• 4-panel digipack edition

The work of Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez, both powerfully creative and exceptionally perceptive individuals, concerns itself with how one might navigate the ascending reign of long-institutionalized madness while simultaneously keeping humanity and sanity intact. With Revision, the synergistic mesh of these two voices in Duo is presented on record for the first time, following two acclaimed works on the Reading Group label in trio with Gerald Cleaver.

Inimitable poet, cultural theorist, author, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, Fred Moten creates new conceptual spaces that accommodate emergent forms of Black cultural production, aesthetics, and social life. Moten is a professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University concerned with social movement, aesthetic experiment, and Black study. He is also a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Puerto Rican-American bassist Brandon López is the son of a gravedigger who himself put time in doing the same, developing muscles that serve him well in his thorough command of the upright bass. On moving to NYC, López made himself indispensable within numerous realms of creative music. As the Cleveland Review of Books noted, “This is virtuosity as vocabulary, a total command of texture, subtlety, and a depth that can be reached into.”

PERSONNEL:
Fred Moten - (texts, voice)
Brandon López - (bass)

TRACKS:
01. #14
02. #5
03. #3
04. #4
05. #6
06. #2
07. #8
08. #10
09. #7
10. #11
11. #9