The British saxophonist, clarinettist, and bandleader Shabaka Hutchings has spent most of his career as part of a collective—as the front person of the bands Sons of Kemet and Shabaka and the Ancestors, as a member of the group The Comet Is Coming, and as a utility player for others. But when he isn’t performing with a unit, or rehearsing in a nearby community center, he plays alone in the woods. “Afrikan Culture,” his first solo project as Shabaka, seems to embody that outdoor exercise by embracing the solitary, meditative practice of communing with the natural world. The EP’s soothing tracks extend beyond his clarinet to voice, flute, kalimba, and an end-blown bamboo flute called a shakuhachi. Whether solo or carefully layered, the flute playing is serene and mesmerizing. Even in collaboration, it is music for solitude.