Shabaka Hutchings: I always liked the idea that the world would end

New album 'We Are Sent Here By History' by Shabaka & The Ancestors is conceptualised as a sonic poem that would tell the story of the end of the world as we currently perceive it. “You behold the things that have been masking the truth; the idea of civilisation and the idea of enlightenment” - as band's leader Shabaka Hutchings tells in the Quietus interview. The first step “has to be linked to the idea of deconstructing masculinity. Deconstructing what it means to be a man masked”, and then we need to “explore the possibilities of appraising a collective reality as opposed to saying we need to drift towards one dominant one”.