Fearless Movement - Kamasi Washington (2 LP)
There is a tender proposition behind composer, bandleader, and saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s fifth studio album, Fearless Movement: we’re all born elastic, and if you don’t use it you lose it. Dance was on Washington’s mind while making this record, and it serves as a metaphor for this practice of flexibility. “When people hear that I'm making a 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.”
Turning his attention to dance, and bringing the audience with him, is a natural progression of Washington’s ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018’s Heaven and Earth were received by critics and audiences as a kind of intervention, across generations and genres. Both of those records were big offerings, heavy on choir and strings, but Fearless Movement offers something different: it’s still immense, but more rhythmic. It features a wide range of collaborators like Andre 3000, rapper D Smoke, vocalist Patrice Quinn, fellow saxophonist Terrace Martin, bass player Thundercat, drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., DJ Battlecat and BJ The Chicago Kid.
Turning his attention to dance, and bringing the audience with him, is a natural progression of Washington’s ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018’s Heaven and Earth were received by critics and audiences as a kind of intervention, across generations and genres. Both of those records were big offerings, heavy on choir and strings, but Fearless Movement offers something different: it’s still immense, but more rhythmic. It features a wide range of collaborators like Andre 3000, rapper D Smoke, vocalist Patrice Quinn, fellow saxophonist Terrace Martin, bass player Thundercat, drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., DJ Battlecat and BJ The Chicago Kid.
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