Kamasi Washington
Heaven And Earth 5LP vinyl

Groundbreaking artist Kamasi Washington’s highly anticipated second album Heaven and Earth set via Young Turks. The long-awaited follow up to Washington’s debut The Epic, Heaven and Earth is comprised of two halves, which find Washington confronting quotidian realities with cosmic themes. A further investigation of Washington’s world building ideas, the new album explores his reckoning with current global chaos and his vision for the future. Washington convened his band, The Next Step, as well as members of the long running collective The West Coast Get Down at Henson Studios in Los Angeles to record the 16 tracks on Heaven and Earth. The music was composed, written and arranged by Washington, with new arrangements of jazz and bebop legend Freddie Hubbard’s Hubtones and iconic kung fu film theme Fists of Fury, as well as one song by bandmate Ryan Porter. Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Ronald Bruner, Jr., Cameron Graves, Brandon Coleman, Miles Mosley, Patrice Quinn, Tony Austin and many more contribute to the album. Heaven and Earth is over two and a half hours of music.

“The world that my mind lives in, lives in my mind.” This idea inspired me to make this album Heaven and Earth. The reality we experience is a mere creation of our consciousness, but our consciousness creates this reality based on those very same experiences. We are simultaneously the creators of our personal universe and creations of our personal universe. The Earth side of this album represents the world as I see it outwardly, the world that I am a part of. The Heaven side of this album represents the world as I see it inwardly, the world that is a part of me. Who I am and the choices I make lie somewhere in between.” Kamasi Washington

NEW / Released in 2018

Tracklist:

A1 Fists Of Fury

A2 Can You Hear Him

B1 Hub-Tones

B2 Connections

C1 Tiffakonkae

C2 The Invincible Youth

D1 Testify

D2 One Of One

E1 The Space Travelers Lullaby

E2 Vi Lua Vi Sol

F1 Street Fighter Mas

F2 Song For The Fallen

G1 Journey

G2 The Psalmnist

H1 Show Us The Way

H2 Will You Sing

I1 The Secret Of Jinsinson

I2 Will You Love Me Tomorrow

J1 My Family

J2 Agents Of Multiverse

J3 Ooh Child