Photo by Piper Ferguson

Irreversible Entanglement oft turn to the cosmos to inspire a collision of energy, noise, and existential thought throughout their free-form jazz experiment, but there’s never any turning away from what’s happening right in front of our earthly eyes either. “Our Land Back”, the latest preview from the collective’s third full-length album, Protect Your Light, is among the most outright politically conscious statements transformed into art by Moor Mother’s Camae Ayewa, bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, drummer Tcheser Holmes, and saxophonist Keir Neuringer — the latter whose instrument doubles as its guiding hand uncovering places in history, past and current where its people have been dispossessed of their land and denied a right to return. “Who holds our stories? Who takes our land? Who knows what happened?,” muses Camea Ayewa on history’s revisionisms. “Who knows what happened / In South Carolina, in New York, in Palestine, in Iran / Who knows what happened post-ponder chaos.” Improvisation is not lost in its way, and its way knows where to let words to empower lead those dealt loss back to a message of solidarity: “We want our land back.”

Visualizer by: Bob Sweeney

Irreversible Entanglments’ Protect Your Light will be released September 8th on Impulse! Records.