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Shabaka and the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here by History

March 12, 2025 11:38 pm

On March 13, 2020, “Impulse!” label released “We Are Sent Here by History”, the second Shabaka and the Ancestors studio album. It was recorded in 2019, at “Milestone Studio” in Cape Town, South Africa, “Sumo Sounds Studio” in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was produced by Dilip Harris and Shabaka Hutchings.

Personnel:

• Shabaka Hutchings – tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Mithunzi Myubu – alto saxophone
• Mandla Miangeni – trumpet
• Siyabonga Mthembu – vocals
• Thandi Ntyuli – piano
• Nduduzo Makhathini – electric piano
• Ariel Zamonsky – double bass
• Tumi Mogorosi – drums
• Gontse Makhene – percussion
• Murray Anderson – recording
• Peter Auret – recording
• Jethro Harris – recording assistant
• Tshepo Mothwa – recording assistant
• Dilip Harris – mixing
• Guy Davis – mastering
• Daniela Yohannes – illustration
• Jacob Lerman – CD design

Track listing:

All lyrics by Siyabonga Mthembu, all music by Shabaka Hutchings.

1. They Who Must Die
2. You’ve Been Called
3. Go My Heart, Go to Heaven
4. Behold, the Deceiver
5. Run, the Darkness Will Pass
6. The Coming of the Strange Ones
7. Beast Too Spoke of Suffering
8. We Will Work (On Redefining Manhood)
9. Til’ the Freedom Comes Home
10. Finally, the Man Cried

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