aja monet ‘elsewhere’ (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello & Georgia Anne Muldrow)
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today’s Top Tune: aja monet ‘elsewhere’ (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello & Georgia Anne Muldrow)
Surrealist blues poet aja monet announces her new album the color of rain, out May 22, and shares the standout track “elsewhere.” Featuring Georgia Anne Muldrow, Meshell Ndegeocello, and your friend in frequency Novena Carmel, the song is a luminous homage to Sly Stone, blending poetry, soul, and jazz into a deeply spiritual groove. Across the album, monet dissolves the boundaries between genres, crafting a powerful, dreamlike meditation on love, resistance, and the urgency of the present moment.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? You are tuned in to elsewhere radio where we got all rhythm, no algorithm. |
| 0:19.7 | And if you're ready to take flight into the great unknown, |
| 0:21.6 | I've got something new just for you. |
| 0:24.6 | So strap in and stay tuned for the best in Surreal Blues, |
| 0:28.6 | from Aja Monnet. |
| 0:30.6 | So we're going to the elsewhere. |
| 0:32.6 | Every day, every day, we all have to you, every day every day |
| 0:39.3 | every day |
| 0:42.3 | we be |
| 0:45.3 | somebodyness |
| 0:47.3 | when the street lights in your veins go on |
| 0:51.3 | and some are walking up and down the sidewalk of your grin |
| 0:57.0 | diamonds twinkling on the street the thirst of our cool on the shorelines of a smile |
| 1:10.0 | washing up against moon shuttle-lit eyes |
| 1:14.5 | Freeing impulses |
| 1:17.0 | Whereas folk we loar |
| 1:19.4 | Laughter in the face of death |
| 1:22.7 | The carnival of flowers sprouting from clothes, fists, earth skin, |
| 1:29.3 | the perfume of stones kissing cuss words, |
| 1:33.3 | the rhythm echo and reverend, riffing. |
| 1:37.3 | We're the garments of Jupiter genius, sparkling of spaceships. |
| 1:45.0 | Scattered in desire, dressed in vibration, |
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