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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood - LIVE ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brothahood ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ LIVE ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Jazz CAT#....[ IARC037LP ████ ████ LABEL...[ International Anthem ENCODER.[ Lame 3.99.5 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2020 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 81:38 REL.DATE[ 04.18.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 13 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 187,14 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Enlightenment 03:34 ████ ████ 02 Destination 02:58 ████ ████ 03 Capetown 00:37 ████ ████ 04 Black Family 09:50 ████ ████ 05 What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black 05:11 ████ ████ 06 London 10:10 ████ ████ 07 We Hearby Declare the African Look 09:29 ████ ████ 08 We Are Starzz 14:25 ████ ████ 09 VIKTORious Return 01:16 ████ ████ 10 Tha Wicked Shall Not Prevail 07:05 ████ ████ 11 Melo Deez from Heab'N 04:54 ████ ████ 12 Dr. Wattz n' em 08:26 ████ ████ 13 HELL 03:43 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 81:38 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/live ████ ████ ████ ████ LIVE was mostly recorded on November 1st, 2019, ████ ████ at Haus der Berliner Festspiele in Berlin, ████ ████ Germany, during the 2019 edition of JazzFest ████ ████ Berlin. For Angel Bat Dawid and her band Tha ████ ████ Brothahood û which includes Deacon Otis Cooke, ████ ████ Viktor Le Givens, Xristian Espinoza, Norman W. ████ ████ Long, Dr. Adam Zanolini, and Asher Simiso ████ ████ Gamedze û it was the first stop of their first ████ ████ European tour. ████ ████ ████ ████ Forty-eight hours before the show, Angel and ████ ████ members of the band were on their way to the ████ ████ airport in Chicago when they received news that ████ ████ Viktor Le Givens had passed out on the street ████ ████ and subsequently woke up in a hospital with all ████ ████ his personal belongings missing. When they ████ ████ arrived in Berlin, the bandÆs manager Najee- ████ ████ Zaid Searcy reached out to the production staff ████ ████ of JazzFest Berlin to inform them of the ████ ████ situation. Their initial reply: ôif you cannot ████ ████ find a substitute, we will have to reduce your ████ ████ fee.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ Of the cold, insensitive response to ViktorÆs ████ ████ unfortunate situation, Angel recalls: ôIt ████ ████ really put a whole damper on my spirit to have ████ ████ to deal with this a few hours before ████ ████ performing. How the fuck is this response ever ████ ████ acceptable anywhere?!ö ████ ████ ████ ████ Angel continues: ôI have issues in general ████ ████ about the way artists are treated because I see ████ ████ a difference in how tech folks treat women and ████ ████ artist of colorà IÆm calling it out. A lot of ████ ████ the racism and things IÆm talking about are ████ ████ steeped in microaggressions and are so subtle ████ ████ and can go unnoticed. But all those things ████ ████ happen a lot and it was very evident at the ████ ████ festivalà Yes I am hyper sensitive to any ████ ████ infraction I ever see, feel or observe when it ████ ████ comes to racism, and I no longer pass it off as ████ ████ an over sensitivity but an opportunity to blow ████ ████ the whistle on intellectual and structural ████ ████ racism that is still a rampant and ugly beast, ████ ████ especially in the European music world.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ Angel and her band had a handful of experiences ████ ████ over their two days in Berlin that contributed ████ ████ to her feelings, including an interaction at ████ ████ The Ellington Hotel (a place thatÆs named & ████ ████ themed in homage to the famous Black American ████ ████ composer), where the band was staying. The ████ ████ moment was recorded by AngelÆs bandmate and she ████ ████ chose to include an excerpt at the beginning of ████ ████ the albumÆs first track, where she shouts ████ ████ repeatedly: ôever since IÆve been here yÆall ████ ████ have treated me like shit!ö ████ ████ ████ ████ The full story, from Angel: ôThe morning at the ████ ████ Duke Ellington Hotel was the result of a ████ ████ buildup of thingsà The insensitive way the ████ ████ festival dealt with Viktorà to mean stares ████ ████ walking down the street with my Brothersà A man ████ ████ came up to all of us and said he was frightened ████ ████ by our group. I went to another shop and they ████ ████ told me ædon't go to East Berlin because they ████ ████ donÆt like BlacksÆ... Berlin was leaving me ████ ████ feeling very isolated and angry. So the morning ████ ████ we were leaving this hotel, with its homage to ████ ████ Black musicians in every roomà They had a piano ████ ████ in their bar area and I decided to play a tune, ████ ████ sing and praise, to leave on a good note. ████ ████ Deacon Otis was filming it as our way of just ████ ████ walking in love, no matter what. As I was ████ ████ singing someone on the staff runs up to me red ████ ████ face and angry saying æmaÆam please don't do ████ ████ this in the lobby this is not allowed!Æ And I ████ ████ just went the fux off. I had had enough of the ████ ████ reprimands... I just couldn't be my genuine ████ ████ Black self anywhere in Berlin without someone ████ ████ reprimanding meàö ████ ████ ████ ████ Another sound that Angel chose to include in ████ ████ the album is an excerpt from a JazzFest Berlin ████ ████ panel discussion she participated in, which was ████ ████ moderated by writer Emma Warren û a friend of ████ ████ AngelÆs û and recorded by Searcy. AngelÆs ████ ████ powerful declamations from the panel stage are ████ ████ heard on the albumÆs last track ôHELL,ö through ████ ████ a dense layering of effects. ôThe discussion ████ ████ was led by Emmaà so I was feeling very much ████ ████ myself and was going to tell the honest truth ████ ████ about how these festivals and music scenes ████ ████ still operate and support intellectual and ████ ████ structural racism, because they are never ████ ████ challenged,ö Angel recalls. ████ ████ ████ ████ Despite, or perhaps in light of the ████ ████ difficulties Angel and her band faced, they ████ ████ performed a set at Berliner Festspiele that ████ ████ Angel considers to be one of their best ever. ████ ████ ôThe show was very deep, and really helped me ████ ████ to process all the rage, and uncomfortable ████ ████ things I was feeling... It made me think of all ████ ████ the artists of the past who endured way more ████ ████ than I ever will with this music industry. It ████ ████ was a very freeing and beautiful showà we ████ ████ played our ass off!!ö ████ ████ ████ ████ Harlem, NY-based journalist Shannon J. ████ ████ Effinger, who had interviewed Angel for ████ ████ Pitchfork earlier in 2019, was in Berlin to ████ ████ cover the festival and witnessed AngelÆs ████ ████ performance. ôI had no clue Shannon was there ████ ████ and I was so happy to see her... We had ████ ████ breakfast in the morning together and I was ████ ████ able to vent to her about my frustrations about ████ ████ being in Europe. She shared the same ████ ████ sentiments, because she too was experiencing ████ ████ all the subtle microaggressions that happen ████ ████ over there,ö Angel says. ████ ████ ████ ████ Shortly after Angel decided to make the Berlin ████ ████ recording into an album, in Summer 2020 she ████ ████ invited Effinger to write liner notes. In her ████ ████ notes for LIVE, Effinger touches on AngelÆs ████ ████ mistreatment; but for the most part her ████ ████ attention is paid to the music that Angel & Tha ████ ████ Brothahood made during their performance. An ████ ████ excerpt: "On Sun RaÆs ôEnlightenment,ö DawidÆs ████ ████ arpeggiated chords on keys brought us all to ████ ████ our own hush harbor meeting, a once haven for ████ ████ enslaved Blacks to gather in secret and release ████ ████ their hardships through shout and prayer. As ████ ████ Dawid, Cape Town drummer Asher Gamedze and Adam ████ ████ Zanolini on reeds build into a tense crescendo, ████ ████ it is their attempt, through music, to exorcise ████ ████ the generational pain that has plagued Blacks ████ ████ for far too long." ████ ████ ████ ████ ôI feel Shannon really captured the moment I ████ ████ was feeling. The story of my unrest with the ████ ████ racist undertones of the music industry isnÆt ████ ████ why I want this album out. I want this album ████ ████ out because the Brothahood kicked ass on the ████ ████ music. Because she was there at the actual ████ ████ show, her notes have the purest, most authentic ████ ████ and accurate take on the situation,ö says ████ ████ Angel. ████ ████ ████ ████ Another excerpt from Effinger's notes: "From ████ ████ the unwavering strength of the ôBlack Familyö ████ ████ as told through her clarinet, strong and ████ ████ resolute, to ôWe Are Starzzö which allowed the ████ ████ members of the Brothahood to dance and explore ████ ████ in their respective constellations over ████ ████ ZanoliniÆs walking bassline, Dawid strives to ████ ████ reconcile where Black life in America presently ████ ████ stands todayùbestrided by a glorious yet ████ ████ troubled past, the disillusioned promise of our ████ ████ future, and a present that has never truly ████ ████ belonged to us." ████ ████ ████ ████ Angel Bat Dawid: ôI hope that this album will ████ ████ uplift and raise awareness to the world that we ████ ████ are still not in a good place when it comes to ████ ████ the relationship between whites other races. ████ ████ Universities, festivals, organizations etc that ████ ████ were built over 50 years ago, even though they ████ ████ have changed outwardly, have not changed ████ ████ internally, and still uphold the principles of ████ ████ their founders, who were racists. We still got ████ ████ a long way to go. And music is a great place to ████ ████ start in repairing this age old, distorted ████ ████ reality.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. G R E E T S .···. ▄▓▄██▀▀ │ ▀ . ▄▓▓▄ │ ▀▀▀█▄▄ ▄▄█▀▀▀ │ ▄▓▓▄ . ▀▀ ▀▀▄ FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄ ▄▓▓▄ ▀▄ RIP kHz ▄▀ ▄▓▓▄ ▄ . ▀ ▀ ▀▓▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄.···. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .···.▄ . ▀ ▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ .