Liner notes · About the artist
The griot colors outside the lines.
MUSIATA is a modern griot archive from St. Louis: part music catalog, part field notebook, part carnival testimony, where every song is a signal and every signal teaches something.
Warning Untamed imagination. Handle with curiosity.
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Side A · Who is singing
Not a conventional musician. A griot with a microphone.
MUSIATA moves through music, story, history and visual world-building as a griot rather than a conventional musician. Southern Africa, Manchester and St. Louis all leave their fingerprints on the work.
The songs fold Southern African memory, St. Louis, America as spectacle, and the mask, as both performance and witness, into records, project worlds, signals and commentary.
A storyteller with a historian’s appetite, an unreasonable number of questions, and a sense of humor that does not always behave.
From the liner notes of The Griot
Known symptoms
- Hears a history lesson inside a hook.
- Asks one question too many, on purpose.
- Wears the mask so you will look closer.
- Keeps the receipts. Then sets them to music.
Side B · The works
Track listing of a restless griot.
- The GriotAlbum · 16 illustrated song-chapters · forthcoming
- Quiet Is a LieAlbum · 17 tracks · out now
- Quiet Is a Lie, the novelNovel · at your favorite store
- QIALXThe archive · mu51474.com · everything leaves a trace
- Nine singles, 2026First Blue Sky to Memory Bliss
- SignalsNotes from behind the mask
Personnel
- Words, music, production
- MUSIATA
- Also appearing as
- The Griot
- Label
- Broken House Records
- Fingerprints
- Southern Africa · Manchester · St. Louis
- Instrument of choice
- The mask
- Creative state
- Restless. Unruly. Always recording.
Write to MUSIATAGet the letters from The Griot
℗ 2026 Broken House Records · Written and produced by MUSIATA
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