• HOUSED IN A heavyweight matte jacket

• 4 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE

Who Sent You? is an expansive, meditative follow-up to Irreversible Entanglements’ explosive 2017 debut. Camae Ayewa leads the quintet through searing lyrics of black survival and power, and calls forth liberating black futures. On “The Code Noir/Amina,” she explores the history of black subjugation and intergenerational trauma, and asks, “At what point do we stand up? At what point do we give a shit?” Saxophonist Keir Neuringer and trumpeter Aquiles Navarro’s sinewy horns answer her call-to-action, accelerated by drummer Tcheser Holmes’ feverish percussion.

PERSONNEL:

• Camae Ayewa (vocals)
• Keir Neuringer (sax, percussion)
• Aquiles Navarro (trumpet, percussion)
• Luke Stewart (bass, percussion)
• Tcheser Holmes (drums, congas)

Recorded at Kawari Studios, Philadelphia, March 1st, 2019.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. The Code Noir / Amina
• A2. Who Sent You - Ritual

• SIDE B
• B1. No Mas
• B2. Blues Ideology
• B3. Bread Out Of Stone