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Shabaka Hutchings | Essential albums and listening guide
Explore Shabaka Hutchings through We Are Sent Here by History. Discover what to listen for and follow related styles to your next record.
Shabaka Hutchings
Meet the artist
A London-born, Barbados-raised woodwind player associated with Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors. His projects connect different communities, rhythms and instrumental possibilities. Repeated melodic figures build momentum through changing relationships with percussion and bass.
Different bands explore encounters with Caribbean and South African music or electronic sound. Collective rhythm matters alongside individual solos. His work with flutes also reveals a quieter attention to breath and resonance. Changing places, collaborators and instruments continually reshape his musical language.
Where to start listening
In We Are Sent Here by History, begin with voices and horns joining repeated percussion patterns, and feel the energy generated by the group.
2020We Are Sent Here by History
Shabaka Hutchings
Shabaka and the Ancestors brings together South African musicians in a collective musical statement. Voices, horns and percussion connect spiritual jazz expression with a perspective on ancestry and history.
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