Erykah Badu & The Alchemist: NTS Live Session by Yasser Abubeker
Yasser Abubeker’s NTS session drops Erykah Badu and The Alchemist into Alvaro Barrington’s East London courtyard; credits list the core film crew and the album’s release and availability.
Play on YouTubeErykah Badu & The Alchemist occupy the frame in Yasser Abubeker’s NTS live session, performing material from Before the World Blows: The Abi and Alan Experiment in the courtyard of Alvaro Barrington’s East London studio. The film uses smoke and drawn-out zooms to turn close-up performance into ritual.
On-screen credits list Director Yasser Abubeker; Director of Photography Diara Sow; Producer Will Cousins; Editor Zeynep Ağcabay; Colourist Thierry Phung; and Executive Producers Danny Herman and Chantal Adams. No separate photographer, art director, stylist or designer are listed in the on-screen credits or the project’s press materials.
The project’s official announcement gives 28 August 2026 as the album release date and states the record is available on streaming services, the label’s store and Bandcamp. Some retailers show later physical shipping dates; Plaid Room Records, for example, lists a 11 December 2026 ship date for vinyl preorders. The session makes clear who these artists are together: a vocalist and a crate-digging producer staged as equals, the camera treating voice and turntable as instruments of the same intimacy.
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