Theaster Gates and the Black Monks: Amalgam Vinyl
Produced by James William Blades, Amalgam is composed of eleven songs that provide the soundtrack to Theaster Gates’s film Dance of Malaga (2019), which premiered at the artist’s solo exhibition Amalgam at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in 2018. Inspired by the forced relocation of mixed-race people from Malaga Island in Maine, the exhibition explored the fraught interweaving of race, territory, and inequality.
The album is pressed on two heavyweight 180-gram black vinyl and housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring stills from the film and two inner sleeves featuring installation photography of the exhibition.