Rituals: Vinyl LP

Label: Severn Songs
Release Date: 6th September

Less a UK Jazz band now and more an all-encompassing ball of electronic textures, global rhythms, rnb and a genuine swell of epic. They bring together sounds like their fellow Bristolians Massive Attack and Portishead, whilst being entirely their own thing.

September 2024 sees the release of Ishmael Ensemble’s third longplayer ‘Rituals’, which marks a significant leap for the Bristolian musicians. With their live-instrumentation-meets-electronic merging of styles, the group were always broader than the ‘new UK jazz’ tag which they were often given, but here their scope and boundary-pushing ambition is more evident than ever before.