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Your Queen Is A Reptile

Sons Of Kemet

2018 · Jazz

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Your Queen Is A Reptile by Sons Of Kemet

Your Queen Is A Reptile is a Jazz album by Sons Of Kemet, originally released in 2018. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked, owned by 18 collectors.

About

London new-school jazz practitioners Sons of Kemet do not have just one particular queen in mind with the title of their third release, <i>Your Queen Is a Reptile</i>. Each track here is dedicated, instead, to an alternative queen from black history, some still living. Hotly tipped tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, who is of Barbadian ancestry, includes a short manifesto from “the children of immigrants” and “the descendants of the colonized.” With tuba player Theon Cross and the two-drum attack of Tom Skinner and Eddie Hick, Hutchings unleashes grooves that feel organic and loose-limbed, yet bracingly intense.

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Tracklist

Side A

  1. A1My Queen Is Ada Eastman6:41
  2. A2My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark5:31

Side B

  1. B1My Queen Is Harriet Tubman5:40
  2. B2My Queen Is Anna Julia Cooper5:07
  3. B3My Queen Is Angela Davis6:35

Side C

  1. C1My Queen Is Nanny Of The Maroons6:44
  2. C2My Queen Is Yaa Asantewaa7:04

Side D

  1. D1My Queen Is Albertina Sisulu5:20
  2. D2My Queen Is Doreen Lawrence6:52

Sound DNA

  • Jazz
  • Post-Bop & Modal
  • raw
  • intense
  • political

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Packaged in a gatefold sleeve. Includes download code (16/44.1 WAV). Limited copies purchased via Resident are signed.
(The labels for side A or side B are switched on some copies.)
Recorded at Total Refreshment Centre, London, UK (tracks A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, & D2), and Livingstone Studios, London, UK (tracks B1, C2, & D1).
Mixed at The Crush E14, London, UK. Mastered at Electric Mastering, London, UK.

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Pete WarehamSAXOPHONE
  • Shabaka HutchingsSAXOPHONE
  • Theon CrossTUBA
  • Tom SkinnerDRUMS
  • Congo NattyVOCALS
  • Eddie HickDRUMS
  • Eddie HicksDRUMS
  • Joshua IdehenVOCALS
  • Maxwell HallettDRUMS
  • Moses BoydDRUMS
  • Nubya GarciaSAXOPHONE
  • Sebastian RochfordDRUMS

18 collectors on Gatefold own this · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold

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