Tracklist:

1. Prologue
2. African Sunset
3. New Dawn (Feat. Neneh Cherry)
4. Are You Ready
5. Sonny’s Dance
6. Boma
7. Angels and Demons at Play

Two days after his 100th birthday, Marshall Allen started recording New Dawn, his debut solo album. A member of Sun Ras 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 proteanfreely moving from relaxed, transdimensional palettes to bluesy big band and beyond.