Illale (ill - la - lee) is a traditional song from Guinea, West Africa.This version takes the arrangement I learned from my teacher, Abou Sylla, and adds drum machine and electric piano inside an AABA arrangement.

Ilale

Music with alto saxophone and kalimba thumb piano.

Culture

A free jazz, folk, spiritual music sketch. Wind instruments include flute, clarinet, and alto saxophone with rhythm from congas, shaker and nylon-string guitar. This was influenced by the traditional recordings of Ali Farka Touré and the expressiveness of the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Walk Through The Forest

It once happened... they saw the world without fear and decided to transform themselves.

Women, Children & Elders

I saw you. I felt you. You shared with me. I shared with you.

Among the Trees

To be mentally enslaved and physically free is a tragic irony. Finding liberation.

Another Way

So you thought you could get out, eh? Retreat into your stories and fantasies and build a digital a life for yourself? Nonsense. The universe is here to show you the way.

There Is No Escape From The Universe

Fire, your gift for transformative experiences....

Path Of Fire

Psylocke strolls Yuri Kochiyama Way clutching Grace Lee Bogg’s “The Next American Revolution.” 

For years she’s stopped reacting to the ideals and fears and others and has found creative new uses of her abilities. Her next destination is the residence of Octavia Butler for a cup of strong tea and a consultation on collective future building.

"Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings"
- Grace Lee Boggs

Psylector

The song features a speech made by Shirley Graham Du Bois at UCLA in 1970. Shirley Graham Du Bois also recties "I've Known Rivers" a poem by Langston Hughes.

Peace and Justice

alto / tenor saxophonist : jazz, funk, r&b, & afro-beat
percussionst : djembe, dundun, balafon

this is black earth