Double album vinyl edition illustrated and designed by ANOHNI, and including previously unseen ephemera and extensive liner notes by the artist.
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From June 1992 to March 1995, in the midst of the AIDS crisis in NYC, an extraordinary theatrical collective emerged from the queer underground. Blacklips Performance Cult, initiated by ANOHNI and joined by a cabal of fellow artists, drag queens, punks, nightlife veterans and students, performed a new play every Monday night at 1:00 a.m. at the Pyramid Club on 101 Avenue A. Blacklips never courted mainstream attention. However, the group left a sustaining impression within New York’s late night subculture by melding hysterical drag, surreal horror, and disconcerting tenderness. In Blacklips: Her Life and Her Many, Many Deaths, ANOHNI and coeditor Marti Wilkerson lay bare the collective’s archives in photographs, scripts, and the assembled ephemera from more than one hundred and twenty original “plays.” Featuring images from newly digitized film and video recordings, texts from participants and audience members, and an introduction by Lia Gangitano, this expansive collection introduces to the twenty-first century the short-lived and ruthlessly creative phenomenon that was Blacklips
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from Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants — Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995,
released March 10, 2023
Written by Harold Arlen, Edgar Harburg, and Johnny Mercer
Performed by James F. Murphy
Arrangement by Ty Jacobs and ANOHNI
4-track recording, NYC, 1992
Vocals recorded at Yard Guerilla Records, Berlin, 2022
Mixed by Jimmy Hogarth at HoxaHQ, London, 2022
Produced by ANOHNI
Licensed courtesy of James F. Murphy
Published by Glocca Morra Music Corp (ASCAP), SA Music Co (ASCAP), and Warner Bros Inc (Warner Bros Music Div) (ASCAP)
Blacklips Member: YES
supported by 25 fans who also own “James F. Murphy - Satan's Li’l Lamb”
Anonhi's return to the acoustic music I fell in love with all of those years ago come with an array of irresistibly soulful and sometimes groovy songs that are filled with a magic beyond this world.
Hallelujah 🙏😭 Charlie Moonbeam
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they picked the cotton that saved the world. that picked cotton propelled u.s. economy; a unique capitalist setup. (though anglo saxon colonizers are not unique.) so many pop stars and hip hop billboard mainstays trumpet u.s. capitalism ad nauseam; or escapism & distraction.
"Don't Die," also powerful.
"i don't believe they lies. don't believe their truth, need they heads for proof" -- that's direct and powerful.
the violinist Saydah Ruz stands out here, i think. Jeremy Leaming
C. Diab describes “Exit Rumination” as “a sonic exorcism,” and its dark, swelling songs are equal parts catharsis and tension. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 26, 2018
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A hardcore punk record that gets as raw as any of the classics, then goes beyond with the urgent-yet-meditative poignancy of Moor Mother's brilliant lyricism Coral Rosehill