Kamasi Washington has announced a new album, Fearless Movement, set to be released on May 3 via Young. Washington has also shared a new song, “Prologue,” alongside a video directed by longtime collaborator AG Rojas and choreographed by Samantha Blake Goodman. The track is a progressive jazz-funk thriller, featuring spectral vocal lines and guitars that sound straight out of the Funkadelic era.
Washington has called Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,” he clarified. “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.”
Washington has also revealed plans for a North American tour kicking off in May in New York with dates confirmed for Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, and LA at the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival, which he will co-curate with Herbie Hancock (more details on that event here).
Check out “Prologue” below, and pre-order Fearless Movement here.
