Protect Your Light Irreversible Entanglements

• 1 Free Love 04:54
• 2 Protect Your Light 03:22
• 3 Our Land Back 06:17
• 4 Soundness 07:31
• 5 root <=> branch 07:31
• 6 Celestial Pathways 02:51
• 7 Sunshine 05:38
• 8 Degrees of Freedom 07:09
• Total Runtime 45:13

Info for Protect Your Light

Neu auf Impulse! Records: ein Jazz-Kollektiv für Fans von Shabaka Hutchings und Kamasi Washington! In der internationalen Musikszene haben sich Irreversible Entanglements bereits einen Namen gemacht, jetzt legen sie mit „Protect Your Light“ ihr dynamisches viertes Album vor. Die Band wurde 2015 nach einem Konzert gegen rassistische Polizeigewalt gegründet um den Texten von Sängerin + Dichterin Camae Ayewa alias Moor Mother einen musikalischen Rahmen zu geben. Neben ihr bestehen Irreversible Entanglements aus Saxophonist Keir Neuringer, Bassist Luke Stewart, Trompeter Aquiles Navarro und Schlagzeuger Tschesher Holmes.

Die Musik des Ensembles wurde bislang mit Klassikern von John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane oder Pharoah Sanders verglichen und steht in einer Reihe mit den großen Namen des politisch denkenden New Jazz wie Sons Of Kemet, Nubia Garcia u.a.

Irreversible Entanglements

Irreversible Entanglements
are a liberation-oriented free jazz collective formed in early 2015 by saxophonist Keir Neuringer, poet Camae Ayewa (a.k.a. Moor Mother) and bassist Luke Stewart, who came together to perform at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event organized after the slaying of Akai Gurley by the NYPD. Months later the group added trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes (a duo who also performed at the MAPB event) for a single day of recording at Seizure’s Palace in Brooklyn, and the full quintet’s first time playing together was captured for this debut. In four relentless bouts of inspired fire music the instrumentalists explore and elaborate compositional ideas drawn from their deep individual studies of free jazz improvisation, but the tone of each piece is driven decisively by Ayewa’s searing poetic narrations of Black trauma, survival and power. The message is the undeniable essence of the music. Though free jazz with voice is an uncommon approach in the modern day landscape of the genre, the spirit and subject the band channels and explores represent a return to a central tenant of the sound as it was founded – to be a vehicle for Black liberation. As creative and adventurous as any recording of contemporary avant-garde jazz but offering listeners no abstractions to hide behind, this is music that both honors and defies tradition, speaking to the present while insisting on the future.

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