• Comes in a gatefold digisleeve
• FEATURING NENEH CHERRY

Two days after his 100th birthday, Marshall Allen started recording New Dawn, his debut solo album. A member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra since 1958, Allen assumed leadership of the band in 1995. Throughout his nearly seventy-year career, Allen has never released a solo album under his own name, and yet, instead of capping such a legendary output, New Dawn seems to herald a new beginning. A love letter to spacetime, it channels a century of musical intelligence into seven tracks, showing Allen at his most protean—freely moving from relaxed, transdimensional palettes to bluesy big band and beyond.

PERSONNEL:
Marshall Allen – (Kora, EWI, alto sax)
Knoel Scott – (baritone sax, congas, drums)
Cecil Brooks – (trumpet)
Michael Ray – (trumpet)
Bruce Edwards – (guitar)
Jamaaladeen Tacuma – (bass)
Richard Hill – (bass)
Timothy Ragsdale – (bass)
Owen Brown Jr – (1st violin)
Akiko Arendt – (1st violin)
Cristina Ardelean Montelongo – (1st violin)
Derek Washington – (2nd violin)
Elias Feldmann – (2nd violin)
Dimitra Karageorgopoulou – (2nd violin)
Michael Ireland – (viola)
Vasileios Vasileiadis – (viola)
Joseph Richard Carvell – (bass)
Ilektra-Despoina Stevi – (cello)
Jorik Bergman – (flute)
George Gray – (drums)
Jan Lankisch – (percussion)

Special Guest:
Neneh Cherry – (voice)

TRACKS:
01. Prologue
02. African Sunset
03. New Dawn
04. Are You Ready
05. Sonny’s Dance
06. Boma
07. Angels And Demons At Play