We Are Sent Here by History
by Shabaka and the Ancestors
A powerful and politically charged album conceived as a single, continuous sonic poem. Recorded in South Africa with a band of brilliant Johannesburg-based musicians, the album is a deep exploration of spiritual jazz and its connections to the African diaspora. The music is intense, meditative, and ritualistic, featuring fiery improvisations, powerful spoken-word vocals, and deep, churning polyrhythms. It's a profound statement on history, identity, and the end of the world as we know it.
Genres
- Spiritual Jazz
- Afro-Jazz
Tracklist
- They Who Must Die
- You've Been Called
- Go My Heart, Go to Heaven
- Behold, the Deceiver
- Run, the Darkness Will Pass
- The Coming of the Strange Ones