Celebrating 50 years as a pioneering group led by the legendary bandleader Idris Ackamoor, and as a follow-up to their most recent retrospective box set release, The Pyramids return with a highly-anticipated and adventurous new full-length on Strut, titled Afro Futuristic Dreams.

This brilliant and expansive 10-track recording pushes their sound in new directions, blending together spiritual and cosmic jazz grooves with strings, African and Eastern-rooted percussion rhythms, and soulful vocal chants and group choruses that delve into subjects as various as police brutality to uplifting celebrations of the ancestors and departed loved ones. There also seems to be a touch of Funkadelic and Sun Ra Arkestra influences in the fabric of the music.

Representing the group’s first studio recording in over 3 years, the album was recorded between San Francisco and London and brought together notably by the Heliocentrics’ Malcolm Catto at his analogue Quatermass Studio.

From start to finish, Afro Futuristic Dreams takes listeners on a cosmic spiritual journey, and continues to push the boundaries musically, which has been a core foundational element of this forward-thinking group since it’s inception. Highly recommended!

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids — ‘Afro Futuristic Dreams’
(Strut)

1. Afro Futuristic Dreams
2. Thank You God
3. Police Dem
4. First Peoples
5. Truth To Power
6. Re-Memory
7. Garland Rose
8. Requiem For The Ancestors
9. Nice It Up
10. Thank You God (Short Version)

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• Cosmic
• Jazz
• Spiritual Jazz