PREVIEW: Georgia Anne Muldrow as Jyoti – OCOTEA {tracklisting + snippets}

OCOTEA – Album cover designed by Georgia Anne Muldrow

Preview the opening track “The Black Mother”:

Simply put: Georgia Anne Muldrow‘s next project is amazing and unlike anything she’s ever released. This is one of those albums (as are the majority of early gifts we receive during visits to the SomeOthaShip HQs) that when we first heard it and knew we had to wait MONTHS before giving our readers a taste, was really hard to keep to ourselves. But thankfully the release date is just about a month away (Vinyl/CD/Digital June 15th) and I saw Giant Step post about it so we can finally break our silence! Georgia Anne Muldrow’s jazz persona is named is Jyoti – a Sanscrit word meaning “light”- and it is the name given to her from “the great and masterful ancestor” Alice Coltrane who was a family friend. Her first record composed as Jyoti is entitled “Ocotea“- the name of an aromatic wood that her mother had recently given her, and she told me that burning this wood is what sparked the inspiration for creating the “free-jazz” sound of the album. Entirely instrumental, the 9 track experience draws from an ocean of influences such as Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys, Swamini Truiyasangitanada’s Monastic Trio, Charlie Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Henry Threadgill, Sun Ra, and Stevie Wonder – to whom she dedicates a track “Stevelander”. Ocotea is a new frontier for Georgia Anne Muldrow’s sonic discoveries. “Infused with experimental synthesizers that posses a pan-tonal sensibility, and melodies that soar about with raw musicianship, Ocotea is not one to miss!”

Georgia Anne Muldrow as Jyoti – Ocotea: TRACKLISTING

1. The Black Mother
2. Psalm of Rubble
3. Thread’s First Stitches
4. The Language of the Flame
5. Unchanged Reverie
6. Stevelander
7. The Captain’s Eye
8. Blessed Matches (*** this one… WOW!)
9. Ocotea

Listen to SNIPPETS from Ocotea on AMAZON.