The California, Philadelphia, New York, and DC-based band is made up of five individuals whose uncompromising artistic visions have received wide acclaim. Poet Camae Ayewa, a/k/a Moor Mother, is a legendarily prolific, globally leading light of Afrofuturist music, art, and community activism. Bassist Luke Stewart is deservedly his generation’s most in-demand musician on that instrument, boasting an encyclopedic musical knowledge of the music and focused and thunderous intensity of playing.

Saxophonist Keir Neuringer’s matches prodigious avant-garde technique with fierce socio-political determination, while trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes bring uncontainable energy grounded in classic jazz and Latin and Afro-Caribbean streams.