Georgia Anne Muldrow has the sort of voice that feels like it it was born out of Sun Ra's most celestial jazz reveries. There's something vast and haunting about it. And, like Sun Ra, she shares an outspoken afrocentric world view that has shines through almost every aspect of her music. With her young son playing in the background, Georgia spoke to me about her work, African spirituality and slightly less than favourable opinion of Barack Obama.

Tell me about your newest album.
The album was from the heart, it's an album for everybody. Every time I make an album they say it's different from before. I just evolved as an artist. I don't stay in one musical style every day. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do, to take risks and explore what's inside themselves and do what's safe all the time. The song writing in this album is very direct. It's for our global community and it's encouraging our people to be themselves. That's always been the focal point of my work. It's a nuance on the same point. I seek to do my part in the world's liberation on the African side. Whatever direction the album takes I'm still being guided by the ancestors.

What do you mean by global community?
I'm talking about everyone. I want peace on earth but there isn't going to be any if black people can't unify. There's no peace on earth if there's no peace within. So I see the microcosm and the macrocosm as a whole. I want my people to get together so their can be a real unity. I see a lot of other groups that are together and I feel like ours is dis-unified. And, our disunity is very orchestrated. I think music is a very unifying instrument of awareness, you can just let it seep into you and I don't want to use it in vain. I've seen how much music has molded people's minds to covet things that aren't even necessary.

Tell me more about this Ancestry
Well, who are the first people here? Africans. That is the mother of all humanity. They are the source of wisdom right now. I look towards the African ancestors because they have been the source of spiritual cultivation. I'll approach them and not the people who remixed it. I'm not going to go to a Catholic church to get to the roots of my spirituality, that comes so much later than the first human being to walk this planet. I'm not gonna look to a pope for wisdom, can you dig it?

Is there not some truth in all religion?
If there was no truth they wouldn't be able to trap people with it. The truth is the bait. The rest of it is lies, deception and separation. Psychic trauma, mental rape. The ancient truths, everyone has to use them.

Is there any particular religion you subscribe to?
I don't do religion. I don't have to. I can roll with things that are a lot more concrete. When I'm in contact with my ancestors, I don't need religion. They guide me, they show me what drum patterns to use, I walk with them.

How have you become open to this way of living?
Getting rid of religious patterns in my brain. Understanding that there is no spooky God somewhere looming over us. Even though I knew God existed somewhere inside of me, there is so much social programming that goes on. Once I cut the cord on the Jesus thing, I was pretty cool from there. I was raised observing all faiths as legit but I don't think that's really healthy either. All these faiths were set up not only to enslave but to put our people to sleep.

What do you mean by our people?
I mean exactly what I said. It ended up enslaving all ethnicities but there were a lot of practices that were meant to enslave specifically African people. Prior to that time we were the caretakers of this planet and our knowledge was very vast and focused on a person becoming their spiritual best. It got replaced by the idea that you could never be your best because God is always better than you. I'm honoured at all people that chose to participate in what I'm doing but I think everyone understands that I'm here for my people.
When I refer to my African self its not just to remind myself that I'm black but to pay homage to the process of liberation that's been going on for a very long time in these United Snakes of America. The new music might sound different because I have a direct approach, you can hear what I mean. I'm sharpening my spear every moment. Dudley and I have a very militant purpose, even though musical is a beautiful instrument. War is being waged on us every single second.

Is this an issue of class or race?
I'm not gonna go the communist route. It is a racist issue and a class issue. Poor people have it hard. At the same time, there's an active assault on my cultural identity. People may say I'm being exclusive but I've got the right to say whatever I want to say. It's part of our colonial training to be forced to include everyone all the time. When the cash crop was set up and the Duke of York was doing his thug thizzle, do you think he was including everybody? Yes, I want the whole world could be together, that's why I'm a musician, but we have to deal with our own issues first. I do this music for the sake of love, I really do love everybody and that's why I'm so bad.

What is your opinion on Barack Obama?
I think it's evil the way they dressed this man up as he was going to save the world. Because his daddy was black but didn't even have anything to do with his life half the time and we're supposed to accept this as black. His first Friday in office, he bombed somewhere. That doesn't sound like change to me. That sounds like a continuation of the cold world war that Clinton had waged in the first place. That sound like the same old bullshit to me. I'm just sad to see it happen that way, I think grown people should be smarter than that. People with the reasoning to even graduate college, I mean, shoot, I've got a high school proficiency exam not even a dog gone GED, still I got more sense to know that bombing a place is not gonna bring peace on earth. All these politicians and learned people talk about how he has to play the game to get in, you think he's ever going to stop playing the game? People believed he was going to change when he got in which was a really stupid thing to believe.

‘Kings Ballad’ is out now on Ubiquity Records.