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Sons of Kemet returns in 2021 with their new album Black To The Future. The follow up to 2018’s Mercury Prize nominated breakout release Your Queen Is A Reptile. 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.

Led by celebrated saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer Shabaka Hutchings, Sons of Kemet are a political, U.K.-based modern jazz supergroup comprised of musicians from across the globe. Their sound combines modal and free jazz, African rhythms and modes, and Caribbean dub and Middle Eastern timbres, as evidenced by 2018's internationally renowned Your Queen is a Reptile.

This is their 4th record, and 2nd on Impulse! Compared with Your Queen is a Reptile, this album has featured vocalists and more of an emphasis on fuller compositions and arrangements. Guest artists include Kojey Radical, Moor Mother, Angel Bat Dawid, Joshua Idehen, D Double E.

PERSONNEL:

• Shabaka Hutchings - woodwinds
• Theon Cross - tuba
• Tom Skinner - drums
• Eddie Hick - drums
• Steve Williamson - tenor saxophone on track 1
• Ife Ogunjobi - trumpet on track 5
• Nathaniel Cross - tromboneon track 5
• Cassie Kinoshi - alto saxophoneon track 5
• Kebbi Williams - tenor saxophone on track 9
• Joshua Idehen - vocals on tracks 1 & 11
• Angel Bat Dawid, Moor Mother - vocals on track 2
• Kojey Radical - vocals on track 4
• Lianne La Havas - backing vocals on track 4
• D Double E - vocals on track 5

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Field Negus (feat. Joshua Idehen)
• A2. Pick Up Your Burning Cross (feat. Moor Mother and Angel Bat Dawid)
• A3. Think Of Home

• SIDE B
• B1. Hustle (feat. Kojey Radical)
• B2. For The Culture (feat. D Double E)
• B3. To Never Forget The Source

• SIDE C
• C1. In Remembrance Of Those Fallen
• C2. Let The Circle Be Unbroken

• SIDE D
• D1. Envision Yourself Levitating
• D2. Throughout The Madness, Stay Strong
• D3. Black (feat. Joshua Idehen)