Lived a deviL

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2021-06-18

Label: Monastral

The recent studio sessions proved to be a catharsis from the isolation of quarantine, the collective anger that led to last year’s protests, and the shade of hope that followed. For these recordings, produced and arranged by P.M. Tummala, Moore expanded his palette to include records cast from graphite and okra leaves, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, and samples that narrate tragedies of famous and lesser-known Black historical figures. The resulting body of fully formed songs, hazy interludes, and improvised loops and drones capture an artist navigating the distance between joy and heartbreak, structure and formlessness, and finding an inner peace in the tumult of history.

Lived a deviL is social sound art that plays like a dubbed-out, Afrofuturist beat-tape of half-remembered dreams.

Allen Moore - Turntables, Hand Casted Records, Synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, Voice, Computer