André 3000 and Thundercat feature on Kamasi Washington's forthcoming album, Fearless Movement
Kamasi Washington – American jazz saxophonist and founding member of the jazz collective West Coast Get Down – has unveiled details of his forthcoming album, Fearless Movement.
Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.” Where previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, Fearless Movement focuses in on the everyday, an exploration of life on earth. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago.
The lead single “Prologue", debuts alongside a video directed by longtime collaborator AG Rojas and choreographed by Samantha Blake Goodman.
“Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” says Washington. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality—realising that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.”
The album features Washington’s daughter—who wrote the melody to “Asha The First” during some of her first experimentations on the piano—as well as a host of collaborators new and old. André 3000 appears on flute, George Clinton lends his voice, as do BJ The Chicago Kid, Inglewood rapper D-Smoke and Taj and Ras Austin of Coast Contra, the twin sons of West Coast legend Ras Kass. Washington further enlisted lifelong friends and collaborators Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, DJ Battlecat and more.
Tracklist:
- Lesanu
- Asha The First (featuring Thundercat, Taj Austin, Ras Austin)
- Computer Love (featuring Patrice Quinn, DJ Battlecat, Brandon Coleman)
- The Visionary (featuring Terrace Martin)
- Get Lit (featuring George Clinton, D Smoke)
- Dream State (featuring André 3000)
- Together (featuring BJ the Chicago Kid)
- The Garden Path
- Interstellar Peace (The Last Stance)
- Road to Self (KO)
- Lines in the Sand
- Prologue
Fearless Movement, is set for release on 3 May via Young, and is available to pre-order now.
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