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Black to the Future
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★★★★
BLACK to the Future is further evidence that everything British jazz superstar Shabaka Hutchings touches at the moment turns to gold.
Like Sons of Kemet’s extraordinary 2018 album, Your Queen Is a Reptile, the distinctive cacophony created here has a keen sense of urgency, with Hutchings’s saxophone working hard alongside Theon Cross’s tuba and percussion from Edward Wakili-Hick and Tom Skinner.
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