A LIFE COLLABORATIVE

Organic Music Societies edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Naima Karlsson and Magnus Nygren
Blank FormsApril 2021Selected by Claire de Rouen

A significant release from Blank Forms in New York, evincing the radical creativity and milieu of trumpeter Don Cherry and artist Moki Cherry. The Cherrys were committed to dissolving conventional boundaries between art and life, and as such their home in rural Sweden was as much performance space and centre for communal living as it was a setting for family life. Organic Music Societies offers deep insight through interviews, essays and documentary photographs, as well as reproductions of flyers, notes and artworks (Moki Cherry’s tapestries are a special highlight). The values important to them; adaptability, creativity, self-sufficiency, communality and spirituality feel especially inspiring in our current time.
– Lucy Kumara Moore