{"id":1547206,"date":"2026-01-15T13:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1547206"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:35:02","slug":"shabaka-readies-new-album-to-launch-his-own-record-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1547206","title":{"rendered":"Shabaka Readies New Album to Launch His Own Record Label"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Listen to two new songs from the Sons of Kemet alum\u2019s Of the Earth<\/em><\/div>\n
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Shabaka Hutchings, the former Sons of Kemet and Comet Is Coming musician who has since gone solo and mononymous, will release a new album on a new label on March 6. The inaugural release of Shabaka Records, Of the Earth<\/em>, is partly inspired by D\u2019Angelo\u2019s Brown Sugar<\/em>, and you can hear two new songs from it below: \u201cA Future Untold\u201d and \u201cMarwa the Mountain.\u201d Shabaka will soon embark on a run of U.S. shows that takes him from Solar Myth Philadelphia (March 25) to New York\u2019s Knockdown Center (March 26) and finally Big Ears festival in Tennessee, where he will perform one solo set and one with Thurston Moore.<\/p>\n

In a press release, Shabaka spoke about the D\u2019Angelo record, as well as his own pivot from clarinet and saxophone to flute, as debuted on his last LP, 2024\u2019s Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace<\/em>. \u201cBrown Sugar<\/em> was the first CD I bought and it sparked a lasting curiosity about the emotional possibilities allowed by the self produced and performed album,\u2019 Shabaka said. \u201cThis record is my celebration of freedom in creative self expression. Before the pandemic I could only play the clarinet and saxophone and knew nothing about music production (or how to play the flute), so this has been a journey of learning and a reflection on the music that\u2019s been created as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace<\/em>, Shabaka\u2019s last release was the EP Possession<\/em>, from late 2024.<\/p>\n

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Of the Earth<\/em>:<\/p>\n

01 A Future Untold
02 Those of the Sky
03 Go Astray
04 Step Lightly
05 Call the Power
06 Dance in Praise
07 Ol\u2019 Time African Gods
08 Marwa the Mountain
09 Light the Way
10 Stand Firm
11 Space Time
12 Eyes Lowered<\/p>\n

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News Shabaka Readies New Album to Launch His Own Record Label Listen to two new songs from the Sons of Kemet alum\u2019s Of the Earth By Jazz Monroe January 15, 2026 Shabaka, photo by Joseph Ouechen Shabaka Hutchings, the former Sons of Kemet and Comet Is Coming musician who has since gone solo and mononymous, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-1547206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1547206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}