Sons Of Kemet

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Real Live Certified

Critic Consensus

Sons Of Kemet is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 1% of all live performers. Based on 25 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Sons Of Kemet is rated as a phenomenal live performer, outstanding in almost every aspect. Sons Of Kemet concert reviews describe live shows and performances as transcendent and danceable.

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Latest Release

Burn (10th Anniversary Remaster) (8 September 2023)

Artist Info

Genre

jazz

Origin

London, England, United Kingdom (2011 - present)

Bio

Sons of Kemet is a British jazz group formed in 2011 that consists of Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Skinner, Theon Cross, and Eddie Hick (Seb Rochford quit Sons of Kemet in late 2016).

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Critic Concert Reviews

The Skinny (UK)

August 16, 2022

100

Sons of Kemet provide a transcendental performance at Leith Theatre that at times defies belief

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NME (UK)

March 1, 2022

100

Roundhouse, February 26: Shabaka Hutchings leads his band through a set of cosmic soundscapes and danceable euphoria.

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I Newspaper (UK)

February 21, 2022

100

Sons of Kemet, Gorilla: Jazz at its most effervescent

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Jazzwise (UK)

September 8, 2021

The second edition of south London's jazz, soul and funk fest packs in the crowds and the cream of UK new-gen jazz

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Evening Standard (UK)

July 15, 2019

100

Sons of Kemet Politics ramps up the sound... and the fury

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Buzz Magazine (UK)

October 30, 2018

100

Club Ifor Bach Cardiff, Cardiff, UK

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The Guardian (UK)

October 28, 2018

It should be clear by now, though, that London four-piece Sons of Kemet are not a conventional jazz outfit, and that jazz is enjoying a crossover surge that thumbs its nose at genre and shows no sings of abating; the hype is real.

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