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Marshall Allen
New Dawn
Week-End
- Cat No: WE13CD
- updated:2025-02-19
御年100歳を迎えたサン・ラ・アーケストラのリーダー、Marshall Allen（マーシャル・アレン）が自身初となるソロ・デビューアルバム「New Dawn」をリリース！しかも全曲オリジナル曲！！本人によるコラとパーカッションによるオープニングからグッと胸と掴まれる、まさに「1世紀にわたる音楽の儚さと超越性を伝える時空へのラブレター」「過去と未来、伝統と発見の融合する」悠久ハートフルな宇宙ジャズ名作が誕生している。Neneh Cherryがゲスト参加。CDも入荷いたしました。ゲートフォールド見開き紙ジャケット。ブックレット封入。Newtone大推薦盤。
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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.
One of music’s vanguard avant-saxophonists, Allen continues to deliver durational feats during the Arkestra’s gigs. Still, the compositional energy contained on New Dawn is striking. Allen was approached with the idea of a solo record by Week-End Records’ Jan Lankisch. The Arkestra’s Knoel Scott — who has lived with Allen at the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra since the 1980s — worked with Allen to pore over the archive of unrecorded material and develop this debut. Scott assembled some of Philadelphia’s brightest jazz stars as well as some Arkestra veterans for the sessions. New Dawn was then recorded over a couple of days in Philadelphia, with additional recordings to be added in the coming weeks and months. The legendary Neneh Cherry will lend her unmistakable voice to the title track “New Dawn”.
Though greatly informed by the philosophy of Sun Ra and his Saturnian teachings—traverse jazz’s traditions, dig deep into spiritual geographies — New Dawn signals Allen as his own singular voice, one that’s swinging and bopping and reflecting into the future, with no sign of stopping. Week-End Records is proud to release this debut solo album by Marshall Allen.
“New Dawn is clearly an extension of Ra’s legacy and sound, but it’s also a masterful endeavour filtered through Allen’s tastes and approach”. – John Morrison, The Wire, November 2024 (cover story)
Musicians: Marshall Allen – Kora, EWI, Alto Sax Knoel Scott – Baritone Sax, Congas, Drums Cecil Brooks – 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
One of music’s vanguard avant-saxophonists, Allen continues to deliver durational feats during the Arkestra’s gigs. Still, the compositional energy contained on New Dawn is striking. Allen was approached with the idea of a solo record by Week-End Records’ Jan Lankisch. The Arkestra’s Knoel Scott — who has lived with Allen at the Arkestral Institute of Sun Ra since the 1980s — worked with Allen to pore over the archive of unrecorded material and develop this debut. Scott assembled some of Philadelphia’s brightest jazz stars as well as some Arkestra veterans for the sessions. New Dawn was then recorded over a couple of days in Philadelphia, with additional recordings to be added in the coming weeks and months. The legendary Neneh Cherry will lend her unmistakable voice to the title track “New Dawn”.
Though greatly informed by the philosophy of Sun Ra and his Saturnian teachings—traverse jazz’s traditions, dig deep into spiritual geographies — New Dawn signals Allen as his own singular voice, one that’s swinging and bopping and reflecting into the future, with no sign of stopping. Week-End Records is proud to release this debut solo album by Marshall Allen.
“New Dawn is clearly an extension of Ra’s legacy and sound, but it’s also a masterful endeavour filtered through Allen’s tastes and approach”. – John Morrison, The Wire, November 2024 (cover story)
Musicians: Marshall Allen – Kora, EWI, Alto Sax Knoel Scott – Baritone Sax, Congas, Drums Cecil Brooks – 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
1958年以来、長年に渡り、サン・ラ・アーケストラの一員として活動、1995年からはアーケストラのリーダーとしてサン・ラ亡き後も長年にわたりアーケストラを支え続けてきた、70年以上にわたって音楽活動を行ってきているリビング・レジェンド先鋭的サックス奏者マーシャル・アレンによる自身初となるソロ・デビューアルバムがWeek-End Recordsよりリリースされた。
本人によるコラの演奏と、パーカッションのみによるオープニング1「Prologue」でアルバムは幕をあける。ゆったりとした悠久アフリカン・ジャズの心地よさとスペーシーなエレクトロニクス宇宙効果音が絶妙に融合するハートフル・エキゾチックな宇宙ジャズ名曲2「African Sunset」(sample1）、そして、今作アルバム制作における立役者でもあり、1980年代からアーケストラの一員として活動、そしてアーケストラ・インスティテュートとしてマーシャル・アレンと共同生活を送ってきた盟友Knoel Scott（クノエ・スコット）による歌詞、ゲストNeneh Cherryのヴォーカルが組み合わさった、アルバム・タイトル曲でもある温かみ溢れるノスタルジック・ジャズ名曲3「New Dawn」(sample2）も素晴らしい。さらには、仄かにダビーな気配も感じさせてくれるスペーシーなエレクトロニクス効果音も交えた先鋭的宇宙ジャズ3「Angels And Demons At Play」(sample3）にも魅了される。アルバムは、これまでの未発表曲やアーカイヴされた楽曲を吟味し各曲が制作されたという、まさに、「1世紀にわたる音楽の儚さと超越性を伝える時空へのラブレター」「過去と未来、伝統と発見の融合する」珠玉の7曲が収録されている。悠久ハートフルな宇宙ジャズ名作の誕生。 (コンピューマ)