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Another time, this time, one time

by Mikrokosmos

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Formed in 2016 as the collaborative platform of composer Justin Hicks and artist Steffani Jemison, Mikrokosmos mines the history of Black music. This ongoing project has manifested in many forms: workshop, study session, concert, listening session, book, prompt, score. “Another time, this time, one time,” the first Mikrokosmos LP, uses Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson’s “We Almost Lost Detroit” (1977) as the raw material for R&B songwriting. Like a game in which new words are formed from existing letters, these live compositions and re-compositions take the form of musical studies, samples, and improvisations. Inspired by Scott-Heron’s own ambitious songbook, Jemison and Hicks reflect upon a wide range of subjects, including Scott-Heron’s biography, police violence in the United States, and the nuclear catastrophe that threatened the city of Detroit in 1966.

From the liner notes:
“Following [Bela] Bartók’s invocation of the ‘mikrokosmos’ as a ‘small world’ containing a myriad of cultural influences, Hicks and Jemison’s project also considers the macro within the micro, engaging folklore, tradition and lineage within the specific history and study of Black music.”

From the artists:
"Mikrokosmos, like all black music, is a form of speculation. It is “study without end” (Moten and Harney, 2015); blackness is its subject. Anti-languages and alternative literacies have persisted in the African American community since slavery, and Mikrokosmos embraces the spirit of these radical approaches to language and learning. With our collaborators, we derive new proposals for understanding and teaching pitch and rhythm from the black vernacular songbook.

Mikrokosmos is influenced by diverse music pedagogical programs and contexts, including the Orff Schulwerk, the Kodaly method, Béla Bartok's Mikrokosmos piano learning exercises, and the musical learning methodologies of the black American church, among others. The current research uses the melodic and rhythmic conventions of songwriter Gil Scott-Heron as tools for articulating revolutionary melancholy."

credits

released August 5, 2020

Players:
Justin Hicks - Vocals, Sundrum
Jonathan Hoard - Vocals
Steffani Jemison - Vocals, Glockenspiel
Allison Loggins-Hull - Flute
Alexis Marcelo - Vocals, Piano
Anaïs Maviel - Vocals
Kenita Miller-Hicks - Vocals

Chorus:
Tim Darden
Quincy Flowers
Ayesha Jordan
Kara Lynch
Alexis Marcelo
Okwui Okpokwasili
David Hamilton Thomson

Engineer:
Ernie Indradat

Lacquer Cut:
Adam Gonsalves, Telegraph Mastering

Design:
Preston Thompson

Liner Notes:
Pablo de Ocampo

Copy Editor:
Jacquelyn Ross

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