KARU announce new album “An Imaginary Journey”
Today, KARU - the collaborative project of Italian double bassist and producer Alberto Brutti - return with the announcement of a new full-length album titled “An Imaginary Journey”, which is due out 18th November via Beat Machine Records (home to Healing Force Project, J Shadow, Maxwell Simmons and more). The news is accompanied by the release of the first single to be taken from the album, “Spears Of Leaves”.
KARU’s sound explores the connection between music’s ancestral rhythm in tribal culture and the freedom of jazz. Taking inspiration from the likes of Alice Coltrane and Charles Mingus, Brutti’s compositions are characterised by pounding double basslines and eccentric, almost shamanic sax outbursts, which are accented with avant-garde electronic samples, and frenetic drum sections. This inimitable and idiosyncratic sound has seen early support for KARU across key tastemakers across the world such as Bandcamp, PAM Magazine, Worldwide FM, Music Is My Sanctuary, and more.
The new single “Spears Of Leaves” perfectly encapsulates KARU’s unpredictable sound. The track sees him combining sampled fragments of a documentary about Afrofuturism with wild sax lines, which rupture the track’s rhythm and bass-heavy groove, making way for aberrant guitar riffing.
Speaking on the single, Brutti says that it is inspired by “the African tribe of the Dogon, inhabitants of the south-east of the African continent, who use leaves as a form of superstition and 'spirit-stoppers' in their funeral rituals. In this case, 'Spears of leaves' would be the equivalent of a thought-provoking weapon.
A fragment of the documentary 'The Last Angel of History' by John Akomfrah is quoted in the song, which traces the matrix of blues and blackness to narrate the Afrofuturism movement that has grown from an Afrocentric current to one of global inclusion.”
HEAR / SHARE “SPEARS OF LEAVES” HERE
