Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based drummer and producer Kassa General has introduced his new album, Animals, which is out Might 26 through Warp. The album options contributions from Danny Brown, Shabazz Palaces, Vijay Iyer, Wiki, Laura Mvula, Lil B, Francis and the Lights, Nick Hakim, and extra. Watch the video for a brand new single, “Make My Approach Again Dwelling,” and discover General’s forthcoming tour dates, beneath.
“We name ourselves people, proper,” General stated in an announcement. “However we form of do animalistic shit in the direction of one another. We justify immorality by nearly stripping folks of their humanity. He is an animal, so we will deal with him as such. All these completely different sorts of little questions in these songs level to questions on humanity: Am I free? Or am I a circus animal? These questions intersect with the way in which I take into consideration race.”
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Animals:
01 Anxious Anthony [ft. Anthony Ware]
02 Able to Ball
03 Clock Ticking [ft. Danny Brown and Wiki]
04 Nonetheless Ain’t Discover Me [ft. Tomoki Sanders, Bendji Allonce, Mike King and Ian Finkelstein]
05 Make My Approach Again Dwelling [ft. Nick Hakim and Theo Croker]
06 The Lava Is Calm [ft. Theo Croker]
07 No It Ain’t [ft. Andrae Murchison]
08 So Completely satisfied [ft. Laura Mvula and Francis and the Lights]
09 It’s Animals
10 Perhaps We Can Keep [ft. J. Hoard]
11 The Rating Was Made [ft. Vijay Iyer]
12 Going Up [ft. Lil B, Shabazz Palaces and Francis and the Lights]
Kassa General:
05-04 New Orleans, LA – Home of Blues *
05-07 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel *
05-09 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl *
05-10 Memphis, TN – Minglewood Corridor *
05-11 St. Louis, MO – Delmar Corridor *
06-06 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
06-07 Detroit, MI – Marble Bar
06-08 Toronto, Ontario – TD Music Corridor at Allied Music Centre
06-10 Ellenville, NY – Love, Velma at The Mod Home
06-12 Marlboro, NY – The Falcon
06-13 Philadelphia, PA – The Lounge at World Cafe Dwell
06-14 Inventive Alliance – Baltimore, MD
06-15 Brooklyn, NY – Child’s All Proper
06-16 Washington, D.C. – CapitalBop
06-23 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon
08-12 Dorset, England – We Out Right here Competition
08-27 Port Townsend, WA – Factor Competition
09-14 Oslo, Norway – By:Larm
* with Digable Planets