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Irreversible Entanglements bassist Luke Stewart on the wisdom of Don Cherry.
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On a recent podcast taping for The Late Set, WRTI caught up with Irreversible Entanglements (@irreversibleentanglements) at The Fabric Workshop and Museum co-presented by our friends at Ars Nova Workshop.

The museum was celebrating the final days of the exhibition The Living Temple: The World of Moki Cherry which included footage from a Swedish TV documentary profiling Don and Moki Cherry.

Listen to the full conversation with members of Irreversible Entanglements via The Late Set, whenever you get your podcasts.

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#wrtimusic #mokicherry #IrreversibleEntanglements #PhillyMusic #phillyjazz

New podcast drop! Irreversible Entanglements at the Moki Cherry exhibit.
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Irreversible Entanglements (@irreversibleentanglements) can always be trusted to push revolutionary concerns to the fore. But the band puts just as much stock in community, as we’ll hear in this provocative and lively episode.

Four of the group’s five members — vocalist Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother), trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and bassist Luke Stewart — joined Josh Jackson for a listening session and public discussion of Don Cherry’s 1972 album Organic Music Society, as a tie-in to the exhibition The Living Temple: The World of Moki Cherry.

At the event — co-presented by The Fabric Workshop and Museum and Ars Nova Workshop — the band also talked about Future Present Past, its knockout fifth release, and the imperative of speaking truth to power, now as ever.

Listen to the full conversation via The Late Set, whenever you get your podcasts.

#arsnovaworkshop #wrtimusic #phillyjazz

Il jazz contemporaneo fa tappa a Cagliari: il 2 maggio al Teatro Massimo arrivano gli Irreversible Entanglements 🔥

Una delle formazioni più potenti della scena internazionale, tra free jazz, spoken word ed energia politica.

Segna la data e non perderti questo live unico.

🎟️ Biglietti disponibili su Sardinia Ticket

Hot off the heels of their acclaimed new record, Moor Mother & Irreversible Entanglements descend onto the Blue Note LA stage for two shows on May 16th.

A fearless collision of spoken word and free jazz pushing sound and message forward...miss it at your own peril.

On sale now.

🎶 ALBUM OF THE WEEK – THE CHOSEN ONE 🎶

Irreversible Entanglements @irreversibleentanglements – Future Present Past @impulserecords

Free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements return with their fifth album, recorded in the legendary Van Gelder Studio for Impulse!

The band shared this statement about the record:
“The weight of a certain world can feel cruel and unusual. Another world uplifts. 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 fight songs, we overcome. To hold on, to keep going — together we overcome.”

✨ This is our Chosen One.

#AlbumOfTheWeek #TheChosenOne #IrreversibleEntanglements #FuturePresentPast #OneJazz FreeJazz

Have you listened to Future Present Past? Comment below with the name of the song that moved you most… 🔥🖤🔥

Zum ersten Mal live in Innsbruck präsentieren Irreversible Entanglements um die Ausnahmekünstlerin Moor Mother am 5.5.26 im Treibhaus ihr neues Album „Future Present Past“ mit einer kompromisslosen Mischung aus Free Jazz, politischem Spoken Word und punkartiger Energie.

Sie treiben die Befreiungstechnologien des Jazz und der dazugehörigen Black Music in die Zukunft. Die Band besteht aus fünf visionären Individuen, deren unnachgiebige Kunst große internationale Anerkennung genießt.

„The spirit moves us to sing these fight songs, to sing fight songs, we overcome. To hold on, to keep going, together we overcome.“

#irreversibleentanglements #freejazzconcert #moormothergoddess #moormother #spokenwordpoetry

You can just see it in the song titles... hope, faith, community. Future Present Past is a testament to that. 🔥🖤

Irreversible Entanglements’ second for Impulse! - recorded at the legendary van Gelder Studio, home of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

The Brooklyn free jazz collective led by Moor Mother, mixing fiery spoken word with exploratory brass and propulsive percussion. Born out of a Musicians Against Police Brutality event, that spirit runs through every note.

Hope and resistance in equal measure. Recommended!

Irreversible Entanglements’ second for Impulse! - recorded at the legendary van Gelder Studio, home of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

The Brooklyn free jazz collective led by Moor Mother, mixing fiery spoken word with exploratory brass and propulsive percussion. Born out of a Musicians Against Police Brutality event, that spirit runs through every note.

Hope and resistance in equal measure. Recommended!

Irreversible Entanglements’ second for Impulse! - recorded at the legendary van Gelder Studio, home of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

The Brooklyn free jazz collective led by Moor Mother, mixing fiery spoken word with exploratory brass and propulsive percussion. Born out of a Musicians Against Police Brutality event, that spirit runs through every note.

Hope and resistance in equal measure. Recommended!

Irreversible Entanglements’ second for Impulse! - recorded at the legendary van Gelder Studio, home of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders.

The Brooklyn free jazz collective led by Moor Mother, mixing fiery spoken word with exploratory brass and propulsive percussion. Born out of a Musicians Against Police Brutality event, that spirit runs through every note.

Hope and resistance in equal measure. Recommended!

One week of Future Present Past! 🔥

Support your favorite indie record store and pick up your copy of our new album Future Present Past — out now! 🔥

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop

Irreversible Entanglements at
Solar Myth
Philadelphia, PA
3.27.2026
@irreversibleentanglements
moormother
@keirseye
@aquilespty
@takealukearound
@bigtcheser_
@arsnovaworkshop