We Were Sent Here By History Shabaka & The Ancestors SKU: 50864563 Barcode: 0602508645631 25.00 £25.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Impulse Released Date: 27th March 2020 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Spiritual jazz pacesetters Shabaka & the Ancestors, led by Shabaka Hutchings, release We Are Sent Here By History, their sophomore album and first for Impulse! It’s the follow-up to their 2016 breakout Wisdom of Elders, which established them as leading lights in the contemporary jazz scene. Says Hutchings: “We Are Sent Here by History is a meditation on the fact of our coming extinction as a species. It is a reflection from the ruins, from the burning. A questioning of the steps to be taken in preparation for our transition individually and societally if the end is to be seen as anything but a tragic defeat. For those lives lost and cultures dismantled by centuries of western expansionism, capitalist thought and white supremist structural hegemony the end days have long been heralded as present with this world experienced as an embodiment of a living purgatory.” The band was formed when Shabaka was connected in Johannesburg by trumpeter/bandleader Mandla Mlangeni with a group of South African jazz musicians that Hutchings admired. Wisdom Of Elders was the result of their several recording sessions together and the new release reunites the group. They recorded it in 2019, once again working in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The more urgent, unrelenting and darker feel of the album reflects its social commentary set in the context of ancient traditions, with a mixture of African and Afro-Caribbean musical history. It takes the concept of the griot, one of the storytellers who keep alive the tradition of oral history in parts of Africa, and transports it to the present day. South African performance artist Siyabonga Mthembu chants and sings on the album, and composed lyrics for it. Shabaka then selected song titles from the lyrics and composed poems around each of them, based on Siyabonga’s lyrics. Among them, “We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood)” features Siyabonga singing a poem in Zulu that, when translated to English, rejects archaic notions of virility by which young boys are trained to suppress their emotions. “This song sings from the point of the toxic masculine,” says Siyabonga. “It repeats the sentences they tell to their boys – to not cry, to not grieve and to not hurt.” Artist Shabaka & The Ancestors Genre Jazz Label Impulse Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings They Who Must Die You've Been Called Go My Heart, Go To Heaven Behold, The Deceiver Run, The Darkness Will Pass The Coming Of The Strange Ones Beast Too Spoke Of Suffering We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood) 'Til The Freedom Comes Home Finally, The Man Cried Teach Me How To Be Vulnerable Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Jazz View Product Quick View Dexter Gordon Soy Califa Jazz | Gearbox | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th May 2014 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Dexter Gordon Soy Califa £21.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Gearbox SKU: GB1526 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wynton Kelly/Wes Montgomery Smokin’ At The Half Note Jazz | Analogue Productions | 200g, 2LP Released 22nd July 2013 £75.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wynton Kelly/Wes Montgomery Smokin’ At The Half Note £75.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AVRJ863345 Formats: 200g, 2LP Released Date: 22nd July 2013 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Robben Ford & Bill Evans Common Ground Jazz | MPS | 2LP Released 30th September 2022 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robben Ford & Bill Evans Common Ground £23.00 Genre: Jazz Label: MPS SKU: 0217885MS1 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 30th September 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Diana Krall Quiet Nights Jazz | Verve | 180g, 2LP Released 8th August 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Diana Krall Quiet Nights £22.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Verve SKU: 4737701 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 8th August 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Maurice Louca Elephantine Jazz | Sub Rosa | 1LP Released 8th February 2019 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Maurice Louca Elephantine £19.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Sub Rosa SKU: SRV474 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th February 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Reuben Wilson A Groovy Situation Jazz | Blue Note | 1LP Released 16th February 2010 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Reuben Wilson A Groovy Situation £13.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Blue Note SKU: BLUENOTE4365 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th February 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lester Young Blue Lester Jazz | Dreyfus Jazz | 1LP Released 10th May 2019 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lester Young Blue Lester £13.00 Genre: Jazz Label: Dreyfus Jazz SKU: 4050538483833 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 10th May 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ida Sand Do You Hear Me? 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