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dustedmagazine · 7 months

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Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids — Afro Futuristic Dreams (Strut)

Afro Futuristic Dreams by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

Afro Futurism runs like a mercury current through jazz, funk and soul, taking on shifting silvery contours as it reimagines race, enslavement, religion, magic and science. From Hendrix’s wigged out “Third Stone from the Sun,” to Parliament’s Mothership to the skronk and revelation of Sun Ra, it infuses black music with mystery and proposes alternate ways of envisioning the most painful arcs of world history. Idris Ackamoor taps into this rich tradition in this latest album with the Pyramids, weaving groove, celebration and ritual together in a colorful synthesis.

Sonically, Afro Futuristic Dreams has much in common with recent Sun Ra Arkestra discs, especially Swirling from 2020, with its lush, big band aesthetics and psychedelic soul spoken and sung lyrics. It merges earthy beats with gleaming technological visions, the opening, title cut blasting off like a rocket from the clanging, swaying West African guitar riffs and textured layers of hand drums. But if that opening sounds, just a touch, like Mdou Moctar holding court, the long, trippy “Thank You God,” is all liquid whorls of jazz sax sound, creaky bass slides and dream-sequence harp arpeggios. A celestial aura hangs over it, and yet it swings, especially when the singing comes in with rippling choruses of “Thank you god.”

The disc leans back into Afro-beat with the funk-swaggering “Police Dem,” with its walloping horn line and rough-edged call and response. If “Thank You God” idealizes, “Police Dem,” cuts to the real, with fired up verses about young men shot in the back, yet it does so with heat and syncopation and hip-swiveling beats. So, too, does “Truth to Power,” splice a message of resistance to undulating, North African rhythms. Ackamoor’s sax solo is especially enflamed in this track.

There’s a good deal of spoken word on this album, the sort of poetry that’s meant to inspire but seems a little overblown. It’s part of the genre, obviously, and it gets swallowed, soon enough, by groove. But you have to stick with it through the flute-scented rites of “First Peoples,” the downtempo intro to “Re-Memory” to get to the music. I could do without it, personally. The music, though, is pretty great, in the way it grabs onto all kinds of black influences—jazz, soul, R&B, rock, afro-beat, ethiojazz— and mixes them up in a frenetic blender. It imagines alternate future full of bright colors and sounds, aiming towards justice but with space for joy.

Jennifer Kelly

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saucerkommand · 7 months

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Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids – Afro Futuristic Dreams (2023)

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burlveneer-music · 10 months

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Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids - Thank You God - new single, from forthcoming album Afro Futuristic Dreams (see below for longer album version)

Strut presents the new album from Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids and share first single ’Thank You God!'! The first major new studio album in over 3 years and mixed by Malcolm Catto at Quatermass Sound Lab, Afro Futuristic Dreams is a sprawling new work exploring the future, the past and the urgent reality of the present - adding full, intricate scores including string sections and choral elements to Pyramids’ trademark spiritual Afro-jazz sound. Available 22 September on vinyl, CD and digitally.

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gacougnol · 2 years

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harrelltut · 9 months

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soundgrammar · 8 months

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Listen/purchase: When Will I See You Again? by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

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divine-roots · 7 months

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"There were spirits in that recording studio! I remember a feeling of spiritual strength while we were recording! Images and sounds reverberating off the walls!"

- Idris Ackamoor, The Pyramids - LP : King Of Kings

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twistedsoulmusic · 1 year

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Strut delves into the archives of Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids with a first-ever vinyl release of Ackamoor’s debut avant-garde / Afro-jazz recordings from 1971 with The Collective. The package features a new interview with Idris Ackamoor and rare photos. Props out to Strut!

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fearnoarts · 4 months

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athwaperistera · 4 months

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Listen/purchase: Police Dem by Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

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deepartnature · 4 months

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Afro Futuristic Dreams - Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids (2023)

Legendary Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids return with cosmic jazz explorations on ‘Afro Futuristic Dreams’: "Celebrating 50 years as a pioneering group led by the legendary bandleader Idris Ackamoor, and as a follow-up to their most recent retrospective box set release, The Pyramids return with a highly-anticipated and adventurous new full-length on Strut, titled Afro Futuristic Dreams. This brilliant and expansive 10-track recording pushes their sound in new directions, blending together spiritual and cosmic jazz grooves with strings, African and Eastern-rooted percussion rhythms, and soulful vocal chants and group choruses that delve into subjects as various as police brutality to uplifting celebrations of the ancestors and departed loved ones. There also seems to be a touch of Funkadelic and Sun Ra Arkestra influences in the fabric of the music. ..."

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be1lion · 5 months

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burlveneer-music · 7 months

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Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - Afro Futuristic Dreams

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids are back with their first major new studio album in over 3 years, an epic, sprawling new work exploring the future, the past and the urgent reality of the present, ‘Afro Futuristic Dreams’. Recorded between San Francisco and London and brought together by the genius of Malcolm Catto at his analogue Quatermass Studio, the new recording represents another bold step in Ackamoor’s ever-evolving journey in jazz, adding full, intricate scores including string sections and choral elements to the Pyramids’ trademark spiritual Afro-jazz sound. Driven by the core Pyramids members Ackamoor (sax, keytar, organ), Margaux Simmons (flute), Sandra Poindexter (violin) and Bobby Cobb (guitar), tracks range from hard-hitting commentaries about police brutality (‘Police Dem’) to celebrations of the ancestors and departed loved ones (‘Requiem For The Ancestors’, ‘Re-Memory’) and hazy cosmic journeys, including the album’s title track and the sparkling, experimental closer, ‘Nice It Up’. The recording is the Pyramids’ first new release since the acclaimed ‘Shaman!’ in 2020 and rides a wave of interest in the band around their 50th Anniversary this year. Alongside a box set reissue on Strut bringing together their rare early ‘70s albums for the first time, the band have headlined Le Guess Who festival in Utrecht with an accompanying exhibition of their history and have played major concerts at Presidio Theatre in L.A. and Zebulon in San Francisco. They will be playing a full European tour in Autumn 2023. “This album has been many years in the making,” explains Ackamoor. “Back in late 2020, I set out to compose the first in a series of scores to take The Pyramids sound into brave new territory. All of the tracks involve issues that the core band is passionate about and the recording was a complex process involving many musicians and vocalists across two different time zones.”

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noloveforned · 7 months

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harrelltut · 9 months

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NEW RELEASES & REISSUES OUT TOMORROW (FRI 1/20): WILCO, JOHN CALE, NEW FOUND GLORY, ELLIOTT SMITH, AMNESTY, THE B-52’s, DAVID BYRNE, BAD BRAINS , ROKY ERICKSON & THE EXPLOSIVES, GRANT GREEN, BOBBY HUTCHERSON, THE PYRAMIDS (3), DAMON, JULIANA HATFIELD, Idris Ackamoor & The Collective, Black Star Riders, Boy Harsher, Brainiac, Carnivore, John Carpenter (Halloween Ends Soundtrack), Cloud Nothings, The Cure, Mac Demarco, Luther Dickinson, Duke Ellington, Essential Logic (2), Falling Forward, Sam Fender, Ella Fitzgerald, Jethro Tull, Kidz Bop, Kali Malone, Maneskin, The Maytals, Mehenet, Motorhead, Nell & The Flaming Lips, Lionel Pillay, Polica, Rise Against, The Skatalites, Spiritbox, Jody Stetcher & Krishna Bhatt, Sylvan Esso, UFO, Walter Wegmuller (at Siren Records) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnndgL7pSN4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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