Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement (Vinyl)

Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime experience with Kamasi Washington in L.A.'s newest landmark, the David Geffen Galleries.

Acclaimed composer, bandleader, and saxophonist Kamasi Washington will bring unprecedented performances to LACMA's new David Geffen Galleries on June 26, 27, and 28. With an ensemble of over 100 musicians, Washington will perform his celebrated work Harmony of Difference in the museum's striking new building designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Peter Zumthor. The massive ensemble, many of whom are Los Angeles musicians Washington has played with across his storied career, will be dispersed over approximately 110,000 square feet of gallery space, making the building an acoustic instrument and integral part of the piece. Washington will lead the musicians in a series of performances that will never be repeated as the first public program in the new space.

Kamasi Washington Fearless Movement (Vinyl)

There is a tender proposition behind composer, bandleader, and saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s fifth studio album, Fearless Movement: we’re all born elastic, and if you don’t use it you lose it. Dance was on Washington’s mind while making this record, and it serves as a metaphor for this practice of flexibility. “When people hear that I'm making a dance album, it’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music — expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.”

Turning his attention to dance, and bringing the audience with him, is a natural progression of Washington’s ongoing study of music as a means of connection. His 2015 album The Epic, as well as 2018’s Heaven and Earth were received by critics and audiences as a kind of intervention, across generations and genres. Both of those records were big offerings, heavy on choir and strings, but Fearless Movement offers something different: it’s still immense, but more rhythmic. It features a wide range of collaborators like Andre 3000, rapper D Smoke, vocalist Patrice Quinn, fellow saxophonist Terrace Martin, bass player Thundercat, drummer Ronald Bruner Jr., DJ Battlecat and BJ The Chicago Kid.

released May 3, 2024

Format: 2X LP

TRACKLIST

1. Lesanu 09:22
2. Asha The First 07:46
3. Computer Love 09:26
4. The Visionary 01:10
5. Get Lit 03:26
6. Dream State 08:39
7. Together 05:34
8. The Garden Path 06:40
9. Road to Self (KO) 13:25
10. Interstellar Peace (The Last Stance) 05:04
11. Lines in the Sand 07:25
12. Prologue 08:19