2024 stock. The album by ‘Cosmic Nomad’ David Ornette Cherry in his father’s tradition, the legendary jazz innovator Don Cherry. This a mosaic of healing soundscapes blending spiritual jazz, leftfield electronica, Eastern & native, indigenous sounds into musical parallels that transport the listener through doorways of ancient pathways to futurist crossroads. This is a phenomenal, unique album, bringing together multi-genre funky, earthy Indigenous sounds, organic soundscapes and cosmic melodies that transport to a higher level where the Ancestors weave their magic and join the cosmic dance!
David Ornette Cherry talks about vision and approach and Don Cherry’s remarkable influence as an artist : “When I started my musical journey, my father, Don Cherry, took me under his wings. “To be an Artist/ Musician is a commitment, you must learn the music… own the music you create... and give it back. You must have a vision.”
“In my world, the piano, the keyboard, sounds of nature and numerous instruments of traditional peoples and those who reside in urban society, touch and effect each other with a calming and symbiotic fervour. I compose with the idea that all exist in a world of harmonies which mirror life evolving away from the chaotic (to the positive). There's not just a co-existence but a melding of forms to produce a single musical expression.” - David Ornette Cherry
David Ornette Cherry – vocal, soundscapes, douss’n gouni, percussions, electronic percussions, piano, keyboards
Crystal Blackcreek Carlisle – spiritual message, vocals
Gemi Taylor – guitar
Joe Janiga – African banjo
John L. Price – drums, dun dun, pahkagudu, timpani
Kenichi Iwasa – muted trumpet, Don Cherry’s instrument blue reeds
Nadene Rasmussen – viola
Naima Karlsson – electric piano
Ollie Elder Jr – acoustic bass, electric bass
Paul Simms – trumpet
Ralph Jones III – Vietnamese flute, Norwegian flute
Renato Caranto – sax
Tyson McVey – vocal soundscapes
