Shabaka

Shabaka Hutchings, a British bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and producer, performs at Brudenell Social Club in Leeds. The music draws on jazz and reaches into electronic, spiritual and diasporic traditions.

Shabaka Hutchings works as a British bandleader, multi-instrumentalist and producer, and the music moves between jazz, electronic sounds, spiritual strands and diasporic traditions. Earlier projects, Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming, are associated with dance-driven energy, while the solo work turns towards breath, embodiment and personal authorship.

The 2026 album Of The Earth was written, performed, produced and mixed entirely by Shabaka. Largely made while travelling, it uses portable instruments and production tools, with looping rhythms beneath choral melodies played mainly on alto flute and saxophone. Shabaka also uses the voice on record for the first time, treating rap as another element of rhythm and phrasing. Years of flute study drawing on traditions from Japan and the Americas inform the approach to resonance and melodic flow.

Brudenell Social Club, in Burley, is a concert and performance venue in Leeds, and this is where the evening takes place.