![]() ![]() May 30 - Brussels, Belgium - Salle De La Madeleine ?: post shared by kamasi washington on at 6:08am PDT Street Fighter Mas is available everywhere now! Link in bio. I still imagine it playing when I walk into a tournament, kind of like I’m entering a boxing ring. When I was young, I was obsessed with Street Fighter! I thought I was going to be a professional gamer, so I made a theme song. Vincent, Ibeyi, Thundercat, Kendrick Lamar, Flying Lotus, Run the Jewels, and others. Despite being a jazz musician, Washington has crossed over to indie rock and hip-hop fans thanks to collaborations with St. Washington’s last full-length album was 2015’s The Epic, although last year he released the Harmony of Difference EP. The album also features Thundercat, Terrace Martin, Ronald Bruner, Jr., Cameron Graves, Brandon Coleman, Miles Mosley, Patrice Quinn, Tony Austin, and others. Heaven and Earth includes a new arrangement of jazz and bebop legend Freddie Hubbard’s “Hubtones.” Bandmate Ryan Porter also contributed one song. Who I am and the choices I make lie somewhere in between.” The Heaven side of this album represents the world as I see it inwardly, the world that is a part of me. ![]() The Earth side of this album represents the world as I see it outwardly, the world that I am a part of. We are simultaneously the creators of our personal universe and creations of our personal universe. The reality we experience is a mere creation of our consciousness, but our consciousness creates this reality based on those very same experiences. Washington had this to say about the album in a previous press release: “‘The world that my mind lives in, lives in my mind.’ This idea inspired me to make this album Heaven and Earth. The meaning within the scope of the record is a connection to the past and all of the many ways we can connect.” At an older age I thought how amazing would it be if the OGs could just play the game and solve their problems that way. “In a lot of ways, for me, video games was the way I connected with them because I was never affiliated with any gangs, but I knew them and I was cool with them and that was mainly through the video games. We used to call them OGs, the older guys that we looked up to. In the context of the album, it was the connection that we got with those guys in our neighborhood. In other places, you were afraid of these dudes there, you would just play the game and it was what it was, you know? I was really good at Street Fighter, so where the song really came from was me jokingly saying I was going to have my own theme song so that when I showed up to play Street Fighter they’d play my theme song before I came in, like a boxer. It was just about how good you were at Street Fighter.for the most part. It was the one place that was like an equalizer. At Rexall, there would be different people from different hoods there playing the game. We used to go to this place called Rexall to play Street Fighter. Washington had this to say about the song in a press release: “When I was younger, I was in between the end of the arcade generation and the beginning of the console generation. Check out both below, followed by his upcoming tour dates. Now he has shared another song from the album, “Street Fighter Mas.” He has also shared a preview of the song’s forthcoming video, directed by A.G. ![]() Previously he shared its first two singles, “Fists of Fury” (a cover of the theme to the Bruce Lee film) and “The Space Travelers Lullaby” (they were our joint #1 Song of the Week). Jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington is releasing a double album, Heaven and Earth, on June 22 via Young Turks. ![]()
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