Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery cover

Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery

Released

The Comet Is Coming — the trio of saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, keyboard player Dan “Danalogue” Leavers and drummer Max “Betamax” Hallett — make music that puts a kind of retro-futuristic spin on spiritual jazz. Hutchings’ mantralike horn lines are swaddled by Leavers’ synth washes, which are sometimes New Agey and sometimes almost industrial-techno blasts of aggro cyber-funk, as Hallett lays down a bed of gentle pulse time or a huge dance beat, as the moment demands. Much of this album is meditative, but tracks like “Summon The Fire” and “Super Zodiac” have irresistible force, and on “Blood Of The Past,” they’re joined by poet Kate Tempest for a cold-eyed diatribe about the weight of history.

Phil Freeman

Recommended by

Suggestions
Initiate cover

Initiate

Nels Cline
Star of Jupiter cover

Star of Jupiter

Kurt Rosenwinkel
Lonnie Liston Smith [JID017] cover

Lonnie Liston Smith [JID017]

Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Lonnie Liston Smith, Adrian Younge
Where Future Unfolds cover

Where Future Unfolds

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble
Indaba Is cover

Indaba Is

Various Artists
Renunciation cover

Renunciation

David S. Ware Quartet
Remembrance cover

Remembrance

John Patitucci
One Hopeful Day cover

One Hopeful Day

Bill Stewart, John Abercrombie, Mark Soskin, John Patitucci, Chris Potter
Crossings cover

Crossings

Herbie Hancock
Shaman! cover

Shaman!

Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids