Angel Bat Dawid
Raw, cosmic spiritual jazz recorded on the fly. Clarinet choirs and overdubbed chants that feel like a transmission from a higher plane. Deeply soulful and defiant.
Raw, cosmic spiritual jazz recorded on the fly. Clarinet choirs and overdubbed chants that feel like a transmission from a higher plane. Deeply soulful and defiant.
A central figure in Chicago's contemporary avant-garde, multi-instrumentalist Angel Bat Dawid emerged from the city's jazz scene as a composer, clarinetist, and vocalist.
Her work is deeply rooted in the tradition of spiritual jazz, combining free improvisation, choral arrangements, and cosmic electronics. Operating as both a solo artist and a collaborator with key local ensembles, she uses her primary instrument, the clarinet, alongside keyboards and vocal overdubs to construct dense, deeply personal sonic meditations.
Angel Bat Dawid (born 1979) is an American composer, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist, producer, educator & DJ.
A cosmic afrofuturist ritual broadcast through a rusty shortwave radio
A thick cloud of incense and low woodwinds fills the room before the choir rises in a wave of mournful, towering harmony. This music moves like a Sunday service held in a basement club, where sharp clarinet cries cut through heavy organ chords and tape hiss. You are pulled into a dense, swirling space of grief and celebration, feeling the physical weight of every collective breath and the raw scrape of the strings.
Spiritual jazz captured on a cell phone
Overdubbed cell phone recordings of clarinet, bells, and vocals turn a cheap microphone into a sacred, vibrating chamber. This album perfected a low-fi spiritual jazz that feels less like a studio session and more like a private, urgent prayer whispered directly into your ear. Tape hiss acts as a warm, crackling blanket, wrapping around raw vocal chants and improvisations that refuse to be polished. By capturing these brilliant, jagged ideas in the exact moment of their creation, the music bypasses all industry filters. You are sitting on the floor of a small room, witnessing a solitary artist conjure an entire, defiant universe.
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