Georgia Anne Muldrow has shared an amazing new video for “Mufaro’s Garden,” off VWETO III, out today via FORESEEN Entertainment / Epistrophik Peach Sound. The third installment of her ongoing beat tape series, which showcases the more hip-hop-oriented side of her production, was composed, performed, recorded, arranged, produced, mixed, and mastered by the multi-faceted artist. With special attention paid to the album’s sound design, it is a headphone masterpiece full of spacious ambiance. In The New York Times feature and interview with Jon Pareles this week, Erykah Badu says this about the polymath:
“It’s as if she’s from another time somewhere, an ancient-future where it meets and warps together, and she walked out of it looking like the female Jimi Hendrix, the young Marcus Garvey, swinging music like Stevie Wonder.”
Artist and activist AnAkA has directed the new video for “Mufaro’s Garden,” and it also finds Georgia making a cameo appearance as the Garden Spirit. The director’s gift for visual storytelling is fully displayed, supported by Muldrow’s creative direction and styling, which adds sumptuous details to this dream-like story. Here, “Mufaro’s Garden” is a wondrous place seeming to offer unlimited creative potential to those free enough to enjoy its delights.
