Artist: Fay Victor
Album: Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Spoken Word, Vocal Jazz
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 40:09
Total Tracks: 9
Total Size: 434 MB

Tracklist:

01. Fay Victor – Black Woman’s Music (02:38)
02. Fay Victor – Breezy Point Ain’t Breezy (02:48)
03. Fay Victor – Vocal Layer of Pandemic Doom (Dedicated to All the Loved Ones We’ve Lost) (03:52)
04. Fay Victor – Scared To Be Happy (05:22)
05. Fay Victor – Governorship/Senate (For Stacey Abrams) (03:46)
06. Fay Victor – How Can You Do It? (05:10)
07. Fay Victor – I Will Be Erased (05:55)
08. Fay Victor – Signs (A Question For Sages Everywhere) (06:21)
09. Fay Victor – Trust The Universe (04:14)

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Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful is the very first solo record by Fay Victor, whose 30-year-long music career has covered everything from House, New Music, Jazz (Blues) and Free Improvisation. Her deep history with dance music, her genreless output, and her lived experience as a Black woman in the world shaped the brand new process she used to create this prismatic album which touches on all the decades of her life like diary snapshots. It’s a mesmerizing collection of composed work that could only be made by an extraordinary improviser.From hearing the raw, almost gospel vocal style over a heavy beat of Donna Summer and Sylvester, to obsessing over shows like Soul Train, Solid Gold, and Dance Fever on TV, to experiencing the sweat and groove, the freedom of bodies moving at NYC clubs like Danceteria, The Loft, and the Paradise Garage – her life changed forever. As she was developing as a jazz singer in Amsterdam in the 90s, she danced to trance music in clubs like Mazzo and The Soul Kitchen. She landed on the Billboard charts with a club hit “You Make Me Happy” in ’91. Stoned on the sacred dance floor, Fay found ecstasy in the moving body, the groove, the beat.

As she entered deeper into the world of jazz, she was attracted to the rhythmic qualities of Thelonious Monk, Eddie Harris, Eric Dolphy, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Betty Carter, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Nicole Mitchell, Milford Graves, Julius Hemphill, Charles Mingus, Herbie Nichols. Their confrontational rhythm sends her soul leaping, connecting her back to her clubheadheart.

With Mavin Gaye’s “Got To Give It Up” as a template, Fay started thinking about how her solo album might unfold. She sang, played keyboards, added textures and further dimensions with no other humans, without electronics. That was her process. Thoroughly creative, composed with music and words straight from her spirit.