Shabaka Hutchings returns with “A Future Untold”, opening his new album Of The Earth and marking his first full-length since 2024’s Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace. Written, performed, produced and mixed solo, the record folds flute, saxophone, portable electronics and his first recorded verses as a rapper into one studio frame after an 18-month break from the saxophone. It appears on his new imprint, Shabaka Records, with release set for 6 March.

“A Future Untold” sets wind chimes and choral flute lines over a repeating electronic pattern, easing the album in with a circling motion. Companion track “Marwa The Mountain” moves at a quicker tempo, driven by drum programming and short horn phrases that cut sharply across the beat. The two tracks connect spiritual jazz and beat-led writing that still carries traces of his work with Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming.

Shabaka links the project back to buying D’Angelo’s Brown Sugar as his first CD and to the model of the fully self-produced, self-performed album, while also tracing what he learned from teaching himself flute, production and vocal phrasing after years focused on clarinet and saxophone. 

North American dates in Philadelphia and Queens and a Big Ears Festival appearance with Thurston Moore are scheduled for late March, with a London show at Village Underground on 7 April.

Listen and stream the singles through THIS LINK and pre-order the upcoming album HERE