Yaya Bey has revealed details of a new EP. The Brooklyn singer-songwriter will share Exodus the North Star on March 24 via Big Dada.
Exodus the North Star follows Bey's acclaimed 2022 full-length Remember Your North Star, and features collaborations with Jay Daniel ("12 houses down"), Exaktly ("ascendent (mother fxcker)"} and Nativesun ("when saturn returns").
A video for the EP's title track can be viewed below. Calling the new six-song set "my most vulnerable work to date," Bey shared the following of her latest:
This is how I see joy and love in the world and what I aspire to feel and be. I have become an expert at turning my pain and grief as a black woman into music. Black people have a masterful way of telling our stories and sharing pain, but we are also masters of joy and imagination. We have always been in a global conversation about how to alchemize our experiences and reimagine our circumstances. From the ties between Lovers Rock and R&B to Gospel and House. Our joy is a collective effort.
I rarely write about what I would like my existence to be in this world. This is a new level of vulnerability for me. Proclaiming my desires. What I've come to learn I deserve. This is my thank you to my people: my peers, the elders and the ancestors for being in this work with me. Cheers to the future.
Exodus the North Star:
1. exodus the north star
2. on the pisces moon
3. when saturn returns
4. munerah
5. 12 houses down
6. ascendent (mother fxcker) (feat. Exaktly)
Exodus the North Star follows Bey's acclaimed 2022 full-length Remember Your North Star, and features collaborations with Jay Daniel ("12 houses down"), Exaktly ("ascendent (mother fxcker)"} and Nativesun ("when saturn returns").
A video for the EP's title track can be viewed below. Calling the new six-song set "my most vulnerable work to date," Bey shared the following of her latest:
This is how I see joy and love in the world and what I aspire to feel and be. I have become an expert at turning my pain and grief as a black woman into music. Black people have a masterful way of telling our stories and sharing pain, but we are also masters of joy and imagination. We have always been in a global conversation about how to alchemize our experiences and reimagine our circumstances. From the ties between Lovers Rock and R&B to Gospel and House. Our joy is a collective effort.
I rarely write about what I would like my existence to be in this world. This is a new level of vulnerability for me. Proclaiming my desires. What I've come to learn I deserve. This is my thank you to my people: my peers, the elders and the ancestors for being in this work with me. Cheers to the future.
Exodus the North Star:
1. exodus the north star
2. on the pisces moon
3. when saturn returns
4. munerah
5. 12 houses down
6. ascendent (mother fxcker) (feat. Exaktly)