Black Shaman
Strikes Back
Marc Marcel’s 22nd album, the follow-up to his GRAMMY®-nominated Black Shaman, and the first spoken word album ever turned into a full-length film.
“Come take a journey with me.”
In 2026, I earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Black Shaman, in the Best Spoken Word Poetry category. This is the follow-up to that album, Black Shaman Strikes Back, and it’s being listened to 300 years into the future.
The album follows StaJe, who is on a mission to listen to the album Black Shaman Strikes Back. My 22nd album carries the same production ingredients as my prior albums, cinematic, but this year, I took the leap forward and brought visuals to the production. I turned a spoken word poetry album into a full-length feature film. This isn’t just an album with a movie attached to it — the album is the score and soundtrack to the film itself, built as one single work from the ground up.
This is the most complete artistic expression I’ve ever put into a single body of work.
I set out to show what spoken word can be — not confined to one sound, one mood, one register. So alongside the ambient, new-age production that shaped Black Shaman, this album moves through hip hop, EDM, and classical arrangements, all built to serve the poetry rather than decorate it.
The original goal was simple: expand what spoken word is allowed to be. I didn’t know yet that the expansion wouldn’t stop at sound — that it would eventually demand a film to hold it.
— Marc MarcelHear the album
Black Shaman Strikes Back
The first ever full-length spoken word poetry movie.
Black Shaman Strikes Back: the first spoken word album ever turned into a full-length film. GRAMMY®-nominated poet Marc Marcel writes, directs and edits an AI-assisted visual world built entirely from his own poetry — proof that spoken word was never meant to stay on the page.
Tracklist
- 01No One
- 02Moment in the Sun
- 03Whachamacallit
- 04Psychedelic Trauma Culture Vulture
- 05Gypsy Eyes
- 06Adam
- 07The Observer Effect
- 08ICE Out
- 09Air
- 10Martians
- 1111:11
- 12In the Light
Credits
- StaJe
- Leandro Alvarez
- Malina Moye
- Devy Ross
- Alisha Magnus-Louis
- Leandro Alvarez
- Kitt Wakeley
- Alexis Barbosa
- The Intangible
- Scooby Trillion
- Darren Pitfield
- Georgia Me
- Abyss
- Malachi Rivers
- Charles Reese
- Gem Auset
- The London Symphony
- Carl Brister
- Charley Young
- Cheri Moni
- Elle Blink
- Becca Brazil
- Madz Johnson
- Melissa Bailey
- Shane Franklin
- Brian Biggz Booth
- Daniel Halligan
- Guy Bragg
- Malina Moye
- Robert Pewee Hill
- Brian Flaccus
- Moe Rock
- Alex Psaroudakis
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