MR. POETIVIST
Tailor-made stanzas, and I am grateful for the conversations we’ve somehow stitched from the fabric of our ordinary memories.
DISCOGRAPHY
Donation Project – Revolution At Dawn via Refuge Worldwide, DEU
The next release on Refuge Worldwide’s in-house label is based on a poem dedicated to the people of Sudan, “Revolution At Dawn” by Ghanaian poet, writer and curator, Poetivist. Recorded spontaneously in our Niemetzstrasse studio.
Without even a moment to prepare, he freestyled a poem dedicated to the people of Sudan. This special moment needed to be captured and shared, so we asked friends of the station NikNak, Ivano Tetelepta, Myles Morgan and our studio technician who made the recording, gugol maps, to make music from the vocal.
All proceeds from the EP sales, as well as a donation from Refuge, will be sent to Sudanese American Physicians Association, a charity working to enhance healthcare access, deliver medical aid and foster community resilience during wartime in Sudan.
Artwork by Irene Fernández Arcas and mastering by Monibi. Thanks also to Dean Driscoll of Some Pulp for their support with distribution.
Listen or buy Revolution At Dawn here.
Album – kumbaya – the elegy of distant relatives via Jinn Records, UK.
Conceived in Ghana and developed during a creative residency at The Rose Hill (United Kingdom), kumbaya: the elegy of distant relatives is an interdisciplinary spoken word album that explores grief, remembrance and cultural legacy through poetry, sound and performance.
Inspired by the loss of a brother figure to suicide, the project investigates how memory is carried through names, voices and inherited histories. Blending symbolic lyricism with cinematic soundscapes, field recordings and orchestral compositions, the work constructs an emotional archive that reflects on vulnerability, resilience and shared humanity.
Developed in collaboration with producer Abraham Moughrabi and released by Jinn Records, kumbaya expands poetry beyond the page, using sound as a space for witnessing, remembrance and collective reflection.
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Beyond the Fence, Begins the Sky Commissioned by Efie Gallery, Dubai for Isshaq Ismail.
This was an intersection of visual art and poetry. Poetry in response to Ismail’s exhibition in Efie Gallery, Dubai. The fusion of this poetry in text and audio serves as the artistic contextual expression of these figures in the art and speaks of how the art interprets itself before the poet.
The concept of expressing one’s experiences is subject to an arrangement–a narrative rooted in modern society; so this interdisciplinary art wants listeners to be conscious of the little identity stereotypes they cannot see–and help us be understood in unexpected times and trying moments.
These poems are created through the grotesqueness and penetrating gaze of merely human beings, experiencing, surviving, and wrestling with the same emotions, pain, happiness, sadness, and despair experienced worldwide.
Click here to listen now.
