AJA MONET - The Color Of Rain - CD PEARLS BEFORE SWINE and I wasted no time

and I wasted no time in signing them to a contract — on the spot

together with pilot Roger Peterson

“Control This” swaggered with menace and reverb

Cantu-Ledesma embraced the possibilities of openness and chance: allowing for the interplay of sounds to guide its course under the direction of the album’s collaborators: Omer Shemesh (piano

AJA MONET - The Color Of Rain - CD PEARLS BEFORE SWINE and I wasted no timeCD aja monet is a Surrealist Blues Poet, recording artist, and bandleader whose work moves fluidly between poetry, music, and political expression. Emerging from New York Citys Lower East Side spoken word scene, she became the youngest recipient of the Nuyorican Grand Slam Poetry title before expanding her practice into genre defying musical performance rooted in jazz, blues, and experimental sound. Her debut poetry album, when the poems do what they