Idris Ackamoor + Artistic Being: Live @ Eternal Now

Saturday, February 21st, and are honored to host live in concert at Eternal Now.

Six decades into a career that's spanned music, performance, theather, and arts organizing, Idris Ackamoor has spent much of the last decade extending his legacy in avant-garde and spiritual jazz, reviving his ensemble The Pyramids and bringing to life a new entity, .

Ackamoor is joined for this set by Bobby Cobb on guitar, Donald Robinson on drums, and longtime Pyramids member Heshima Mark Williams on bass.

Providing soundtrack for the night before and after Artistic Being's set will be DJs and .

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is a composer, bandleader, and artist with deep roots in the Bay Area. The Chicago-born Ackamoor formed The Pyramids — an ensemble combining free improvisation and Afrofuturist cosmology — as a student at Ohio's Antioch College, inspired by his time studying with the avant-garde giant Cecil Taylor.

Relocating to San Francisco in the early '70s, The Pyramids released a trio of spiritual jazz grails, Lalibela, King of Kings, and Earth/Speed/Merging, making a distinct contribution to the pantheon of spiritual jazz.

Later in life, Ackamoor founded , a nonprofit org behind projects spanning dance, performance art, music, and theater. Along with Rhodessa Jones, he serves as Co-Artistic Director, spearheading projects like the African American Theater Alliance for Independence (AATAIN) and collaborations with luminaries like Bill T. Jones and Danny Glover.

In recent years, Idris' legacy in jazz has continued to expand, with reissues of the original Pyramids catalog from Strut Records, four new Pyramids studio albums, and last year's , recorded live at The Lab. 2024 also saw Idris joining Carlos Niño and Nate Mercereau for , and for live dates as part of Andre 3000's New Blue Sun ensemble.

The Pyramids: Live on KQED, 1975.

is an Oakland-based producer, video artist, and musician known for crafting immersive, left-field hip-hop, lo-fi beats, and cinematic instrumentals. Active in the Bay Area scene for over a decade, Mejiwahn has contributed to projects by artists like Liv.e and Pink Siifu. As a collector and lifelong music learner, he's spent time traveling and digging in Brazil, Argentina, Portugal and beyond. In 2020, he co-founded Recommended Records, a vessel for sharing mixes and more, along with Three6Sashia.

is an Oakland-based DJ, musician, printmaker and archivist whose sets guide us through portals of groove. Working in record stores early on, Sasha started off on turntables with a crate digging, sample-based beatmaking approach. His selections speak to that foundation, following the lineage of soul and jazz up through to international and experimental cuts, rap and dance music. Working in collaboration with Bay Area community hubs like Lower Grand Radio and Unity Press, his work extends to archival print projects celebrating DIY and queer history and rare, underheard music.

is a book and record shop, archive, and art space rooted in West Oakland. Drawing on the East Bay's varied histories of radical practice, our programming and collection explore the interplay, and tensions, between popular art forms and countercultural currents. You can follow and learn more about us here and support the space by becoming a member via our Patreon.

is a collectively owned and operated arts organization celebrating underrepresented practices, ideas, and people. Founded in Oakland, California, the project provides a container for explorations from the artist Zekarias Thompson, group projects Peaces, The Musele Project, and Togetherness Ensemble. Working Name has produced art exhibitions and happenings at venues including SFMOMA, BAMPFA, YBCA, The Wattis, and The Lab.

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