Irreversible Entanglements. Photo by Piper Ferguson.
Irreversible Entanglements have joined Impulse! Records. Protect Your Light, their first album with the historic jazz label — following three towering LPs released on International Anthem — is due out September 8. To celebrate the signing, the experimental quintet have shared the record’s lead single and opening track, “Free Love.”
The new song features all the hallmarks of an IE classic: a slippery bass line from Luke Stewart, frisky drumming from Tcheser Holmes, riotous flurries from the group’s two-man brass section of Aquiles Navarro (trumpet) and Keir Neuringer (sax), and quietly potent spoken-word poetry from Camae Ayewa (a.k.a. Moor Mother).
Watch the official visualizer for “Free Love” below. And scroll further to stream the song on its own, check out Protect Your Light’s cover art and tracklist, and view Irreversible Entanglements’ upcoming summer/fall festival dates.
Protect Your Light album art and tracklist
1. Free Love
2. Protect Your Light
3. Our Land Back
4. Soundness
5. root⇔branch
6. Celestial Pathways
7. Sunshine
8. Degree of Freedom
Irreversible Entanglements 2023 tour dates
September 8 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
September 9 - Hudson, NY - Basilica SoundScape Presents
November 4 - Berlin, DE - Jazzfest Berlin
November 10 - Paris, FR - Festival d’Automne à Paris
November 11 - Rotterdam, NL - LantarenVenster
November 12 - Utrecht, NL - Le Guess Who?
November 15 - London, UK - London Jazz Festival
