Shabaka And The Ancestors has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 12 episodes and was first played on 25 September 2016.

Shabaka and the Ancestors is a British jazz band led by Shabaka Hutchings (born in London in 1984).

Hutchings is perhaps best known for playing in Pete Wareham’s Melt Yourself Down, then playing in the Sun Ra Arkestra in 2014.

On the band's debut album "Wisdom of Elders", released in 2016, Hutchings delves further into the spiritual jazz that originated in part with Sun Ra, with the help of a new band in Johannesburg. The album goes further than his playing in Comet is Coming, another London-based project that refers less indiscreetly than Melt Yourself Down to Afrofuturist images.

In 2020, the band released "We Are Sent Here by History".