Thursday, April 2, 2020

UK: Shabaka and the Ancestors-We Are Sent Here By History( impulse! Records 2020


 We Are Sent Here By History
1.They Who Must Die 2. You’ve Been Called 3. Go My Heart, Go To Heaven 4. Behold, The Deceiver 5. Run, The Darkness Will Pass 6. The Coming Of The Strange Ones 7. Beasts Too Spoke of Suffering 8. We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood) 9. Til The Freedom Comes Home 10. Finally, The Man Cried 11. Teach me How To Be Vulnerable

" This second album from his alliance with assorted South African musicians is both calmer and more ominous than his work with the Comet Is Coming and Sons of Kemet. There are no synth squalls and fractured beats – instead, Hutchings’s tenor and clarinet are pitched against an acoustic ensemble driven by double bass and awash with Fender Rhodes piano, an approach that often echoes South Africa’s distinct jazz lineage."The Guardian