Irreversible Entanglements

Irreversible Entanglements is a free-jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality, consisting of poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (a.k.a. Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes. It is a community band playing deeply improvised, rhythm music full of love and social commitment. IE came together spontaneously in 2015. All were artist-activists of varying degrees: Philadelphia-based Ayewa and Neuringer and DC-based Stewart as veterans of the Mid-Atlantic noise-hardcore-experimental scene, while Holmes and Navarro as recent New England Conservatory grads. Each of the albums that followed, 2020’s Who Sent You? and 2021’s Open The Gates, developed this legend further. In 2023, IE signed to the fabled Impulse! Records and released Protect Your Light, a collection of IE’s collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa’s in-communion verses resulting in some of the most potent music of the 21st century. The album landed in many ‘best of’ lists, including The New York Times, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and others. Recently, IE returned to Van Gelder to record Future Present Past. Their second recording for Impulse!, it is an album of five standing on the shoulders of legions: the healers, the alchemists, the rebels, the mothers and fathers who have fought and weaved and invented new ways of being, seeing and balancing the frequencies of the planet towards trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding.

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