Release: Songbook, Joshua Idehen, poet/ spoken word- jazz electronic artist

Name: Release: Songbook, Joshua Idehen, poet/ spoken word- jazz electronic artist
Start: 2024-09-26T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Cigarrvägen 14-16, 123 57 Stockholm, Sweden

Schedule

Thu Sep 26 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Cigarrvägen 14-16, 123 57 Stockholm, Sweden | Stockholm, ST

Välkomna på boksläpp och svensk lansering av den efterlängtade poesisamlingen ”Songbook” av Joshua Idehen på Konsthall C!
Idehen är poet och historieberättare som bjuder på livsbejakande humanism och explosiv skaparkraft i musik och text. Spoken word artisten Joshua Idehen (UK) är numera bosatt i Sverige och sedan länge en viktig del av den engelska jazzscenen.
Genom att kritiskt undersöka kolonialism, maskulinitet, mental hälsa och olika sätt att läka, är hans författarskap en väsentlig provokation, en diasporisk dans, en comedy roast, en intervention… Ja, en kanonkula som ingen går säker från, allra minst han själv.

Ur Songbook av Idehen:
”We know where we came from. We came on boats, on planes, with passports and on the back of trucks. We worked three jobs and sent the money back home…
…. Our Queens walked among us. Our Queens led by action, by example, our Queens listened. Our Queens made bright futures out of cruel and unfair pasts. Our Queens cried and laughed with us. Our Queens knew they were just like us from the beginning, not just when it suited them.
Our Queens are just like us.
Your Queen Is A Reptile.”
Boken består bl a av verser från Mercury-nominerade och MOBO-vinnande album från Sons of Kemet och The Comet Is Coming.
Idehen har bland annat samarbetat med de hyllade kollektiven Sons of Kemet och The Comet Is Coming, Poejazzi, Benin City, och även släppt EP med Flying Lotus producent Daedalus. Idehen uppträdde på Way Out West i Göteborg i somras.
Vi är så glada och stolta över att kunna välkomna Joshua Idehen och er alla till Konsthall C! Fri entré, som alltid.
YouTube: Joshua Idehen - Learn To Swim, Fasching Stockholm 2023, Joshua Idehen - Bring On The Eagles | Sofar London 2016
Intervju: P3 SR: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/joshua-idehen-om-att-arliga-texter-funkar-battre-an-fyndiga

eng:
Songbook av Joshua Idehen, 26 september 19.00
Come join us at Konsthall C for the Swedish launch of Songbook, the long-awaited collected works of poet Joshua Idehen.
“We know where we came from. We came on boats, on planes, with passports and on the back of trucks. We worked three jobs and sent the money back home. We brought our motherland to life in our kitchens, our bedrooms, our churches, our songs, our dance, our sex, our pidgin, our patois…”
Joshua Idehen’s collected works has been a long time coming. Songbook comprises verses from Mercury-nominated and MOBO-winning albums by Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming, alongside watershed poems of spoken word legend, newly captured in book form. From Poejazzi and Benin City to a string of supreme collaborations, Idehen’s impact resonates far and wide across the landscapes of poetry and jazz/electronica.
Cross-examining colonialism, masculinity, mental health and ways of healing, his writing is an essential provocation, a diasporic dance, a comedy roast, an intervention, a cannonball from which no one is safe, least of all himself.
Welcome!
Free entrance