//shrouded\\
the spoken word experience
Experience the original poetry and layered soundscapes from the live performance of //shrouded\\
Created by jaamil olawale kosoko
Executive Producer Kingsley Ibeneche and jaamil olawale kosoko
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
The Tracklist:
Follow the Night
Sin
Becoming Anti-Christ
Onticide
abyss (for Jordan Neely)
Effigy
//shrouded\\
Brother in the Tunnel
Black Love
Presidential Reality Show, 47
Scrolling Urban Kill-floors
Black joy is the protest
Memory Origin
This album serves as a "multi-sensorial transmitter". Listeners are encouraged to treat the tracks as "sonic rituals" that allow the archive to open gently.