Arkestra great Marshall Allen readies long overdue debut album, New Dawn

The first song from Marshall Allen's debut album is the EVI wind-synth enhanced "African Sunset". 

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"African Sunset" is the first single off Marshall Allen's upcoming album New Dawn. Allen has been a member of the Sun Ra Arkestra since 1958 and he will release his debut album as a solo artist at the age of 100 on November 29th. You can hear "African Sunset" and get a digital copy via Bandcamp right here. 

"African Sunset is a tender Afro-Latin ballad with swaying strings and Allen’s EVI wind synthesizer adding some trippy, near-psychedelic tones. It’s the kind of elegant, Afrodiasporic space music that Sun Ra was pioneering back in the 1950s, and the master’s greatest student is still exploring further down that path." – John Morrison, The Wire

Watch Marshall Allen demonstrating his wind synth technique below.