Music From Memory [Label]

Get Around to It (Arthur Russell Cover)

A mix designed in conjunction with A-OK Collective for your journey to the desert this month, or for wherever you may be traveling to.
Highway Mirages is also available in CD format.

1. Daniel.T. - The Sun & The Sky
2. Queen - Cool Cat
3. Allez Allez - African Queen
4. Djavan - Nereci
5. Palmbomen II - Carina Sayles
6. Lindstrøm & Todd Terje - Lanzarote (Daniel.T. Remix)
7. D'Angelo & The Vanguard - Betray My Heart
8. HNNY - Fresh Laundry
9. Daniel.T. - Interlude
10. The Golden Filter - Kill Me (John Talabot Killed In Room 616 Refix)
11. Bryan Ferry - Alphaville (Todd Terje Remix)
12. Andras & Oscar - Music Is My Life
13. Mark Ronson - Daffodils (feat. Kevin Parker)
14. Toro Y Moi - Campo
15. Mariah - 心臓の扉


Highway Mirages

A deep, atmospheric mix that blends Afro-jazz, electronica, and organic rhythm. It moves between moments of introspection and energy, like a lost transmission, unfolding in waves, blending past and present.

Arrangement - Coconut Mango
The Brother Moves On - Itumeleng Revisited
Gerald Toto - Ma Mama
Sibusile Xaba - Umdali
Sophia Kennedy - Kimono Hill
Håkan Hellström - That's All Right (Håkan Hellström edit) by Laura Rivers
DJ Koze - Wie schön du bist
Gerry Read - Satyricon
Schlammpeitziger - Loch ohne Licht - Ada Remix
Dave DK - Don't Eat the Homies
El_Txef_A - Mugarrirantz feat. Napoka Iria - Dave DK Remix
Masayoshi Fujita - Story of Forest
La Finca - What Clouds Say
DJ Koze, Ada - Take a run

Disclaimer: This mix is a non-commercial, creative project for promotional purposes only. All tracks and their respective rights belong to the original artists and labels. No copyright infringement is intended. If you own the rights to any of the music featured and would like it removed, please contact me directly.

Webby’s coconut mango transmission

A song dedicated to the memory of a 1st cousin, twice removed, that I never had the chance to know. God bless all the young souls, lost to fighting the wars, of old men

The Ballad of Pte. John Edward Carter

Sometimes you have to follow instructions.

sometimes (poetry screams)

Liquid Diamonds

Morning Song (Original)

Open (Original)

Narrow River (Original)

Friends (Original)

Bumpin' On Sunset (Original)

Mirrors: The Bronze Anthology

Blue Water

Pierre Cavalli - Possarinhos

Late Night Tales: Floating Points

Blood of an American

We’re very proud to present to you ‘Kahil El’Zabar’s America the Beautiful’, a tour de force musical testament that speaks directly to the heart, mind and spirit. Kahil El’Zabar composed, arranged and conducted ‘America the Beautiful’ to speak musically about the turbulent issues in America and the world today, as well as his hopes and love for a better tomorrow. 

This incredible album features Kahil El’Zabar with an extended ensemble of woodwinds, brass, strings and an array of Afro-percussion, showcasing extraordinary players such as Corey Wilkes, Tomeka Reid, James Sanders, Josh Ramos, Miguel de la Cerna, Ernie Adams and Hamiet Bluiett (this album is in honour of Bluiett, as this was his last recording). 

El’Zabar developed the initial inspiration for this project from his musical origins in the above mentioned documentary, and later added new works that would explore issues related to current affairs and past histories of America and the globe, regarding race, ecology, economic disparity, and his hopes, aspirations and love for a better world yet to come.

The album’s theme is a unique reworking of the anthem ‘America the Beautiful’ into a multi-layered cacophony of altered harmonies and contrapuntal rhythms that speak to the bittersweet ironies of American society. Familiar classics such as ‘Express Yourself’, ‘How Can We Mend a Broken Heart’ and a killer, Afrocentric version of ‘Afro Blue’, have all been re-written with El’Zabar’s original arrangements and conducted by him in way that engages the listener in an audible landscape of thoughts and emotion that transverse the greater meaning of living in these times. El’Zabar’s powerful new compositions such as “Freedom March”, ‘Jump and Shout (For Those Now Gone’) and “That We Ask Of Our Creator”, further explore the adventure of melody to dissonance within the romance and passion of creative improvised music.

The album speaks to the times that we are living in today, in the wake of a worldwide pandemic, despotic leadership, mass social discontent, disproportionate poverty, Black Lives Matter and other disenfranchised peoples’ movements and the ecological and economic disparity of our planet. It is time to express ourselves with compassionate art that will hopefully propel better and clearer thoughts about where we are now and where we are going in the future. 

Kahil El’Zabar’s ‘America the Beautiful’ is an inspirational message channelled through powerful, spiritual music, that speaks with love, urgency and hope to our current times. 


C R E D I T S 
Kahil El’Zabar - Producer, Composer, Arranger, Conductor
Nep Sidhu – Art and Art Direction
Spiritmuse Records - Executive Producers
Mastered by Frank Merritt, Carvery Studio, London

In honor of Hamiet Bluiett, this was his last recording

T R A C K S
1.	AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL (INSTRUMENTAL)			2:23
2.	JUMP AND SHOUT (FOR THOSE NOW GONE)			6:35
3.	EXPRESS YOURSELF						3:55
4.	FREEDOM MARCH						8:13
5.	SKETCHES OF AN AFRO BLUE					8:14
6.	HOW CAN WE MEND A BROKEN HEART			4:07
7.	THAT WE ASK OF OUR CREATOR				4:28
8.	PRAYERS FOR THE UNWARRANTED SUFFERINGS		4:13
9.	AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL					2:03

M U S I C I A N S
Kahil El’Zabar - composition /arrangements
/conduction /multi-percussion /flute
Corey Wilkes – trumpet  			(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9)
Hamiet Bluiett - baritone sax			(1,3,4,6,9)
Tomeka Reid – cello  				(1,3,4,6,9)
Dennis Winslett – alto sax  			(1,3,4,6,9)
Samuel Williams – violin				(1,3,4,6,9)
James Sanders String Quartet 			(2,5,7,8)
Joshua Ramos - acoustic bass 			(2,5,7,8)
Miguel de la Cerna – keyboard 			(2,5,7,8)
Babu Atiba - African percussion 		(2,8)
Ernie Adams – percussion 			(2,8)
Robert Irving III - piano				(9)

© 2020 Spiritmuse Records Limited
    MUSIC FOR THE SPIRIT

Morning Song (Original)

Leon Lowman

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