{"title":"Irreversible Entanglements","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"irreversible-entanglements-open-the-gates","title":"Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eIrreversible Entanglements’ third full-length album OPEN THE GATES is ethereal shards of jagged onyx, a melancholic exploration of the post-colonial debris that surrounds us. Let’s watch and listen, as this platter snakes through the sandy ashes of possible histories, dialogs with a nervous present, and asks to be birthed into a holographic new future. “Together in holy sound!” the band stitches patient anthems out of atmosphere. Pulling from a wider sonic vocabulary than on previous excursions, the agit-jazz found here is simultaneously pre- and post-apocalypse, as bass lurches in a tranced-out loop, horns are up in the track grooves like poltergeists playing in the streets, poetry cascades like a warrior call at a satsang, the drums both wild and refined pulse with uhuru-heart cadence. This is Irreversible Entanglements on new ground; same as the old ground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd we need it now – the universe was awash in the sickly static veneer of anti-cosmos, of anti-nation; the halls were emptied, our shadows echoing and staining the walls of our abandoned oases – so we poured out into 2020’s wild streets. The ghosts of our labor danced around the sickness as we set fire to our old ways of thinking and moving, as we set fire to cop cars and bashed in the windows of our own rising disenfranchisement. “Open the gates!”\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewe shouted, blessed be – we need it now!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere come Irreversible Entanglements – Luke Stewart, the high priest on bass; Aquiles Navarro, the electric universe in human form on trumpet; Keir Neuringer, the cosmologist with the siren sound on sax; Tcheser Holmes, the griot, the myth-maker on drums; and Camae Ayewa, the Moor mother with an empyrean pen game – on this new disc with their fierce aural tectonics shifting the earth, their watery post-pangea as dirge, their punk rock ethos and crash and bang polyrhythmic super-sonic sound synesthesia in the form of OPEN THE GATES – here it comes, my Brothas and Sistas, here it comes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased November 12, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCamae Ayewa - voice, synth\u003cbr\u003eKeir Neuringer - saxophone, synth, percussion\u003cbr\u003eAquiles Navarro - trumpet, synth\u003cbr\u003eLuke Stewart - double bass, bass guitar\u003cbr\u003eTcheser Holmes - drums, percussion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded on January 5th, 2021, at Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia. Mixed in April, 2021, at International Anthem Studios, Chicago. Mastered in May, 2021, at Elysian Masters, Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced by: Camae Ayewa, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart, and Tcheser Holmes.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded by: Michael Richelle.\u003cbr\u003eMixed by: Dave Vettraino.\u003cbr\u003eMastered by: Dave Cooley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover Photo by: Cyrus Moussavi.\u003cbr\u003eBack Cover \u0026amp; Liner Photos by: Bob Sweeney.\u003cbr\u003eLiner Notes by: Alex Smith.\u003cbr\u003eDesign \u0026amp; Layout by: Craig Hansen.\u003cbr\u003eExecutive Production by: Scott McNiece \u0026amp; David Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(( Album cover photo \u0026amp; \"Open The Gates\" video feature Judah Son of Pharoh ))\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition \"NEPTUNE BLUE\" Color Vinyl Gatefold 2LP","offer_id":53918434623829,"sku":"IARC0049LPS","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Classic Black Vinyl Gatefold 2LP","offer_id":53918495211861,"sku":"IARC0049LP","price":27.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD - Compact Disc","offer_id":53918499012949,"sku":"IARC0049CD","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1049\/0419\/6437\/files\/a3760979007_10.jpg?v=1779970533"},{"product_id":"irreversible-entanglements-irreversible-entanglements","title":"Irreversible Entanglements - Irreversible Entanglements","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eFor Akaila.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrreversible Entanglements are a liberation-oriented free jazz collective formed in early 2015 by saxophonist Keir Neuringer, poet Camae Ayewa (a.k.a. Moor Mother) and bassist Luke Stewart, who came together to perform at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event organized after the slaying of Akai Gurley by the NYPD. Months later the group added trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes (a duo who also performed at the MAPB event) for a single day of recording at Seizure’s Palace in Brooklyn, and the full quintet’s first time playing together was captured for this debut. In four relentless bouts of inspired fire music the instrumentalists explore and elaborate compositional ideas drawn from their deep individual studies of free jazz improvisation, but the tone of each piece is driven decisively by Ayewa’s searing poetic narrations of Black trauma, survival and power. The message is the undeniable essence of the music. Though free jazz with voice is an uncommon approach in the modern day landscape of the genre, the spirit and subject the band channels and explores represent a return to a central tenant of the sound as it was founded – to be a vehicle for Black liberation. As creative and adventurous as any recording of contemporary\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eavant-garde jazz but offering listeners no abstractions to hide behind, this is music that both honors and defies tradition, speaking to the present while insisting on the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrreversible Entanglements is the first collaborative split release by International Anthem \u0026amp; Don Giovanni Records, a partnership aimed to amplify this potent music and pertinent message to the widest possible audience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased September 26, 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCamae Ayewa - voice\u003cbr\u003eKeir Neuringer - alto saxophone\u003cbr\u003eAquiles Navarro - trumpet\u003cbr\u003eLuke Stewart - double bass\u003cbr\u003eTcheser Holmes - drums\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll words by Camae Ayewa.\u003cbr\u003eFireworks composed by Keir Neuringer.\u003cbr\u003eEnough composed by Aquiles Navarro.\u003cbr\u003eChicago to Texas and Projects collaboratively composed in performance by Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart, and Tcheser Holmes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded August 26, 2015 at Seizure’s Palace, Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003eEngineered by Jason LaFarge.\u003cbr\u003eMixed by David Allen.\u003cbr\u003eMastered by Helge Sten.\u003cbr\u003eArt by Damon Locks.\u003cbr\u003eLayout by Craig Hansen.\u003cbr\u003eProduced by Keir Neuringer.\u003cbr\u003eThank you: Scottie McNiece, Amirtha Kidambi, Peter Evans.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"Classic Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":53919404818773,"sku":"IARC0014LP11","price":22.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1049\/0419\/6437\/files\/a3667562036_10.jpg?v=1779452767"}],"url":"https:\/\/international-anthem.k7store.com\/collections\/irreversible-entanglements.oembed","provider":"International Anthem","version":"1.0","type":"link"}