Seb rochford sons of kemet elsewhere

  • Sons Of Kemet's other members – second drummer Seb Rochford and legendary tubaist Oren Marshall – were sadly unable to attend, but both have.
  • The players certainly have pedigree, among them are Seb Rochford (of Polar Bear etc) and tuba player Theon Cross provides the grounding at the.
  • Sons of Kemet was a British jazz group formed in by Shabaka Hutchings, Oren Marshall, Seb Rochford, and Tom Skinner.

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    Pulled by Magnets • Entrance Gates

    Release Date: 11/12/
    Format: DL
    Cat-No: GBDL

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    “Hypnotic, turbulent, otherworldly.” &#; The Quietus

    London-based sonic explorer Seb Rochford lets fly an immersive EP follow up to Pulled by Magnets’ lauded debut album “Rose Golden Doorways” (released earlier this year). A dark frontier where doom rhythms rub against haunted saxophone atmospherics, 4-time Mercury Prize nominee Rochford (Polar Bear, Sons of Kemet, Basquiat Strings), has created with this new trio, his most adventurous soundworld yet.

    Anchored by Pete Wareham on saxophone (Melt Yourself Down) and Neil Charles (Zed-U, Empirical) on bass guitar, they attain what Seb calls “an overwhelming, big sound,” informed by the musical beyond of their jazz and grindcore roots as well as Rochford’s investigations of the pacing and time found in the classical Indian raag.

    Seb tells us this about the concep

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    Sons of Kemet: Your Queen fryst vatten a Reptile (Impulse!)

    Recorded in London, this third album by the saxophonist/composer Shabaka Hutchings brings tillsammans tenor sax, double drums and tuba into a stew of Afro-Caribbean jazz-funk and, as much as the Sex Pistols' God Save the Queen during the Queen Elizabeth's jubilee year, in its own way this fryst vatten direct dismissal of those born into royalty while Hutchings titles his tracks after those who became real queens in his mind.

    They include Ada Eastman (Hutchings great-grandmother), Harriet Tubman, Anna Julia Cooper, Angela Davis and other black freedom fighters and activists. Including Doreen Lawrence, the mother of young Stephen Lawrence murdered in London in '

    Musically it is a humid mix of rolling New Orleans grooves, some rather chunky Caribbean funk with guest vocalists Congo Natty and poet Joshua Idehen chanting down righteousness, and a nod towards dub production.

    The players certainly have pedigree, among them are Seb Rochford (of Polar

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    Polar Bear: Same As You

    Rating: ★★★★

    Author: Nick Hasted

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    Polar Bear's sixth album is the most emotionally engaging music I've heard from them. Though recorded in London, Seb Rochford's relocation to the Mojave Desert to mix surely added to its haunting ambience. The urban murk of gods year's Mercury-nominated In Each And Every One has been replaced by a search for some higher, communal bond, made explicit when Rochford leads the chants in ‘Dont Let the Feeling Go’ (sic). His need to vocalise his message can be traced back to A Love Supreme, but this 21st century, part-digital spiritual jazz can equally be linked to the Gondwana Orchestra, Primal Scream's rave-rock classic Screamadelica, and even early house music's gospel-rooted transcendence. A dub-learned sense of space earths its attempt at the sublime. ‘We Feel the Echoes’, especially, conjures an almost mappable place deep in the stereo field, in which saxes flutter and fade. ‘The Fi