"Past, present and future are in dynamic motion" | Shabaka Hutchings on Sons of Kemet's Black to the Future jazzwise.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jazzwise.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Album Review: Sons of Kemet, 'Black to the Future' ourculturemag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ourculturemag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sons of Kemet’s first release on the legendary jazz imprint Impulse!, 2018’s
Your Queen Is a Reptile, was a scintillating statement of intent. It was a record that weaponised bandleader Shabaka Hutchings’ musical virtuosity and used it to deliver a scathing rebuke of colonialism and the British establishment, while simultaneously serving as a series of paeans to influential black women like Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis and Mamie Phipps Clark. Field Negus, the opening track on follow-up
Black to the Future, appears to be bringing the curtain up on a similarly political work, but to pigeonhole the record that way would be hugely reductive.