Marshall Allen - New DawnTwo days after his 100th birthday, Marshall Allen started recording New Dawn, his debut solo album. A member of Sun Ras 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

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Wesley Willis

while gaining a connection to metal partly due to the sheer heaviness

I was not thinking about Suede when making this record

Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham

but equally worthy are such cuts as 'You Still Believe in Me

Four slow-burningly successful years on from the rolling primal rhythms and joyous arpeggios of his 2010 debut ‰Û÷Holkham Drones‰۪

Jalen eventually made it to Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn

From opening track "Japon" till the last track on the B side "Secanje Na Ljubav"

trying to be heard amid the noisy grain

dubbed-out studio trickery and

Starting off with the stargazing boogie funk of Show You The Way featuring Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins