The words and drawings on the cover of Sons of Kemet’s Mercury Prize-nominated third album Your Queen Is a Reptile immediately throw down a gauntlet, an us-versus-them tension that animates their ...

In The Last Angel Of History, John Akomfrah’s experimental documentary released in 1996, the narrator is a “badboy scavenger poet-figure” known as the Data Thief. Roaming through history, the Data ...

Maybe you spotted headlines earlier this year in Rolling Stone (“Jazz’s New British Invasion”) or The New York Times (“With Sons of Kemet, Shabaka Hutchings Brings London Jazz Into the Spotlight”) and ...

In many respects, jazz has acted as a vehicle in which musicians can draw from a vast well of historical and contextual memory, transforming their sound to encompass elements of the past, present, and ...

It is appropriate that this, British-based Sons of Kemet's third album, should be released under the Impulse banner. During its heyday, Impulse was the home of John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane and ...

Three years ago, the London jazz quartet Sons Of Kemet released a wild, expressive, omnivorous album called Your Queen Is A Reptile. The group had been going for years before then, and it’s one of ...

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It’s telling, perhaps, that the first time I heard about Shabaka Hutchings it wasn’t through the jazz underground, but from Hieroglyphic Being. The Chicago house producer—who was in the middle of a ...

The jazz quartet, led by saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and featuring Tom Skinner of Radiohead side-project The Smile on drums, were nominated for the 2018 Mercury Prize for ‘Your Queen Is A Reptile’.

"After 10 years we have decided that from the end of our scheduled 2022 shows we will be closing this chapter of the band's life for the foreseeable future" Sons of Kemet — the South London Jazz group ...