The Comet Is Coming, is a group that for me is unclassifiable many label it as nu jazz for its eclectic mix of musical styles, and the group in reference mixes rhythms such as electronic, jazz, rock, psychedelic rock, afrobeat, jazz-rock, and hip hop. In some moments it reminds me of that mythical and legendary group called Soft Machine and even Tangerine Dream.
This group formed in London in 2013 is composed of King Shabaka (Shabaka Hutchings) on sax, Danalogue (Dan Leavers) on synthesizers and Betamax Killer (Max Hallet) on drums.
The band's name comes from a BBC program in London where they refer to science fiction, cosmic memories and space in general.
In their live performances they like to improvise on stage. As main characteristics we can say that it is a group with wide soundscapes, a lot of energy and unexpected changes of time in their music.
Shabaka's saxophone, played with mastery and imagination, impregnates with soul and emotion the music they introduce, managing to transmit emotions without difficulty, it is like a voice in a group that only plays instruments.
The Comet Is Coming begins its musical journey in 2015 with an EP called Prophecy in 2015, and the album Channel The Spirits that came out in April 2016.
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The Comet Is Coming - Neon Baby
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The Comet Is Coming - Do The Milky Way
Channel The Spirits is an easy listening album distinguishing itself in genres such as: electronica, psychedelic rock, acid, jazz and jazz fusion. The recording is pure and hypnotic energy.
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The Comet Is Coming - Space Carnival
In 2017 they release the EP with only four tracks called Death to the Planet , turning out to be an album with more jazz than psychedelic Rock, with dark but very tuneful songs that manage to please the ear and being full of passion they balance between commercial and anti-commercial. This work marks the demise of Earth.
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Ascension - The Comet Is Coming.
In 2019 they release new material with the title Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mistery if the previous work of the public ended our planet this one details its restoration.
This album features fast percussion, dizzying synth, and turbulent explosions. of saxophone.
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The Comet Is Coming - Summon The Fire
Under the name of The Afterlife in the same year the band releases a six track EP that seems to be an appendix of the previous work. The Afterlife was recorded in the same sessions as Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery, in this work, as in the previous one, we can feel cosmic atmospheres, ethereal synthesizers, saxophones that go from the fierce to the intimate and exact drums.
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The Softness Of The Present-The Comet Is Coming
In the year 2022 comes the work Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam much faster and harder than the previous ones, is an energetic album and we hear a very synchronized musicians is an electric trip through space, the album was recorded in the Real World studio of Peter Gabriel.
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The Comet Is Coming - Code
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Frequency of Feling Expansion - The Comet Is Coming
Shabaka Hutchings, the excellent British saxophonist and one of the composers of the group as well as clarinetist is associated with projects such as Sons of Kemet, or The Antecessors, and is considered an important figure within the London jazz scene.
Some say they are a cosmic jazz band, and that they are the direct heirs of Sun Ra, who was a jazz avant-gardist, keyboardist and leader of the Sun Ra Arkestra. Judge for yourselves.
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Sun Ra - Sound Of Joy (Live Under The Sky Festival 1988)
This is a surprising band for its strength, its style and its technique, for sure if you don't know it you can get hooked, I highly recommend this group that can easily please lovers of Rock, and other genres such as Soul, Hip Hop, Electronic and Trance for the progressive of its proposal.
I hope you liked my publication and that it piques your curiosity a bit so that you discover this group out of the ordinary and why not, out of this world. A big greeting.
