Sons of Kemet, featuring saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings, sit at the forefront of a new generation of London musicians upending expectations by introducing their own forms of irresistible polyrhythms and restless melodies.

While it’s fitting that the outfit’s acclaimed recent album, Your Queen Is A Reptile, dropped on legendary jazz imprint Impulse! Records (once home to John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders), its restless kinetic energy, propelled by two drummers, tuba and sax, resists the legacy of American standards, and seeks its own path with the intertwining influences of the Caribbean and London at its core.