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Shabaka Hutchings, now Shabaka, has been a crucial and connected London-based musician for years, leading arena dance-jazz band Sons of Kemet,\xa0cosmic psych-dub-funk\xa0trio\xa0The Comet Is Coming, and the collaborative band Shabaka & the Ancestors. He began incorporating layered flutes on the last Sons of Kemet record Black to the Future, and kept on picking up more and other woodwinds, first on his 2022 ambient meditation,\xa0Afrikan\xa0Culture, and now on his new full-length,\xa0Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. On it, Shabaka plays flutes: the Slavic woodwind called svirel, Japanese shakuhachi, Andean quena, and even clarinet. Plus, rapper and flutist Andr\xe9 3000 contributes flute to \u201cI\u2019ll Do Whatever You Want\u201d.

This time, in his visit to our studio, Shabaka, together with Charles Overton on harp and Austin Williamson on drums play some of the songs from Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. Plus, Shabaka talks us through the different flutes in his bow case, including a clay turtle ocarina and a century-old shakuhachi. Read more on Shabaka\u2019s Shakuhachi journey via SoundAmerican. \u2013 Caryn Havlik

Set list:\xa01. Insecurities / As the Planets and the Stars Collapse 2. Living 3. I'll Do Whatever You Want