Shabaka is coming through Constellation on March 29th in support of his new album Of The Earth. Tickets and more information, here.
Out now via Shabaka Records, the album marks the label’s first release and finds him expanding his solo practice into a more self-directed space, using his voice as an instrument on record for the first time while also producing and mixing the project himself. It feels like a particularly special moment to catch him live and experience that evolution in the room before he heads back overseas.
Shabaka is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who came to prominence within the London scene playing bands Sons of Kemet, the Comet is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors. At the start of 2024, he announced a hiatus from the saxophone, and since then has been composing material for the various flutes he is engaged in studying. Collaboration and the idea of developmental change being central to artistic practice is the driving force behind Shabaka’s live sets, which are constantly evolving and striving to reflect an up-to-date account of a creative mind in flow.
