Love Suite via bandcamp.
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.
Tracklist:
The Veldt – Intro (I’ll Say Anything) Coby Sey – Petals Have Fallen L’Rain – Blame Me drea the vibe dealer – moments April + VISTA – I Hate It Here Andre Gibson – Valentine Lover Highnoon – Tin Bird FAUZIA – time Nailah Hunter – Bassin Bleu SWAP MEET! – COLD SWEAT RP Boo – Wicked’Bu WIZARD APPRENTICE – A Debt Angel Bat David – What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black (Dr. Margaret Burroughs) Christelle Bofale – old? New? Ahmad Jamal – Pastures Sonny Sharrock – Black Woman Father’s Children – Who’s Gonna Save The World The Growth Eternal – IX. Don’t Wait for It The Growth Eternal -III. Rain Song for Five Bass Guitars Suutoo – ABLAZE / Fröjd Actress – Uriel’s Black Harp Space Afrika – where is Cōvco – SHAMELESS FLIRT, UNAPOLOGETIC INTROVERT02 Jamire Williams – (Interpretation 14) Jamire Williams – What Is Left For Me? Tcheser Holmes – We From Da City Max Roach with the J.C White Singers – Were You There When They Crucified My Lord Mississippi Mass Children’s Choir – His Eye Is On The Sparrow Reverend James Cleveland – Lord, Do It Daryl Coley – When Sunday Comes (Bible Stories Album Version)
