Vuyo Sotashe / Chris Pattishall Duo

Invocation, the duo EP from Vuyo Sotashe and Chris Pattishall, will be available March 20, 2026. Distinguished by the duo’s penchant for disarming vulnerability and patience, this is a recorded testimony of time told slowly, tracing the gnarled roots of ancestral knowledge into a forest in full bloom. 

Having created together for many years in various configurations and international tours, Sotashe and Pattishall started regularly performing as a duo in 2020. Following a residency at renowned venue Joe’s Pub as New York Voices artists, the duo went into the studio to document their developing approach. Restrained, focused, and leaning into quiet ambiguity, the music evolves slowly, a hushed invocation of community in the midst of turbulent times.

Invocation was co-produced by Rafiq Bhatia (Oscar-nominated composer and member of Son Lux) and Eric Oberstein (Grammy award-winning producer). Bhatia, who mixed the album, brings a surreal intimacy to the proceedings, highlighting subtle details of phrasing and timbre and adding evocative dimension to the music.

Invocation follows on the release They Say I Look Like God (released October 2023). The duo are featured on Son Lux’s Alternate Forms, a collaborative reimagining of the band’s album Lanterns. Vuyo’s and Chris’s contribution - an otherworldly rendition of the anthemic song Easy - was described by Son Lux frontman Ryan Lott as “so deft and surgically spare it’s bracing - when I first heard it, I felt caught in slow motion.”