Universal Beings (IA11 Edition)

Paris-born, New England-raised, long-time Chicago-residing Makaya McCraven has been at the forefront of genre-redefining movements in jazz since 2015, when he introduced the world to his unique brand of 'organic beat music' on the breakout album 'In the Moment'. Honing this process on narrower sets of source material, Makaya followed up that album with two mixtape releases - 2017's 'Highly Rare', a lo-fi free-jazz-meets-hip-hop suite he made from a live 4-track recording, and 2018's 'Where We Come From (Chicago x London Mixtape)'. This 'IA11 Edition' comes on a classic black 140-gram vinyl 2xLP inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket, with a 16-page 11x11' insert booklet (with unpublished photos and four conversations between IARC co-founder Scott McNiece and musicians Joel Ross, Junius Paul, Nubia Garcia, and Anna Butterss), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined inner-sleeves. Pressed at Pallas in Germany, with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.

Disc 1
1: A Queen's Intro
2: Holy Lands (Feat. Brandee Younger)
3: Young Genius (Feat. Joel Ross)
4: Black Lion (Feat. Dezron Douglas)
5: Tall Tales (Feat. Tomeka Reid)
6: Mantra
7: Pharaoh's Intro
8: Atlantic Black
9: Inner Flight

Disc 2
1: Wise Man, Wiser Woman (Feat. Shabaka Hutchings)
2: Prosperity's Fear (Feat. Junius Paul)
3: Flipped OUT
4: Voila (Feat. Daniel Casimir)
5: Suite Haus (Feat. Nubya Garcia)
6: Butterss's Fly
7: The Way Home
8: Kings & Queens
9: The Loneliness

Number of Discs: 2

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