Adrian Younge

• DIGIPACK EDITION

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

As a multi-instrumentalist, producer, film composer and co-founder of the ever-revered Los Angeles record label Jazz Is Dead, Adrian Younge has spent a career defined by his ambitions and a scholarly pursuit of more knowledge. Younge is quick to call his new multi-media project, The American Negro, his most important work to date. It’s also his most determined. The album is exhaustive, beyond thorough and not an easy listen. But it is a necessary one.

The release is centered around 26 songs produced entirely in his preferred analog spread over nearly an hour complete with a full 30-piece orchestra. It’s accompanied by his 13-episode Invisible Blackness podcast featuring conversations with Chuck D, Ladybug Mecca, Jai White and more .

TRACKS:

• 01. Revisionist History
• 02. The American Negro
• 03. The Black Broadcast
• 04. Revolutionize
• 05. Double Consciousness
• 06. Watch The Children
• 07. Dying On The Run
• 08. Intransigence Of The Blind
• 09. James Mincey Jr,
• 10. Disadvantaged Without A Title
• 11. Mama (Will You Make It)
• 12. The Black Queen
• 13. Margaret Garner
• 14. Race Is Falacy
• 15. Light On The Horizon
• 16. A Symphony For Sahara
• 17. America is Listening
• 18. The March Of America
• 19. Paradox Of The Positive
• 20. The Death March
• 21. Black Lives Matter
• 22. Rotten Roses
• 23. Jim Crow's Dance
• 24. Patriotic Portraits
• 25. George Stinney Jr.
• 26. Sullen Counternance