Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings (International Anthem) 2LP

Product Description

Universal Beings is jazz drummer / producer Makaya McCraven’s new album – his most ambitious, elegant and refined work yet. Recorded at 2 intimate live sessions and 2 pop-up “studio” sessions across the “new” jazz hotbed cities of New York, Chicago, London, and Los Angeles, Makaya collaborated with an all-star cast of improvisers (15 musicians in total, including Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Jeff Parker, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson,Tomeka Reid, Brandee Younger and Carlos Niño) to create source material for the signature style of “organic beat music” production he debuted on the ground-breaking 2015 release In The Moment. The result is this epic, 2xLP set that represents another breakthrough in Makaya’s career as a recording artist, as well as a definitive new work of the exciting global groundswell of next-generation, Black musicians re-vivifying and re-articulating “jazz” in 2018.

Tracklist:

Disc 1
1 A Queen’s Intro
2 Holy Lands
3 Young Genius
4 Black Lion
5 Tall Tales
6 Mantra
7 Pharaoh’s Intro
8 Atlantic Black
9 Inner Flight
10 Wise Man, Wiser Woman
11 Prosperity’s Fear

Disc 2  
1 Flipped OUT
2 Voila
3 Suite Haus
4 The Newbies Lift Off
5 The Royal Outro
6 The Count Off
7 Butterss’s
8 Turtle Tricks
9 The Fifth Monk
10 Brighter Days Beginning
11 Universal Beings

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