British/Dutch jazz label Night Dreamer capture cool lightening in a bottle by Sun Ra Arkestra legends Knoel Scott and Marshall Allen, propelled by Euro youngbloods on a direct-to-disc recording made at Artone Studios in Haarlem
Recorded in July, 2022, the session for ‘Celestial’ was first mooted after Night Dreamer witnessed the Arkestra play Cafe Oto in 2018, and were enraptured by the energies of a nonagenarian Marshall Allen leading he non pareil jazz unit on vibrant manoeuvres. The idea was put to Knoel and Marshall to record at the label’s Artone studios, but thwarted by C19 until high summer 2022 when they convened with young upstarts Charli Stacey (piano) and Mikele Montoli (double bass) in Haarlem. Fears of the elders catching covid or heatstroke aside, the session turned out to be a dream, with Allen wielding his signature Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI) and agile alto sax around Knoell’s vocals, sax and flute in a swanging testament to their time under Ra’s wing, and how they’ve kept the Arkestra in flight ever since.
Woven with Stacey’s modest but darignkeys and dextrous double bass by Montoli, the Ra alum lead the way, swaggering across the line of consonance and cosmic discordant in free flow that kicks of with their tight knit post-bop energies in ‘Les Funambules’, reaches out to the stars in classic ra fashion on ‘Celestial’, starring Knoel’s smokiest vocals and Allen’s aeolian alien blows, before shredding the fuck out of it in ‘Conversation with The Comos’, and rocking it on the beat with ‘Makanda’, and shuffling up with the rudest glint in their collective eye on ‘Blu Blues’, like they know what they’ve just accomplished.
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Recorded in a one take, live session straight to RTM master tape and cut using an original mono Scully 601 cutting lathe.
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British/Dutch jazz label Night Dreamer capture cool lightening in a bottle by Sun Ra Arkestra legends Knoel Scott and Marshall Allen, propelled by Euro youngbloods on a direct-to-disc recording made at Artone Studios in Haarlem
Recorded in July, 2022, the session for ‘Celestial’ was first mooted after Night Dreamer witnessed the Arkestra play Cafe Oto in 2018, and were enraptured by the energies of a nonagenarian Marshall Allen leading he non pareil jazz unit on vibrant manoeuvres. The idea was put to Knoel and Marshall to record at the label’s Artone studios, but thwarted by C19 until high summer 2022 when they convened with young upstarts Charli Stacey (piano) and Mikele Montoli (double bass) in Haarlem. Fears of the elders catching covid or heatstroke aside, the session turned out to be a dream, with Allen wielding his signature Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI) and agile alto sax around Knoell’s vocals, sax and flute in a swanging testament to their time under Ra’s wing, and how they’ve kept the Arkestra in flight ever since.
Woven with Stacey’s modest but darignkeys and dextrous double bass by Montoli, the Ra alum lead the way, swaggering across the line of consonance and cosmic discordant in free flow that kicks of with their tight knit post-bop energies in ‘Les Funambules’, reaches out to the stars in classic ra fashion on ‘Celestial’, starring Knoel’s smokiest vocals and Allen’s aeolian alien blows, before shredding the fuck out of it in ‘Conversation with The Comos’, and rocking it on the beat with ‘Makanda’, and shuffling up with the rudest glint in their collective eye on ‘Blu Blues’, like they know what they’ve just accomplished.