EARTH by EMANATIVE
Tracks
- Dawn Child (Sunrise)
- Heaven's Mirror (feat Idris Ackamoor & David Molina)
- yaami (feat Dele Sosimi)
- Spice Routes (feat Nat Birchall
- Sandhyavandanam
- Egosystem (Solar Noon)
- Reflection (feat Nat Birchall & Liz Elensky)
- New Day (feat Ahu)
- Heaven's Mirror (reprise)
- Minute's To Midnight For This Planet
- Raga Requiem (Dusk)
Description
Orbiting somewhere between the interplanetary funk of Sun Ra and the cinematic experimentation of Floating Points lies the new album Earth from the spiritually awakened Brit-jazz collective Emanative.Led by drummer and producer Nick Woodmansey, Emanative have created a cosmic strand of multi-cultural UK jazz with African, Indian and Middle Eastern influences. Earth celebrates the diverse backgrounds of it's galaxy of contributors, which includes Idris Ackamoor of US spiritual jazz legends The Pyramids, Afrobeat legend Dele Sosimi(previously of Fela Kuti's Africa 80), key protagonist from Manchester's jazz scene Nat Birchall, India-raised Ninja Tune artist and Shabaka Hutchings-collaborator Sarathy Korwar, Ibibio Sound Machine player Ben Hadwen, Benjamin Page from RocketNumberNine, The Heliocentrics' Malcolm Catto and Flying Lotus collaborator Ahu.