Tank and the Bangas – The Mind
Today, acclaimed band Tank and the Bangas unveil The Mind, the second installment of their three-part spoken word collection, The Heart, The Mind, The Soul.
Each part finds Tank working with a different producer, The Mind pairing her with Iman Omari (Kendrick Lamar, Mac Miller). Renowned for his lo-fi dreamy loops, Omari highlights a more “vibey” side of Tank in The Mind. The EP also sees features with aja monet on “They Don’t See/Whole Foods” and Yaya Bey on the focus track “Little Things”.
Last month saw the release of the first installment, The Heart, which was produced by James Poyser.
All three parts will be unveiled by August 30, with the full project and bonus tracks set for physical release October 11.
“I want for poetry to get that much more respect and for even more young people to get into the expression of poetry,” Tank expresses. “I want it to be seen as even more cool again. Poetry has always been my first love because it loved me back, it loved me before music even. now I get to share more of that part of myself with the world, in hopes that you love it to. Everything in this world has its place, the HEART deals with matters of my heart, my relationships with men and the one with myself. The MIND lends itself to the things I think about living as a woman in this world, and the relationships I’ve gone back and forth in my mind about. And the SOUL is a form of subconscious and conscious free flowing poems about myself and the city that raised me.”
The band will be heading out on an extensive tour, including a co-headlining tour with Jamila Woods—beginning October 16—and a residency at the legendary Blue Note Jazz Club in New York—from November 7-10.
TOUR DATES—TANK AND THE BANGAS
July 26—Wiltshire, UK—Womad Festival
July 27—London, UK—Jazz Cafe
July 28—Manchester, UK—The Blues Kitchen
July 31—Leeds, UK—Headrow House
August 2—Bad Winsheim, Germany—Weinturm Open Air
August 3—Katowice, Poland—Off Festival 2024
August 17—Park City, UT—Park City Song Summit
August 30—Napa, CA—Blue Note Jazz Festival Napa 2024
September 15—Fort Collins, CO—Gardens on Spring Creek
September 21—Japan—Blue Note Jazz Festival
October 11—Baton Rouge, LA—Chelsea’s Live
October 16—St. Louis, MO—Delmar Hall*
October 18—Milwaukee, WI—Turner Hall Ballroom*
October 19—Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue*
October 20—New Orleans, LA—NOLA Funk Fest 2024*
October 22—Detroit, MI—The Majestic Theatre*
October 23—Lakewood, OH—The Roxy*
October 25—Columbus, OH—The Athenaeum Theatre*
October 26—Millvale, PA—Mr. Small’s Theatre, Funhouse & Café*
October 27—Baltimore, MD—Rams Head Live!*
October 29—Carrboro, NC—Cat’s Cradle*
October 31—Nashville, TN—Brooklyn Bowl*
November 1—Atlanta, GA—Variety Playhouse*
November 2—New Orleans, LA—The Ritz Carlton
November 7—New York, NY—Blue Note
November 8—New York, NY—Blue Note
November 9—New York, NY—Blue Note
November 10—New York, NY—Blue Note
*TATB + Jamila Woods Tour
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