Impulse!
Comet Is Coming band leader Shabaka is back with The Ancestors on “We Are Sent Here By History“, follow-up to their 2016 breakout, ‘Wisdom of Elders’, via Impulse!.
“The more urgent, unrelenting and darker feel of the album reflects its social commentary set 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.”