AJA MONET • the surrealist blues poet defines the colour of rain ('The Color Of Rain' • 22 May on Drink Sum Wtr) #673
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This week Pip is joined by the incredible musician and poet AJA MONET!
To use a couple of words to sum up the essence of someone is a strange thing indeed, and this subject comes up in this chat too. The idea of indentity versus what one strives for. This is most definitely an episode for the appreciators of the craft of poetry, but not ONLY that - it's more like a demonstration of why everything else around it matters so much, and how poetry is achieved by plugging into community, society, and life its very self. It's fascinating hearing about Aja's New York upbringing, and how exposure to the urban envrionment and the people within it helped cultivate the person she would grow into - Aja really does live and embody the life of a creator, and the self-proclaimed status of 'surrealist blues poet' is perfect indeed. You'll definitely get a huge amount from the chat if you yourself are involved in words, but if you're in the least bit creative and find that side of your life as crucial as air and water, you'll get so much from the chat. Peep the new album 'The Color Of Rain' at your nearest opportunity in the links below!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the Distraction Pieces podcast, episode 673. And my guest today is an absolute dream. I'm joined today for a wonderful hour of chatter with Ajamonnet. I've got a stammer, so M's are always a struggle. |
| 0:19.5 | Adjermonet, let's say it again. |
| 0:21.3 | A wonderful poet, writer, performer, activist, all of these things. |
| 0:27.0 | I'll tell you this. |
| 0:28.7 | I did so much prep for this and it was such a joy to do |
| 0:31.7 | because she's such a fascinating person and just a joy to enjoy her art and just to read up on on research. So I had so |
| 0:42.4 | many things I wanted to talk about, but an hour's only a short amount of time. And we covered a lot |
| 0:47.9 | in depth and in beauty. It's a really beautiful conversation. This if you're not familiar, |
| 0:53.9 | you're about to get familiar. |
| 0:55.8 | The new album, The Color of Rain, is out now and it's fantastic. |
| 0:59.8 | We talk a chunk about that. |
| 1:01.7 | We talk about previous albums. |
| 1:04.2 | We talk about their beautiful Tiny Desk performance. |
| 1:08.0 | Speaking of Tiny Desk, I stream over on Twitch, twitch.tv.tv.tv. |
| 1:11.7 | Slavis Pipio. And on Fridays, I do song battles, but sometimes on a Saturday afternoon, |
| 1:17.9 | we just watch a load of Tiny Desk performances. If you're not familiar with Tiny Desk, |
| 1:22.5 | it's this amazing thing put on by NPR where they have people into their office to do a performance |
| 1:27.1 | at the desks. |
| 1:28.4 | And it's wonderful. And one of the ones we watched on there was Ajumonet and it was, |
| 1:32.7 | it was beautiful. We absolutely adored it. So yeah, we're also brought to you by speech |
| 1:38.6 | available records.com. We talk a lot about capitalism in art as well. And that's, you know, where we have music for sale and we have merch for sale and we have amazing people like you support our art. |
| 1:56.9 | Another place that you can support me is patron.com forward slash scrupious pip. |
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