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Heaven and Earth
Artist
Kamasi Washington
ReleaseProduct
Heaven and Earth
Label
Young
Catalogue Number
YT176DA
Release Date
June 22, 2018

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Kamasi Washington's wide-reaching double album Heaven & Earth arrives on Young Turks. Much like his previous releases, Heaven & Earth once again finds Kamasi setting out to expand the minds and horizons of all who encounter his music. Recorded as a double album, this expanded canvas gives his trademark tones the opportunity to offer a wider than ever before selection of fully immersive, freestyling psychedelic jazz that carries a distinctly spiritual edge.

In an instant, Heaven and Earth really burrows deeper into the external cosmos that we were left circling around the edge of with his debut long-player, The Epic (released in 2015 via Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder label), yet it also carries us further into the distance of the deeply cinematic overtones that his debut Young Turks EP, Harmony of Difference pointed us in the direction of. While it is both instantly recognisable as a Kamasi Washington recording, Heaven and Earth's luxurious running time matched with a searching narrative sees Kamasi breaking out of any sounds or scenes he may be associated with, smoothly transcending into new, dynamic and sonically experimental levels and counterpoints of his now widely praised signature sound.

Washington convened his band, The Next Step, as well as members of the long running collective The West Coast Get Down at Henson Studios in Los Angeles to record the 16 tracks on Heaven & Earth. The music was composed, written and arranged by Washington, with new arrangements of jazz and bebop legend Freddie Hubbard’s “Hubtones” and iconic kung fu film theme “Fists of Fury,” as well as one song by bandmate Ryan Porter. Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Ronald Bruner, Jr., Cameron Graves, Brandon Coleman, Miles Mosley, Patrice Quinn, Tony Austin and many more contribute to the album.

Stretching out at two and a half hours of entirely newly recorded music, Kamasi Washington paints a vision of Heaven and Earth that is spread across two sections with eight movements apiece. It sees him wrestling with and attempting to make sense of the meaning of both Heaven and Earth within his mind and his place within the wider universe as a whole, with the Heaven side representing the world Kamasi sees inwardly, the world that is a part of him, while the Earth side represents the world he sees outwardly, the world that he is a part of. An existential experiment with saxophones that's set to take you on a journey that is as widely thrilling as it is deeply searching.

“The world that my mind lives in, lives in my mind.”

Digital Tracklist

Disc 1

  1. 1 Fists of Fury 9:43 Buy

    Fists of Fury

  2. 2 Can You Hear Him 8:54 Buy

    Can You Hear Him

  3. 3 Hub-Tones 9:10 Buy

    Hub-Tones

  4. 4 Connections 8:24 Buy

    Connections

  5. 5 Tiffakonkae 9:24 Buy

    Tiffakonkae

  6. 6 The Invincible Youth 9:53 Buy

    The Invincible Youth

  7. 7 Testify 5:44 Buy

    Testify

  8. 8 One of One 9:50 Buy

    One of One

Disc 2

  1. 1 The Space Travelers Lullaby 10:31 Buy

    The Space Travelers Lullaby

  2. 2 Vi Lua Vi Sol 11:07 Buy

    Vi Lua Vi Sol

  3. 3 Street Fighter Mas 5:58 Buy

    Street Fighter Mas

  4. 4 Song For The Fallen 12:41 Buy

    Song For The Fallen

  5. 5 Journey 8:51 Buy

    Journey

  6. 6 The Psalmnist 7:18 Buy

    The Psalmnist

  7. 7 Show Us The Way 6:51 Buy

    Show Us The Way

  8. 8 Will You Sing 10:13 Buy

    Will You Sing

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