//shrouded\\ — The Album
A Sonic Archive of Resistance.
Experience the original poetry and layered soundscapes of the Lincoln Center debut. Created by jaamil olawale kosoko and Kingsley Ibeneche. Releasing Late May 2026.
A collaboration between 2026 Guggenheim Fellow jaamil olawale kosoko and Nigerian-born musician Kingsley Ibeneche
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is a multi-spirited Nigerian American choreographer, author, performance artist, and curator. Their interdisciplinary practice merges performance, video, sculpture, and poetry, exploring queer Black theory, emergence, and rest-care strategies for BIPOC+ liberation and reparation.
Jaamil is the author of Black Body Amnesia: Poems and Other Speech Acts and two chapbooks, Animal in Cyberspace and Notes of an Urban Kill-Floor. Their works—including The (chrysalis) Archives, Black Body Amnesia, Chameleon, Séancers, and the Bessie-nominated #negrophobia—have toured internationally to venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, EMPAC, ICA at VCU, Montréal Arts Interculturels, New York Live Arts, and the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Kosoko’s honors include the Doris Duke Performing Arts Technology Lab Grant, NEFA National Dance Project, LMCC’s Extended Life Residency, a Pew Fellowship, and the Princeton Arts Fellowship, among others.
Kingsley UGŪM Ibeneche is a Nigerian American multidisciplinary artist, singer-songwriter, and choreographer based in Camden, NJ. His expansive practice explores the intersections of afro-collectivism, House music, and the use of Afro folklore as a rhythmic and spiritual code.
As a versatile performer and DJ, Ibeneche’s work centers on the "sacred gathering," creating sonic and movement-based environments that foster community and cultural remembrance. He is a key collaborator and co-director in the work of jaamil olawale kosoko, contributing significant musical and performance expertise to the site-responsive spatial intervention //shrouded\.
In addition to his stage work, Ibeneche is a professor and a recording artist. He recently co-composed the original scores and musical arrangements for the //shrouded\ album, a project that transmutes poetry and ritual soundscapes into a "sonic archive of resistance." Whether through a live DJ set or a choreographed performance, Ibeneche continues to navigate the thresholds of sound and spirit, treating art as a vital tool for world-building and collective liberation
Who it’s for
Artists, cultural bearers, and neurodivergent creators seeking a "small room of time" to breathe and remember
The Tension: Our "tender instruments of perception" are worn down by a culture of urgency and algorithmic extraction. We lack the infrastructure to process memory at a humane pace.
The Offering: This album is a portable "Reflection & Decompression Zone". It uses Creative Arbitrage to transmute inherited grief into sacred living currency.
The Tracklist:
1. Sin Redefining the holiness of the body where flesh is religion and breath becomes scripture.
2. Becoming Anti-Christ A poetic critique of the "fallen god of the algorithm" and the extraction of collective attention.
3.Onticide Navigating the lethal "roulette" of Black existence and the refusal to be categorized by the white imagination.
4. Abyss (for Jordan Neely) A sonic elegy exploring the "fatal attraction" and the lack of air inside empire.
5. Effigy Transmuting inherited trauma and the "hot rooms of the body" into a burnt blessing.
6. //shrouded\\ (Interlude) The primary technology of slowing, inviting the listener into a "small room of time" to breathe.
7. Brother in the Tunnel Archiving the unrecorded histories of unread texts and fragmented kinship across the tracks.
8. Brother in the Tunnel Archiving the unrecorded histories of unread texts and fragmented kinship across the tracks.
9. Presidential (Reality Show 47) Navigating the "logics of capture" and the smoke and mirrors of a nation built on spectacle.
10. Scrolling Urban Kill-Floors A poetic intervention against digital extraction, mapping the elegies written in the ruins of the forgotten.
11. Black Joy is the Protest The final ritual of survival, reclaiming joy as a birthright and a constant spiritual conjure.
12. What is Black Love? Exploring intimacy as a site of refuge and the sensory experience of liberation.
This album serves as a "multi-sensorial transmitter". Listeners are encouraged to treat the tracks not just as music, but as "sonic rituals" that allow the archive to open gently.
The project will be available in late May 2026 on Bandcamp