- End of Innocence
- As the Planets and the Stars Collapse
- Insecurities
- Managing My Breath, What Fear Had Become
- The Wounded Need To Be Replenished
- Body To Inhabit
- I'll Do Whatever You Want
- Living
- Breathing
- Kiss Me Before I Forget
- Song of the Motherlanda
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Shabaka Hutchings Primary Artist,Flute,Clarinet,Woodwind,Bandleader,Shakuhachi,Sax (Tenor)
Laraaji Featured Artist,Vocals
Carlos Nino Percussion
Jason Moran Piano
Chris Sholar Electronic Percussion
Tom Herbert Bass
Floating Points Vibraphone,Synthesizer,Featured Artist
Lianne La Havas Featured Artist
Surya Botofasina Synthesizer
Charles Overton Harp
Nduduzo Makhathini Piano
Moses Sumney Featured Artist
Rajna Swaminathan Mirdangam
Anum Iyapo Featured Artist
Nasheet Waits Drums
Esperanza Spalding Bass
Dave Okumu Guitar
Andre 3000 Flute
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Cello,Viola,Violin
Marcus Gilmore Drums
Brandee Younger Harp
Gareth James Photography
Guy Davies Mastering
Sam Shepherd Composer,Mastering,Additional Production
Ana Pryor Design
Moses Sumney Composer
Eska Mtungwazi Composer
Chaz Jerome Hall Composer
William Purton Engineer
Saul Williams Composer,Engineer
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Composer
Maureen Sickler Engineer
Shabaka Hutchings Artwork,Composer,Producer
Laraaji Composer

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
by Shabaka Hutchings, Shabaka
Shabaka Hutchings

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
by Shabaka Hutchings, Shabaka
Shabaka Hutchings
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In 2023, jazzman Shabaka Hutchings shelved his saxophone for the foreseeable future. A consequential decision, it followed the end of Sons of Kemet, the Comet Is Coming, and South African jazz project, Shabaka and the Elders. In November 2022, he released Afrikan Culture, recorded on shakuhachi, flute, and clarinet. He followed in 2023 with the mysterious, ambient jazz/hip-hop offering Flowers in the Dark by Kofi Flexxx on Native Rebel Recordings.
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace was recorded by Maureen Sickler at Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey studio in 2022. Shabaka uses wits and intuition to summon this music up from the unconscious. He's assisted by a studio cast that includes pianists Nduduzo Makhathini and Jason Moran, drummers Nasheet Waits and Marcus Gilmore, flutist Andre 3000, percussionist Carlos Nino, harpists Brandee Younger and Charles Overton, bassists Esperanza Spalding and Tom Herbert, multi-instrumentalist Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Floating Points, vocalists, and rappers.
"End of Innocence" finds Shabaka playing clarinet with Moran, Waits, and Nino; the brief incantation sounds like a folk song. "As the Planet and Stars Collapse" places his lilting shakuhachi in lush company with both harpists and Atwood-Ferguson's strings. On "Insecurities," Moses Sumney's elastic falsetto engages the flute in seamless improvisation with Overton's harp. Shabaka uses a quena flute on the gently abstract "Managing My Breath, What Fear Had Become" with Nino and South Africans Makhathini on piano and Surya Botofasina on synth. New York rapper Elucid joins Spalding, the harpists -- who all engage with Shabaka's flute line by line -- and electronicist Chris Sholar on the poignant "Body to Inhabit." "I'll Do Whatever You Want" is the closest thing to a fully improvised jam here. It showcases Andre 3000's Teotihuacan drone flute alongside Shabaka's shakuhachi, a Rhodes Chroma by Floating Points, Dave Okumu's guitar, and Herbert's and Spalding's basses, with Gilmore's drums and Nino's percussion framing a wordless vocal from Laraaji. "Living" offers transcendent holism as Shabaka's Slavic svirel (a Russian flute) and Eska Mtungwazi's vocal entwine, ratcheting tension with Kate Bush-esque intensity while keenly interacting with harps and strings. The saxophone does make an appearance on "Breathing" alongside the flute and clarinet. The tune is a virtuosic duet with Rajna Swaminathan's mridangam in improvised call-and-response. Lianne La Havas joins Shabaka, Moran, Waits, and Nino on "Kiss Me Before I Forget," the closest thing to a pop-jazz ballad here. Shabaka's father, the Barbados-born singer Anum Iyapo -- who worked with King Tubby -- offers poetry on set-closer "Song of the Motherland," a paean to the glory of Blackness amid overdubbed flute lines and Overton's glissando harp playing. There isn't anything incendiary or fiery about Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. Its gentle, warm production and unhurried playing are deceptive: These tunes, as rendered, are far more complex in arrangement and presentation than they appear. Combined, they reveal the artist's pursuit of creative excellence as an aesthetic practice with a spiritual dimension. ~ Thom Jurek
Product Details
Release Date: | 04/12/2024 |
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Label: | Impulse Records |
UPC: | 0602465050356 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Shabaka Primary ArtistShabaka Hutchings Primary Artist,Flute,Clarinet,Woodwind,Bandleader,Shakuhachi,Sax (Tenor)
Laraaji Featured Artist,Vocals
Carlos Nino Percussion
Jason Moran Piano
Chris Sholar Electronic Percussion
Tom Herbert Bass
Floating Points Vibraphone,Synthesizer,Featured Artist
Lianne La Havas Featured Artist
Surya Botofasina Synthesizer
Charles Overton Harp
Nduduzo Makhathini Piano
Moses Sumney Featured Artist
Rajna Swaminathan Mirdangam
Anum Iyapo Featured Artist
Nasheet Waits Drums
Esperanza Spalding Bass
Dave Okumu Guitar
Andre 3000 Flute
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Cello,Viola,Violin
Marcus Gilmore Drums
Brandee Younger Harp
Technical Credits
Dilip Harris Mixing,Mastering,ProducerGareth James Photography
Guy Davies Mastering
Sam Shepherd Composer,Mastering,Additional Production
Ana Pryor Design
Moses Sumney Composer
Eska Mtungwazi Composer
Chaz Jerome Hall Composer
William Purton Engineer
Saul Williams Composer,Engineer
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Composer
Maureen Sickler Engineer
Shabaka Hutchings Artwork,Composer,Producer
Laraaji Composer
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