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Imminent (Lyric Video) ft. Joshua Idehen
Shabaka Hutchings Solo encore
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"The London-based trio The Comet Is Coming-made up of the saxophonist King Shabaka, the percussionist Betamax, and the keyboardist Danalogue-thrusts empyrean jazz into an apocalyptic future, where raucous psych rock and danceable electro-grooves ride lush tenor lines to outer space."  -THE NEW YORKER

The Comet is Coming follows up the band's globally successful 2019 projects Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery and The Afterlife with two new pulsating singles and a music video. "Imminent," featuring Joshua Idehen was previously released only in physical format as an exclusive RSD Black Friday 12" vinyl, with a DJ Noss remix of the standout track "Super Zodiac" on Side B. Last week, Impulse! Records digitally released the pair of roaring singles and can be streamed here. Released today is the fast-paced, gritty lyric video for "Imminent" directed by the trio's frequent collaborator Jordan Copeland (Tentacle Films Production). 

  • The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery makes KOSU '10 favorite albums of 2019'
    Posted At: December 27, 2019 12:00 AM

    Jon Mooneyham, host of Everything All At Once Forever, shares his 10 favorite albums of 2019. Among them is The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery. Shabaka Hutchings' apocalyptic cosmic jazz trio fuses the sonic Afrofuturist scenarios of Sun Ra and John Coltrane's late-period space explorations with the serene spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane, synthesizing something new in that ...
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  • The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery makes 'glide Jazz Top 20 for 2019'
    Posted At: December 23, 2019 12:00 AM

    2019 was another eventful year in Jazz that delivered a renewed global creativity, the unearthing of lost albums from iconic figures, stellar efforts from emerging young players, and strong contributions from reliable veterans, both vocally and instrumentally. This is Glide's effort, a wide swath of 20 remarkable albums that touch on several aspects of jazz.  We salute these artists, knowing the cho...
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  • The Comet is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery makes Treble: Best Albums of 2019
    Posted At: December 22, 2019 12:00 AM

    We've cycled through a lot of of our favorite music of the year: Our Top 50 Albums of 2019 and our Top 100 Songs of 2019. And beyond that, our favorite metal, hip-hop, electronic, jazz and missed albums of the year. And now we're sharing our individual top 10 lists of the year to close it out. Here's what we, individually, liked a lot this year. Max Pilley selected 'The Comet is Coming – Tr...
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  • The Comet Is Coming, Trust In the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery makes JAZZIZ editors picks - 10 albums you need to know for 2019
    Posted At: December 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    With the year's end fast approaching, JAZZIZ's digital content editor Brian Zimmerman and website editor Matt Micucci pick their five of their favorite jazz albums of 2019. The list includes a keyboard legend's celebration of the passionate music of Spain, a rockstar's impressive incursion into the jazz world, that latest work from one of London's hottest jazz acts and much more. The London jazz scen...
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  • The Comet is Coming, Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery makes Sequenza 21: Best Recordings of 2019
    Posted At: December 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Guardian called The Comet Is Coming 2019 Impulse! debut, Trust In the Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery, "an improvisational, intergalactic mash-up."  The Comet Is Coming, who in 2016 were shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize, is comprised of King Shabaka (Shabaka Hutchings) on saxophone, Danalogue (Dan Leavers) on keys/synth, and Betamax (Max Hallett) on drums. On this album, Trust In The Lifefo...
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  • The Comet Is Coming - The Afterlife makes JazzTimes The Year in Review: Top 50 Albums of 2019 .
    Posted At: December 13, 2019 12:00 AM

    JazzTimes' critics choose the top 40 new albums and top 10 historical releases of the year.  The Comet Is Coming digital release of the group's highly-anticipated mini-album The Afterlife, via Impulse! served as a companion piece to the group's breakout album Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery and the lead track "Lifeforce Part II." "The Afterlife has been ...
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  • The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery makes Treble '10 Best Jazz Albums of 2019'
    Posted At: December 12, 2019 12:00 AM

    Comparing the year in jazz to that of 2018 is a little like comparing this year in metal to its predecessor-on the surface it seems hard to compete with 12 months of obvious ringers. After all, last year revealed the first set of unheard John Coltrane music in decades. I mean, this year also yielded a set of unheard Coltrane pieces, which was pretty cool as well, but they were still essentially alternate...
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  • The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery is a Red Bull: must-listen LP for 2019
    Posted At: December 9, 2019 12:00 AM

    By now you'll be aware that jazz is back. In the UK, a brace of acts that came through youth group Tomorrow's Warriors are transforming the sound through the influence of contemporary music like grime, rap and sound system culture. A thriving west coast scene formed around pioneering musicians like Kamasi Washington and Thundercat continues to bear fruit. From the latest up-and-coming groups...
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  • The Comet Is Coming flips the minimalist palette into an electrifying, apocalyptic sound / Pitchfork
    Posted At: October 22, 2019 12:00 AM

    The cosmic fusion group skewers the jazz-trio format as it's typically understood, flipping the minimalist palette into an electrifying, apocalyptic sound. Since their debut was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize in 2016, the Comet is Coming's saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings has become a formidable presence in the international jazz scene in his own right, making fans of Beyoncé and Virgil Abloh ...
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  • The Austin Chronicle interviews The Comet Is Coming
    Posted At: October 22, 2019 12:00 AM

    A freewheeling powerhouse of manic sax riffing, melodic synthwave, and thundering grooves, the Comet Is Coming combines the rhythms of modern electronica. Credit keyboardist Dan "Danalogue" Leavers and drummer Max "Betamax" Hallett and the improvisational fire of contemporary jazz courtesy sax master "King Shabaka" Hutchings. The leaderless UK collective ("It's like an experiment," says Danalogue. "C...
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  • The Comet Is Coming - The Afterlife makes New Music Fridays: Festicket staff picks
    Posted At: September 27, 2019 12:00 AM

    Happy Friday! Gearing up for performances at Austin City Limits, before returning to Europe for the Autumn greats Pitchfork Music Festival Paris, Club To Club Torino and roBOt, London psych-jazz trio The Comet Is Coming have today dropped another cosmic chapter in their mind-melting odyssey. Joining them in this week's playlist are new cuts from Delta Sleep, Temples, Natalia Lafourcade and more. As a...
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  • Double B.C. jazz festivals happily include; The Comet Is Coming and Loueke-Midon duo / KNKX: Seattle
    Posted At: June 14, 2019 12:00 AM

    The double jazz festivals in Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia later this month (June 21 through July 1) feature many wonderful modern jazz groups. Happily, a few of them will make the border crossing to entertain Seattle audiences. Others will require a passport. Tune in Saturday afternoon to hear a few of them on The New Cool. Guitarist Lionel Loueke is sharing a bill with Grammy-nominated s...
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  • The Comet is Coming perform a high-intensity set of cosmic instrumentals at Bonnaroo / Tennessean.
    Posted At: June 14, 2019 12:00 AM

    Late-night and early morning belonged to the rappers and EDM DJs as Day One of the 18th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival concluded in the wee hours early Friday morning. The London jazz-fusion trio The Comet is Coming performed a high-intensity set of cosmic instrumentals on Thursday June 13, 2019 at Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn. giving fans a taste of late-night, futuristic energy. ...
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  • Brixton's 'Cross The Tracks' main stage was enraptured by the sheer energy of The Comet Is Coming / CLASH
    Posted At: June 11, 2019 12:00 AM

    Let's be honest: festivals in London can be a mixed experience. The city's increasingly tight laws on volume and curfew often disrupt the fan experience, while a surfeit of options has led to all-out booking wars between promoters and line ups spread a little too thinly across the capital's many, many outdoor events. Cross The Tracks, though, is a breath of fresh air. Announced earlier in the year, the B...
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  • The Comet Is Coming mercury lounge show was both interstellar and dance-floor ready / glideMAGAZINE
    Posted At: March 30, 2019 12:00 AM

    The last decade has seen the jazz world reignited as a force for musical exploration. While stateside names like Kamasi Washington and Thundercat have been turning on a new generation of listeners, London has found itself home to one of the most boundary-pushing jazz scenes to emerge in some time. The crop of young musicians seem to be actively working to dissolve the boundaries that routinely separate j...
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  • The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery makes 'the 10 best new albums NPR heard In march'
    Posted At: March 29, 2019 12:00 AM

    Youthful talent dominates our list of the month's essential albums. Billie Eilish's debut album is an eerily assured outing that splits the difference between industrial-infused pop and Spotify-core, Little Simz sharpens her promise as an MC on the transcendent GREY Area and Jamaican talent Koffee lays out the future of reggae in five songs. But it wasn't all young guns. Jenny Lewis delivers ...
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  • 'The Comet is Coming' featured on npr: All Songs Considered
    Posted At: March 26, 2019 12:00 AM

    Joining Bob Boilen on this edition of All Songs Considered is NPR Music's Lyndsey McKenna, Marissa Lorusso and Joshua Bote for some sips of Rosé, bites of cupcakes and sweet music. Today's sounds include the legendary dub master and reggae king Lee "Scratch" Perry. At 83-years of age, he's just made a brilliant new record with another legendary producer, Adrian Sherwood. Both artists a...
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  • Not only are the British coming, but The Comet Is Coming / glide Magazine
    Posted At: March 21, 2019 12:00 AM

    The spiritual music made by John and Alice Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders in the late ‘60s is surely an inspiration for the UK jazz trio, and, like those iconic figures. TCIC is on the same Impulse! label, pushing the envelope into the 21st century with spiritual jazz that owes as much to the ‘60s sound as it does to futuristic music like that from Bladerunner. This is the Impulse! debut of Kin...
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  • Darkness and light. LEMON WIRE reviews; The Comet is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
    Posted At: March 21, 2019 12:00 AM

    Shabaka Hutchings has been one of the fastest rising stars in the world of jazz as of late, and more distinctly, has gained recognition as a pioneer in sonic experimentation. With three bands at his helm, the London saxophonist has been busy fulfilling all his musical dreams and fantasies, which has attracted not only the attention of jazz enthusiasts but the admiration of now-established jazz crossover ...
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  • The Comet is Coming are back with another spoonful of cosmic jam / God Is In The TV
    Posted At: March 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Comet is Coming are back with another spoonful of cosmic jam, this time entitled Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (out now on Impulse!) and they aren't hiding their influences.  Be in no doubt: Space is the place.  Bandleader and saxophonist, Shabaka (King Shabaka) Hutchings, is a sometime member of the inter-dimensional, pharaonic Jazz cult that is Sun Ra Arkestra, and makes no b...
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  • The Comet Is Coming listening party/signing/meet and great set for NYC's Nublu / BrooklynVegan
    Posted At: March 19, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Comet Is Coming, the space rock-tinged jazz trio led by Shabaka Hutchings (who also leads Sons of Kemet and Shabaka and the Ancestors) - and also featuring keyboardist Dan Leavers and drummer Max Hallett - released their great sophomore album Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery this past Friday (3/15) via Impulse! and they're supporting it on tour now. They were in Austin for SXSW when the alb...
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  • The Comet Is Coming at Empire Garage makes '10 great 2019 SXSW musical discoveries' / RollingStone
    Posted At: March 18, 2019 12:00 AM

    Can a music festival have a mid-life crisis? In its 33rd year, over two weeks in Austin, Texas, SXSW made its biggest headlines in the opening interactive phase, hosting a widely reported forum of prospective Democratic candidates for president. The SXSW film festival featured major premieres and director Q&As, like a spring-break Sundance with a Texas drawl. And a new SXSW sideline – gaming &n...
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  • 'The Comet is Coming' dances to the apocalypse and pleads for humanity / Pitchfork
    Posted At: March 18, 2019 12:00 AM

    For the past two years, London saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings has traveled the globe as one of jazz music's top performers, lending his hallmark bluster to like-minded artists Makaya McCraven and Moses Sumney, while crafting the sonic direction for two of his three disparate bands: the Caribbean dance-themed Sons of Kemet, the spiritual jazz-focused Shabaka and the Ancestors, and the cosmic jazz-centered ...
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  • The Comet is Coming sparks psychedelic soul vibrations @SXSW / Austin Chronicle
    Posted At: March 15, 2019 12:00 AM

    Being stuck in the middle of a peculiarly eclectic bill remains some SXSW showcasers' worst nightmare. Sandwiched between the neo-gothic rock of Soft Kill and occult psychedelia from the Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Coven, electro-jazz groovers the Comet is Coming simply shrugged off any potential cognitive dissonance and blazed down to business. The colorfully-dressed London trio – keyboardist ...
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  • The Comet Is Coming, and is TREBLE: Album of the Week
    Posted At: March 11, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Comet is Coming, the name of the London based jazz/electronic outfit featuring saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings as well as percussionist Betamax and keyboardist Danalogue, evokes both disaster and possibility. The very thought of a comet plummeting toward earth is deeply unsettling bordering on catastrophic, an event that could very well wipe out entire species or provoke fringe sects to shuffle off thi...
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  • BrooklynVegan runs down what's up, for The Comet Is Coming
    Posted At: March 11, 2019 12:00 AM

    Shabaka Hutchings has quickly been becoming one of the leaders of modern jazz and specifically of the London jazz renaissance that's been spreading outside of the UK and really catching on here in the States too. He leads the bands Sons of Kemet and Shabaka and the Ancestors, he has worthy solo work, he's played as a sideman for the Sun Ra Arkestra, Floating Points, Makaya McCraven, and more, and he's on...
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  • npr-First Listen, The Comet Is Coming new release; 'Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery'
    Posted At: March 7, 2019 12:00 AM

    The Comet Is Coming's Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery comes out March 15 via Impulse! In some early press materials for the new release by The Comet Is Coming, the album is said to "envisage a 21st-century take on spiritual jazz that is part Alice Coltrane, part Blade Runner." That unlikely mashup of influences should begin to make sense within the first 30 seconds of the album's openi...
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  • Shabaka Hutchings solo encore
    Posted At: March 5, 2019 12:00 AM

    Over the last half decade, Shabaka Hutchings has established himself as a central figure in the London jazz scene, which is enjoying its greatest creative renaissance since the breakthroughs of Joe Harriott and Evan Parker in the 1960s. Hutchings has a restlessly creative and refreshingly open-minded spirit, playing in a variety of groups-most notably, Sons of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming, and Shabaka &...
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  • on 'Trust In The Lifeforce,' the comet isn't coming, it's arrived / The Guardian
    Posted At: March 3, 2019 12:00 AM

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