MA.MOYO & Marysia Osu - Gloriosa

MA.MOYO X Marysia Osu is a collaborative music project by a South East London based duo made up of Zimbabwean poet/sound artist, Belinda Zhawi and Polish harpist/producer, Marysia Osuchowska. The project combines beats, electronics, harp, and poetry to create a distinct sound, exploring nature, womanhood and lineage. They have performed at EARTHackney, Southbank Centre, King's Place amongst others and their work has been featured on Boiler Room, BBC, Worldwide FM and other similar platforms. The tracks EarthCries & Gloriosa make the duo’s first official offering after many years of only performing their sounds live. Stay on the lookout for more recorded releases from the duo.

https://sibin.bandcamp.com/album/eart...

Gloriosa - the scientific name for the flame lily, Zimbabwe’s national flower - is about matrilineal lineages, familial and non familial. Gloriosa is about the women we descend from and how their hard work allows us to move through the world with more ease than before. It is a celebration of that bravery and an invocation of their resilience, grace and strength in the face of life’s difficulties.

Gloriosa has lived various lives as Flame Lily since being first written in 2018, for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, and being later featured as the lead single on Cerys Matthews’ poetry album, We Come From The Sun (Decca, 2020).

mamoyo.bandcamp.com
marysiaosu.bandcamp.com

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music credits:

Words & vocals - Belinda Zhawi / MA.MOYO
Harp & production - Marysia Osu
Flute - Lluís Domenech Plana (YUIS)
Additional vocals - Cil / afromerm
Additional sound design - Maxwell Owin
Mixing - Maxwell Owin & Sleepy Time Ghost