Shabaka Hutchings Focuses on Flute

Source: The Quietus.

Those who were audibly bemused by Andre 3000’s New Blue Sun album will likely be further confounded at this new offering from the Brit jazz magus. Hutchings’ embrace of the flute is no whim though, as anyone who has listened to Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace will attest. For a start, he disbanded several successful groups in The Comet Is Coming and Sons of Kemet in order to pursue these burgeoning musical convictions (with Shabaka and the Ancestors having already run its course). It’s a bold marker that comes from a very different place from what went before, unfolding at an unhurried, almost liminal pace, a yin to the bludgeoning sax’s yang.