Future Utopia 12 Questions Vinyl LP 2021
Tracklist:
1. Fear Or Faith? Pt.1 - Alysia Nicole Harris - Future Utopia
2. Promised Land - Mikky Ekko - Future Utopia
3. Fear Or Faith? Pt.2 - Idris Elba - Future Utopia
4. How Much Is Enough? - Kojey Radical - Future Utopia
5. Million$Bill - Kojey Radical, Easy Life - Future Utopia
6. Do We Really Care? Pt.1 - Tom Grennan, Tia Carys - Future Utopia
7. Do We Really Care? Pt.2 - Simon Armitage - Future Utopia
8. What'S In A Name? - Dan Smith Of Bastille
9. Why Are We Divided, When We Are So Connected? - Es Devlin
10. Children Of The Internet - Dave, Es Devlin
11. How Do We Find Our Truth? / The Other Side - Stormzy, Beatrice Mushiya
12. What'S The Cost Of Freedom? - Albert Woodfox
13. Freedom - Kano, Albert Woodfox
14. Mountain Girl - Ruelle
15. Is It Too Late To Save The Planet? - Katrin Fridriks
16. What Happens Next? / Way Back When - Lafawndah
17. Nature Or Nurture? / Am I Built Like This? - Ghetts, Jelani Blackman
18. What Matters Most? - Arlo Parks
19. Stranger In The Night - Arlo Parks
20. What Is Love? / Bright Eye - Duckwrth
21. Fear Or Faith? Pt.3 - Alysia Nicole Harris
FUTURE UTOPIA (AKA Fraser T Smith) addresses twelve of the most profound and urgent questions of our time over the course of this 52-minute masterpiece.
The questions are born of the artist's own anxieties concerning faith, freedom, race, gender, wealth, equality, ecology and are posed to thinkers, artists, activists and visionaries including poets Simon Armitage, Arlo Parks, actor Idris Elba, , as well as Fraser's long term collaborators Stormzy, Ghetts, Bastille, Kano and Dave.
Also featuring Bastille Mikky Ekko, Shoreditch rapper and poet Kojey Radical, Tom Grennan, Tia Carys, Alysiia Harris, former Black Panther Albert Woodfox, and artists Katrin Fridriks and Es Devlin.
Future Utopia's genius is in music that seduces the senses, transports the listener emotionally so that by the time the next questioning voice arises, your heart has opened your mind to listen.
In Fraser T Smith's own words: Faith in whatever capacity is in lots of ways our only lifeline. The first strands of faith can turn into a small piece of frayed floss that then becomes a piece of string, that then becomes a rope, that then becomes an anchor, that then becomes something more concrete that you can always turn to.
When I ask Fraser one of his own questions: What happens next? He responds:
We learn to connect again, we learn wholeness and oneness, we learn to care for ourselves and then we can care for other people, and realise that social inequality is the work of ego. Egos diminished, universal one love. We live in a future utopia together.