Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates '2021

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       Irreversible 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.

And 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!” we shouted, blessed be – we need it now!

Here 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. 

Camae Ayewa - voice, synth
Keir Neuringer - saxophone, synth, percussion
Aquiles Navarro - trumpet, synth
Luke Stewart - double bass, bass guitar
Tcheser Holmes - drums, percussion

Tracklist:
1 01. Irreversible Entanglements - Open the Gates (02:39)
1 02. Irreversible Entanglements - Keys to Creation (13:41)
1 03. Irreversible Entanglements - Lágrimas Del Mar (08:03)
1 04. Irreversible Entanglements - Storm Came Twice (07:20)
1 05. Irreversible Entanglements - Water Meditation (20:39)
1 06. Irreversible Entanglements - Six Sounds (10:30)
1 07. Irreversible Entanglements - The Port Remembers (10:48) 

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