After last year's "New Dawn" album, Marshall Allen has now released "Live In Philadelphia".
- Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons: Live in Philadelphia
(2025, 2lp, USA, ars nova workshop)
(2025, download / streaming, --, bandcamp)
Sun Ra Arkestra's Marshall Allen has a new album out.
On the cusp of his 101st birthday, we have the double LP live release, Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons Live in Philadelphia. Ghost Horizons is wide spanning all-star project involving multiple and ever-changing players that teams Allen, who plays alto sax and EVI, with Arkestra guitarist DM Hotep via the auspices of Philadelphia’s Ars Nova Workshop series of concerts at its home venue Solar Myth. These concerts took place over two years with 16 tracks highlighting some of the foremost names in creative music. As you likely know, the Sun Ra Arkestra has called Philadelphia home for almost 60 years. The venue takes its name from one of the Arkestra’s compositions. Allen continues to lead the Arkestra but has curtailed his travel considerably.
These pairings reveal Allen’s unique alto and EVI techniques in mostly uncluttered settings. It is a significant, definitive statement that Allen is still a foremost champion of the avant-garde.
The guitarist, DM Hotep assembled a wide range of improvisers he knew would inspire Allen.
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