Immanuel Wilkins: Blues Blood

Artist: 
Immanuel Wilkins
$37.99

Blue Note, 2024

Saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins’ third studio album, Blues Blood, is a meditative offering partially inspired by his childhood, a multimedia performance about the legacies of our ancestors and the bloodlines connecting us. Co-produced by Meshell Ndegeocello, and featuring Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass, Kweku Sumbryon drums, and vocalists Ganavya, June McDoom and Yaw Agyeman—as well as special guest appearances by vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, guitarist Marvin Sewell, and drummer Chris Dave—it’s Wilkins’ most ambitious LP to date. Blues Blood marks the first time Wilkins has included vocalists on an album, with each of the distinctive voices tapping into different aspects of heritage. Blues Blood feels airy and celestial, meant to be a soothing balm for anyone searching for peace, and for Black people trying to reconcile history in a country that tries to erase it. The album explores ‘blues’ as a symbol of radical optimism in the face of adversity and ‘blood’ as a symbol of all things ancestral and generational.

Tracklist

Disc 1

Side A

  1. MATTE GLAZE
  2. funmi
  3. MOTION
  4. EVERYTHING

Side B

  1. air (interlude)
  2. DARK EYES SMILE
  3. APPARITION

Disc 2

Side A

  1. assembly (interlude)
  2. AFTERLIFE RESIDENCE TIME
  3. MOSHPIT

Side B

  1. self (interlude)
  2. IF THAT BLOOD RUNS EAST
  3. your memory (interlude)
  4. BLUES BLOOD

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Tracklist

Disc 1

Side A

  1. MATTE GLAZE
  2. funmi
  3. MOTION
  4. EVERYTHING

Side B

  1. air (interlude)
  2. DARK EYES SMILE
  3. APPARITION

Disc 2

Side A

  1. assembly (interlude)
  2. AFTERLIFE RESIDENCE TIME
  3. MOSHPIT

Side B

  1. self (interlude)
  2. IF THAT BLOOD RUNS EAST
  3. your memory (interlude)
  4. BLUES BLOOD

Tracklist

  1. MATTE GLAZE
  2. funmi
  3. MOTION
  4. EVERYTHING
  5. air (interlude)
  6. DARK EYES SMILE
  7. APPARITION
  8. assembly (interlude)
  9. AFTERLIFE RESIDENCE TIME
  10. MOSHPIT
  11. self (interlude)
  12. IF THAT BLOOD RUNS EAST
  13. your memory (interlude)
  14. BLUES BLOOD