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- Record Label: Strut
- Release Date: Sep 22, 2023
- Artist(s): Idris Ackamoor
- Summary: The first full-length release from Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids in three years was recorded in London and San Francisco.
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- Record Label: Strut
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Sep 22, 2023Afro Futuristic Dreams sums up Ackamoor's career and leaps forward, exploring myriad traditions, styles, and harmonic and rhythmic combinations that further musical conversations to an as-yet-unseen creative horizon.
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MojoSep 22, 2023A triumph of healing and connection, experimentalism balanced out by emotional heft. [Nov 2023, p.89]
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UncutSep 22, 2023Best of all might be the ecstatic, heavily orchestrated astral-jazz freak-out of "thank You God". [Oct 2023, p.23]
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The WireNov 7, 2023The Pyramids may not be breaking new ground here, but Afro Futuristic Dreams is arguably the best thing the reunited group have created. [Nov 2023, p.46]
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Sep 22, 2023There’s a good deal of spoken word on this album, the sort of poetry that’s meant to inspire but seems a little overblown. It’s part of the genre, obviously, and it gets swallowed, soon enough, by groove. But you have to stick with it through the flute-scented rites of “First Peoples,” the downtempo intro to “Re-Memory” to get to the music. I could do without it, personally. The music, though, is pretty great.