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Sons Of Kemet at The Sugar Club

Courtesy of Improvised Music Company | Posted on January 29, 2016

Where

The Sugar Club
8 Lower Leeson St
Dublin
Map
+353 1 678 7188

When

Wed, April 6, 2016
19:00

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Musicians

Sons of Kemet
band / ensemble / orchestra

About

Presented by Improvised Music Company & ChoiceCuts

“Two years ago, Sons of Kemet were already blowing live audiences away and fascinating listeners on record – they do it even better now.” – The Guardian

Sons of Kemet, a rambunctious double-drumming quartet led by saxophonist/clarinetist Shabaka Hutchings, will be taking the Sugar Club by storm this April 6th. Sons of Kemet erupted onto the scene in 2013 with their album Burn, securing rave reviews and scooping up a MOBO Award for Best Jazz Act. Their newest album Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do, has been received with equal acclaim, securing the number 16 spot on Jim Carroll’s best albums of 2016 list, and the band are now ready to bring their hypnotic tunes on tour. Hutchings draws on a motley collection of influences, bringing links to early Caribbean and Rastafarian music, Afrobeat rhythms and funky New Orleans brass into play. He refers to the most recent album as “a mediation on the Caribbean diaspora in Britain”. This intriguing melting pot is fuelled by the voracious beats of the two drummers Tom Skinner and Seb Rochford and overlaid with Theon Cross’s versatile tuba playing, which lends both bass and melody to the tracks....

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