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The Clibretto (How Many Womxn Are In Your Band​?​)

by Brittany Anjou / Bi TYRANT feat. Jessica Lurie | Moon Mode

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Unofficial ghost release and sneak preview of Bi TYRANT's upcoming album featuring Jessica Lurie, "Bi TYRANT Drops A Deuce" 2024

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The Clibretto (How Many Womxn Are In Your Band)
Music bi the Friendly Bears (originally Horse), Lyrics bi Bi TYRANT
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If you think vagina havers don’t understand complexities in
jazz improvisation

If you only listen to cis het men who play instruments, well
you’re the fucking problem

You’re a basic bitch
Go do your fucking homework
Cuz the womxn all be slaying

You’re just a basic bitch (duh nuh nuh nahhh)
You’re just a basic basic bitch

Go do the work
The inner work or you will die of obsoletion

If you only listen to cishet men who play instruments and book or hire them
You’re the fucking problem in the industry!
You’re a basic bitch
Go do your fucking homework

Womxn in jazz are bad – they slay all day
Harder than you could ever play
Self yourself don’t emasculate
Go do the work
To to to be deserving

Dying obsolete die obsolete
Yes you’ll be dying obsolete, dying obsolete now
Dying obsolete
Die die die die die ob-so-lete

Do- do- do -do -do do do
Do do do do do do do do do
We are enough, we are enough, we are enough, we are enough (3 - 4)

(we are all enough, we are all enough)

How many women are in your band?
How many women do you understand?
How many women play in your tour?
How many women come to your show?
How many women do you promote?
How many women for do you vote?
How many women do you respect?
How many women will we elect?

(register to vote, register to vote...)

If the US does not elect a female, queer, trans, or non-binary president we will self destruct in 4, 3, 2, 1

Dying ob-solete die obsolete

Women in jazz are bad
They slay all day

Women compose in every form, polyrhythms and tetrachords
If you will book a jazz woman, then I think you must understand
Jazz is the place for every face, gender, and race
In outerspace outerspace outerspace outerspace outerspace outerspace!

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released March 8, 2024
Bi TYRANT

Brittany Anjou - vox, lyrics, piano, vibraphone, arrangement
Jessica Lurie - flute, bari
Valerie Vetere aka Rich Bennett - guitar
Laura Cromwell - drums
Mary Feaster - bass

Composition originally titled "Horse" by Tim Byrnes, Friendly Bears, 2002

Martin Bisi - engineering / mixing / production

Recorded at:
BC Studios in the Gowanus, Brooklyn, NYC
June 2022, Vocal dubs in Nov 2023

Overdubs at The Hibernaculum, South Berwick, Maine
Engineered by John Mettam, July 2023

Overdubs at Studio G, engineered bi Rich Bennett, August 2023

Photo bi Alice Teeple

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Brittany Anjou New York, New York

Brooklyn composer, pianist, multi-instrumentalist, lead singer of Bi TYRANT, Anjou is one of a few to record and tour with The Shaggs. In 2019, she released her album Enamiĝo Reciprokataj on Origin Records to critical international acclaim. Her latest album, Nong Voru / Fake Love (2021) with xylophonist Alfred Kpebesaane is out on Chant Records. ... more

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