Original 2018 EU 9-track CD album. On IMPULSE label. Catalogue No: 00602567364351. Barcode: 602567364351.
On Sons of Kemet’s third studio album, and first under the impulse! label, Shabaka Hutchings and his band incorporate sounds of global jazz all while keeping a consistent and pulsing groove throughout the record. Shabaka Hutchings is a saxophonist, composer, and band leader based in the UK. He is the newest signing to the impulse! label, and he is in three prominent jazz outfits – Sons of Kemet, Shabaka & The Ancestors, and The Comet Is Coming. Sons of Kemet is the iconoclastic mix of tenor sax, tuba and double drums. On this third studio album, they bring a genre defying approach that celebrates the restless exploration of identity within the Caribbean diaspora within the U.K. Your Queen is a Reptile was recorded in London with a host of guests spanning the breadth of the U.K. scene including jungle legend Congo Natty and poet Joshua Idehen. Sonically, this album stretches from New Orleans to the Caribbean to London to the Middle East. With the instrumentation of tuba, drums and sax, it has a second-line quality that marches into the Caribbean diaspora. There is spoken word, rap, and elements of dub, further emphasizing jazz’s place in today’s hip-hop world.
Tracklist:
01. My Queen Is Ada Eastman
02. My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark
03. My Queen Is Harriet Tubman
04. My Queen Is Anna Julia Cooper
05. My Queen Is Angela Davis
06. My Queen Is Nanny Of The Maroons
07. My Queen Is Yaa Asantewaa
08. My Queen Is Albertina Sisulu
09. My Queen Is Doreen Lawrence
