Free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements sat down with Paste to talk about their latest LP, Protect Your Light.
The original title for “Open the Gates,” the track, was “Splendor.” It was a nice, existing thread that happened. And we recorded it and we named it “Open the Gates” because of something Camae said over the instrumental. Everything always seems to co-exist with one another while we’re creating. “Splendor,” the virtue, I like in the world in general. It was a more joyous occasion, maybe because we’re playing the music we want to do and we enjoy playing in this band.
PM: This being your first record with Impulse!, who have put their imprint on projects from Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey—countless titans of jazz—what’s the significance of having’s existence intertwined with a catalog of monumental records that are so noteworthy and important in the history of Black liberation and Black tradition in jazz music and across culture?One thing that we’ve said, and I feel pretty deeply, is it’s this combination of humility and pride—an immense humility to be...
PM: I think about a song like “Our Land Back” and how it’s very much anthemic about displacement. But something that stood out to me was how the track was characterized as standing against the act of forgetting. That idea really has stuck with me—because I think there’s a difference between choosing to remember versus refusing to forget. Can you speak about that dichotomy at all?I would say that memory has always been a part of our work, since the beginning.
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