Irreversible Entanglements
performing at
collective radiance
Sunday Jan 17th @ 7:00pm
Good Room - 98 Meserole Ave.
ABOUT
Irreversible Entanglements (IE) is a free-jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality, consisting of poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes.
They are an award-winning band together for over a decade, playing deeply improvised, rhythm music full of love and social commitment. IE came together spontaneously, organically, in April of 2015 at “Musicians Against Police Brutality,” a day of protest, sound and discussion in Brooklyn. All were artists and activists of varying degrees: Philadelphia-based Ayewa and Neuringer and DC-based Stewart as veterans of the Mid-Atlantic noise-hardcore-experimental scene, while Holmes and Navarro as recent New England Conservatory grads. Their self-titled debut was released in 2017 by International Anthem to wide acclaim from critics, audiences, and peers. Each of the studio albums that followed on that label—Who Sent You? (2020) and Open The Gates (2021)—and the transcedent energy of their live performances, developed their legend further. In 2023, IE signed to the storied Impulse! Records, moved by its legacy as “the house that Trane built.”
Their first album for the label, Protect Your Light, exemplified how IE’s collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa’s in-communion verses result in some of the most politically, spiritiually, and sonically potent music being made in the 21st century. The album landed in several ‘best of’ end of year lists, including The New York Times, Pitchfork, Stereogum, Paste, Vulture and others. IE returned to Van Gelder Studio to record their most accomplished work to-date, Future Present Past, released in March 2026. The band describe it as an album of five standing on the shoulders of legions: the healers, the alchemists, the rebels, the mothers and fathers who have fought and weaved and invented new ways of being, seeing and balancing the frequencies of the planet towards trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding.