Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement • Young
• Kamasi Washington calls his new album, ‘Fearless Movement’, his dance album. “It’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music - expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.”
• Available to independent retailers on coloured vinyl 2LP (one disc red, one disc blue) • standard black double vinyl • Double CD.
Tracklisting:
Disc One
1. "Lesanu" 9:22
2. "Asha the First" (featuring Thundercat, Taj Austin and Ras Austin) 7:46
3. "Computer Love" (featuring Patrice Quinn, DJ Battlecat and Brandon Coleman) 9:26
4. "The Visionary" (featuring Terrace Martin) 1:10
5. "Get Lit" (featuring George Clinton and D Smoke) 3:26
6. "Dream State" (featuring André 3000) 8:39
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Disc Two
7. "Together" (featuring BJ the Chicago Kid) 5:34
8. "The Garden Path" 6:40
9. "Road to Self (KO)" 13:25
10. "Interstellar Peace (The Last Stance)" 5:04
11. "Lines in the Sand" 7:25
12. "Prologue" 8:19
Total length: 86:16
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Label: Young Turks
Formats: CD • Black Double Vinyl • Red & Blue Double Vinyl
Release Date: 3rd May 2024
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• Kamasi Washington calls his new album, ‘Fearless Movement’, his dance album. “It’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music - expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.”
• Dance as an embodied form of expression signals a shift in focus for Washington. Where previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, ‘Fearless Movement’ focuses in on the everyday, an exploration of life on earth. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago.
• “Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” says Washington. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality - realizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.”
• The album features Washington’s daughter - who wrote the melody to ‘Asha The First’ during some of her first experimentations on the piano - as well as a host of collaborators new and old. André 3000 appears on flute, George Clinton lends his voice, as do BJ The Chicago Kid, Inglewood rapper D-Smoke and Taj and Ras Austin of Coast Contra, the twin sons of West Coast legend Ras Kass. Washington further enlisted lifelong friends and collaborators Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, DJ Battlecat and more.
• The album also features ‘The Garden Path’, a song Washington performed for the first time ever, making his late-night television debut on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’.
• Kamasi Washington is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader born and raised in Los Angeles. His three bodies of work to date - ‘The Epic’; ‘Harmony of Difference’, an EP originally commissioned for the 2017 Whitney Biennial; and ‘Heaven and Earth’ - are among the most acclaimed of this century. ‘As Told To G/D Thyself’, his short film companion to ‘Heaven and Earth’, debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to widespread acclaim. In 2020, Washington scored the Michelle Obama documentary ‘Becoming’, earning Emmy and GRAMMY nominations for his work.
• Also in 2020, Washington co-founded the supergroup Dinner Party with longtime friends and collaborators Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper and 9th Wonder - their EP ‘Dinner Party (Dessert)’ was subsequently nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Progressive R&B Album. In 2021, he contributed a cover of Metallica’s ‘My Friend of Misery’ to the band’s ‘Metallica Blacklist’ covers project.
• Washington has toured the world over and collaborated and shared stages with Kendrick Lamar, Florence + the Machine, Herbie Hancock and many more.
Brand | Young |
Condition | New |
Product Code | YO350CD |
Weight | 0.05kg |