New Album On Double LP!
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Sons of Kemet returns in 2021 with their new album Black To The Future. This release finds the UK-based quartet at their most dynamic - showcasing harmonically elegant arrangements and compositions, coupled with fierce, driving material that will be familiar to initiated fans. This album features prominent UK vocalists and a strong emphasis on lush compositions and arrangements. Guest artists include Kojey Radical, Moor Mother, & more. The record is part of the impulse! records "impulse 60!" 2021 campaign.
Shabaka Hutchings leads his brass band on a propulsive mind- and body-moving record, advocating through music that change comes from speaking directly about collective oppression.
...[A] staggering achievement. Musically and culturally, Sons of Kemet not only holistically conceive of a future, they begin to create one right now.
You likely listen to a lot of good new music over the course of a year, but how much of it would you characterize as truly exciting, so genuinely innovative that you can honestly say you've heard nothing like it? England's Sons of Kemet, now celebrating a decade together, fit that bill, and Black to the Future is their most noteworthy work to date.
Features
- Part of the "impulse 60!" Campaign
- Double LP
- Gatefold jacket
Selections
Side A:
- Field Negus
- Pick Up Your Burning Cross
- Think Of Home
Side B:
- Hustle
- For The Culture
- To Never Forget The Source
Side C:
- In Remembrance Of Those Fallen
- Let The Circle Be Unbroken
Side D:
- Envision Yourself Levitating
- Throughout The Madness, Stay Strong
- Black
