Acclaimed Saxophonist Nubya Garcia Confirms ‘Odyssey’ Album Featuring Esperanza Spalding & More

Acclaimed saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia announced a new album, Odyssey, arriving on September 20 via Concord Jazz. The London-born musician also shared “The Seer” to preview the new record.

Odyssey follows Garcia’s Mercury Music Prize-nominated 2020 debut album, Source. Nubya produced Odyssey with collaborator Kwes and also orchestrated strings for the first time on the new LP. She tapped Esperanza Spalding, Richie Seivwright and Georgia Anne Muldrow to guest on the record.

On the aptly named Odyssey, Nubya said, “It represents the notion of truly being on your own path, and trying to discard all the outside noise saying you should go this way or that way.”

In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus goes through a litany of trials in trying to get home. The lead single, “The Seer,” of Garcia’s Odyssey imagines being able to glimpse the pitfalls before they happen.

“Wishing that you could get a peek at the future,” she said of the track, “or even just gathering some guidelines in your own future so that you could know that you’re on the right path.”

Press materials for the album described “The Seer” as “a propulsive cut with double-time drums, upper register piano chords and echoed saxophone wails.” Listen below:

Odyssey Tracklist:

1. Dawn feat. esperanza spalding
2. Odyssey
3. Solstice
4. Set It Free feat. Richie
5. The Seer
6. Odyssey (Outerlude)
7. We Walk In Gold feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow
8. Water’s Path
9. Clarity
10. In Other Words, Living
11. Clarity (Outerlude)
12. Triumphance