aja monet: window seat | Sessions | Gagosian Premieres

In this Session, blues poet, musician, and organizer aja monet performs with Weedie Braimah, Jeremiah Edwards, Craig Harris, Jehbreal Jackson, and Samora Pinderhughes inside the exhibition "Amoako Boafo: what could possibly go wrong, if we tell it like it is" at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York.
In a powerful exchange of spoken word and song, monet reads poetry that she composed in response to Boafo’s portraits, which blend themes of Black love, resistance, joy, and community building, while her musical collaborators perform a free-flowing new interpretation of Aaron Neville’s 1966 soul hit “Tell It Like It Is” on piano, bass, drums, trombone, didgeridoo, and djembe, with expressive vocals by Jackson. Pinderhughes and Braimah also worked with monet on her recently released debut album, "When the Poems Do What They Do" (2023), which was described by NPR’s Sheldon Pearce as “gorgeously meditative and potently groovy.”
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Artwork © Amoako Boafo; “window seat,” written by aja monet (‪@ajamonet‬), performed by aja monet with Weedie Braimah, Jeremiah Edwards, Craig Harris, Jehbreal Jackson, and Samora Pinderhughes (‪@samorapinderhughes1768‬); “Tell It Like It Is,” written by George David and Lee Diamond, rights administered by BMG Rights Management (US) LLC; Video: Pushpin Films
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[@JacquelineButterfield]

My new favorite poet! Thank you! You move me like Amiri, Sonia, Felipe and Nikki did when I first came upon them in my long ago youth. You belong to the new horizon of the spoken word! Again thank you!

[@KatlehoHabi-q1j]

one of the greatest love poems I’ve heard. wow!

[@naikacolas7403]

Love Aja so much. Their voice is ❤❤❤.

[@defsoundLA]

Gorgeous Blues brewed in Brooklyn. That Voice.

[@leilaboiro2051]

Everything is so well said. I love your voice, words, music and poetry. Thank you all the way from France

[@giulias.5104]

Che voce! ❤

[@jasmajohn6776]

Just gorgeous. ♥️

[@seboleloseutloali178]

This was so beautiful. Aja is definitely the gift that keeps on giving

[@gypsydance5850]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@nora1172]

❤️❤️

[@g.h.q.spirits5957]

Love love love

[@EllaBoadu]

❤

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