THE ORACLE (1A11 EDITION) by ANGEL BAT DAWID
| SKU | 140921 |
| Artist | ANGEL BAT DAWID |
| Title | THE ORACLE (1A11 EDITION) |
| Label | INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM RECORDING COMPANY |
| Catalog # | IMRC 0023LP11 |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 37 - 2025 |
| Format | Vinyl - EULP |
| EAN Barcode | 634457219359 |
| Import | |
| € 23,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Destination
- Black Family
- What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black
- Impepho
- We Are Starzz
- London
- Capetown (feat Asher Simiso Gamedze
- The Oracle
Description
Over the course of 2025 International Anthem will be celebrating their eleventh year of existence by revisiting some of the most celebrated (and hard to find) entries in their decade of releases. These LP packages will be presented with new liner notes, new insert booklets, and the fresh 2025 redesign of their iconic obi strip and dome logo. They will also be at a price point intended to help make it easier for stores to stock and sell these essential pieces of their catalog.
Angel Bat Dawid’s International Anthem debut The Oracle introduced her multifaceted voice to the world. The response to its modest, initial cassette/digital release in January of 2019 was immediate, and immense.
Within a month of its announcement, Dawid was being featured on magazine covers and receiving offers from international festivals; and her subsequent activity marked the beginning of an epic run of creative output (including 2020's LIVE double LP, the same year's EP Transition East, 2021's Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology, and the sprawling opus Requiem for Jazz, released in 2023) that continues through the present.
The collection of compositions on The Oracle present a deep blend of powerful and emotive songs alongside heavy and free improvisation. In true DIY fashion, Dawid recorded and mixed the album using only her cell phone. "Angel's fieldnote approach affirms that the everyday remains a legitimate site of creative production," says South Africa based percussionist, collaborator, and IARC labelmate Asher Gamedze in his liner notes for the album's IA11 Edition. Gamedze – the only other musician to appear on The Oracle besides Dawid, who constructed most of the album's tracks by layering, overdubbing, and arranging lo-fi symphonies of her own voice, wind instruments, percussions, and keyboards – waxes extensively about
Dawid's significance in his notes, calling her "a living exemplar and extension of the spacious sonic horizons opened by the likes of the AACM and their refusal of any limitations on their creative vision and the destruction of the demarcation between composer and improviser."
“…a masterpiece, rich with dense improvisation and
Afrocentric themes.”
– Suraya Mohamed, NPR
