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Skyjack
Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet
Kujua Records - Cat No: KJR005
- updated:2026-09-03
A fully realized set of contemporary cosmic jazz that deftly ties the roots of South African jazz to European modernity. The fourth studio album from Skyjack, a quintet formed in Cape Town and based between South Africa and Switzerland.
Track List
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A1. I Say
6:47 -
A2. Another One For Bra Zim
10:28 -
B1. Bass Below
0:59 -
B2. Let The Sky Open Under Your Feet
6:33 -
B3. Radiate
8:02 -
B4. Mantra For Reef
3:29 -
C1. The Cloudspotting Sunbeam
4:51 -
C2. Ayan
7:37 -
C3. Surrender Yourself To That Which Moves You
5:44 -
D1. Night Moth
1:28 -
D2. Night Moth's Flutter To Eternity
5:58 -
D3. Shozi
4:47
The latest globe-spanning South African jazz outing from the quintet of Marc Stucki (sax), Andreas Tschopp (tb), Kyle Shepherd (p), Shane Cooper (bass) and Jonno Sweetman (dr) — players with credits alongside heavyweights such as William Parker, Shabaka Hutchings and Makaya McCraven — distilling the band's aesthetic of keeping both feet on the ground while soaring skyward. Released on Kujua Records, the South African independent label helmed by bassist Shane Cooper. Wide-screen cosmic jazz where the South African jazz lineage, European free improvisation and chamber-style ensemble writing all meet. Captured almost entirely live in the studio, it bottles the heat honed on the bandstand, with free improvisation and earthy groove held in beautiful balance. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)