Cipota Adam Falkner – Michael Mlekoday

– Michael Mlekoday

Simply put

Composition interrogates the historical perceptions of Blackness and biracial identity as documented through a Southern Lens

and the process of recovery

— Tyehimba Jess

Cipota Adam Falkner – Michael MlekodayChelsea Guevaras Cipota breathes a lineage into a songmaking music of ancestral memory: dirges of heartbreak and generational trauma, anthems of rage and reclamation, ballads of love and homecoming. Guevaras voice enchants as she delves into history, ancestry, and the selfreaching for a lineage that has been battered by strife and strangled by colonialism. She moves through place and memory with deft skill and earnest humanity. Cipota examines the