Organic Music Societies

Blank Forms, 2021, Hardcover, 16 pages, 20 x 15 cm

New / Sealed copy, first edition

Beginning with an overview by Blank Forms Artistic Director Lawrence Kumpf and Don Cherry biographer Magnus Nygren, this volume further explores Don’s work of the period through a piece on his Relativity Suite by Ben Young and an essay on the diasporic quality of his music by Fumi Okiji. Ruba Katrib emphasizes the domestic element of Moki’s practice in a biographical survey accompanied by full-color reproductions of Moki’s vivid tapestries, paintings, and sculptures, which were used as performance environments by Don’s ensembles during the Sweden years and beyond. Two selections of Moki’s unpublished writings―consisting of autobiography, observations, illustrations, and diary entries, as well as poetry and aphorisms―are framed by tributes from her daughter Neneh Cherry and granddaughter Naima Karlsson.