Kamasi Washington has announced details of an extensive European tour, named after his forthcoming album Fearless Movement, which includes a stop off at 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin on Wednesday 23rd October 2024.
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Kamasi Washington has announced details of an extensive European tour. Commencing on 3rd October in Rome, the thirty one date tour will feature six UK dates including London’s O2 Academy Brixton on 16th October.
Kamasi Washington recently unveiled a new song, “Dream State” featuring André 3000, alongside an official visual — watch here and listen here. The track is taken from his highly anticipated forthcoming album, Fearless Movement, set for release May 3 via Young. Pre-order/Pre-save Fearless Movement here.
Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,” Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.”
Dance as an embodied form of expression signals a shift in focus for Washington. Where previous albums dealt with cosmic ideas and existential concepts, Fearless Movement focuses on the everyday, an exploration of life on earth. This change in scope is due in large part to the birth of Washington’s first child a few years ago.
“Being a father means the horizon of your life all of a sudden shows up,” says Washington. “My mortality became more apparent to me, but also my immortality—realizing that my daughter is going to live on and see things that I’m never going to see. I had to become comfortable with this, and that affected the music that I was making.”
The album features Washington’s daughter—who wrote the melody to “Asha The First” during some of her first experimentations on the piano—as well as a host of collaborators new and old. André 3000 appears on flute, George Clinton lends his voice, as do BJ The Chicago Kid, Inglewood rapper D-Smoke and Taj and Ras Austin of Coast Contra, the twin sons of West Coast legend Ras Kass. Washington further enlisted lifelong friends and collaborators Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Patrice Quinn, Brandon Coleman, DJ Battlecat and more.
The album also features “The Garden Path,” a song Washington performed for the first time ever, making his late-night television debut, on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”
LISTEN/WATCH “Dream State” featuring Andre 3000: kamasiwashington.y-r.co/dreamstate
PRE-SAVE/BUY Fearless Movement: kamasiwashington.ffm.to/fearlessmovement
