Lyrics
In "Fugitive Ritual, Selah" ("The 7th Hand", 602438327508, Blue Note, 2021) Immanuel Wilkins recalls the dimension of African-American churches as healing shelters against discrimination through a composition that spans a wide, circularly developing lyrical melodic arc like a "protective cloak", to which harmony and rhythm are subordinate and from which the band slowly but consistently gains more and more freedom.