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Shabaka
- Record Label: Impulse! / Verve
- Release Date: Apr 12, 2024
- Summary: The debut full-length solo release from British jazz artist Shabaka Hutchings under the name Shabaka features flutes and contributions by such artists as André 3000, Floating Points, Lianne La Havas, Laraaji, Jason Moran, Carlos Niño, Esperanza Spalding, Moses Sumney, and Saul Williams.
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- Record Label: Impulse! / Verve
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Apr 11, 2024Perceive is ethereal, sure, but it’s also multilayered and compelling, staving off New Age-ness with pensive beauty and trenchant spoken-word (Saul Williams, Elucid, Anum Iyapo).
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UncutApr 10, 2024The highlight is "I'll Do Whatever You Want", a gentle nimbus of melody featuring fellow flute convert Andre 3000 and Floating Points' Samuel Shepherd on twinkling Rhodes. [May 2024, p.39]
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Apr 10, 2024This debut comes from immense, fruitful collaboration. A collaboration between beings, instruments, melodies and spaces that offer room to listen, reflect and become.
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MojoApr 10, 2024A delicate, inward-facing set. [May 2024, p.80]
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Apr 11, 2024The incarnation may be new, but the music’s underlying spirit, its animating force, is very much the same.
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Apr 23, 2024The organic feel and sense of Shabaka’s humility and vulnerability makes Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace a moving and impressive album.
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Apr 15, 2024The emphatic playing of Hutchings’ more exhortatory bands (chiefly Sons of Kemet) has given way to a more impressionistic delicacy.