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Recording

Muthawit Returns To The Post-2012 Election Musical Battlefield With The Epic Socio-Political Firebomb Recording, PMS Junkie

Source: 4961 Polemics
November 21, 2012

Boston Fielder’s musical collective releases irresistible set of original avant rock, electronic n soul songs on URB ALT Media What has been said about MuthaWit: “If post-punk soul is a genre, then that’s what Muthawit is doing" - MTViggy “MuthaWit featuring Boston Fielder is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting of the musical hemispheres, mutatis mutandis and presto! - a carnival of twisted soul." - Magnet Magazine Anderson, Virgin Islands. The words “mission accomplished" have strangely come to represent unfinished ...

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Recording

Minnie Riperton is in bloom with The Decoders featuring Boston Fielder's remake of the classic "Les Fleurs"

Source: 4961 Polemics
March 29, 2012

It's Spring and flowers are in bloom. Soul music great, Minnie Riperton, left a powerful body of work that continues to influence artists across multiple genres and generations. Riperton's uncanny 5 octave vocal range with an impeccable whistle register, however, has inspired and intimidated artists so much so that there have been very few covers of her music. The Decoders, a Los Angeles production duo, went directly to the heart to rectify that matter. Producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist, Itai Shapira ...

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Performance / Tour

The MuthaWit Orchestra celebrates MLK Holiday with "These Songs of Freedom" featuring songs by Marley, Mayfield and other revolutionary Artists

Source: 4961 Polemics
January 4, 2012

The MuthaWit Orchestra performs for BAM's 26th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Event What has been said about The MuthaWit Orchestra: “MuthaWit is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting of the musical hemispheres, mutatis mutandis and presto!—a carnival of twisted soul." —Magnet Magazine “Boston Fielder and MuthaWit are Gods in the universe they have created and these songs, which you must hear, are their Adam and Eve, cloned to a fallen and disrupted infinity." —The Wire UK New York, ...

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Festival

URB ALT Festival celebrates 6 Years in a night of experimental and hip hop fusion featuring MuthaWit with special guest Jneiro Jarel and other artists

Source: 4961 Polemics
September 20, 2011

NEW YORK, NY: URB ALT Festival, the music/visual arts/film event dedicated to presenting the cutting edge in alternative lifestyles rolls out for the sixth year in New York City. URB ALT has programmed highly eclectic bills in the past with artists such as Parliament/Funkadelic, Twin Shadow, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, Kaki King and writer/activist Farai Chideya. 2011 is no different. The main performance bill at Rebel NYC on September 30 features the rock/soul/jazz mutants of MuthaWit collaborating ...

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Video / DVD

MuthaWit pours it on for URB ALT Festival 2011 with release of spicy music video "Wasted (Fill My House With Salt)"

Source: 4961 Polemics
September 20, 2011

New York, NY: Multi-national experimentalists MuthaWit celebrate the September 25th launch of URB ALT Festival 2011 with the immediate release of their maniacally paced video “Wasted (Fill My House With Salt)." Nodding towards the legendary Stanley Kubrick, video directors Bighead Scientists showcase live band footage mixed with the studio based antics of MuthaWit singer/songwriter/producer Boston Fielder. “Wasted" projects the sheer exuberance of MuthaWit's 3-24 piece live show from frame to frame. It is the second single off of MuthaWit's current ...

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Recording

MuthaWit comes home to roost with release and stream of epic LP "men & women (la Revenge de Uncle Baldy)

Source: 4961 Polemics
April 20, 2011

MuthaWit's new release men & women (la Revenge de Uncle Baldy) is homage to blues/jazz teacher of Elvis Presley What has been said about MuthaWit: “If post-punk soul is a genre, then that's what Muthawit is doing" —MTViggy “Boston Fielder and MuthaWit are Gods in the universe they have created and these songs, which you must hear, are their Adam and Eve, cloned to a fallen and disrupted infinity." —The Wire, UK “MuthaWit is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting ...

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Video / DVD

Leila Adu presses her luck with mysterious music video for "Fortuna" single

Source: 4961 Polemics
March 8, 2011

Leila Adu caps European leg of Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker Tour with debut of “Fortuna" ..."Leila Adu is a Revelation..."—Robert Wyatt, legendary founder of Soft Machine and Bjork collaborator “Leila Adu is a rebel-inspirer. And not in the way that calls for the raising of fists, or the hurling of sharp word-blades. Her defiance is decided... Anger isn't its mother. Wonder may be."—Purple Magazine London—Touching down in locales as varied as Los Angeles, London, Rome, Sicily and Berlin, ...

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Performance / Tour

Leila Adu leaves the assembly line for The "Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker" CD Release Tour

Source: 4961 Polemics
February 10, 2011

London, United Kingdom—Winter is arching towards Spring with singer/keyboardist/composer Leila Adu touring the US and UK/Europe in support of her critically acclaimed new album “Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker." Released January 18th on Italy's Rai Trade/Tracce label, Leila's work on the album has been sited as “a revelation" (by legendary Soft Machine founder Robert Wyatt), “Alternative-Alternative" and “Joni Mitchell brimming with melanin." Leila Adu is ready to bring all those declarations home. Born in London of Ghanaian and New ...

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