Kamasi Washington Shares Video for New Music “Dream State” (Feat. André 3000)
Fearless Motion Due Out Could 3 through Younger
Apr 04, 2024
Pictures by Vincent Haycock
Fashionable jazz icon Kamasi Washington is releasing a brand new album, Fearless Motion, on Could 3 through Younger. Now he has shared its third single, “Dream State,” which options André 3000, who performs flute. Watch the tune’s video beneath, adopted by Washington’s upcoming tour dates.
Final 12 months, André 3000 launched New Blue Solar, an instrumental album that includes his flute taking part in. He had this to say in regards to the collaboration in a press launch: “Whenever you obtain a textual content from a wind buddy one thing lovely normally transpires. The day Kamasi invited me to a session for Fearless Motion I used to be so geeked and honored. Now, each time we get collectively one thing attention-grabbing occurs. We first performed throughout a recording session for New Blue Solar and it’s been fruitful ever since.”
Washington had this to say: “‘Dream State’ is a celebration of life and the chance it provides us to discover new potentialities. We created this tune collectively instantaneously as we improvised off the music we made within the second. It was such an honor to work on this tune with considered one of my heroes, the nice André 3000. And what a tremendous expertise André 3000, Brandon Coleman, Tony Austin, Mono/Poly and I had gliding freely by means of this world of sound not understanding the place we might find yourself, however joyful within the journey itself.”
Fearless Motion options “The Backyard Path,” a brand new tune he shared in 2022. The day after the tune was shared, Washington carried out it for the primary time on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, which was additionally his TV debut. “The Backyard Path” was considered one of our Songs of the Week. When the album was introduced, Washington shared its second single, “Prologue,” through a music video. “Prologue” was considered one of our Songs of the Week.
Numerous musicians contribute vocals to Fearless Motion, together with George Clinton, BJ The Chicago Child, Inglewood rapper D-Smoke, and Taj and Ras Austin of Coast Contra (who’re the dual sons of California rapper Ras Kass). The album additionally options common collaborators Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, and DJ Battlecat.
Washington says Fearless Motion is his dance album, however that doesn’t imply he’s switched to digital music. “It’s not literal,” Washington says in a press launch. “Dance is motion and expression, and in a manner it’s the identical factor as music—expressing your spirit by means of your physique. That’s what this album is pushing.”
One other huge affect on this album was the start of Washington’s daughter just a few years in the past. She is even featured on the album in that she wrote the melody to the album’s “Asha the First” when she was first experimenting on the piano.
“Being a father means the horizon of your life swiftly reveals up,” says Washington. “My mortality turned extra obvious to me, but additionally my immortality—realizing that my daughter goes to reside on and see issues that I’m by no means going to see. I needed to turn into snug with this, and that affected the music that I used to be making.”
Washington’s final album was the acclaimed double album, Heaven and Earth, launched in 2018. It was our #1 album of 2018. Learn our 2018 cowl story interview with Washington.
Washington was additionally one of many artists on the duvet of our twentieth Anniversary Subject (Subject 69).
He’s additionally within the supergroup Dinner Occasion, alongside Terrace Martin and Robert Glasper, and so they launched a brand new album, Enigmatic Society, in 2023.
Kamasi Washington Tour Dates:
Could 4—New York, NY—Beacon Theatre
Could 5—Philadelphia, PA—Union Switch
Could 7—Toronto, QC—Historical past
Could 8—Cincinnati, OH—Ludlow Storage
Could 9—Detroit, MI—St. Andrews Corridor
Could 10—Chicago, IL—Thalia Corridor
Could 11—Minneapolis, MN—Fitzgerald Theater
Could 12—Omaha, NB—Slowdown
Could 14—Houston, TX—Home of Blues Houston
Could 15—Dallas, TX—Home of Blues Dallas
Could 16—San Antonio, TX—Empire Theater
Could 17—Austin, TX—Empire Storage
Could 30—Vancouver, BC—Vogue
Could 31—Seattle, WA—The Showbox
June 1—Eugene, OR—McDonald Theatre
June 2—Portland, OR—Crystal Ballroom
June 5—Sacramento, CA—Crest Theatre
June 6—Monterey, CA—Golden State Theatre
June 7—San Francisco, CA—Warfield
June 8—Santa Cruz, CA—The Catalyst
June 9—San Diego, CA—Stomach Up
June 11—Mesa, AZ—Mesa Arts Heart
June 16—Los Angeles, CA—Hollywood Bowl Jazz Fest