℗ 2020 UMG Recordings; An Impulse! Records release
| Released | March 13, 2020 |
| Duration | 1h 04m 00s |
| Record Label | Impulse! |
| Genre | Jazz |
We Are Sent Here By History
Shabaka And The Ancestors
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
|
1.1
|
They Who Must Die
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
10:10 | |||
|
1.2
|
You’ve Been Called
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
6:29 | |||
|
1.3
|
Go My Heart, Go To Heaven
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
6:41 | |||
|
1.4
|
Behold, The Deceiver
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
6:01 | |||
|
1.5
|
Run, The Darkness Will Pass
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
4:09 | |||
|
1.6
|
The Coming Of The Strange Ones
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
6:28 | |||
|
1.7
|
Beast Too Spoke Of Suffering
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
2:58 | |||
|
1.8
|
We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood)
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
5:24 | |||
|
1.9
|
’Til The Freedom Comes Home
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
7:06 | |||
|
1.10
|
Finally, The Man Cried
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
5:48 | |||
|
1.11
|
Teach Me How To Be Vulnerable
Shabaka And The Ancestors |
2:46 |
“if jazz is looking to reinvent itself…Shabaka and the Ancestors might be a good place to start.”
- The New York Times
"a momentous new jazz project on the inevitable end of everything"
- NPR Music
“restlessly energetic communal expression”
-Downbeat
The project was formed in early 2016, leading to their debut album later that year Wisdom of Elders; a document of sessions combining Hutchings with a group of South African jazz musicians he’d long admired. His connection to the group was Mandla Mlangeni (bandleader of the Amandla Freedom Ensemble), whom he’d flown there to play with over the past few years.
We Are Sent Here by History is a meditation on the fact of our coming extinction as a species. It is a reflection from the ruins, from the burning. a questioning of the steps to be taken in preparation for our transition individually and societally if the end is to be seen as anything but a tragic defeat. For those lives lost and cultures dismantled by centuries of western expansionism, capitalist thought and white supremist structural hegemony the end days have long been heralded as present with this world experienced as an embodiment of a living purgatory.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Impulse! Studio Masters
Tracks 1-3, 5, 6, 9-11 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit Tracks 4, 7, 8 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1-3, 5, 6, 9-11 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit Tracks 4, 7, 8 – 48 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.61 -0.75 to -0.60 | -14.28 -18.85 to -12.18 | -12.05 -16.20 to -10.10 | 8 6 to 12 | |
| 1 | They Who Must Die | -0.60 | -13.25 | -11.4 | 8 |
| 2 | You’ve Been Called | -0.60 | -18.85 | -16.2 | 12 |
| 3 | Go My Heart, Go To Heaven | -0.60 | -13.71 | -11.8 | 8 |
| 4 | Behold, The Deceiver | -0.60 | -12.38 | -10.5 | 7 |
| 5 | Run, The Darkness Will Pass | -0.60 | -13.06 | -11.0 | 8 |
| 6 | The Coming Of The Strange Ones | -0.60 | -12.40 | -10.9 | 7 |
| 7 | Beast Too Spoke Of Suffering | -0.60 | -16.08 | -13.4 | 9 |
| 8 | We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood) | -0.60 | -14.40 | -12.3 | 6 |
| 9 | ’Til The Freedom Comes Home | -0.60 | -12.18 | -10.1 | 6 |
| 10 | Finally, The Man Cried | -0.60 | -13.85 | -11.8 | 8 |
| 11 | Teach Me How To Be Vulnerable | -0.75 | -16.88 | -13.2 | 10 |