Poems are bullshit unless they are Teeth or trees or lemons piled On a step. –Amiri Baraka, “Black Art” Language is the fetish that is supposed to… Read more “Review of David Boykin’s “The Lynching of (Insert the Name of Any White Killer of an Unarmed Black Here)””
No Territory Band Black Understudy Program
“Jazz” is black music, but one finds very few black players in the most prominent and innovative circles of the Twin Cities jazz scene. To encourage the… Read more “No Territory Band Black Understudy Program”
French Immersion Complete
If there’s a gap between theory and practice, No Territory Band is now the Coyote hanging between a parting landmass, somehow subducted by the Roadrunner. In the… Read more “French Immersion Complete”
An Interview with the French Newspaper, L’Echo
No Territory Band will make its premiere at Festival Kind of Belou in Treignac, France, on Sunday, August 5th. Isabelle Haderer of L’Echo asked Davu to give… Read more “An Interview with the French Newspaper, L’Echo”
More on “Dead King Mother”
What a terrible thing to set to music. I admit that I am a sucker for the sensational—particularly tall tales of bad men and anti-heroes wreaking havoc… Read more “More on “Dead King Mother””
“Dead King Mother”
Fire in the sky no water in sight– all I want is my man, but he can’t be here passed tonight. On the evening April 4th, 1968,… Read more ““Dead King Mother””