SPIRITMUSE PRESENTS

The second offering from the new, phenomenal forthcoming album by Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, ‘Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit’, 'Return of the Lost Tribe' stands as a powerful testament to their legacy and unwavering contribution to Great Black Music. Both invigorating and spiritually resonant, it’s an EHE classic, composed by El’Zabar during the Ensemble’s historic early days. “The music intends to convey

that something powerful and inspired is returning, or coming around again with inspired vigor and wisdom.”

This instrumental tour de force is performed fearlessly by the spiritual jazz shaman and the current EHE long-term collaborators and renowned masters - Corey Wilkes on trumpet and Alex Harding on baritone sax, also featuring James Sanders on violin and viola, and Ishmael Ali on cello. This is a deep, meaningful explosive sonic journey, a triumphant ‘return of the lost tribe’ to a music lineage that transcends space and time, and a powerful statement of their commitment to Ancient / Future / Music.

The first offering from the incredible new album by Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble - Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit, celebrating 50 yrs of their legacy and unwavering contribution to Great Black Music. ‘Compared to What’ is a powerful statement on their incomparable sound, 8 minutes of contemplative, dynamic drums combined with El'Zabar's incredible vocals, horn and string stabs that brings the listener to a higher consciousness state.

08. Meghan Jahnavi (digital only) by SPIRITMUSE RECORDS

Chicago giant Kahil El’Zabar’s re-imagining of Pharoah Sander’s classic from the forthcoming masterpiece ‘Spirit Gatherer • Tribute to Don Cherry’ by the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, ft. Dwight Trible & David Ornette Cherry.

This is mesmerising, inspiring, spiritual jazz with El’Zabar leading on African balafon, Dwight Trible uplifting with his divine vocals, masters Alex Harding & Corey Wilkes on horns and legend David Ornette Cherry’s on  piano – on what is his very last recording.

 

“Pharoah Sanders was the most popular village griot of the avant-garde jazz movement”, says El’Zabar of the late, great saxophonist. “So, when Pharaoh did songs like ‘Harvest Time’, they became something that the entire community embraced. In the same way, Don Cherry was the griot of the community”, and there’s no better way to pay tribute to these noble ‘warriors’, by connecting their spirit in music.

 

In this exalted company the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble’s sonic odyssey goes from strength to strength, opening up new spaces of healing and new connections to the wisdom of the ancestors!

Harvest Time is taken from the album 'SPIRIT GATHERER • Tribute to Don Cherry' ft Dwight Trible & David Ornette Cherry

https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-gatherer-tribute-to-don-cherry

Kahil El’Zabar – multi-percussion / balafon / kalimba / voice

Corey Wilkes – trumpet/ spirit bowls/ percussion

Alex Harding – baritone sax

Dwight Trible – voice

David Ornette Cherry – piano / melodica / douss’n gouni

Design and Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

 

All Don Cherry images courtesy of the Cherry Archive, Estate of Moki Cherry

 

Spiritmuse Records

Music for the Spirit

The phenomenal new studio recording by spiritual jazz shaman Kahil El'Zabar and his legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, ft. Dwight Trible & David Ornette Cherry. This is a tribute to the great spiritual jazz trumpeter & composer Don Cherry, opening up new connections to the wisdom of then ancestors & new spaces onto promising futures. This is spiritual jazz at its finest, dedicated to one of the greatest jazz figures in its history.

https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-gatherer-tribute-to-don-cherry

Kahil El’Zabar – multi-percussion / balafon / kalimba / voice

Corey Wilkes – trumpet/ spirit bowls/ percussion

Alex Harding – baritone sax

Dwight Trible – voice

David Ornette Cherry – piano / melodica / douss’n gouni

 

Design and Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

 

All Don Cherry images courtesy of the Cherry Archive, Estate of Moki Cherry

 

Spiritmuse Records

Music for the Spirit

The phenomenal new studio recording by spiritual jazz shaman Kahil El'Zabar and his legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, ft. Dwight Trible & David Ornette Cherry. This is a tribute to the great spiritual jazz trumpeter & composer Don Cherry, opening up new connections to the wisdom of then ancestors & new spaces onto promising futures. This is spiritual jazz at its finest, dedicated to one of the greatest jazz figures in its history.

https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-gatherer-tribute-to-don-cherry

Kahil El’Zabar – multi-percussion / balafon / kalimba / voice

Corey Wilkes – trumpet/ spirit bowls/ percussion

Alex Harding – baritone sax

Dwight Trible – voice

David Ornette Cherry – piano / melodica / douss’n gouni

 

Design and Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

 

All Don Cherry images courtesy of the Cherry Archive, Estate of Moki Cherry

 

Spiritmuse Records

Music for the Spirit

The first single and album opener is a call to the project’s guiding spirit. Built around one of El’Zabar’s sparely beautiful kalimba lines and a stomped beat, the song features Trible’s repeated invocation of Don Cherry by name, while David Ornette contributes an atmospheric melodica solo.

https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-gatherer-tribute-to-don-cherry

Kahil El’Zabar – multi-percussion / balafon / kalimba / voice

Corey Wilkes – trumpet/ spirit bowls/ percussion

Alex Harding – baritone sax

Dwight Trible – voice

David Ornette Cherry – piano / melodica / douss’n gouni

 

Design and Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

All Don Cherry images courtesy of the Cherry Archive, Estate of Moki Cherry

 

Composition and arrangement by Kahil El’Zabar

Recorded in CoLabyrinth, Chicago in February 2022

Recording Engineers: Lee Farmer and Imran Shabazz

Mix Engineer: Lee Farmer

Mastering by: Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London

 

Spiritmuse Records

Music for the Spirit

The phenomenal new studio recording by spiritual jazz shaman Kahil El'Zabar and his legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, ft. Dwight Trible & David Ornette Cherry. This is a tribute to the great spiritual jazz trumpeter & composer Don Cherry, opening up new connections to the wisdom of then ancestors & new spaces onto promising futures. This is spiritual jazz at its finest, dedicated to one of the greatest jazz figures in its history.

https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-gatherer-tribute-to-don-cherry

Kahil El’Zabar – multi-percussion / balafon / kalimba / voice

Corey Wilkes – trumpet/ spirit bowls/ percussion

Alex Harding – baritone sax

Dwight Trible – voice

David Ornette Cherry – piano / melodica / douss’n gouni

 

Design and Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

 

All Don Cherry images courtesy of the Cherry Archive, Estate of Moki Cherry

 

Spiritmuse Records

Music for the Spirit

From the phenomenal new recording by spiritual jazz shaman Kahil El'Zabar & his legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, ‘Spirit Gatherer • Tribute to Don Cherry’, this is 'Holy Man'; a hypnotic, mystical offering, building up a sacred circle of vocalese and sharp-edged soloing over propulsive percussion. Featuring divine vocalist Dwight Trible & renowned musician David Ornette Cherry (Don Cherry’s eldest son), this is spiritual jazz at its finest, dedicated to one of the greatest jazz figures in its history, Don Cherry.

Kahil El’Zabar –multi-percussion/balafon/kalimba/voice

Corey Wilkes –trumpet/spirit bowls/percussion

Alex Harding –baritone sax

Dwight Trible –voice

David Ornette Cherry –piano/melodica/douss’n gouni

 

Design & Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

Don Cherry pic courtesy of the Cherry Archive, Estate of Moki Cherry

https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/

Degi-Degi, the new single from Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble ‘Spirit Gatherer – Tribute to Don Cherry’ is a soulful, deep jazz run from Don Cherry’s sainted Brown Rice LP. David Ornette Cherry opens the track with a rubato intro reminiscent of Alice Coltrane, before El’Zabar’s funky percussion enters to providing infectious forward motion against the trance-like motif of the song. Wilkes solos incisively, and Trible’s vocal generates texture and atmosphere. This is spiritual jazz at its finest.

https://ethnicheritageensemble.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-gatherer-tribute-to-don-cherry

Kahil El’Zabar – multi-percussion / balafon / kalimba / voice

Corey Wilkes – trumpet/ spirit bowls/ percussion

Alex Harding – baritone sax

Dwight Trible – voice

David Ornette Cherry – piano / melodica / douss’n gouni