{"product_id":"irreversible-entanglements-open-the-gates","title":"Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gates","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eIrreversible Entanglements’ third full-length album OPEN THE GATES is ethereal shards of jagged onyx, a melancholic exploration of the post-colonial debris that surrounds us. Let’s watch and listen, as this platter snakes through the sandy ashes of possible histories, dialogs with a nervous present, and asks to be birthed into a holographic new future. “Together in holy sound!” the band stitches patient anthems out of atmosphere. Pulling from a wider sonic vocabulary than on previous excursions, the agit-jazz found here is simultaneously pre- and post-apocalypse, as bass lurches in a tranced-out loop, horns are up in the track grooves like poltergeists playing in the streets, poetry cascades like a warrior call at a satsang, the drums both wild and refined pulse with uhuru-heart cadence. This is Irreversible Entanglements on new ground; same as the old ground.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd we need it now – the universe was awash in the sickly static veneer of anti-cosmos, of anti-nation; the halls were emptied, our shadows echoing and staining the walls of our abandoned oases – so we poured out into 2020’s wild streets. The ghosts of our labor danced around the sickness as we set fire to our old ways of thinking and moving, as we set fire to cop cars and bashed in the windows of our own rising disenfranchisement. “Open the gates!”\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewe shouted, blessed be – we need it now!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere come Irreversible Entanglements – Luke Stewart, the high priest on bass; Aquiles Navarro, the electric universe in human form on trumpet; Keir Neuringer, the cosmologist with the siren sound on sax; Tcheser Holmes, the griot, the myth-maker on drums; and Camae Ayewa, the Moor mother with an empyrean pen game – on this new disc with their fierce aural tectonics shifting the earth, their watery post-pangea as dirge, their punk rock ethos and crash and bang polyrhythmic super-sonic sound synesthesia in the form of OPEN THE GATES – here it comes, my Brothas and Sistas, here it comes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-credits\"\u003ereleased November 12, 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCamae Ayewa - voice, synth\u003cbr\u003eKeir Neuringer - saxophone, synth, percussion\u003cbr\u003eAquiles Navarro - trumpet, synth\u003cbr\u003eLuke Stewart - double bass, bass guitar\u003cbr\u003eTcheser Holmes - drums, percussion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded on January 5th, 2021, at Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia. Mixed in April, 2021, at International Anthem Studios, Chicago. Mastered in May, 2021, at Elysian Masters, Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced by: Camae Ayewa, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart, and Tcheser Holmes.\u003cbr\u003eRecorded by: Michael Richelle.\u003cbr\u003eMixed by: Dave Vettraino.\u003cbr\u003eMastered by: Dave Cooley.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover Photo by: Cyrus Moussavi.\u003cbr\u003eBack Cover \u0026amp; Liner Photos by: Bob Sweeney.\u003cbr\u003eLiner Notes by: Alex Smith.\u003cbr\u003eDesign \u0026amp; Layout by: Craig Hansen.\u003cbr\u003eExecutive Production by: Scott McNiece \u0026amp; David Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(( Album cover photo \u0026amp; \"Open The Gates\" video feature Judah Son of Pharoh ))\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"license-label\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"license\" class=\"info license\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"cc-icons commercial\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eall rights reserved\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"IARC0049 - Classic Black vinyl gatefold double LP","offer_id":52121002705170,"sku":"IARC0049LP","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0049 - Limited Edition *NEPTUNE BLUE* color vinyl gatefold double LP","offer_id":52121002737938,"sku":"IARC0049LPS","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0049 - Compact Disc","offer_id":52121002770706,"sku":"IARC0049CD","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"IARC0049 Digital Download","offer_id":52121002803474,"sku":"IARC0049","price":8.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/6989\/0578\/files\/a3760979007_10.jpg?v=1773719302","url":"https:\/\/shop.intlanthem.com\/products\/irreversible-entanglements-open-the-gates","provider":"International Anthem","version":"1.0","type":"link"}