Georgia Anne Muldrow
Outline
A multifaceted talent who has been crossing genre boundaries between electronic, hip-hop, jazz, and R&B since her debut in '06, Georgia Anne Muldrow is a prolific singer, songwriter and producer with a pronounced tendency towards catchy grooves in the larger alternative R&B tradition. She has familial connections to the Los Angeles free jazz circles and uses the moniker Jyoti for her more jazz-heavy output, while the work she releases under her own name tends more towards the electronica-meets-R&B style. She was mixing things more in her earlier recordings that preceded the Muldrow/Jyoti bifurcation. Her music focuses on tightly built instrumental dance-floor jams, which especially drives Vweto series. Lost among her recent focus on instrumental music is her terrific voice that adds a warm layer to her implicitly jazzy electronic base when she adds vocals to her songs.
Robert Glasper, Flying Lotus, Dudley Perkins. Bilal
Muldrow also releases albums under the name of Jyoti.
She is married to and often collaborates with Dudley Perkins.
Part Roberta Flack, part Alice Coltrane, part Erykah Badu, part Gil Scott Heron