release date: 11.06.2021 via Pyroclastic Records

The recording and accompanying film showcase the band’s synergistic connection and exhilarating, alchemical mix of musical forms 

5-stars. “Haitian traditions inspire the percussionist’s exhilarating hybrid of melodic drums, evocative vocals and fiery improvisation… Smith wanted the resources of traditional vocalists, highly melodic drummers and melody-instrument jazz improvisers to become spontaneously inseparable on this long honed  adventure. We All Break have made a tour de force of it.”   – John Fordham, The Guardian

4-stars. “Smith brings a jazz sensibility, opening the band to exploration and excavation into the pieces he built from drum patters with new songs written by and traditional tunes woven in by Brevil…The results are inviting and engaging, playing to tradition without being beholden to it.” – Kurt Gottschalk, Stereophile

5 stars. “The pieces are all profoundly original…. simply extraordinary, innovative and important…infinitely beautiful and pure….  a truly rare work that – at these levels of quality – has never really been even imagined before.”  – Vic Albani, All About Jazz Italia – Album of the Week

“I’ve been on the scene, and know a lot of people, but projects like this are the kind of thing you live for.” – saxophonist and MacArthur Fellow Miguel Zenón

With its remarkable merging of traditional Haitian Vodou with contemporary jazz and beyond, the groundbreaking album offers eight evolutionary/revolutionary tracks performed by a collaborative octet of world-class musicians. They are drummer/composer Ches Smith, pianist Matt Mitchell, saxophonist Miguel Zenón, bassist Nick Dunston, vocalist Sirene Dantor Rene, and master drummers Daniel Brevil, Markus Schwartz and Fanfan Jean-Guy Rene.