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Special offer. Future Present Past

Irreversible Entanglements

This fifth studio album doesn't necessarily break any new ground, but it continues the good fight with characteristic commitment and grit. Its 10 tracks are mostly short, punchy and accessible,...

Special offer. Future Present Past

Irreversible Entanglements

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This fifth studio album doesn't necessarily break any new ground, but it continues the good fight with characteristic commitment and grit. Its 10 tracks are mostly short, punchy and accessible,...

About

Free jazz collective, Irreversible Entanglements, return with their second Impulse! recording, Future, Present, Past.

Largely recorded at the historic Van Gelder Studio, the album sees the quintet meld atmospheric jazz, global music traditions and spoken word into our shared story of existence - futures full of possibility, the present with all its uncertainties, and pasts as wellsprings of ancestral wisdom.

Formed spontaneously in Brooklyn, NY in 2015, Irreversible Entanglements consists of poet vocalist Camae Ayewa (often known as Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes.

This album is five standing on the shoulders of legions: the healers, the alchemists, the rebels, the mothers and fathers who have fought and weaved and invented new ways of being, seeing and balancing the frequencies of this planet towards trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding.

Contents and tracklist

1. Juntos Vencemos (ft. Helado Negro)

2. Don’t Lose Your Head (ft. MOTHERBOARD)

3. Vibrate Higher (ft. MOTHERBOARD)

4. Panamanian Fight Song

5. We Know (ft. MOTHERBOARD)

6. Hold On (ft. MOTHERBOARD)

7. Keep Going (ft. MOTHERBOARD)

8. The Messenger

9. The Spirit Moves

10. We Overcome (ft. Helado Negro)

Awards and reviews

June 2026

This fifth studio album doesn't necessarily break any new ground, but it continues the good fight with characteristic commitment and grit. Its 10 tracks are mostly short, punchy and accessible, with a marked emphasis on buoyant Afro- Brazilian rhythms, and Ayewa's vocal delivery leaning closer to rap than on previous releases.
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