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In 2016, Shabaka Hutchings made his debut with Impulse! with Your Queen is a Reptile, recorded with Sons of Kemet. Since his beginnings, the saxophonist and posterboy for the blossoming new British jazz scene has collaborated with plenty of artists (Sun Ra Arkestra, Heliocentrics, Anthony Joseph, Floating Points) and beefed up plenty of groups (The Comet Is Coming, Melt Yourself Down). With Shabaka & The Ancestors, he is joined by musicians from Johannesburg for an eclectic and engaged jazz record, blending spirituality and shamanic feelings. Four years after Wisdom of Elder, We Are Sent Here By History continues the South African adventure. Once again surrounded by a subtle but powerful rhythm section (bassist Ariel Zamonsky, drummer Tumi Mogorosi and percussionist Gontse Makhene), an inspired wind section (alto saxophonist Mthunzi Mvubu and trumpeter Mandla Mlangeni) and pianists Nduduzo Makhathini and Thandi Ntuli, Shabaka creates solid links between a jazz inherited by Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sanders and Don Cherry and the vast plethora that is African music. Zulu chants (We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood)) and texts sung by Siyabonga Mthembu that touch on ecology as much as the relationships between men and women reinforce this torrent of music. We Are Sent Here By History (better than its predecessor) is a snapshot of an era which questions the future of its protagonists, but is also a study of the values and sounds to conquer the future. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nduduzo Makhathini, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Thandi Ntuli, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nduduzo Makhathini, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Mandla Mlangeni, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Gontse Makhene, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Tumi Mogorosi, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Mthunzi Mvubu, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ariel Zamonsky, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Davie, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Murray Anderson, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Shabaka Hutchings, Composer, Producer, Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Siyabonga Mthembu, Author - Dilip Harris, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Thandi Ntuli, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Shabaka and the Ancestors, MainArtist - Jethro Harris, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Peter Auret, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
In 2016, Shabaka Hutchings made his debut with Impulse! with Your Queen is a Reptile, recorded with Sons of Kemet. Since his beginnings, the saxophonist and posterboy for the blossoming new British jazz scene has collaborated with plenty of artists (Sun Ra Arkestra, Heliocentrics, Anthony Joseph, Floating Points) and beefed up plenty of groups (The Comet Is Coming, Melt Yourself Down). With Shabaka & The Ancestors, he is joined by musicians from Johannesburg for an eclectic and engaged jazz record, blending spirituality and shamanic feelings. Four years after Wisdom of Elder, We Are Sent Here By History continues the South African adventure. Once again surrounded by a subtle but powerful rhythm section (bassist Ariel Zamonsky, drummer Tumi Mogorosi and percussionist Gontse Makhene), an inspired wind section (alto saxophonist Mthunzi Mvubu and trumpeter Mandla Mlangeni) and pianists Nduduzo Makhathini and Thandi Ntuli, Shabaka creates solid links between a jazz inherited by Sun Ra, Pharaoh Sanders and Don Cherry and the vast plethora that is African music. Zulu chants (We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood)) and texts sung by Siyabonga Mthembu that touch on ecology as much as the relationships between men and women reinforce this torrent of music. We Are Sent Here By History (better than its predecessor) is a snapshot of an era which questions the future of its protagonists, but is also a study of the values and sounds to conquer the future. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:58
- Main artists: Shabaka and the Ancestors
- Composer: Shabaka Hutchings
- Label: Impulse!
- Genre: Jazz
© 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2020 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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