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艺术家：马歇尔·艾伦的幽灵地平线
专辑名称：《费城现场》（现场录音）
发行年份：2025年
厂牌：Otherly Love Records
音乐类型：爵士乐
音质：FLAC格式24位/48千赫兹；16位/44.1千赫兹；MP3格式320千比特每秒
总时长：01小时22分53秒
总大小：192兆字节；452兆字节；930兆字节
网站：专辑预览
专辑乐评
《费城现场》之所以署名为“马歇尔·艾伦的幽灵地平线”而非仅标注这位传奇萨克斯手的名字，有一个重要原因。尽管艾伦（最著名的经历是与太阳·拉合作，以及在拉离世后致力于传承方舟乐团的精神）无疑是这张专辑的创作核心，但它记录的是一场彻头彻尾的集体创作。
2022年11月起，费城的Ars Nova Workshop组织了一系列以艾伦为主导/核心策划者的音乐会，他与方舟乐团吉他手DM Hotep邀请阵容不断变化的合作者登上舞台，进行大规模即兴演出。在接下来的两年里，参与的音乐人包括伊曼纽尔·威尔金斯、詹姆斯·布兰登·刘易斯、威廉·帕克、Wolf Eyes乐队成员；Yo La Tengo、Irreversible Entanglements和The War on Drugs乐队的成员等。
《费城现场》以太阳·拉的《诱人幻想》开场，在一段 spoken（旁白，保留英文以准确描述形式） intro（引子）后，迅速展开为一段热闹的乐器即兴演奏——艾伦华丽的号角与Hotep狂乱的吉他演奏交相辉映，呈现出令人眼花缭乱的效果——这表明，无论是否已至百岁高龄，马歇尔·艾伦仍是一位极具冒险精神的乐手，他也激励合作者们尽情探索、释放创意。《幻想》及其他几首曲目改编自太阳·拉的作品，但专辑大部分内容基于现场即兴的能量与激情，其中许多段落聚焦于艾伦演奏其标志性的Steiner电子管乐器（EVI）而非萨克斯时营造的太空般的音效。
在《无限的寂静中》，艾伦的EVI与Hotep的卡林巴琴、米克尔·帕特里克·艾弗里和查德·泰勒克制的节奏相互配合；而《警告他们》中不祥且充满挑战的迷幻感，则将艾伦和Hotep与Wolf Eyes乐队强烈的电子音效结合。与“爵士传统”相去甚远的还有充满冲击力、以打击乐为主导的《宇宙梦想家，致 Elegua 的颂歌》（由四人组Ade Ilu Lukumi Bata Ensemble演奏，卡什·基利恩担任大提琴和萨兰吉琴），以及《画圆为方》——Yo La Tengo乐队的詹姆斯·麦克纽负责贝斯和电子音效，查理·霍尔（The War on Drugs乐队）演奏 Mellotron 键盘。
专辑中仍有许多致敬艾伦在爵士先锋领域历史的作品，例如唤起迈尔斯·戴维斯60年代中期梦幻感并融入狂放自由风格的《保持振奋》，以及《山丘》（与伊曼纽尔·威尔金斯合作）或《最后传送》（与詹姆斯·布兰登·刘易斯和威廉·帕克合作）等曲目。在《在太阳飞机上》中，方舟乐团主唱塔拉·米德尔顿清晰地吟诵了太阳·拉的同名原诗：“新的声音引发新的振动。”这一理念不仅是这些演出的基础，也是太阳·拉和马歇尔·艾伦音乐理念的核心，使得这张专辑成为该理念至今仍具生命力的绝佳见证。© 杰森·弗格森
曲目列表
1 诱人幻想（现场）
2 回到你身边（现场）
3 我们会等你 / 尽情摇摆，杰克（现场）
4 最后传送（现场）
5 保持振奋（现场）
6 在太阳飞机上（现场）
7 太空幽灵（现场）
8 山丘（现场）
9 画圆为方（现场）
10 在无限的寂静中（现场）
11 宇宙梦想家，致 Elegua 的颂歌（现场）
12 未知（现场）
13 警告他们（现场）
14 滑流（现场）
15 来自宇宙蓝图的超光速粒子流（现场）
16 林迪玛（现场）
Artist: Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons
Title: Live in Philadelphia (Live)
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Otherly Love Records
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC 24-Bit/48 kHz; 16-Bit/44.1 kHz; MP3 320 kbps
Total Time: 01:22:53
Total Size: 192; 452; 930 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Album review
There's a very good reason why Live in Philadelphia is credited to "Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons" and not just to the legendary saxophonist. Although Allen—best-known, of course, for his work alongside Sun Ra, as well as his commitment to carrying the flame of the Arkestra after Ra left this planet—is very much the creative axis around which this music spins, the album documents a thoroughly collective enterprise.
Starting in November 2022, Ars Nova Workshop in Philadelphia organized a series of concerts with Allen as a leader/primary conspirator, where he, along with Arkestra guitarist DM Hotep, invited an ever-changing lineup of collaborators to join them on stage for largely improvisational sessions. Over the next two years, those musicians included Immanuel Wilkins, James Brandon Lewis, William Parker, Wolf Eyes; members of Yo La Tengo, Irreversible Entanglements, and The War on Drugs; and others.
Live in Philadelphia opens with a take on Sun Ra's "Seductive Fantasy," which, after a spoken intro, quickly unfolds into a rollicking instrumental improvisation—Allen's glorious horn emoting side by side with Hotep's frenetic guitar work is a dazzling and dizzying display—that makes it clear that, centenarian or not, Marshall Allen is still an incredibly daring player who also challenges his collaborators to be their most adventurous and exploratory. "Fantasy" and a couple other numbers are based on Ra compositions, but for the most part, the album is built upon the energy and electricity of live improvisation, much of which is centered around the sonic spaciness of Allen playing his trademark Steiner Electronic Valve Instrument more than his sax.
On "In the Silence of the Infinite," Allen's EVI is deployed alongside Hotep's kalimba and the restrained rhythms of Mikel Patrick Avery and Chad Taylor, while the ominous, challenging psychedelia of "Warn Them" pairs Allen and Hotep with the intense electronics of Wolf Eyes. Similarly removed from the "jazz tradition" is the hard-charging, percussion-forward "Cosmic Dreamers, Ode to Elegua" (featuring the four-piece Ade Ilu Lukumi Bata Ensemble as well as Kash Killion on cello and sarangi) and "Square the Circle," which brings in Yo La Tengo's James McNew on bass and electronics and Charlie Hall (The War on Drugs) on Mellotron.
There's still plenty here to honor Allen's history in the jazz vanguard, whether it's "Stay Lifted," which evokes Miles' mid-'60s dreaminess paired with a frenetic freedom, or numbers like "The Hills" (with Immanuel Wilkins) or "The Last Transmission" (with James Brandon Lewis and William Parker). In "On Solar Planes," Arkestra vocalist Tara Middleton lays it down clearly, quoting Ra's original poem of the same name: "New sound causes new vibrations." This philosophy not just undergirds these performances but was also the primary guiding tenet of Sun Ra and Marshall Allen's approach to music, making this album an incredible document of how vital that philosophy continues to be. © Jason Ferguson
Tracklist:
1 Seductive Fantasy (Live)
2 Back to You (Live)
3 We'll Wait For You / Hit That Jive, Jack (Live)
4 The Last Transmission (Live)
5 Stay Lifted (Live)
6 On Solar Planes (Live)
7 Space Ghost (Live)
8 The Hills (Live)
9 Square the Circle (Live)
10 In The Silence Of The Infinite (Live)
11 Cosmic Dreamers, Ode to Elegua (Live)
12 The Unknown (Live)
13 Warn Them (Live)
14 Slip Stream (Live)
15 Tachyons Flux From The Cosmic Blueprints (Live)
16 Rindima (Live)
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