SPIRITMUSE PRESENTS

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

Lonely Woman, the timeless composition by Don Cherry’s close collaborator, Ornette Coleman, known by the classic performance by Cherry’s, Redman’s, Haden’s & Blackwell’s ‘Old and New Dreams’ is reimagined by legendary percussionist & composer Kahil El’Zabar and superbly performed by his Ethnic Heritage Ensemble ft Dwight Trible & David Ornette Cherry. El’Zabar’s percussion adds gravitas & Trible’s divine and deeply wistful vocals add lyricism, while David Ornette Cherry’s piano adds grace & drama to this Coleman anthem, a tribute to the great Don Cherry, as never heard before.

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

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

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This is ‘Beloved California Temple’ - out today, an ecstatic spiritual jazz excursion and the 2nd offering from Surya Botofasina’s incredible album Everyone’s Children. Here, Botofasina’s hypnotic piano motifs and Carlos Niño’s expressive percussion is joined by breathy saxophone lines from Pablo Calogero, before Dwight Trible’s dramatic wordless vocals bring things to a rapturous climax to the accompaniment of Efa Etoroma Jr.’s crashing drum crescendos, with the harmonic brilliance of Nate Mercereau’s guitar synth fortifying the whole performance. The song is as an ode to the Swamini Turiyasangitananda Alice Coltrane's Sai Anantam Ashram in the Malibu Mountains outside of Los Angeles, in which Surya grew up.

Surya Botofasina explains: "I can still hear the sounds of Swamini's organ, along with the water flowing through the property. The Ashram to me is the main reason why I have any redeemable qualities throughout my life. I learned all of my values there. More importantly I learned what introspection feels like. I learned what meditation does for the body, and how to wait for an answer from the Divine. Every time I reach a place of music that may connect with other human beings on the planet . . . It is only because I have watched Her connect with beings both visible and invisible to common eyesight, effortlessly."

>> Listen https://suryabotofasina.bandcamp.com/

>> Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DcPpdnedI0

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Beloved California Temple

Surya Botofasina - Piano

Carlos Niño - Percussion

Dwight Trible - Voice

Pablo Calogero - Saxophone

Nate Mercereau - Guitar Synth

Efa Etoroma Jr. - Drums

Music by Surya Botofasina and Carlos Niño

Additional Recording by Nate Mercereau

Mixed by Carlos Niño and Nate Mercereau

Produced by Carlos Niño

Recorded by Jesse Peterson

Mastered by Frank Merritt at The Carvery

Incredible Videography by Azul Niño

Photographs by Grace Oh, Caleb Alexander Vinson, Rosin Hem, Padma Jones

Album Design and Art Direction by Nep Sidhu

SPIRITMUSE RECORDS

MUSIC FOR THE SPIRIT

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06 SPM009 (C2) Waves For Margie (with Radha Botofasina) by SPIRITMUSE RECORDS

04 SPM009 (B3) Everyone's Children (with Mia Doi Todd) by SPIRITMUSE RECORDS