Angel Bat Dawid

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August 14, 2021
The Lab, San Francisco

Composer/clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid sonically explores Joel Agustus Rogers’ treatise Sex & Race through mythos, text, and movement. “JA Rogers’ works were important in my early education of Black history and are essential literature to most Black/Afrocentric bookstores and libraries. In my youth I was always fascinated with the pictures and images of ancient Black people which greatly influenced my perception of sex and its connection to race. As an adult, reading the series over the years inspired me to compose experimental works that pay tribute to the vast information and brilliance of this great and epic treatise.” – Angel Bat Dawid

Angel Bat Dawid is a Black American composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist, educator & DJ. Dawid’s work draws from free jazz, gospel, and hip-hop and explores themes of black resistance and self-care. Her critically acclaimed debut album The Oracle (International Anthem, 2019) was recorded on a cell phone and performed and mixed entirely by herself. Angel composed and premiered “Requiem for Jazz" at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, and “Peace: A Suite for Skylanding” commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago for Yoko Ono’s outdoor Skylanding Installation. She also tours internationally with her septet "Tha Brothahood" releasing their album LIVE making NPR’s best of 2020 list. Angel leads the all-woman trio Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty with bassist Brooklynn Skye Scott and Pianist Anaiet. As half of the duo group DAOUI Angel & sound artist Oui Ennui produced, mixed and self-released the album “Message from the DAOUI'' which was featured at Tusk Festival 2020. As an educator Angel teaches her “Great Black Music” course at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center through Old Town School of Folk and is clarinetist in Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble as well as hosts a monthly music show on NTS Radio.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language. -Sun Ra