Marshall Allen Trio with the Ade Ilu Ensemble: The Perch (Large Room), Philadelphia 10/12/2025

Marshall Allen trio with the Ade Ilu Ensemble:

Marshall Allen Trio:

Marshall Allen: Leader, EVI, Casio keyboard, alto saxophone, vibrations

Dave Hotep: Guitar with effects & synths

Elliot Levin: Tenor Saxophone & Flute

Ade Ilu Ensemble:

Kevin Diehl: Leader, Itotele bata, Lucumi chorus

Joseph Toledo: Lead Lucumi vocals

Estaban "Tongo" Hernandez: bata, Lucumi chorus

Baba Joe Bryant: bata, Lucumi chorus

The Omniverse Oriki (High Two Records) record release show

"Beautiful space, wild chaos, fire lotus– we now embark on the future-ever present, the conjuring of the past in non-linear chronospace, we present narratives in African/Afro-Cuban dreamtime! This is The Omniverse Oriki, legendary Sun Ra bandleader Marshall Allen Trio’s collaboration with the Ade Ilu Ensemble, an explosive macrocosmic reach into the residual ethers of the past to birth a new future, right here the now! Marshall Allen’s trio and Philly’s Ade Ilu Ensemble channel and churn indelible musical spirits in extended “oriki”, Yoruba narratives set to explore omniversal wavelengths, to unmoor the patterns of universal control through Afro-Cuban-Futurist diagrams.

The result is a righteous din, a mythological cacophony, a joyful noise. Swirling notes of Afro-cuban entrancing Lucumi, shocked and fragmented Afro rhythms, and vibrant flourishes of rhapsodic free jazz– we are here at the sonic temple! We are the beautiful space!" -Alex Smith

video filmed by Richard Stankiewicz