Your Queen Is a Reptile is the third album by British jazz group Sons of Kemet, released in March 2018 on Impulse! Records. Band leader Shabaka Hutchings wrote and plays saxophone on all tracks, Theon Cross plays tuba, and Seb Rochford and Tom Skinner play drums. It also features toaster Congo Natty and performance poet Josh Idehen.

Your Queen is Sons of Kemet’s first release on Impulse!, the label that was home to Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and Pharoah Sanders at their peaks. This adds another dimension to Hutchings’ relationship with American jazz, placing him among the players whose work he’s trying so hard to subvert and deconstruct. It is a peculiar achievement for him in some ways, but it is also a testament to his talents as a composer and player

My Queen Is Angela Davis" equates, knotty, martial, yet funky rhythms as Cross and Hutchings exchange a contrapuntal lyric line that touches on carnival music and Arabic double-harmonic scales. While "My Queen Is Nanny of the Maroons," titled for the famed Jamaican anti-colonialist, uses a hypnotic Nyabinghi rhythm, the tuba lays down a rocksteady bassline and Hutchings breathes out a gentle modal ballad. Nubya Garcia adds a second saxophone to "My Queen Is Yaa Asantewaa" amid an incantatory Ghanaian-style drumming and declarative tuba.

From another esoteric source, the Sons of Kemet emerged in 2011 and with their debut album Burn (Naim, 2013), and found themselves on several prominent "best of" lists for that year. The Afro-Caribbean influences common in subgenres of jazz are compounded by the UK's various urban melting pots and its multi-lingual musical inspirations. Your Queen Is a Reptile could easily pass for highly danceable modern jazz were in not considered in its political context. In either case, it is rewarding and engaging music. The tuba of Theon Cross takes on multiple brass personalities and the dual percussion of Tom Skinner and Seb Rochford is driving and complex. Hutchings himself is a soulful powerhouse whose tenor can convincingly convey celebration or rage with equal measure. Sons of Kemet-on any of its three albums-is well worth multiple listens.

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Their third record, Your Queen is a Reptile, strikes at a point when politics and social movements are on everyone’s lips, and the forces that hothoused jazz in the ‘60s are once again at the forefront of creativity. Strolling between claustrophobic, pleasantly disorienting tunes, to gently swaying melodies and sultry, sun-baked harmonies, Sons of Kemet’s latest release is very much jazz for the 21st Century. It listens more like a book of poetry or short stories than a complete novel.

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Your Queen Is a Reptile is Sons of Kemet’s third album. Sons of Kemet’s music reaches vastly across the diaspora, though it has increasingly gravitated toward the Antilles. The band’s 2013 debut, Burn, was a restive, rangy album, stretching from slow deliquescence to scorching surrealism. Its sophomore release, Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do, pulled toward calypso and soca, toward the earth, toward a more direct energy, thanks to Mr. Hutchings’s growing embrace of his own upbringing - he moved to Barbados at 6 and returned to London in high school - and to the impact of Theon Cross, a prodigious young talent who took over.

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