Adrian Younge - The American Negro

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(Jazz Is Dead)
This impassioned dissection of modern America is a challenging work well worth every second

The American Negro is a mammoth project from producer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge: a 26-track part-spoken word, part-orchestral examination of the structural racism underpinning the identity of modern America. It forms just one part of Younge’s current projects on the same theme, including a four-part podcast, Invisible Blackness, and a short film, T.A.N.

Related: 'Lynching was treated as a celebratory event': Adrian Younge on the history of US racism

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Read Stephen Kearse’s review of the album.