IRREVERSIBLE ENTANGLEMENTS RELEASES FUTURE PRESENT PAST
LIVE DATES THIS WEEK IN
NEW YORK CITY W/SHABAKA ON 3/26
PHILADELPHIA ON 3/27 + 3/28
PREORDER-SAVE FUTURE PRESENT PAST HERE
“Irreversible Entanglements continue to push spiritual jazz to its incendiary limits”
- FLOOD
“‘Don’t Lose Your Head’ functions as both rallying cry and earworm, the kind of fight song that sneaks into your bloodstream and stays there, like a mantra, like a prayer.”
- Paste
"a call for revolution through the excellence of the jazz tradition”
- Remezcla
27 MARCH 2026 (TORONTO, ON) — This Friday, free-jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements returns with its sixth studio album, Future Present Past out via Impulse! Ahead of the record’s release, the group shared the double single “Don’t Lose Your Head” / “Vibrate Higher,” both featuring contributions from MOTHERBOARD, as well as the album’s opening track, “Juntos Vencemos,” featuring contributions by Helado Negro.
At its heart, Future Present Past is a rallying cry, urging listeners to seize agency in a world that robs people of it every day. Irreversible Entanglements preaches for a higher morality, as well as a higher power, on this record; in the collective’s view, people are beholden to the former and cannot expect to be saved by the latter, hence the warning shot “Don’t Lose Your Head.” The low, heated delivery from Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) finds an airy foil in MOTHERBOARD, whose voice soars across half of the album’s tracks.
Future Present Past bristles with a restless, contained energy; skittering percussion, Camae’s deeper timbre, and scattershot horn runs reveal this energy without fully unleashing it, biding its time for the moment when it can be used for liberation. The result is an album of potential, of not just revolution or spirituality, but of where music can head in the 21st century amid new technology and blurrier borders. More than anything, Future Present Past asks the listener to be observant, to be inspired, and to be brave:
The weight of a certain world can feel cruel and unusual. Another world up lifts. We form as five and transform into billions. Billions of us on this planet sharing this journey through existence — futures full of possibility and potential , the present with all its anxieties and uncertainties, pasts as wellsprings of ancestral wisdom and histories’ warnings. This album is 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 this planet towards trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding. We assume our role in this music as messengers,continuing in the tradition’s long march along the arc of the universe. Freedom fighters telling us not to lose our heads amidst imposed chaos. It is our duty to vibrate higher, beyond the noise, above the hype, away from the novelty, over the walls, across the borders: to keep going. The spirit moves us to sing these fight songs, to sing fightsongs, we overcome. To hold on, to keep going, together we overcome. - Irreversible Entanglements
This week, Irreversible Entanglements will also play dates in both New York City and Philadelphia. In NYC, the band plays alongside Shabaka and Tom Skinner on March 26th, offering a chance to hear Future Present Past live ahead of its release. Later this week, IE plays at Solar Myth in Philly on March 27th and 28th.
Future Present Past arrives this Friday March 27th via Impulse!, and you can preorder/save the album HERE.
Irreversible Entanglements Live
Mar. 26th — Knockdown Center, East New York, NYC*
Mar. 27th — Solar Myth, Philadelphia, PA
Mar. 28th — Solar Myth, Philadelphia, PA
*with Shabaka and Tom Skinner
About Irreversible Entanglements
Irreversible Entanglements (IE) is a free-jazz quintet with an experimental punk mentality, consisting of poet/vocalist Camae Ayewa (often known as Moor Mother), bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes.
It is an award-winning band together for 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. Each of the studio albums that followed - 2020’s Who Sent You? and 2021’s Open The Gates - developed this legend further.
In 2023, IE signed to the fabled Impulse! Records and released the album Protect Your Light, a collection of eight examples of how IE’s collaborative composition strategies and Ayewa’s in-communion verses result in some of the most 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.
Recently, IE returned to Van Gelder to record their most accomplished work to-date, Future Present Past, due March 27, 2026. Their second recording for the Impulse! label, it is 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.
Preorder/save Future Present Past HERE
Irreversible Entanglements Future Present Past (Impulse!)
Tracklisting
1. Juntos Vencemos (feat. Helado Negro)
2. Don't Lose Your Head (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
3. Vibrate Higher (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
4. Panamanian Fight Song
5. We Know (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
6. Hold On (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
7. Keep Going (feat. MOTHERBOARD)
8. The Messenger
9. The Spirit Moves
10. We Overcome (feat. Helado Negro)
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