Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Knoxville, TN @ The Mill & Mine - Big Ears Music Festival - 7:26pm

01. Intro Improvisation >
02. Sunology
03. Discipline 27
04. Dancing Shadows
05. Space Loneliness > That's Just The Way It Goes
06. Love in Outer Space
07. Seductive Fantasy > I'll Wait For You
08. Hocus Pocus [Fletcher Henderson] (Marshall Allen's arrangement of Sun Ra's transcription)
09. Images
10. Rocket #9
11. Carefree
12. I'll Wait For You (Strange Worlds in My Mind)
Encore:
13. Improvisation (Marshall Allen solo on EVI)

Notes: This set was scheduled for 7pm to 8:15pm but they went on 26 minutes late and played 30 m‌inutes past their scheduled end time, deservedly.

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Recorded by Funk It Blog

Sun Ra Arkestra 4/1/23 Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, TN @ The Mill & Mine

On Halloween night, 2023 Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons invited Philly’s Ade Ilu ensemble to perform together with them at Marshall’s monthly residency for Ars Nova Worksop at the venue Solar Myth. Ghost Horizons and Arkestra guitarist DM Hotep, and Ade Ilu’s Kevin Diehl previously perfomed together in Diehl’s Sonic Liberation Front, an ensemble that bought together Afro-Cuban Lucumi culture with loft jazz and improvisiation.  

This studio recording took place two days later with a video crew capturing the session.

19:21:00	Side 1
18:47:00	Side 2
	
GHOST HORIZONS	
Marshall Allen:	Leader, EWI, Casio keyboard, alto saxophone, vibrations
DM Hotep:	Guitar with effects & synths, live vocal effects
Kash Killion:	Cello with effects, sarangi, vocal
ADE ILU ENSEMBLE
Joseph Toledo: 	Lead Lucumi vocals
Olufemi Mitchell:	Lucumi chorus, achere
Kevin Diehl:	Itotele bata, Lucumi chorus
Tongo Hernandez:	Iya bata, Lucumi chorus
John Wilkie:	Okonkolo bata, Lucumi chorus
	
All music composed by Marshall Allen and co-created by the musicians listed above
Recorderd live to hard drive at Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia, on November 2, 2023
Tracking Engineer:	Michael Richelle
Mixing Engineer:	Joshua Marquez
Mastering Engineer:	Carl Saff
Video Magic:	John Hubbard with Nancy Priff, Erik Beranek, Robert Whalley, 
Jamie Hubbard, Charlie Hubbard & Richard Stankiewicz on cameras
Album Cover Collage and Jacket Design:  John Hubbard
Cover Photo of Marshall Allen:   Ken Weiss
Cover and Back Celestial photo collage sources coutesey of:  NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
ESA/Hubble NASA  The Bubble Nebula; Hubble View of Messier 106; Hubbles panoramic view of a star-forming region   

Special thanks to DM Hotep of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Mark Christman, Ars Nova Workshop/Solar Myth
Very Special thanks to Marshall Allen’s son, Ronnie Boyd and the Allen Family Estate.

Produced by Kevin Diehl

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