After 2022’s mini-album solo, Afrikan Culture, the acclaimed and prolific British jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, known best for Sons of Kemet and the Comet Is Coming returns with a reset – swapping reeds for flutes, with an LP of delicate, experimental beauty, and featuring guests including singer Moses Sumney, rapper André 3000, who recently released his flute album New Blue Sun, and poet Saul Williams. Floating, contemplative opener End of Innocence sees some clarinet, but this is far more of a flute album accompanied by delicate piano, strings and percussion. Highlights include the eerily delicate flute on As The Planets And Planets Collapse, Moses Sumney’s gentle vocalisations on Insecurities, the gentle build of electronica and flute on I’ll Do Whatever You Want (with Floating Points and Laraaji), the feathery Kiss Me Before I Forget With Lianne La Havas, but perhaps most diverse and interesting Body To Inhabit featuring Esperanz Spalding on bass, double harps with Brandee Younger, Charles Overton, and some profound lyrical delivery by E L U C I D. Otherworldly, gentle, relaxing, spiritual, garnished with skilful breathwork that is delicately restorative. Out on Impulse! Records.
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