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Irreversible Entanglements’s fifth album, Future Present Past, out later this month

08 March 2026

Photo: Annemone Take

Free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements are back with their fifth studio album, Future Present Past, due out on March 27th through Impulse! Records. The follow-up to 2023’s Protect Your Light was mostly recorded at the historic Van Gelder Studio in October 2024, where the quintet of Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother), Luke Stewart, Aquiles Navarro, Keir Neuringer, and Tcheser Holmes captured their signature blend of free jazz, diasporic liberation music, global rhythms, and spoken word. The record features longtime collaborator MOTHERBOARD, as well as guest appearances from Helado Negro.

In a statement, Irreversible Entanglements described the spirit behind the album:

“The weight of a certain world can feel cruel and unusual. Another world uplifts. We form as five and transform into billions. Billions of us on this planet sharing this journey through existence—futures full of possibility and potential, the present with all its anxieties and uncertainties, pasts as wellsprings of ancestral wisdom and histories’ warnings.

This album is five standing on the shoulders of legions. The healers, the alchemists, the rebels, the mothers and fathers who have fought and weaved and invented new ways of being, seeing, and balancing the frequencies of this planet towards trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding.

We assume our role in this music as messengers, continuing in the tradition’s long march along the arc of the universe. Freedom fighters telling us not to lose our heads amidst imposed chaos. It is our duty to vibrate higher, beyond the noise, above the hype, away from the novelty, over the walls, across the borders: to keep going.

The spirit moves us to sing these fight songs, to sing fight songs, we overcome. To hold on, to keep going, together we overcome.”

The quintet had previously shared a couple of singles, ‘Don’t Lose Your Head’ and ‘Vibrate Higher’, both featuring MOTHERBOARD, and last week they dropped a third cut from the upcoming Future Present Past titled ‘Juntos Vencemos’, featuring Helado Negro. All three tracks are paired with visualizers. Check them all out below for a taste of what’s coming.

Helado Negro returns with new album Private Energy

19 August 2016

Helado Negro - Private EnergyHelado Negro has announced the follow-up to his wonderful 2014 album Double Youth. Entitled Private Energy, the record was written and produced by Roberto Carlos Lange, the talented prolific musician behind the project. Revolving around the central themes of self-love, pride, and the embrace of constant change, as the press release explains,  the forthcoming album “is an interpersonal communication of sounds about his surroundings past, present, and future”.

Following the first single ‘Runaround’, Helado Negro has shared another magical cut from Private Energy called ‘Transmission Listen’. Listen to both now.

Private Energy is due out October 7th via Asthmatic Kitty.

Helado Negro’s fourth album, Double Youth, arrives in September

15 July 2014

Helado Negro - Double Youth

We’re fond of pretty much all of the many solo and collaborative musical projects of Roberto Carlos Lange. Under the moniker Helado Negro, his experimental electronic project, Roberto has released three full-length albums. He has recently announced the release of his fourth album, Double Youth. An old childhood poster which Roberto had randomly found when clearing his closet gave the album a “telepathic input”, as the album blurb describes, and also serves as the artwork.

“Seeing the poster after cleaning out a closet evoked a sudden rush of memories, but also a sense of isolation and separation. Who was this person in the photo? And what else had Lange forgotten? The poster’s impact was so significant it framed a new recording process for Helado Negro and now serves as cover art, title, and the conceptual framework for the lyrics and song structures.”

Double Youth will be released on September 2nd via Asthmatic Kitty. To get us excited, Helado Negro has shared the first single ‘I Krill You’. Listen to it now.