aja monet

aja monet

Surrealist blues poet aja monet is in the business of goosebumps and heart-gut-telling truths. Her compelling vocal performance immerses in the music—shifting between jazz, soul, hip-hop, rhythm and blues—interacting with it melodically and vice versa. Her poems are harmolodic, vulnerable, and insurgent, following in the long legacy and tradition of poets organizing in social movements for change. She returns to Le Guess Who? with the new collection the color of rain: a compositional tour-de-force of poetry, emotion and resonance. At the crux of rising fascism, aja monet offers a waking-dream intervention, amid the sinister reality of contemporary events. A prompt to look up at the sky within.

Photography by Lisanne Lentink

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