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lyrics

It’s the high hat Tony Allen said
It’s the missing high hat that’ll transform Highlife to Afrobeat
and it will spread

I’m never gonna be anyone but me
and that’s the way I’m drumming

Look at him
All four limbs at work each going their own way
making it look easy, every time he play

‘I lay out this universe in which dreams can come forth,’ 
he said
Yes,

Tony
conjured through telepathic communication
Everything Scatters to Rejoice
galaxies within universes beyond time
There Is No End

Explore and express this musical thing
that’s what we’re here to do
Put everything into it
so the people will get everything out of it

Feel it from the vodou ceremony
to the techno stage
from the dive bar
to the theatres grandeur
from The Blue Note to Glastonbury

listening to vibrations individually communally built
from primal knowledge, sweat and challenge invited

This musical thing that is everything
cuz where does music come from but the essence of all that is

Yes

what is music but every song that your fingers sing on me
This cat’s disdainful elegance, that dog’s chuckle, the rain on the oleander bush outside my window, the tea kettle’s whistle, walking through a dappled tunnel with it’s 100 shades of green canopy above and jasmine scented air, the dust on the road, the wail of mother, the fear from father. Every escapade and encounter, every child, every animal. The desert, the mountain. The snowfall, the sun. The exterior the interior

It’s all holy, it’s all cosmic
He was born avant guard Tony Allen
He embodied it
All four limbs at work each going their own way
making it look easy, every time he played

He laid out this universe in which dreams could come forth 
in which dreams could come forth 
in which dreams come forth 

credits

from NoteSpeak 12, released February 24, 2023
Lisa Marie Simmons - Lead Vocal, Lyrics, Composer (All Tracks)
Marco Cremaschini - Keyboards, Arrangements, Composer (All Tracks), Percussion 12
Marco Cocconi - Electric and Acoustic Bass - (All Tracks)
Federico Negri - Drums (All Tracks), Composer 5
Manuel Caliumi - Alto Saxophone (All Tracks), Composer 5
Laura Masotto - Violin 2, 8
Denise Dimè - Vocals, Lyrics 4
Dionne Draper - Vocals 9
Ernest Ikwanga - Guitars 2, 4, 11
Mauro Negri - Tenor Saxophone 1, 6, 10, 11
Federico Pierantoni - Trombone 1, 6 , 10, 11
Fulvio Sigurtà - Trumpet, Flugelhorn 1, 6, 10, 11
Donata Greco - Flute 1
Weedie Braimah - Percussion 8, 11
Maurizio Giannone - Percussion 4

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Digitube Studio, sound engineer Carlo Cantini

Executive Producer Louis Marks

Producers:
Isell Denson
Rosey Bloch
Natalia Semler
Jeff Bloch
Anna Perrino

Painting/Cover Art Elena Crisanti
Photography by Peter Abraham and Giacomo Pini
Graphics Monica Polato

For Isell Denson, Shirley Kellum, and Tony Allen

Much gratitude to James Morehead for essential feedback, webmaster extraordinaire Scott Williams from Cotts, inc. Digital Marketing, and Chris M. Slawecki, Senior Editor at All About Jazz. Your unwavering support since this was but a twinkle in our eyes has been invaluable.

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"Musically & vocally, NoteSpeak consistently changes, shifting from style to style – acoustic jazz solos into hip-hop beats into harmonized gospel vocals into electronic jazz and fusion into free verse rhyming – and yet seems to constantly groove... " All About Jazz Chris M. Slawecki ... more

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