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This podcast may contain strong language and adult content, if it's any good.

Hopefully it will.

James A. Kester here, comedian and music fan.

And in 2017, I had a breakdown.

I dealt with that breakdown by buying as much music in 2016 as I

possibly could. As a result, I now own over 700 albums that came out in 2016 and I'm convinced

it's the greatest year for music of all time. But it's not enough me being convinced. I also want to

convince each and every single one of you,

plus a guest every week.

I'm going to send them an album in advance.

You're going to listen to that album, come on the podcast and talk about that album.

This week, my guest is Sardia Asmet,

and we're talking about the Moor Mother album, Fetish Bones.

You can set me down in the midst of the ballet which was full of phone.

Mormother is the alias of Kamiya Weiwa, who's a musician from Philadelphia, now located in Philadelphia.

Also an activist, although sometimes she rejects that term, a poet.

She's involving so much stuff locally, wise and this album for me is the

melting pot of all of those things death creaking on my speaking bit your hands off me and get these

chains off me get it off me every aspect of her personality and of her life all comes together

on this album it is an abrasive listen at

time sonically. It draws a lot from noise music and lyrically it draws a lot from Afro-Futurism.

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