Sons Of Kemet – Your Queen Is A Reptile

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Label:	Impulse! – B0027970-01, Verve Records – B0027970-01
Format:	2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
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Released:	Mar 30, 2018
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Afrobeat, Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation, Avant-garde Jazz

Tracklist

A1	My Queen Is Ada Eastman Drums – Seb Rochford* Vocals – Joshua Idehen	6:41
A2	My Queen Is Mamie Phipps Clark Drums – Seb Rochford* Vocals – Congo Natty	5:31
B1	My Queen Is Harriet Tubman Drums – Eddie Hick, Moses Boyd	5:40
B2	My Queen Is Anna Julia Cooper Drums – Seb Rochford* Saxophone – Pete Wareham	5:07
B3	My Queen Is Angela Davis Drums – Seb Rochford*	6:35
C1	My Queen Is Nanny Of The Maroons Drums – Seb Rochford*	6:44
C2	My Queen Is Yaa Asantewaa Drums – Eddie Hick, Moses Boyd Saxophone – Nubya Garcia	7:04
D1	My Queen Is Albertina Sisulu Drums – Eddie Hick, Moses Boyd	5:20
D2	My Queen Is Doreen Lawrence Drums – Maxwell Hallett, Seb Rochford* Vocals – Joshua Idehen	6:52

Companies, etc.

Published By – Touch Tones Music Ltd.
Recorded At – Total Refreshment Centre
Recorded At – Livingston Studios
Mixed At – The Crush, London
Mastered At – Electric Mastering
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Verve Label Group
Copyright © – Verve Label Group
Distributed By – Universal Music Distribution
Record Company – UMG Recordings, Inc.

Credits

A&R [Administration] – Evelyn Morgan
A&R [Coordination] – Femi Onafowokan
Coordinator [Package] – Natalie Weber
Coordinator [Release] – Julie Johantgen
Creative Director – Shabaka Hutchings
Design, Artwork – Mzwandile Buthelezi
Drums – Tom Skinner
Lacquer Cut By – RM*
Liner Notes – Joshua Idehen
Management – Rachel Millar
Mastered By – Guy Davie
Producer – Dilip Harris*, Shabaka Hutchings
Product Manager – Oliver Schrage
Production Manager – Tom Arndt
Recorded By, Mixed By – Dilip Harris*
Saxophone – Shabaka Hutchings
Tuba – Theon Cross
Written-By – Shabaka Hutchings

Notes

Packaged in a gatefold sleeve. Includes download code (16/44.1 WAV). Limited copies purchased via Resident are signed.
(The labels for side A or side B are switched on some copies.)

Recorded at Total Refreshment Centre, London, UK (tracks A1, A2, B2, B3, C1, & D2), and Livingstone Studios, London, UK (tracks B1, C2, & D1).
Mixed at The Crush E14, London, UK. Mastered at Electric Mastering, London, UK.

Ⓟ © 2018 Verve Label Group, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text): 6 02567 36432 0
Barcode (Scanned): 602567364320
Rights Society: P.R.S.
Matrix / Runout (Runout: side A, etched; variant 1): B0027970-01-LP1-A G-1 RM
Matrix / Runout (Runout: side B, etched; variant 1): B0027970-01-LP1-B G-1 RM
Matrix / Runout (Runout: side C, etched; variant 1): B0027970-01-LP2-A G-1 RM
Matrix / Runout (Runout: side D, etched; variant 1): B0027970-01-LP2-B G-1 RM
Matrix / Runout (Runout: side A, etched; variant 2): B0027970-01-LP1-AⅡ G-1 RM
Matrix / Runout (Runout: side B, etched; variant 2): B0027970-01-LP1-BⅡ G-1 RM
Matrix / Runout (Runout: side C, etched; variant 2): B0027970-01-LP2-Aᵅ G-1 RM
Matrix / Runout (Runout: side D, etched; variant 2): B0027970-01-LP2-B G-1 RM

Other Versions (5 of 8)

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Your Queen Is A Reptile (CD, Album, Stereo)	Verve Records, Impulse!	00602567364351	Europe	2018
New Submission	Your Queen Is A Reptile (CD, Album)	Impulse!	B0027971-02	US	2018
New Submission	Your Queen Is A Reptile (CD, Album)	Impulse!, Verve Records	UCCI-1042	Japan	2018
New Submission	Your Queen Is A Reptile (CDr, Album, Promo, Watermarked)	Impulse!	none		2018
	Your Queen Is A Reptile (9×File, MP3, Album, 256 kbps)	Impulse!	none		2018

Reviews

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Pangea1975 Dec 22, 2022
No digital download card included in my 2022 repress.Vinyl is flat and reasonably quiet. Label great. Hole centered. Outer cover is solid.
Kroffo Dec 21, 2022
I found a copy with the productcode: 0602567364320
It also says that it's released in 29/03/2018.

Can i trust on it that this is the good quality version?
Pangea1975 Dec 4, 2022
Correction regarding Harper: Billy Harper Quintet - Destiny Is Yours
Pangea1975 Dec 4, 2022
Music Direct repress back in stock for $22.99. Mine just arrived. Ordered on 11/24/22. If the pressing is decent this will be a good alternative to the ridiculous prices some are asking (which also serve to make streaming even more practical). Probably cannot open this 2fer until Christmas Day (present from my wife who tolerates but does not understand the addiction). She also sprung for Billy Harper's Yours Is The Destiny. Amazon says they will have some 12/2/2022.
terrasirradient Nov 30, 2022
This is available right now on Merchbar for $24.49. It's on backorder, but mine came in less than a month this fall. The run-out wax matches what is listed here. Side C of my copy has some little manufacturing defects (like little dimples) but they don't affect play. Not a fantastic pressing, but sounds good enough for me. Very happy to have this on vinyl.
daniel.chua.92775 Jul 29, 2022
Agree with comments here that pressing is bad. Great music no doubt. Mine copy is also warped too.
dactylus Jun 19, 2022
https://jazz.centerstagestore.com/products/sons-of-kemet-black-to-the-future-lp?variant=39582273634453

This might be the April 2021 repress mentioned below. I'm going to order a copy and I will report back.
Tunaboy45 May 28, 2022
Any word of a repress? Seems to have been out of print for a while now.
JohnBlutarski Feb 3, 2022
Just wondering, do the spines of modern Impulse records still have the classic orange + black Coloured as the ones from the past?
iang1978 Dec 31, 2021
Yes, not a good pressing. C1 - my favourite track - skips a lot on mine, straight out of a sealed copu, yet there isn't a blemish to be seen. Some achievement with barely 14 minutes to the side.