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Kamasi Washington today confirms his new album, Fearless Movement, is set for release May 3 via Young.
Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. Its not literal, Washington says. Dance is movement and expression, and in a way its the same thing as musicexpressing your spirit through your body. Thats what this album is pushing.
Dance as an embodied form of expression signals a shift in focus for Washington. 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 Washingtons first child a few years ago.
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 immortalityrealizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that Im never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.
The album features Washingtons daughterwho wrote the melody to Asha The First during some of her first experimentations on the pianoas well as a host of collaborators new and old. Andr 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.
The album also features The Garden Path, a song Washington performed for the first time ever, making his late-night television debut, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Kamasi Washington is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader born and raised in Los Angeles. His three bodies of work to dateThe Epic; Harmony of Difference, an EP originally commissioned for the 2017 Whitney Biennial; and Heaven and Earthare among the most acclaimed of this century. As Told To G/D Thyself, his short film companion to Heaven and Earth, debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to widespread acclaim. In 2020, Washington scored the Michelle Obama documentary Becoming, earning Emmy and Grammy nominations for his work. Also in 2020, Washington co-founded the supergroup Dinner Party with long-time friends and collaborators Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper and 9th Wondertheir EP Dinner Party (Dessert) was subsequently nominated for a Grammy for Best Progressive R&B Album. In 2021, he contributed a cover of Metallicas My Friend of Misery to the bands Metallica Blacklist covers project. Washington has toured the world over and collaborated and shared stages with Kendrick Lamar, Florence + the Machine, Herbie Hancock and many more.
Tracklisting
1. Lesanu
2. Asha The First featuring Thundercat, Taj Austin, Ras Austin
3. Computer Love featuring Patrice Quinn, DJ Battlecat, Brandon Coleman
4. The Visionary featuring Terrace Martin
5. Get Lit featuring George Clinton
6. Dream State featuring Andr 3000
7. Together featuring BJ the Chicago Kid
8. The Garden Path
9. Interstellar Peace (The Last Stance)
10. Road to Self (KO)
11. Lines in the Sand
12. Prologue
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