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There's a difference between being immersed in music and getting lost in it. If the former is protective and predictable, the latter revels in chance and the unexpected. MuthaWit? Definitely the latter.
MuthaWit is a furiously evolving multi-cultural outfit whose musical performances marry a soulful rock dynamic with free jazz experimentation, classical sensitivity and avant-garde electronics/visuals. Established in by award-winning nomadic composer, designer, filmmaker and URB ALT founder Boston Fielder, members of MuthaWit's 5-24 piece orchestra have worked with Parliament/Funkadelic, Sting, TV On The Radio, Curtis Mayfield, The Family Stand, Olu Dara, Herbie Hancock, Jay Z and Organized Noize among others. MuthaWit has been instrumental in the production of the increasingly popular URB ALT Festival annually based in NYC. Focused as the "house band" for performing national solo artists on the bill as well as a stand-alone musical outfit, MuthaWit has embedded its sonic imprint in URB ALT's eclectic music/film events for the 3 years of festival's existence as well as the 9 years of the ongoing URB ALT showcase.
Rejoicing in the intensity of their eclectic musical testimony, MuthaWit lures the listener through an artistic experience that is wildly entertaining and sonically provocative.
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Muthawit Returns To The Post-2012 Election Musical Battlefield With The Epic Socio-Political Firebomb Recording, PMS Junkie
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Boston Fielder’s musical collective releases irresistible set of original avant rock, electronic n soul songs on URB ALT Media What has been said about MuthaWit: “If post-punk soul is a genre, then that’s what Muthawit is doing" - MTViggy “MuthaWit featuring Boston Fielder is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting of the musical hemispheres, mutatis mutandis and presto! - a carnival of twisted soul." - Magnet Magazine Anderson, Virgin Islands. The words “mission accomplished" have strangely come to represent unfinished ...
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The MuthaWit Orchestra celebrates MLK Holiday with "These Songs of Freedom" featuring songs by Marley, Mayfield and other revolutionary Artists
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The MuthaWit Orchestra performs for BAM's 26th Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Event What has been said about The MuthaWit Orchestra: “MuthaWit is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting of the musical hemispheres, mutatis mutandis and presto!—a carnival of twisted soul." —Magnet Magazine “Boston Fielder and MuthaWit are Gods in the universe they have created and these songs, which you must hear, are their Adam and Eve, cloned to a fallen and disrupted infinity." —The Wire UK New York, ...
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URB ALT Festival celebrates 6 Years in a night of experimental and hip hop fusion featuring MuthaWit with special guest Jneiro Jarel and other artists
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NEW YORK, NY: URB ALT Festival, the music/visual arts/film event dedicated to presenting the cutting edge in alternative lifestyles rolls out for the sixth year in New York City. URB ALT has programmed highly eclectic bills in the past with artists such as Parliament/Funkadelic, Twin Shadow, Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, Kaki King and writer/activist Farai Chideya. 2011 is no different. The main performance bill at Rebel NYC on September 30 features the rock/soul/jazz mutants of MuthaWit collaborating ...
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MuthaWit pours it on for URB ALT Festival 2011 with release of spicy music video "Wasted (Fill My House With Salt)"
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New York, NY: Multi-national experimentalists MuthaWit celebrate the September 25th launch of URB ALT Festival 2011 with the immediate release of their maniacally paced video “Wasted (Fill My House With Salt)." Nodding towards the legendary Stanley Kubrick, video directors Bighead Scientists showcase live band footage mixed with the studio based antics of MuthaWit singer/songwriter/producer Boston Fielder. “Wasted" projects the sheer exuberance of MuthaWit's 3-24 piece live show from frame to frame. It is the second single off of MuthaWit's current ...
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MuthaWit comes home to roost with release and stream of epic LP "men & women (la Revenge de Uncle Baldy)
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MuthaWit's new release men & women (la Revenge de Uncle Baldy) is homage to blues/jazz teacher of Elvis Presley What has been said about MuthaWit: “If post-punk soul is a genre, then that's what Muthawit is doing" —MTViggy “Boston Fielder and MuthaWit are Gods in the universe they have created and these songs, which you must hear, are their Adam and Eve, cloned to a fallen and disrupted infinity." —The Wire, UK “MuthaWit is simultaneously urban and tribal; a meeting ...
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URB Alt Festival 2010 Declares That 5 is the Magic Number During NYC Summer with Muthawit, Faith, Jneiro Jarel, Twin Shadow, Leila Adu and More!
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Popular URB ALT Festival celebrates 5th Anniversary with a 2001: A Space Odyssey tribute featuring Jneiro Jarel at The Harlem School of the Arts; outdoors in Saint Nicholas Park with Faith, Twin Shadow and others; a Galapagos Artspace Miles Davis “Bitches Brew" tribute featuring URB ALT Orchestra; and a night of movies and music at 92Y Tribeca with Leila Adu and MuthaWit Orchestra
“URB ALT Festival features artists that are exemplars of boundary crossing, synthesis and unification." - The Village ...
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URB ALT Gets Experienced with Jimi Hendrix Tribute Featuring Muthawit Orchestra, Leila Adu and Guests
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MuthaWit Orchestra, Leila Adu and special guests perform in celebration of the legacy of Jimi Hendrix.
“URB ALT features artists that are exemplars of boundary crossing, synthesis and unification." --The Village Voice
NEW YORK, NY -- The URB ALT showcase of cutting edge multi- cultural music/film/visual/literary artists explores the musical discography of legendary rocker, Jimi Hendrix on his birthday Friday, November 27th. The night of alternative music presented at Galapagos Artspace in Dumbo features the avant-garde classical/blues vocal and piano ...
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The URB ALT Festival 07 Finale Shatters the Fourth Wall with Muthawit and Special Guests in Tribute of Love Maestro, Barry White
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The Village Voice recently stated that the URB ALT Festival features artists who are “exemplars of boundary crossing, synthesis and unification." The fourth and final night of the URB ALT Festival showcases the mutant rock-soul-jazz-classical stalwarts of MuthaWit performing with special guests in homage to the Maestro of Love, Barry White. URB ALT founder states that “Barry White's artistry has transcended genre and time by expertly walking the fine line between high art and a wink. I dare anyone to ...
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Independent Artists Kaki King, Faith, Devi, Omg and Muthawit Celebrate Independence Day and Ol Blue Eyes During Urb Alt Fest 07 at the Shrine in NYC!
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New York, NY - June 25-The third night is indeed the charm as URB ALT Festival 2007 rolls into Harlem's Shrine World Music Venue in homage to the chairman of the board, Frank Sinatra. In two short years the URB ALT Festival has become known for programming ecletic bills of national and underground artists who are on the creative edge of music and film. This exciting July 7th show features the alternative electronica/ rock/folk guitar virtuosity of Kaki King; the ...
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URB ALT Fest 07 Dances Around Faison Firehouse with Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, Muthawit, Otto Fischer, Nerdkween, Shena Verrett and Others
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Harlem, NY - June 14. Night two of URB ALT Festival 2007 finds multiple artists visiting Harlem's famed Faison Firehouse Theater in celebration of the London helmed seminal priests of dreampop/shoegaze music, AR Kane. The URB ALT Festival is a 4 night, 4 venue music/film event that focuses a light on underground and national acts who produce work that is worthy of mainstream note. This June 23d show will feature the soulfully barbed experimental rock of TV On The Radio's, ...
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Alternative Press "MuthaWit has a drawling, hallucinatory quality that recalls early Funkadelic's loosest, most frighteningly aware moments."
Atlanta Journal/Constitution "MuthaWit's music is a place that more readily suggests the dense, expressionist swirls of painting, the mixed media density of performance art and the powerful instrumentation of Sun Ra or the Miles Davis of "On the Corner." As music, this vast cycle of trips begs to be seen, and demands the same type of active participation as would a postmodern opera by Robert Wilson.
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