Mourning [A] Blkstar at MOMO Rotterdam

With their unique and powerful sound, Mourning [A] BLKstar pushes musical and social boundaries.

WE ARE GOING TO MARS – A CHOREOGRAPHIC CONCERT 2022

The choreographic concert We Are Going To Mars follows the two video works of the same name by the company Christoph Winkler, which celebrated their online premiere in November 2021: In a mixture of video, dance and music, the participating artists examined the history of the first African space programme in Zambia and its reception over the past 50 years. They also build a bridge to the work of the Afro-American musician Sun Ra, who developed his credo “Space is the place” at the same time.

For the first time, the Christoph Winkler Company is now performing the complete soundtrack created especially for the project, in which the band Mourning [A] BLKstar takes up some aspects of the story. A sonic associative space is created in which the dancers now introduce their own movements. From these dance miniatures and in connection with the songs of the band, a free collage develops about the longing of the “Afronauts” for Mars and what it can stand for.

MABS Joins Lonnie Holley at Cosmic Awakening Berlin

For the Garden Gaia project, Hendrik Weber aka Pantha du Prince puts together ideas of ecology and aesthetics, nature and humankind in a variety of media. The music, released as an album at the end of August 2022, translates formative processes in nature into oscillating sound poetry that mediates between echoes of techno and avant-garde. With the Chor der Kulturen der Welt and percussionists, as well as partly self-built sound generators, Weber now brings it to the stage as a comprehensive audiovisual performance, which in turn represents a world of its own.

Mourning [A] Blkstar reunite w/Lonnie Holley at Crossing Boarder Fest Den Hague

The first performers for the music program are Lonnie Holley, the man who never plays a song twice the same way and now performs with a great band at Crossing Border.……… The Dutch Pitou will release a new album in October that is a spectacular new chapter in her musical career. The Delines with Willy Vlautin turned Crossing Border upside down in the past. They're back, and this time with their best album in the pocket. Also performances by Kara Jackson, the American Youth Poet Laureate who is about to release her first music album, and Robocobra Quartet, with their flaming mix of jazz and spoken word. Robin Kester presents the dark dream pop of her new album This is not Democracy and Jaws of Love, the solo project of Local Natives founder Kelcey Ayer presents the new EP Patricia, a beautiful ode to his mother.

MOURNING [A] BLKSTAR joins Runway

Runway is an independent booking agency based in London, UK.
Set up in the spring of 2020 against a backdrop of a global pandemic, a summer of no festivals and huge challenges to the entire live sector, Runway was founded with the intention of providing artists with a home that gives them a chance to keep developing and connecting with their fans, in the good times and the bad, whether they’ve been touring for 5 months or 25 years.

Fred Moten (Open Spaces) featured in the ADULT SWIM SINGLES 2021

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Popmatters Best R&B/Soul Albums of 2020

The Cycle is the latest from Mourning [A] BLKstar, an Ohio-based collective boasting three lead singers, horns, and insistent, portending grooves, There’s no way not to recognize this band’s roots in Afrofuturism; it’s also impossible to hear them as anything other than starkly original. And for anyone who’s kept up with them since their debut, the mood has gotten noticeably darker, something The Cycle makes clear.