- 2LP
- Recommended =
- New Release
Saul Williams
Leap Life
Big Dada
- Cat No.: BD323
- 2026-09-03
Saul Williams — the maverick writer, musician, poet, film director and actor who for nearly three decades has carved out a singular, one-of-a-kind position without being confined by the boundaries of music, literature or film — returns with "Leap Life," his first solo album in seven years, out now on Big Dada!!! A major work in which hip-hop, African polyrhythms, ambient and jazz coalesce into Afro-futurism within a spiritually conceived sonic architecture!!
Track List
Guided by the philosophy that "the voice itself is an instrument," the album fuses spoken word, jazz abstraction, hip-hop's rhythmic sensibility, West African-rooted polyrhythms, ambient, experimental music, dub, beatdown and ritualistic sound design. With improvisation at its core, language itself is treated as vibrating rhythm as the record explo ...Read more (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)res expression pushing into new territory.
In an age of confusion and division, "Leap Life" redefines music as a vehicle for emotion, memory and transformation — ritual music, sacred music, something akin to prayer, built through dialogue with the unseen. It is Afro-futurist spiritual science for a new era, from SUN RA to LAST PORTS, from P-FUNK to G-FUNK: a quietly soul-infused work has been born. 16 tracks in all.
A stellar cast comes together here: 3D, aka Robert Del Naja (Massive Attack), Kamasi Washington,
Carlos Nino, Gonjasufi, Moor Mother, Georgia Anne Muldrow and more all take part in its making! (Original Japanese text by COMPUMA)