Origami Harvest

by Ambrose Akinmusire

Origami Harvest cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 12 October 2018
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 59:48
  • Community rating: 3.53/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Commissioned originally for the Ecstatic Music Festival, the American trumpeter delivers his most formally ambitious project to date. The highly complex suite intertwines a classical string quartet, avant-garde jazz improvisation, and the intricate spoken-word poetry of underground rapper Kool A.D., tackling deep political and cultural themes.

Genres

Descriptors: conscious, political, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. a blooming bloodfruit in a hoodie (12:57)
  2. miracle and streetfight (15:05)
  3. Americana / the garden waits for you to match her wilderness (10:40)
  4. particle / spectra (8:04)
  5. Free, White and 21 (3:06)
  6. the lingering velocity of the dead's ambitions (9:54)

Credits

  • Nova Fractal - primary artist, compiled by
  • Richpa - artwork
  • Ambrose Akinmusire - Primary Artist

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