Description
With a globetrotting 20-year career as a voice for the people across four decades of political and societal upheaval from the late 90s to today, Antibalas celebrates its 20th Anniversary with a stark return to their Williamsburg roots on its latest Daptone Records studio album, Fu Chronicles. Pre-gentrified Williamsburg serves as the backdrop for Fu Chronicles voyaging back to the early days when the 12-piece Afrobeat ensemble and revered soul label Daptone Records spawned out of lead singer Duke Amayos kung fu dojo. A senior master of the Jow Ga Kung Fu School of martial arts, Amayo along with Antibalas founder/baritone saxophonist Martín Perna guide listeners through an epic journey of where kung fu ingeniously intersects with Afrobeat. Fu Chronicles transports listeners to where universal equilibrium and indefinite possibilities unite within a dream world of a childs limitless mind. The transcendent long-form Afrobeat compositions decolonize our psyches through movements traversing with melodies to realign us with a purpose of finding balance in our coexistence. The fiery 12-piece Antibalas ensemble widely renowned as one of Americas fiercest live bands along with an additional five musicians transform Amayos opus into hypnotic and invigorating compositions with singular rhythms of resistance.
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