I only scratched the surface of Sons of Kermet and the rest of this scene up till now, but I love both the recent singles a lot.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 2 May 2021 18:24 (three years ago) link
it's finally here! đ„ đ„ đ„ đ„ đ„ đ„
― a penetrating sigh (calzino), Friday, 14 May 2021 10:09 (three years ago) link
this is an amazing ear enema following listening to st vincent. going to be playing it a lot this year.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 14 May 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link
lol first time I've seen enema deployed as a positive metaphor
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 14 May 2021 10:51 (three years ago) link
hahaha this is more like an ear candle anyway, fire emojis otm
― rob, Friday, 14 May 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
I've had to put on some quite dry and tediously enthralling neo-classical chamber jazz improv to calm myself down after all the excitement of blasting this one out earlier. Probably more like an ear enema!
― a penetrating sigh (calzino), Friday, 14 May 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
lol we're 2/3 of the way to a terrible thread idea here
― rob, Friday, 14 May 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
kinda shocked about how well d double e does on his feature here lol
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
God wtf why is this not on Bandcamp, why do these artists insist on doing this to people.
― Take, eat; this is my body. What I got, you got to get (the table is the table), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:33 (three years ago) link
I think it's an Impulse thing, they aren't on bandcamp at all. Some of the older Hutchings stuff on different labels is though.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
Btw, I agree! Disappointed to see this wasn't on there either, just clarifying that I think it's a label decision, not the artist in this case.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
the digital album is available directly from impulse
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
Yeah, and I've bought it only to be sent a link to just the album art.
If labels are going to pull this shit, they need to do it right.
― Take, eat; this is my body. What I got, you got to get (the table is the table), Friday, 14 May 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
Ngl, I've already opened a complaint with Paypal over it. It would be like me paying full price for a record that comes out today, only to be handed the sleeve with no vinyl inside.
UMG can kiss my ass.
― Take, eat; this is my body. What I got, you got to get (the table is the table), Friday, 14 May 2021 15:04 (three years ago) link
yeah that's fucked up
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 May 2021 15:23 (three years ago) link
I saw that there is an article in the new Mojo on this scene but haven't seen the new edition yet to see what that article contains.
― Stevolende, Friday, 14 May 2021 20:48 (three years ago) link
Shabaka is guesting on today's BBC 6Music Jamz Supernova show (1300-1400 UK time) - which is as good an excuse as any to bang on again about my current favourite show on the radio.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w4jz
Sons of Kemet Jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings talks through the influences behind his new album Black To The Future, This album begins and ends with powerful lyrical and musical statements of rage and frustration, expressed outwardly in the wake of George Floydâs death and the subsequent BLM protests and features guest vocalists including, Chicago bandleader/vocalist Angel Bat Dawid, American poet Moor Mother, legendary British Grime MC D Double E and British artist/rapper/spoken word musical artist Kojey Radical.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 15 May 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link
"Let the Circle Be Unbroken" is really something and then ""Envision Yourself Levitating" gently and mournfully blowing in afterwards. I'm impressed how distinct this album is from YQIAR while clearly the same collective
― rob, Sunday, 16 May 2021 14:09 (three years ago) link
The new Sons of Kemet is on Bandcamp, ftr.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 16 May 2021 15:01 (three years ago) link
thank you!
― sleeve, Sunday, 16 May 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
gahh it was pulled from Bandcamp while it was still in my cart, wtf Impulse
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 May 2021 00:26 (three years ago) link
The new video from the Sons of Kemet album is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw_YbYpOPzo
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 23 May 2021 20:15 (three years ago) link
There was a whole ass Soccer96 LP this year that I totally missed?
https://soccer96.bandcamp.com/album/dopamine
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 18 December 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
Update: it's really good, and much more cosmic than the post-punk EP with Alabaster dePlume (which I loved as well).
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:25 (two years ago) link
bro this honks
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 23 December 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
â maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, December 23, 2021 1:02 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Friday, 14 January 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
â sleeveYo Sleeve, hope you've got it now!It's been back on bandcamp for a while, getting to be my Number 1:https://sonsofkemetmusic.bandcamp.com/album/black-to-the-future
― dow, Friday, 14 January 2022 05:28 (two years ago) link
thx, I did get it eventually, I like it but it is def in like my #15-20 range
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 14 January 2022 06:10 (two years ago) link
Interesting! What would you say are its limitations? Not gonna argue with you, just wondering about a different way of hearing it.
― dow, Friday, 14 January 2022 07:43 (two years ago) link
off the top of my head, I thought it was trying to do too many things at once. I like the vocals and the spoken word stuff but found that it made the record lose focus compared to Your Queen Is A Reptile which I did really love
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 14 January 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
I agree, it's a very good album but feels less focused than Queen. And some of the poetry is too ranty for repeated listening.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
Preview for the new Binker (Golding) & Moses (Boyd) is unreasonably great:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPZxrsS2Hp0(And if big booming snares remind you of anyone, yep, itâs produced by Hugh Padgham)
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Sunday, 16 January 2022 03:11 (two years ago) link
Saw Sons of Kemet for 2nd time last night in DC. Enjoyed 'em again. The energy, propulsive rhythms , etc. Hutchings briefly played flute on one song. Might be kinda nice if they varied their set a bit more like that.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 March 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
jellie
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 28 March 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
I missed their Big Ears set (becz I've seen them before and they were scheduled against Patti Smith), but my son loved it. And he and I both got to see Shabaka play Aaron Copland's clarinet concerto with the Knoxville symphony, which was awesome. He should play clarinet more too!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 28 March 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
really want to catch them in SF in a few weeks but can only attend one of the two shows they are doing,which is unfortunately sold out right now and people are trying to get mad money for tickets secondhand, even though the second night has plenty of tickets available.
― akm, Monday, 28 March 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
Sorry. DC show had a "low number of tickets available" message on club website on the day of show, but tickets were still available . Saw The Comet is Coming once here here as well. All shows in fairly small rooms.
Hutchings really looked like he was enjoying himself onstage last night. Occasional smiles after wiping off sweat under the hot stage lights in the basement level club.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 March 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
Missed them last night in Philly because I had a wild weekend and I already have tickets to the Divide & Dissolve/Low show this evening...had a friend who went who said that the weather seemed to really keep people away
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
Shabaka's new solo ep Afrikan Culture is meditative swirling flute & harps & bells & other sounds. I really like it as an unexpected departure, though if you're highly allergic to new age, you might not. That said, he's still playing the hell out of his instrument, and it gets more disquieting than I expected at times.
― rob, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:53 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I included it in my upcoming Stereogum column but I said it's not jazz so much as something you'd listen to while getting acupuncture.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 23 May 2022 14:03 (two years ago) link
a couple of live Sons of Kemet sets appeared on Dime a couple fo weeks ago. May still be up there. I think they were 24/48 so sound good but filesize largish
― Stevolende, Monday, 23 May 2022 14:14 (two years ago) link
xpDefinitely best to not expect jazz. But listening to it reminded me I've been meaning to check out Tony Scott's zen/yoga meditation albums, so I think you could say there's a strain of "jazz musician exploration" history he's tapping into (though now I'm listening to the Zen one and it would be pretty ludicrous to call this jazz)
― rob, Monday, 23 May 2022 14:18 (two years ago) link
It's really lovely. I guess it's his pandemic album, but it also makes me wonder if he saw how the Alabaster DePlume album took off and thought "but I'm a real sax player, I can do that one better", lol. I really like it though.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 23 May 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
I've been listening to 'Afrikan Culture', and although a lot of it is gentle, there are weird, unsettling [Rob used the word 'disquieting'] moments on this album that you wouldn't get on a meditation/relaxation album.
― giraffe, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 14:30 (two years ago) link
Still waiting for my copy to get here, but was really intrigued by the Flock album out on Strut:
Flock is a brand new collaboration between five leading musicians from London's open-minded jazz and experimental scenes: Bex Burch (Vula Viel), Sarathy Korwar, Dan âDanalogueâ Leavers (Soccer96, The Comet Is Coming), Al MacSween (Maisha) and Tamar Osborn (Collocutor).Gathering together at The Fish Factory in London Summer 2020, the approach was to try something fresh. âI wrote texts as scores for the session and the emphasis was on breathing and listening to each other,â explains Bex Burch. âImprovisation is composition in itself,â continues Burch, âso although the music was freely improvised, we sometimes chose to stay on form and rhythm, repeating melodies and groove. As Dan commented on the day, we âmurmuratedâ. The expansive 13-minute piece âHow Many Are Oneâ on the album is the perfect example, a collective following and leading as the music developed.â
Gathering together at The Fish Factory in London Summer 2020, the approach was to try something fresh. âI wrote texts as scores for the session and the emphasis was on breathing and listening to each other,â explains Bex Burch. âImprovisation is composition in itself,â continues Burch, âso although the music was freely improvised, we sometimes chose to stay on form and rhythm, repeating melodies and groove. As Dan commented on the day, we âmurmuratedâ. The expansive 13-minute piece âHow Many Are Oneâ on the album is the perfect example, a collective following and leading as the music developed.â
https://flock.bandcamp.com/album/flock-2
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
Looks v. appealing, thanks---speaking of Soccer96, I said this in 2022 round-up (put their alb on ballots):
Every day I go to school, putting on the headset and smoking Soccer96's Dopamine, riding the drone that takes me to canyons of cans and The Great Spot of Eternal Stormâoops, a little to the left nowâanother spectacular day at the office. Can't afford to get too jaded, and it's not our job: must send thoughtful reports periodically, cerebrations and celebrations in a minor key, moody with it but also the trace of a voice in the wraparound windscreen is more than answered by excellent passers by, and some ravenous work-outs, solos-as accompaniment, recalling , in effect though not pedantically, Keith Moon, Elvin Jones, and Michael Prain of Die! Die! Die!, Soccer96 being keyboards x drum kit subset of The Comet Is Coming, sometimes aligned with Sons of Kemet, Shabaka and the Ancestors, maybe others.
― dow, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
After 10 years we have decided that from the end of our scheduled 2022 shows we will be closing this chapter of the bandâs life for the foreseeable future. Weâre excited to play our remaining gigs for you and to make this summer a fitting send off pic.twitter.com/3OceZqj1jz— Sons Of Kemet (@SonsOfKemet) June 1, 2022
Speaking of Sons of Kemet.... damn. No doubt these guys will continue with other existing and new projects, but damn, still a loss.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:18 (two years ago) link
oh no, that sucks! wow I'm super glad I risked seeing them in April now
― rob, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
wtf
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:03 (two years ago) link
oh no. That's my fave Shabaka project
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link