#4896, From the Soundcheck Podcast: Shabaka and His Trio
Shabaka Hutchings, now Shabaka, is a crucial and connected London-based musician who has led arena dance-jazz band Sons of Kemet (on hiatus); and leads cosmic psych-dub-funk trio The Comet Is Coming, and the collaborative band Shabaka & the Ancestors. He began incorporating layered flutes on the last Sons of Kemet record Black to the Future, and kept on picking up more and other woodwinds, first on his 2022 ambient meditation, Afrikan Culture, and now on his new full-length, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. On it, Shabaka plays flutes: the Slavic woodwind called svirel, Japanese shakuhachi, Andean quena, and even clarinet. Plus, rapper and flutist André 3000 contributes flute to “I’ll Do Whatever You Want”. Read more on Shabaka’s Shakuhachi journey via SoundAmerican.
This time, in his visit to our studio, Shabaka and his trio of Charles Overton on harp and Austin Williamson on drums play some of the songs from Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. Plus, Shabaka talks us through the different flutes in his bow case, including a clay turtle ocarina and a century-old shakuhachi. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4896, From Soundcheck: Shabaka and His Trio (First aired 6/21/2024)
ARTIST: Sons of Kemet
WORK: Inner Babylon [1:30]
RECORDING: Burn
SOURCE: Naim Jazz
INFO: sonsofkemet.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Shabaka; Charles Overton, harp; Austin Williamson, drums
WORK: Insecurities [5:45]
RECORDING: Live, for the Soundcheck Podcast, May 2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The piece appears on Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace | https://shabakahutchings.lnk.to/PIBAIG
ARTIST: Sons of Kemet
WORK: Hustle [5:18]
RECORDING: Black to the Future
SOURCE: Impulse!
INFO: https://sonsofkemet.lnk.to/blacktothefutureIB
ARTIST: Shabaka; Charles Overton, harp; Austin Williamson, drums
WORK: Living [3:03]
RECORDING: Live, for the Soundcheck Podcast, May 2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The piece appears on Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace | https://shabakahutchings.lnk.to/PIBAIG
ARTIST: Shabaka
WORK: The Wounded Need to be Replenished [1:00]
RECORDING: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
SOURCE: Impulse!
INFO: https://shabakahutchings.lnk.to/PIBAIG
ARTIST: Shabaka
WORK: Managing My Breath, What Fear Had Become [3:12]
RECORDING: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
SOURCE: Impulse!
INFO: https://shabakahutchings.lnk.to/PIBAIG
ARTIST: Shabaka, feat. Andre 3000, Laraaji, Floating Points
WORK: I'll Do Whatever You Want [1:51]
RECORDING: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
SOURCE: Impulse!
INFO: https://shabakahutchings.lnk.to/PIBAIG
ARTIST: Shabaka; Charles Overton, harp; Austin Williamson, drums
WORK: I'll Do Whatever You Want / As the Planets and the Stars Collapse [6:50]
RECORDING: Live, for the Soundcheck Podcast, May 2024
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The pieces appear on Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace | https://shabakahutchings.lnk.to/PIBAIG
ARTIST: Shabaka, feat. Rajna Swaminathan
WORK: Breathing [:30]
RECORDING: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
SOURCE: Impulse!
INFO: https://shabakahutchings.lnk.to/PIBAIG
ARTIST: Shabaka, feat. Anum Iyapo
WORK: Song of the Motherland [1:06]
RECORDING: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
SOURCE: Impulse!
INFO: https://shabakahutchings.lnk.to/PIBAIG
