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Artist
JJJJJerome Ellis
12+ albums
jazzspoken wordexperimentalambientelectronic
about
”I have an ongoing practice of spelling my name JJJJJerome Ellis. I do this because the word I stutter on most frequently is my name.” JJJJJerome Ellis (any pronoun) is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American artist, surfer, and person who stutters. The artist works across music, performance, writing, video, and photography. Concepts that organize the artist’s practice include: unknowing, improvisation, fugitivity, illegibility, inheritance, opacity, prayer, gap, contradiction, aporia, eternity, unpredictability, interruption, and silence. Ellis researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. The artist’s body of work includes: contemplative soundscapes using saxophone, flute, dulcimer, electronics, and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure archival documents. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Small Baptism
1,6742Evensong, part 1 (for and after June Kramer)
1,3453Evensong, part 2 (for and after James Harrison Monaco)
1,1214Vesper Sparrow (feat. Haruna Lee, James Harrison Monaco, Ronald Peet, and S T A R R (busby))
8325Loops of Retreat
8286Savannah Sparrow (for and after Kenita Miller)
7087Evensong, part 3 (for and after Jessica Valoris)
6488Evensong, part 4 (for and after okcandice)
6439Jede Krankheit ist ein musikalisches Problem
57310Dysfluent Waters
564albums
The Clearing
Vesper Sparrow
Fountain #3
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Evensong, part 1 (for and after June Kramer)
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Loops of Retreat
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Vesper Sparrow (feat. Haruna Lee, James Harrison Monaco, Ronald Peet, and S T A R R (busby))
Compline in Nine Movements
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Fountain #3 - Single
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Compline In Nine Movements (Preview)
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Stepney
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Dysfluent Waters
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Loops of Retreat (Single Edit)