Influential jazz collective Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids retu rn with an epic newopus, ‘Shaman!’, released on 7th August featuring a fresh line-up including original1970s Pyramids member Dr. Margaux Simmons on flute, Bobby Cobb on guitar, longtermassociate Sandra Poindexter on violin, Ruben Ramos on bass, Gioele Pagliaccia ondrums and Jack Yglesias on percussion. The band transitions from the political and socialcommentaries of 2018’s acclaimed ‘An Angel Fell’ into more introspective themes. “I wantedto use this album to touch on some of the issues that we all f ace as individuals in the innerspace of our souls and our conscience,” explains Ackamoor. “The album unfolds over fourActs with personal musical statements about love and loss, mort ality, the afterlife, familyand salvation.”
- 1. Act I: Fire Rites of Penance
- 2. Shaman!
- 3. Tango of Love
- 4. Act Ii: a Glimpse of Eternity
- 5. Eternity
- 6. When Will I See You Again?
- 7. Act Iii: Upon Whose Shoulders We Stand
- 8. Salvation
- 9. Theme For Cecil
- 10. Act Iv: 400 Years: the Clotilda
- 11. Virgin
- 12. The Last Slave Ship
- 13. Dogon Mysteries
