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)
