Mourning [A] BLKstar with Kafari
8:00pm
doors at 7:30pm
$18 day of show
$2 off for SPACE members
The internationally renown 9-piece Afrofuturist musical collective brings their singular blend of soul, r&b, hip-hop, jazz and more to Maine for the first time!
A multi-generational, gender and genre non-conforming amalgam of Black culture, Mourning [A] BLKstar is dedicated to sharing stories and songs of America’s unfolding apocalypse. Their music melds live instrumentation with hip-hop production creating sonic frequencies that illuminate the African Diaspora.
Founded in Cleveland, the US-based Afrofuturist collective continues touring their music globally across Europe and the US, playing festivals from Crossing Border in Berlin with Lonnie Holley to Big Ears Festival and Le Guess Who? in Utrecht.
Read Kafari’s interview with RA Washington of Mourning [A] BLKstar at the SPACE Reader here.
Kafari is a synth, drum machine, and rhythm bones-wielding keys player, beatmaker, composer, and educator. In his expansive compositions, he melds disparate sounds from contemporary neo-soul to romantic classical, drum&bass electronica to boom-bap hip-hop, and burning jazz to hypnotic ambient.