{"id":377,"date":"2024-01-10T12:26:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T12:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/?p=377"},"modified":"2024-01-12T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T09:36:23","slug":"sons-of-kemet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/mojo\/2024\/01\/10\/sons-of-kemet\/","title":{"rendered":"Sons Of Kemet Test 001"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_code module_class=”custom-cat” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]
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Sons Of Kemet<\/b><\/h1>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”intro-text” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]

For a decade, Shabaka Hutchings\u2019 SONS OF KEMET<\/span> have blazed a trail for British jazz, bringing carnival energy, Afrocentric attitude and, sometimes, more than one tuba. And as they assure DANNY ECCLESTON<\/span>, they\u2019re not done evolving. \u201cThe area that Caribbean music can occupy is infinite!\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-main” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Photography by TOM OLDHAM<\/span><\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/lead000.jpg” title_text=”lead000″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]

Looking for apparitions: Sons Of Kemet (from left) Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Skinner, Theon Cross, Edward Wakili-Hick at the Total Refreshment Centre, Stoke Newington, London, March 23, 2021.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

VISITORS TO NORTH LONDON\u2019S LIVINGSTON STUDIOS IN THE AUTUMN OF 2019 could easily have stumbled across something quite odd: four grown jazz musicians lying on the floor of the live room, in the pitch dark, screaming and screaming. Jazz can be a lot of things, the open-minded observer might have mused, but… this?<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]

\u201cIt was cathartic!\u201d laughs Shabaka Hutchings, the saxophonist-leader of Sons Of Kemet and the director of this unusual scenario. \u201cBefore every track I got everyone to do these breathing exercises. Thirty really deep breaths and you keep the last one in. I really felt it put us in a space that was together.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

For the final track on Sons Of Kemet\u2019s latest album, however, he had something more extreme in mind. As the intense cacophony played back in their headphones, the four men on the floor wailed, shrieked and ululated until they were spent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s complete darkness,\u201d remembers Hutchings, \u201cand we\u2019re really letting it out. You have cans on, and you can\u2019t hear anyone, not even your own voice, so you\u2019re uninhibited. You\u2019re giving out pure emotion.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/img000.jpg” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” title_text=”img000″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

SOK skank down in Babylon: (from left) Hutchings, Wakili-Hick, Cross, Skinner.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

\u201cUNINHIBITED\u201d IS A GOOD WORD FOR SONS OF KEMET. FREQUENTERS OF THEIR decade of live shows will have seen a development that\u2019s felt less about honing and more like re-wilding. The original quartet \u2013 the imposing Hutchings on tenor mainly, but sometimes clarinet; drummers Tom Skinner and Seb Rochford; Oren Marshall on tuba and \u2018Orenophone\u2019 (a kind of unwieldy, unwound Sousaphone) \u2013 were extraordinary enough: a meld of jazz, Caribbean and near eastern musics that rattled the cutlery of diners at London\u2019s sedate jazz clubs. Their evolution \u2013 first Marshall handed over to his tuba prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Theon Cross; then Rochford left and Edward Wakili-Hick stepped in \u2013 has coincided with an upsurge in the physicality, generic promiscuity and (yes, let\u2019s say it) popularity of British jazz music.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

Uninhibited certainly describes Hutchings\u2019 saxophone playing on Black To The Future<\/i> \u2013 their fourth album since 2013 \u2013 specifically the final section of May The Circle Be Unbroken, where his blowing fractures into an angry storm of desperate cries and shouts. Quizzed on it by MOJO, Hutchings almost sounds like he\u2019s blushing.<\/p>\n

\u201cEr, yeah \u2013 that was a bit intense,\u201d he whispers. \u201cI mean, you encounter those moments, where it feels like you\u2019re an outlet for a different spirit. Or a different personality. And when it happens, it\u2019s not worth going back to it and trying to think it through. You\u2019ve almost got to pretend it didn\u2019t happen. Then the magic might come back again.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Hutchings is keen to avoid the pitfalls of over-thinking, he remains one of the great ponderers of contemporary British music (don\u2019t get him started on \u2018Quantum Afrofuturism\u2019). Born in London in 1984, Shabaka Akua Lumumba Kamau Hutchings was raised in Birmingham and Barbados by a single mother. Returning to the UK in his teens, he studied classical clarinet at the Guildhall School Of Music, while his sax education progressed in groups as diverse as Seb Rochford\u2019s Polar Bear, Mulatu Astatke and the Sun Ra Arkestra. His current status among peers in British improvisational music is unquestioned \u2013 front and centre in Sons Of Kemet, spacetronic trio The Comet Is Coming and with South African spiritual jazz tyros in Shabaka & The Ancestors, to name only his three highest-profile projects. \u201cHe is a leader,\u201d says Tom Skinner. \u201cListen to all the young tenor players \u2013 you can hear Shabaka in all of them. He has kicked in a door for this generation.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pull-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#111111″ header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

\u201cWhat Shabaka’s shown is <\/b>don’t be afraid to look to yourself and your own roots.<\/b><\/span> It doesn’t have<\/i> to be American jazz.\u201d<\/b><\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”pullquote-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_text_color=”#E69573″ header_3_font_size=”38px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

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Yet in the mists of 2011, Hutchings\u2019 decision to begin his band-leading life in a two-drummers, sax and tuba combo seemed eccentric \u2013 quadruply so at the March 2013 show at Camden\u2019s Forge venue that peaked with four tubas on stage. What, literally, was he thinking?<\/p>\n

\u201cI recently found my old notebook from the year I formed Sons Of Kemet so I could actually look through the process,\u201d he says. \u201cI was thinking of all kind of combinations. At one point I had [drummer] Mark Sanders, and I was thinking a guitarist, maybe David Okumu\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Eventually, Hutchings settled on Marshall but was torn between Skinner and Rochford, until he thought, \u201cWhy not both? I was listening to this Tony Malaby album, Apparitions<\/i>,\u201d he recalls. \u201cHe had two drummers on that and I loved the way they interacted, not with one taking the groove but each communicating with the other.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kemet sound, with two drummers shifting focus and the tuba swaggering about, has always felt mobile and purposeful. It turns out it\u2019s a legacy of Hutchings\u2019 earliest musical experiences: playing bass drum in a marching band.<\/p>\n

\u201cTuk is the traditional music of Barbados,\u201d Hutchings explains. \u201cYou\u2019ve got a bass drum, a snare drum, a triangle and a guy on a flute. Unlike the larger islands in the Caribbean \u2013 which were big enough to have hidden places where African religious rites could be observed \u2013 on Barbados, that cultural retention went under the radar. It slipped into their military marching music, into the syncopation of tuk.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”391,392″ fullwidth=”on” module_class=”fp-gallery” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

From Left: Sons Of Kemet get tuk in on-stage at the 2019 Latitude Festival, Suffolk; Hutchings with Kamasi Washington, Ghent Jazz Festival, July 2017<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

HUTCHINGS TALKS A LOT ABOUT SONS OF KEMET as a vessel for the myriad musics of the African diaspora, and his example is infectious. Dreadlocked Wakili-Hick has adjusted his approach (and his name) to embrace more of his West African heritage. \u201cI\u2019ve been introducing kpanlogo,\u201d says the drummer in drowsy Yorkshire tones, \u201ca Ghanaian drum. And an igba \u2013 a Nigerian talking drum. Bringing different sounds in.\u201d Cross is the group\u2019s bass music specialist, versed in grime (he\u2019s lent his tuba to Kano, Little Simz and Ruff Sqwad) but also steeped in \u2018blocos\u2019, the Brazilian-style carnival bands he played in from ages 12 to 17. \u201cI suppose I bring that carnival energy to Sons Of Kemet, where the audience is part of the band,\u201d he reflects. \u201cIt\u2019s like an acoustic sound system.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

What it isn\u2019t is conformity to \u2018classic\u2019 jazz templates, insists Tom Skinner. \u201cWhat Shabaka\u2019s shown is don\u2019t be afraid to look to yourself and your own roots and experience and use that as the basis for a sound,\u201d says the drummer. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have<\/i> to be American jazz.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bringing his roots and experience to the stage and the studio has, for Hutchings, meant foregrounding the history of African people. On SOK\u2019s 2018 album, Your Queen Is A Reptile<\/i>, the tracks were named for an alternative pantheon of \u2018queens\u2019: pioneering black women including Angela Davis and Harriet Tubman. And although its core grooves were laid down in advance of George Floyd\u2019s killing on March 25, 2020, Black To The Future<\/i> opens with a poem written by Joshua Idehen in its immediate aftermath. Railing at the structures that would constrain or define black people, it aims a barb at the UK\u2019s former equality tsar, Trevor Phillips. \u201cI hope I never bump into him actually!\u201d laughs Hutchings, before delicately addressing the problematic position of \u201canyone who\u2019s used in ways that can be considered tokenistic\u201d.<\/p>\n

The saxophonist is more bluntly critical of responses to Black Lives Matter that he describes as \u201ctaking up space\u201d. \u201cIf your response to this traumatic event is, you know, thinking about it for half an afternoon and then spewing out what you think about it on social media,\u201d he says, \u201cthis isn\u2019t necessarily the kind of soul searching that\u2019s going to remedy the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new album\u2019s last track, Black, is also voiced by Joshua Idehen. Its last words, \u201cLeave us alone\u201d, are uncompromising. What do they mean to Hutchings?<\/p>\n

\u201cI take it to mean \u2018leave black culture alone\u2019, or leave African cultural knowledge to develop on its own terms, without the gaze or interpretation of external forces,\u201d he says. \u201cLeave black people to develop without the fear of being harassed or being depicted. It\u2019s about our freedom to be multiple.\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_gallery gallery_ids=”393,394″ fullwidth=”on” module_class=”fp-gallery” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_gallery][et_pb_text module_class=”image-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|300|||||||” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”-10px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

From Left: Young Shabaka\u2019s first professional gig in 1995, aged 11; early SOK line-up (from left) Skinner, Oren Marshall, Seb Rochford, Hutchings, 2013.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

DEFINITION BY EXTERNAL forces was barely an issue for British jazz musicians before their recent exposure to the spotlight, but Hutchings and co are already working on confounding expectations. In November 2020 the BBC revived its venerable Jazz 625 strand for a TV special on UK jazz acts including Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd and Ezra Collective. Rather than strapping on the tenor and blowing viewers\u2019 heads off, Hutchings applied his clarinet to a mournful revision of Black To The Future\u2019s In Remembrance Of Those Fallen.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a statement, as such,\u201d says Hutchings. \u201cBut you know, we\u2019re never going to satisfy anyone\u2019s idea of what we\u2019re supposed to be. We are whatever we are at that particular moment. The pandemic, for me, felt like a moment for reflection. And as I get older I realise that everything doesn\u2019t have to be shouting in your face.\u201d He laughs. \u201cSometimes you can just tell<\/i> someone your opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

A scream to a whisper? Hutchings says he can visualise the next stage of Sons Of Kemet\u2019s evolution \u2013 exploring lower volumes, more dynamics, but rawer sax sounds. Meanwhile, he has been listening to lots of soca and calypso, a way of battling what he calls American music\u2019s \u201chegemonic allure\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe area that Caribbean music can occupy is infinite,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting because it means that no one can predict what the future of music is gonna be. People will always say, \u2018Oh the music scene is dying\u2026\u2019 For me that\u2019s the worst type of outlook, and it makes no sense\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

He pauses. A little steel enters the lilt of his voice. \u201cIt\u2019s like, are you even listening?<\/i>\u201d<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ module_class=”custom-boxout” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#DFC0AE” custom_padding=”40px|0px|40px|0px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”boxout-title” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_font_size=”46px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_3_font=”|||on|||||” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_text_color=”#E69573″ header_3_font_size=”38px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

RISING SONS<\/span><\/span><\/h3>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”boxout-intro” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”24px” text_orientation=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

The fruits of Kemet, so far, by Danny Eccleston<\/b>.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

BURN<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code module_class=”star-rating-container” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” locked=”off” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

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\"\"Sons Of Kemet\u2019s first phase, with Seb Rochford on half the drums and Oren Marshall on tuba and Orenophone, showcased what Hutchings calls \u201ca more exploratory, jazz-based group\u201d. Yet the tenorist\u2019s urgency and Marshall\u2019s reggaefied low-end blurts marked them out from the very start. A criticism? Too much reverb.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

LEST WE FORGET WHAT WE CAME HERE TO DO<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code module_class=”star-rating-container” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” locked=”off” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

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(Naim, 2015)<\/i><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-image” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

\"\"Theon Cross\u2019s arrival made SOK \u201cmore full-frontal, more of a band<\/i>,\u201d says Hutchings. Crashing into the opening In Memory Of Samir Awad about two-thirds in, the tubist certainly seems to pull everything together. Meanwhile, the nine-minute Afrofuturism is the closest they\u2019ve come, says Hutchings, to Barbadian \u2018tuk\u2019.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

YOUR QUEEN IS A REPTILE<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code module_class=”star-rating-container” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” locked=”off” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]

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(Impulse!, 2018)<\/i><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-image” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

\"\"Everything feels more pointed on SOK\u2019s third, where Anglo-Nigerian poet Joshua Idehen brings the politics and Tom Skinner, paired with a transitional cast of drum partners, earns his corn. My Queen Is Harriet Tubman made the soundtrack of Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s 2019 Homecoming doc, much to the delight of Theon Cross.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”details-group” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” width=”100%” custom_padding=”0px|20px|0px|20px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”writer-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|700||on|||||” text_text_color=”#F4F4F4″ text_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”50px||5px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

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\"\"More budget meant more studio time to brew more intense grooves, over which Hutchings\u2019 layered woodwinds evoke a forest of birds. Depth and richness ensue, but also SOK\u2019s most powerful statements, with guest vocalists and Hutchings\u2019 sax idols Steve Williamson and Kebbi Williams stoking the fire.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-names” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”14px” text_orientation=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

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