Irreversible Entanglements present their new single/visualizer, “Our Land Back,” from their forthcoming album, Protect Your Light, out September 8th on Impulse!. “Our Land Back” originated with band member/saxophonist, Keir Neuringer, and is Protect Your Light’s most social conscious and political track. In the band’s words, “Our Land Back” is “an anthem to struggles for self-determination by peoples who have been dispossessed of their land and denied their right to return. It swings for autonomy and solidarity and against forgetting.”

Primarily recorded over three days in January 2023 at the historic Rudy Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Protect Your Light is Irreversible Entanglements’ most accomplished work to date. Over the course of the record’s eight tracks the poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (often known as Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes unite to deliver an unconditional statement of intent and rhythm. Irreversible Entanglements’ improvisations are molded in the fire of the moment, while its songs are born in experience, where music and life are one and the same. There is no one remotely like them on the planet, and no recent album like this one.

Protect Your Light features contributions from the greater members of Irreversible Entanglements’ community — pianist Janice A. Lowe, cellist Lester St. Louis and vocalist Sovei — who help illuminate the band’s musical dexterity and expand the breadth of its beautiful consciousness. These eight pieces were composed both individually and collectively, with some themes brand-new, and others rooted in Irreversible Entanglements’ spirited, wholly improvised live performances; with Ayewa adding words that elevate what she calls the band’s “in-communion” practices.

Irreversible Entanglements Tour Dates

Fri. Sept. – Sept. 8 – Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
Sat. Sept. 9 – Hudson, NY @ Basilica SoundScape Presents
Sun. Sep. 10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Solar Myth
Sat. Nov. 4 – Berlin, DE @ Jazzfest Berlin
Mon. Nov. 6 – Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
Fri. Nov. 10 – Paris, FR @ Festival d’Automne à Paris
Sat. Nov. 11 – Rotterdam, NL @ LantarenVenster
Sun. Nov. 12 – Utrecht, NL @ Le Guess Who?
Tue. Nov. 14 – Dublin, IE @ Whelans
Wed. Nov. 15 – London, UK @ London Jazz Festival

Pre-order Protect Your Light HERE.