M. Lamar coined the term “Negrogothic” in 2010 to describe the music he was making. In these days Lamar’s music theater and art songs evoked the horror and romance of the gothic novel down deep in black Americans plantation roots. By 2015 he had shifted to writing operas for the apocalyptic revenge fantasies animating many down-tempo, dirge-like African American Spirituals. Lamar’s current compositions channel free jazz visionary Sun Ra, whom Lamar calls Earth’s first Glam Rocker.

In I Want It All to End, Lamar sits down at the piano to play us through – and retrace for himself – his evolution in the luminous darkness with a set of some of his definitive songs, arranged especially for Pangea. I Want It All to End is M. Lamar’s grand statement within the avant-garde genre he invented. It is his newest final word on the Negrogothic in an age of Afrofuturist revival.

“Mr. Lamar plumbs the depths of all-American trauma with visionary verve.” The New York Times

“[H]e deconstructs the persona of the diva even as he wraps himself in divalike hauteur.” – Hilton Als, The New Yorker

“Through his music, he has commented on the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, slave ships, and lynching.” Vice Magazine

“Lamar’s Goth-postpunk-diva affect is fused with his operatic style to create a me?lange that cannot be named.” – KQED

“When talking about his art, Lamar is an intellectual powerhouse, but his work is informed by that thinking — not constrained by it. It is as emotional as it is thoughtful.” – Out Magazine

M. Lamar is a composer who works across opera, metal, performance, video, sculpture and installation to craft sprawling narratives of radical becomings. Lamar holds a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and attended the Yale School of Art, sculpture program, before dropping out to pursue music. Lamar’s work has been presented internationally, most recently at The Rewire Festival in The Hague, Trauma Bar Berlin, Atrium na Z?iz?kove? Prague, The Manhattan School of Music, Wellcome Collection London, The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, Funkhaus Berlin Germany, Kunstgeba?ude Stuttgart, The Meet Factory in Prague, among others.

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