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Their raw energy and unapologetic lyrics make them stand out among their peers. If you're a fan of artists like Jaimie Branch or Damon Locks, you won't want to miss experiencing \u003cem\u003eIrreversible Entanglements\u003c\/em\u003e live or adding their albums to your collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"protect-your-light-2","title":"Protect Your Light","description":"\u003cp\u003eImpulse! Records proudly announces the signing of free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements with their label debut \u003ci\u003eProtect Your Light\u003c\/i\u003e. Fusing elements of jazz, hip-hop, global music traditions and spoken word, the new album sees the quintet (vocalist\/poet Camae Ayewa, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, drummer Tcheser Holmes) break molds with adventurous improvisation driven by Ayewa’s poetry about the Black experience, love, power, community and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Impulse!","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50388908769611,"sku":"2051955","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50388909162827,"sku":"2051956","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Protect_Your_Light_1ef53037_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726351244"},{"product_id":"who-sent-you","title":"Who Sent You?","description":"\u003cp\u003eStay on it! This is the future! This is the spectral dreaming, the reshaped soundwaves of post Katrina, post-Osage Avenue, post-Obamacare that we borrow from to do this work, so stay on it. \u003ci\u003eWho Sent You? \u003c\/i\u003ethey said from their liquid cryo-chamber, from a low-light induction field cobbled together with lithium rods, with melted down Romare Bearden and Howardena Pindell paintings, stitched with chaos fibers and placed in the center of the carrion husk of a burnt out shanty town. They took time to scrape ashen samples of what was, their souls the residue thick and caked on, that still climbs those new high-rise condominiums like moss—the only evidence that they were once there, that they were baked into the fabric of this planet— -they were there fixing elevators and tossing wrenches into quantum fields until they were stopped! frisked! and turned into weird, 100-foot martyr murals on the backside, the north side, of supermarket walls—Who Sent You? is how the matrix modulation works. 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Irreversible Entanglements take their time in between these grooves, stalking the war-torn streets of the Deep South and post-Columbian apocalypses—taking their time to add our DNA to the centrifuge, to dream up an alchemical amalgamation that sounds truly euphoric, drenched in the epic star-flung fallout of a nova only they can conjure. More than the sum of its parts—Luke Stewart’s war-like basslines, Keir Neuringer’s haunting saxophone, Aquiles Navarro’s cyberpunk brass, the unwieldy storm of Tcheser Holmes’ drums, and the oracular phyletic incantations of Camae Ayewa—\u003ci\u003eWho Sent You?\u003c\/i\u003e is an entire holistic jam of “infinite possibilities coming back around,” a sprawling meditation for afro-cosmonauts, a reminder of the forms and traumas of the past, and the shape and vision of Afrotopian sounds to come. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"International Anthem Recording Co","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50453432697163,"sku":"1087593","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a2c91899-c7ba-4f82-b252-9e4e63a52d81_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727171954"},{"product_id":"open-the-gates","title":"Open the Gates","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOpen The Gates\u003c\/i\u003e is Philadelphia-based free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements's third full length album (and first double LP length album). 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The explosive collection of improvised free-jazz with spoken word accompaniment was born after the group's initial meeting at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event (organized by musicians\/comrades Amirtha Kidambi and Peter Evans following the state-sponsored killing of Akai Gurley).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the original press release puts it: “the spirit and subject the band channels and explores represent a return to a central tenet of the free jazz sound as it was founded—to be a vehicle for Black liberation. 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