Concert Review: Madame Gandhi Was A Work of Art At MoMA

Here is why I like Madame Gandhi; She is A FIERCE KWEEN! Now, kween has been the millennial version of “queen”, which, in essence, is for the everyday woman that owns her creativity, femininity, and complete power. Madame Gandhi is LITERALLY that person, and in her set at MoMa, showed why music is art.

The way Madame Gandhi plays her drums, sings her tracks, and prowls the stage like a panther in the jungle left everyone in a jealous awe. How wonderful would it be to command attention with a personal aura of dare and danger. Yet, the fascinating thing about Madam Gandhi is that she shows danger is not always about the harm you can cause as much as the healing. What a world it would be, if we all empowered our eccentricities and unique voices/ talents? Thisidea pervades throughout Madame Gandhi’s set, and tracks like, “I Own My Own Voice”, “The Future Is Female”, and “Her”. She is so fiercely about freedom and living in harmonic difference. There is no way that everybody is exactly the same, but this truth drapes us in a veil of commonality/ community. Madame Gandhi has an ethereal voice that feels like it is floating in spoken word. Each verse drops like poetry unto pillows, and each sentiment builds like sandcastles. You watch as she multi-tasks between instrumentals, vocal, entertainer, crowd- controller, and overall goddess. She completely sees her role as an artist is intertwined with her moral role as a human being/ civilian on earth, which made me respect her. Thus, greatest aspect of her performance is that it is all done with a purpose, which made her fit in at MoMA.

I love when artists understand music as a comment towards society while also being a comment of it. Yes, reflection is great and all, but, if you do not give an assessment afterwards, what is the point? You reflect to assess, and you asses to act. Every beat she punches, every moment she shook her hips, and every verse she sailed like a candle down a river, was made with the idea that she had to motivate her audience to think: not just feel. It was not enough that her rhythms like, “Yellow” and “Gandhi Blues” made me want to climb up the Chrysler building like King Kong, she also wanted me to walk away and be able to analyze the film for its social commentary. The beauty is that her music is made for every gym workout and club dance-floor you can find. Hip Hop, electronica, pop and even flares of jazz feel like alternating flames burning through her sound and smoking through your ears.Hence, she has mashed together physical stimulation with spiritual/ mental growth to give music that will leave you, literally, in better shape before you listened. For More Information On Madame Gandhi Click Here.