Here is what the WWDIS fest. is saying about M. Lamar
“M. LAMAR (US)
This ladies and gentlemen, this is freaking genius. We came by M. Lamar totally by chance and it was love at first listen. Without a doubt one of the best things Sweden will witness in 2013. David Lynch meets Antony & The Johnsons meets Diamanda Galás.”
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- Surveillance Punishment And The Black Psyche
- Dixon Place
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161A Chrystie Street, New York, New York 10002
- Saturday July 6th at 7:30
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Surveillance Punishment and The Black Psyche is an imprisoned black man’s reflections on his life sentenced to death for killing his male overseer who was also his lover.This is the first showing of this multimedia music theater piece which draws loosely from the life of Willie Francis the 16 year old black boy who in 1947 was famously executed twice for the murder of Andrew Thomas a Cajun pharmacy owner in St. Martinville Louisiana who had once employed him. It is alleged that Francis and the 53 year old Thomas were engaged in a homosexual relationship. So here Lamar explores interracial homosex, surveillance and punishment from the Jim Crow south back to the plantation to trace it’s legacy in contemporay black life as well as how the state continues it’s white supremacist surveillance and punishment of black bodied Americans.The Text for Surveillance Punishment and the black Psyche is written by M. Lamar with additional text by Tucker Culbertson who is also the director. All Music written by M. Lamar with art design and video by Sabin Calvert Starring M. Lamar and Jamie Foxx
for tickets: https://
web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/ 9803189
DOWNLOAD GIVEAWAY
MLAMAR.COM has been completely redesigned and we are celebrating with a free download of my version of AUTUMN LEAVES. Just go to the right of this post under the store and enter your email address and you get the track delivered to your inbox.
M. LAMAR STORE
The new store features a digital download of my piece Negro Antichrist as well as my last album Souls on Lockdown. We also have a critical theory section with an essay about my work written by Brandon Peter Masterman. Coming in the next few weeks are two new music videos. The first is for my song Speculum Orum directed by Stephen Winter and then Negro Antichrist directed by myself and Taylor Clark.
UPCOMING RELEASES
I am so excited to announce for the first time here that the digital version of my new album Speculum Orum: Shackled to the Dead will be released Tuesday March 5th exclusively here on this site. The vinyl version will be avalible in early March. The album features a mix of studio recordings as well as recordings from my performance at Cathedral of Saint John The Divine a year ago. Sonically this is my greatest recording to date. It features sound design by Bryce Hackford and cello by Matthew Robinson. The album focuses a lot on the music written for my Speculum Orum piece which is a requiem for those lost during the trans-Atlantic slave trade as well as songs that continue the “lynching tree” themes as well as collective black trauma under white supremacy. Speculum Orum refers to the scissor-shaped device used on slave ships to force-feed Africans who had refused food.
I can’t wait for all of you to hear and see what is coming.
Welcome to my new home!!
Welcome to my new home!!
Track listing for Speculum Orum: Shackled To The Dead
1. Deep River/The Dark Ship Moves 7:26
2. In The Belly Of The Ship 5:37
3. Unloved and Unwanted 4:41
4. Swinging Low 4:44
5. Negro Antichrist 4:27
6. Speculum Orum 4:18
7. They Hung Her On the Deck 5:07
8. Trying to Leave My Body 3:57
9. Motherless Child 4:24
10. Deep River 3:49
2. In The Belly Of The Ship 5:37
3. Unloved and Unwanted 4:41
4. Swinging Low 4:44
5. Negro Antichrist 4:27
6. Speculum Orum 4:18
7. They Hung Her On the Deck 5:07
8. Trying to Leave My Body 3:57
9. Motherless Child 4:24
10. Deep River 3:49
M. Lamar is currently booking his European tour for March and April 2013. If you would like to bring M. Lamar to your town, Music Festival, or theater Festival please contact us vis the contact page. He is touring to promote his new album SPECULUM ORUM: SHACKLED TO THE DEAD.