SHABAKA HUTCHINGS - BLACK SKIN, BLACK MASKS // We Out Here

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A primer on London’s bright-burning young jazz scene, this new compilation brings together a collection of some of its sharpest talents. A set of nine newly-recorded tracks, We Out Here captures a moment where genre markers matter less than raw, focused energy. Surveying the album’s running order, it could easily serve as a name-checking exercise for some of London’s most-tipped and hardworking bands of the past couple of years. Recorded across three long, fruitful days in a North West London studio, the results speak for themselves: they’re a window into the wide-eyed future of London’s musical underground.

Shabaka Hutchings’ ‘Black Skin, Black Masks’ is typically difficult-to-define: with an off-kilter, shifting rhythmic backbone, repeated phrases – mirrored between clarinet and bass clarinet – shape the track with an alluring hue.

Shabaka Hutchings - bass clarinet
George Crowley - clarinet
Ruth Goller - bass
Alexander Hawkins - piano
Tom Skinner - drums

Original Music by Shabaka Hutchings

We Out Here compilation released 9th Feb 2018.