YATTA at First Unitarian

YATTA, the performative guise of Sierra Leonean-American musician Yatta Zoker, performs at ISSUE's 2017 fall season opening. Her recently released debut EP Spirit Said Yes!, reissued on NYC imprint PTP, mixes sounds inspired by shamanism, jazz, and drone toward meditative and unsettling ends.

YATTA is a Houston-born digipoet and musician currently based in NY. Using incantations born of loop pedal drones, folk acoustics, and ecstatic beats, they alchemize and creolize jazz vocals with Krio cries. Past performances have taken place at friends' backyards, several Afrofuturism conferences, The Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, Powrplnt, MOMA PS1 and about ~74 other places.