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Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace
Shabaka
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Jazz Choice
The set as a whole suggests that Shabaka hasn’t dialled down his intensity – instead, he’s rechannelled it into something more profound.
Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace
Shabaka
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Jazz Choice
The set as a whole suggests that Shabaka hasn’t dialled down his intensity – instead, he’s rechannelled it into something more profound.
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After putting down the saxophone, the instrument he has become synonymous with, Shabaka returns with his first full length album under his own name. Expanding off the meditative 2022 EP Afrikan Culture, his new album Perceive its beauty, Acknowledge its Grace is a deeply moving suite of primarily instrumental music. The listening experience is reflective and contemplative, with passages flowering from one musical concept to the next, encouraging deep attention that rewards the listener with throughlines and motifs throughout the record. Shabaka is found playing the flute on this album, and has enlisted key artists such as Andre 3000, Lianne La Havas, Moses Sumney, Floating Points, and more to help build this all-encompassing aural landscape.
Contents and tracklist
Side A
1. End of Innocence
2. As the Planets and the Stars Collapse
3. Insecurities
4. Managing my Breath, What Fear Had Become
5. The Wounded Need to be Replenished
6. Body to Inhabit
Side B
1. I’ll Do Whatever You Want
2. Living
3. Breathing
4. Kiss Me Before I Forget
5. Song of the Motherland
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Shabaka Hutchings... The Next Chapter
17th Apr 2024
As the apprentice retires his saxophone in pursuit of a new quest to master esoteric flutes from across the globe, we reflect on the career that brought him to this momentous new stage of his journey.
Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineMay 2024Jazz Choice
May 2024
The set as a whole suggests that Shabaka hasn’t dialled down his intensity – instead, he’s rechannelled it into something more profound.
British jazz star Shabaka Hutchings drops the sax for reeds and flutes on an album exploring fear, courage and the power of breathwork.
April 2024
An intriguing blend of influences and ideas that is well helmed by Hutchings’s artfully low warm and breathy flute lines.
