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Late in 2024, six musicians from six countries - Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali, France, the United Kingdom and Australia - met for the first time on the island of Hydra, Greece, at the Old Carpet Factory recording studio, united by a simple question: How does music carry us home? Jutna is the result of their time spent together, and an answer to that question. In the Wolof language of Senegal, the phrase ‘Jutna’ means "it is time". In the words of the artists themselves, Jutna is a journey. It is not African music, nor Western music. It is worldwide music, as complex and multi-layered as the experiences of the people who made it. It is joyful and expansive, blending traditional West African instrumentation - kora, balafon and djembe, performed by griot masters - with a London jazz-scene groove, alongside fuzz guitar, cosmic synth and a locked rhythm section.