Saturday, 7 April

First coming together to perform at a Musicians Against Police Brutality event in early 2015, Irreversible Entanglements is the free jazz collective of Philadelphia-based poet and noise artist Moor Mother, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro and drummer Tcheser Holmes. Making their widely-acclaimed recording debut last year, the quintet’s instrumentalists explore the inner sanctum of free jazz improvisation, allowing Moor Mother’s searing poetic narrations of Black trauma, survival and power drive home the powerful tone of each piece. The resulting spirit represents a triumphant return to a central tenet of the free jazz sound as it was originally founded – a vehicle for Black liberation.