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Frank LoCrasto - Pianos, Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Organs, Synths, Basses, Electric Guitar, Glockenspiel, Percussion, Claps, Vox. 
Josh Mease - Bass on Marshall & Surf Avenue, Acoustic Guitars on Minkjaw, South Padre, Surf Avenue & Unfashionable Chime. 
Ryan Scott - Electric Guitar & Lap Steel on Simple Times, El Dorado & Surf Avenue. 
Bob Hart - Bass on South Padre. 
Bill Campbell - Drums & Percussion on Minkjaw & South Padre. 

Recorded by Frank LoCrasto, Josh Mease, & Pete Rende 
All songs written & produced by Frank LoCrasto 
Mixed By Pete Rende 
Mastered by Randy Merrill at Masterdisk 
Mastered for vinyl by Alex DeTurk at Masterdisk 
Photography by Samantha Rapp. Design by RAS

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Dave Samuel Pike was a legendary Jazz vibraphone and marimba player.He made his debut with The Paul Bley Quartet in 1958 and he never looked back. After his collab with Herbie Mann his music became more exploratory, contributing a unique voice and new contexts that pushed the envelope in times remembered for their exploratory nature. In 1969 he formed the Dave Pike Set and he recorded 6 albums.  Dave Pike Set's sound apart, organically incorporating influences from jazz, soul jazz, psychedelia, avant-garde music, and World music. Their "Mathar" track is a timeless piece of World-Jazz excellence and Jack Essek adds the cherry on the top for another top-class Electronica/World flavoured edit

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SHNGEDITS32 Dave Pike - Mathar (Jack Essek Edit)FREE D/L

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)

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