Marshall Allen

𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙇𝙋 𝙗𝙮 𝙎𝙪𝙣 𝙍𝙖 𝘼𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖’𝙨 𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙; 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚, 𝙨𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙛𝙧𝙤-𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙟𝙖𝙯𝙯 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙣 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙫𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙮 𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 ‘𝟱𝟬𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙠𝙚𝙥𝙩 𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙗𝙮 𝘼𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝟯𝟬 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨
A member of Sun Ra’s 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 intelligence into seven tracks, showing Allen at his most protean—freely moving from relaxed, transdimensional palettes to bluesy big band and beyond.
- Though greatly informed by the philosophy of Sun Ra and his Saturnian teachings—traverse jazz’s traditions, dig deep into spiritual geographies — New Dawn signals Allen as his own singular voice, one that’s swinging and bopping and reflecting into the future, with no sign of stopping. Week-End Records is proud to release this debut solo album by Marshall Allen.