Angel Bat Dawid

“Dawid explodes the boundaries of her role as jazz bandleader, turning it into a suggestive and multivalent kind of performance art.”

Andy Cush, Pitchfork

"It's so beautiful. I feel like it melds all the things I love together. The tone of the clarinet is really unreal to me and the runs are so imaginative and free and loose — but then, there's a structure to it. And there's a rhythmic feeling to it. This classicism, but this loose freeness and jazz freeness, with warm tones that still feel like you're listening to it outside"

Devonté Hynes, NPR Play It Forward

“...her debut album The Oracle is one of the year’s best releases in any genre, where swelling vocals, warm organ chords and lilting and freaked-out clarinet lines combine in a profoundly affecting whole.”

Ben Beaumont-Thomas, The Guardian

It’s 2019, and clarinetist, composer and pianist Angel Bat Dawid explodes onto the Chicago scene with her debut album, “The Oracle.” The album was recorded, overdubbed, and arranged almost entirely on a smartphone app—and initially intended as just a demo tape for assembling a larger project. Two years later in 2021, she is already considered a luminary in her field: the Chicago Tribune has declared her the city’s jazz musician of the year; she is a featured artist in Pitchfork’s 25 artists shaping the future; and she joins the lineup of critically acclaimed festivals such as Le Guess Who?, Big Ears, and Primavera Sound.

Angel’s unexpected success speaks to her remarkable voice—she delivers raw and unfiltered emotion with flood-like energy and honesty. “The Oracle” echoes ancestral agonies and reinterprets them through blues and spirituals, with influences ranging from Yusef Lateef to Mozart to George Clinton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Sun Ra. Now at the helm of her eight-piece ensemble, Tha Brothahood, Angel sets out to map the Black experience in an ecstatic polyphonic performance that both liberates and exorcizes.

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