Stream Makaya McCraven’s new album Universal Beings
October 2018
Makaya McCraven. Photo by Evan Jenkins
The Paris born, New England raised, Chicago based jazz drummer shares a full stream of his forthcoming double LP
| “A Queen's Intro” | 0:00:32 |
| “Holy Lands” (featuring Brandee Younger) | 0:05:14 |
| “Young Genius” (featuring Joel Ross) | 0:05:32 |
| “Black Lion” (featuring Dezron Douglas) | 0:02:56 |
| “Tall Tales” (featuring Tomeka Reid) | 0:04:16 |
| “Mantra” | 0:03:48 |
| “Pharaoh’s Intro” | 0:01:58 |
| “Atlantic Black” | 0:09:10 |
| “Inner Flight” | 0:03:03 |
| “Wise Man, Wiser Woman” (featuring Shabaka Hutchings) | 0:03:13 |
| “Prosperity’s Fear” (featuring Junius Paul) | 0:06:11 |
| “Flipped OUT” | 0:02:40 |
| “Voila” (featuring Daniel Casimir) | 0:05:00 |
| “Suite Haus” (featuring Nubya Garcia) | 0:05:09 |
| “The Newbies Lift Off” (featuring Ashley Henry) | 0:06:19 |
| “The Royal Outro” | 0:01:44 |
| “The Count Off” (featuring Carlos Niño) | 0:01:09 |
| “Butterss’s” (featuring Anna Butterss) | 0:02:59 |
| “Turtle Tricks” (featuring Jeff Parker) | 0:04:15 |
| “The Fifth Monk” (featuring Josh Johnson) | 0:08:01 |
| “Brighter Days Beginning” (featuring Miguel Atwood-Ferguson) | 0:02:32 |
| “Universal Beings” | 0:04:08 |
Universal Beings is the third album by Makaya McCraven. Released by Chicago imprint International Anthem, the double LP documents four free jazz sessions recorded with a DIY set-up in four different cities, New York, Chicago, London and Los Angeles, each featuring different configurations of collaborators, including Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Tomeka Reid, Anna Butterss, Jeff Parker and Dezron Douglas, among others.
The sessions were subsequently edited and arranged by McCraven. A statement via his label declares this way of recording hopes to defy “the simplifications of revisionism and regionalism while celebrating the sounds, settings and stories that define the provenance of his work”.
Read an interview with Makaya McCraven in The Wire 415. Subscribers can access the article via the online archive. Universal Beings is released by International Anthem digitally on 26 October, and on vinyl on 16 November.
Comments
This is really nice. Hope it gets the attention it deserves!
BJ Robson
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