“What happens after that point when life as we know it can’t continue.”
Jazz saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings is releasing a new album with his The Ancestors collective, We Are Sent Here By History, via Impulse! Records this March.
Conceptualised as an hour-long sonic poem, with lyrics written and performed by Siyabonga Mthembu, We Are Sent Here By History explores African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, drawing parallels between the album and the modern-day griot, or storyteller.
Joining forces once more with his band The Ancestors, with whom he released Wisdom Of Elders on Brownswood in 2016, Hutchings describes the album as a “meditation on the fact of our coming extinction as a species. It is a reflection from the ruins, from the burning.”
Recorded in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2019, the album also features contributions from Mthunzi Mvubu on alto sax, Ariel Zamonsky on double bass, Gontse Makhene on percussion and Tumi Mogorosi on drums. Nduduzo Makhathini (Fender Rhodes), Thandi Ntuli (piano), Mandla Mlangeni (trumpet) also appear on selected tracks.
The album follows Sons of Kemet’s Your Queen Is A Reptile, and The Comet Is Coming’s Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery, both previously released on Impulse!.
——The Vinyl Factory

I have no idea
Why you've been cold to me these days
I'm still waiting
Waiting for your reply
?te 坏特这次做点不一样的，试着用一把吉他唱出这首寂寞的歌。
没有鼓组，没有取样，
妳听到的，是 ?te 坏特用灵魂唱出的惆怅，
是吉他和钢琴鸣奏的心碎，
也许更是一部分的妳的故事。
录音时，制作人 Tower da Funkmasta 的猫正巧经过，无意间录下牠的喵叫，?te 坏特很喜欢，并决定留下来当作这首歌的一个小彩蛋，妳有找到吗？

“蓝月亮”（Blue Moon）是罕见的宇宙奇观，也是一首经典的爱情民谣。几十年来，它被众多音乐家竞相翻唱，毕竟美妙的爱情就像“蓝月亮”一样可遇而不可求。2019的情人节，由JZ Music集结亚洲最优秀爵士乐手对歌曲进行铺底变色，编制出甜蜜的摇摆情歌，荷兰爵士歌姬Laura Fygi用丝绒歌声娓娓道来她心中的“蓝月亮”。有情人的，把它送给爱的人，一起度过美妙的夜晚；情人暂缺的，也可与它温暖相伴，爱情就在不远处。