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+ Makaya McCraven continues to show in his devotional effort to expand the capacity for jazz to inspire a new generation of broader thought and greater love.
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+ Beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty, feels like an epic therapy jam session for a world in crisis, slowly burning while also sinking into rising seas... :/:/:/:/:/:/:/ <3<3<3<3<3 Perfect music for peace talks, building nonviolent culture, and civil disobedience.
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+ Favorite track: Dream Another.
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+ Classic Black 160g LP in Heavyweight Reverse-Board Jacket with Black Flood inner pocket, with Insert Sheet, IARC OBI strip & dome-pattern inner sleeve. Pressed at Smashed Plastic in Chicago, with lacquers cut at Elysian Masters.
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+ Limited Edition 16-page Newsprint Zine featuring interviews conducted by Emma Warren, including with Jeff Parker, Damon Locks, Junius Paul, Ayana Contreras, Ben LaMar Gay + more
+ Deluxe 18" x 24" screenprinted poster designed by Goatmother Industrial celebrating the release show for Makaya McCraven's In These Times at Public Records in New York September 19, 2022.
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+ Cymbal Sheen 160g Color LP in Heavyweight Reverse-Board Jacket with Black Flood inner pocket, with Insert Sheet, IARC OBI strip & dome-pattern inner sleeve. Pressed at Smashed Plastic in Chicago, with lacquers cut at Elysian Masters. Limited Edition of 999 copies.
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In These Times is the new album by Chicago-based percussionist, composer, producer, and pillar of our label family, Makaya McCraven.
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+Although this album is “new," the truth it’s something that's been in process for a very long time, since shortly after he released his International Anthem debut In The Moment in 2015. Dedicated followers may note he’s had 6 other releases in the meantime (including 2018’s widely-popular Universal Beings and 2020’s We’re New Again, his rework of Gil Scott-Heron’s final album for XL Recordings); but none of which have been as definitive an expression of his artistic ethos as In These Times. This is the album McCraven’s been trying to make since he started making records. And his patience, ambition, and persistence have yielded an appropriately career-defining body of work.
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+As epic and expansive as it is impressively potent and concise, the 11 song suite was created over 7+ years, as McCraven strived to design a highly personal but broadly communicable fusion of odd-meter original compositions from his working songbook with orchestral, large ensemble arrangements and the edit-heavy “organic beat music” that he’s honed over a growing body of production-craft.
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+With contributions from over a dozen musicians and creative partners from his tight-knit circle of collaborators – including Jeff Parker, Junius Paul, Brandee Younger, Joel Ross, and Marquis Hill – the music was recorded in 5 different studios and 4 live performance spaces while McCraven engaged in extensive post-production work from home. The pure fact that he was able to so eloquently condense and articulate the immense human scale of the work into 41 fleeting minutes of emotive and engaging sound is a monumental achievement. It’s an evolution and a milestone for McCraven, the producer; but moreover it’s the strongest and clearest statement we’ve yet to hear from McCraven, the composer.
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+In These Times is an almost unfathomable new peak for an already-soaring innovator who has been called "one of the best arguments for jazz's vitality" by The New York Times, as well as recently, and perhaps more aptly, a "cultural synthesizer." While challenging and pushing himself into uncharted territories, McCraven quintessentially expresses his unique gifts for collapsing space and transcending borders – blending past, present, and future into elegant, poly-textural arrangements of jazz-rooted, post-genre 21st century folk music.
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+ released September 23, 2022
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Makaya McCraven - drums, sampler, percussion, tambourine, baby sitar, synths, kalimba, handclaps, vibraphone, wurlitzer, organ
+Junius Paul - double bass, percussion, electric bass guitar, small instruments
+Jeff Parker - guitar
+Brandee Younger - harp
+Joel Ross - vibraphone, marimba
+Marta Sofia Honer - viola
+Lia Kohl - cello
+Macie Stewart - violin
+Zara Zaharieva - violin
+Greg Ward - alto sax
+Irvin Pierce - tenor sax
+Marquis Hill - trumpet, flugelhorn
+Greg Spero - piano
+Rob Clearfield - piano
+Matt Gold - guitar, percussion, baby sitar
+De’Sean Jones - flute
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+All music composed by Makaya McCraven; except “Lullaby” composed by Makaya McCraven based off a song originally written by Péter Dabasi and Agnes Zsigmondi. All music published by Makaya McCraven Music (ASCAP) & International Anthem Publishing (ASCAP), administered by Domino Publishing Company USA (ASCAP).
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+"In These Times" contains an excerpt of audio from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, used with permission, courtesy of Chicago History Museum and WFMT.
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+Recorded at Co-Prosperity Sphere Chicago; Symphony Center Chicago; JAMDEK Studios Chicago; Palisade Studios Chicago (fka Decade Music Studios); Shirk Studios Chicago; Makaya Music Studios; Walker Arts Center Minneapolis; Submerge Studios Detroit; Sholo Music Studios LA.
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+Produced by Makaya McCraven.
+Engineered and Mixed by Dave Vettraino, David Allen, and Makaya McCraven, with recording assistance from Najee-Zaid Searcy.
+Mastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Mastering.
+Executive Production by Scott McNiece.
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+Cover Image & Insert Photos by Sulyiman.
+Art Direction by Caroline Waxse.
+Designed by Jake Simmonds.
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+ International Anthem is a Chicago-born recording company that produces and promotes progressive
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The IARC mission is to make positive contributions to the changing state of the music industry, and to vitalize the demand for boundary-defying music by presenting unique sounds in appealing packages to untapped audiences.
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Just amazing. Have already listened over and over. First saw this on Criterion filmed with a slow pullback on the museum painting. Legendary performance of Pharaoh and all around just great. quailman
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Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell
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