Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings (2xLP, IA11 Edition)

Universal Beings is jazz drummer/producer Makaya McCraven's 2018 album - his most ambitious, elegant and refined work yet. Recorded at two intimate live sessions and two pop-up "studio" sessions across the "new" jazz hotbed cities of New York, Chicago, London, and Los Angeles, Makaya collaborated with an all-star cast of improvisers (15 musicians in total, including Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Jeff Parker, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson,Tomeka Reid, Brandee Younger and Carlos Niño) to create source material for the signature style of "organic beat music" production he debuted on the groundbreaking 2015 release In the Moment. The result is this epic, 2xLP set that represents another breakthrough in Makaya's career as a recording artist, as well as a definitive new work of the exciting global groundswell of next-generation Black musicians re-vivifying and re-articulating "jazz" in 2018.

Paris-born, New England-raised, long-time Chicago-residing Makaya McCraven has been at the forefront of genre-redefining movements in jazz since 2015, when he introduced the world to his unique brand of ‘organic beat music’ on the breakout album In The Moment. Culled, cut, post-produced & re-composed by Makaya using recordings of free improvisation he collected over dozens of live sessions in Chicago, through incubation & experimentation In The Moment established a procedural blueprint that he has since been sharpening & developing.

Features

• IA11 Edition
• Double LP
• 4-Page Insert Booklet
• IARC Obi Strip
• Printed Poly-Lined, Dome-Patterned Inner Sleeves
• Heavyweight Reverse-Board Gatefold Jacket with Flooded Black Inside Pockets