{"id":9741,"date":"2015-10-03T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T14:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2015-10-03T15:39:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T14:39:56","slug":"sons-of-kemet-drop-second-album-lest-we-forget-what-we-came-here-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=9741","title":{"rendered":"Sons Of Kemet drop second album Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sons<\/p>\n

Following the critically acclaimed 2013 album Burn<\/em>, Sons Of Kemet<\/a> have just dropped their somophore album, Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do<\/em>, last week. Shabaka Hutchings, the prodigious clarinettist, saxophonist and composer at the helm of this vibrant polyrhythmic quartet, conceived the album as a continuation of their debut work\u2019s themes, describing it as \u2018a meditation on the Caribbean diaspora in Britain\u2019.
\n\u2018The realisation dawned after I\u2019d started writing these tunes,\u2019 explained Hutchings. \u2018I was thinking of my grandmother\u2019s generation from the Caribbean, who came here to work incredibly hard, and also what it means to be a black person in Britain now, especially a generation of youth experiencing high unemployment, and those elements of society who are not always easy to see.\u2019<\/p>\n

Make sure you nab a copy of Lest We Forget What We Came Here To Do<\/em> if you haven’t yet. And to whet your appetite, here’s two gems from the album, the opening track ‘In Memory Of Samir Awad’ and ‘In The Castle Of My Skin’. The latter comes with a fitting video featuring pantsula dancers from the Indigenous Dance Academy. The video was shot in Johannesburg and directed by Lebogang Rasethaba.<\/p>\n