On Halloween night, 2023 Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons invited Philly’s Ade Ilu ensemble to perform together with them at Marshall’s monthly residency for Ars Nova Worksop at the venue Solar Myth. Ghost Horizons and Arkestra guitarist DM Hotep, and Ade Ilu’s Kevin Diehl previously perfomed together in Diehl’s Sonic Liberation Front, an ensemble that bought together Afro-Cuban Lucumi culture with loft jazz and improvisiation.  

This studio recording took place two days later with a video crew capturing the session.

GHOST HORIZONS
Marshall Allen: Leader, EWI, Casio keyboard, alto saxophone, vibrations
DM Hotep: Guitar with effects & synths, live vocal effects
Kash Killion: Cello with effects, sarangi, vocal

ADE ILU ENSEMBLE
Joseph Toledo: Lead Lucumi vocals
Olufemi Mitchell: Lucumi chorus, achere
Kevin Diehl: Itotele bata, Lucumi chorus
Tongo Hernandez: Iya bata, Lucumi chorus
John Wilkie: Okonkolo bata, Lucumi chorus

All music composed by Marshall Allen and co-created by the musicians listed above.

Recorderd live to hard drive at Rittenhouse Soundworks, Philadelphia, on November 2, 2023
Tracking Engineer: Michael Richelle
Mixing Engineer: Joshua Marquez Mastering Engineer: Carl Saff
Video Magic: John Hubbard with Nancy Priff, Erik Beranek, Robert Whalley,
Jamie Hubbard, Charlie Hubbard and Richard Stankiewicz on cameras
Album Cover Collage and Jacket Design:  John Hubbard
Cover Photo of Marshall Allen:   Ken Weiss
Cover and Back Celestial photo collage sources courtesy of:  NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team ESA/Hubble NASA  The Bubble Nebula; Hubble View of Messier 106; Hubbles panoramic view of a star-forming region 

Special thanks to DM Hotep of the Sun Ra Arkestra; Mark Christman, Ars Nova Workshop/Solar Myth

Very Special thanks to Marshall Allen’s son, Ronnie Boyd and the Allen Family Estate.

Produced by Kevin Diehl