Sweet Earth Flower

Infobox Album
Name = Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown
Type = tribute
Artist = His Name is Alive


Border = yes
Released = start date|2007|11|06
Recorded = Brown Rice Studios and University of Michigan Museum of Art
20 November 2004 – 14 October 2006
Genre = Rock, experimental rock, jazz, avant-garde jazz, free jazz
Length = 60:33
Label = High Two
Producer = Warn Defever
Reviews =
Chronology = His Name is Alive
Last album = "XMMER"
(2007)
This album = "Sweet Earth Flower"
(2007)
Next album = "Firefly Dragonfly"
(2007)

"Sweet Earth Flower" is a tribute album His Name is Alive recorded to honor the music of Marion Brown. Although it appeared after the Xmmer album, it was recorded between the release of Detrola and Xmmer. It was released by the High Two label in 2007.

Track listing

ide A

# Sweet Earth Flying - 6:58
# Juba Lee - 8:02
# Capricorn Moon (live) - 13:32
# November Cotton Flower - 4:34

ide B

# Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim - 4:47
# Geechee Recollections (I) - 9:07
# Geechee Recollections (II) - 6:11
# Sweet Earth Flying (live) - 7:22

Compositions

All songs were composed by Marion Brown, except "Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim," which was written by longtime Brown collaborator Harold Budd. The track appears on Budd's Pavilion of Dreams album, as well as the Brown album Vista.

Recording sessions

The album was recorded partly as a live concert and partly in studio sessions. Live tracks recorded November 2004 at University of Michigan Museum of Art. Subsequent studio tracks were recorded at Defever's Brown Rice Studio in Detroit.

Other musicians

While His Name is Alive has been a rotating cast of musicians since its inception, Sweet Earth Flower features a new crop of contributors. Elliot Bergman, leader of the Michigan band Nomo, was a key contributor to Detrola. He appears on much of "Sweet Earth Flower", with much of Nomo in tow. Dan Piccolo, Michael Herbst, Justin Walter, Erik Hall, and Olman Piedra.

Personnel

* Warn Defever - guitar, piano
* Elliot Bergman - tenor saxophone, Rhodes
* Jamie Saltsman - double bass
* Justin Walter - trumpet
* Jamie Easter - percussion
* Dan Piccolo - drums, percussion
* Michael Herbst - alto saxophone
* Erik Hall - electric piano
* Olman Piedra - congas, cajon

leeve

The album's sleeve was designed by Warn Defever and Dion Fischer. It features two stencil images of Brown. The cover features a reverse image of Brown.

Release history

{| class="wikitable"! Country! Date! Label! Format! Catalog
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rowspan=2| United State
rowspan=2| November 6, 2007
rowspan=2| High Two
CD
HT014
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ee also

*Marion Brown
*His Name is Alive
*Nomo
*Warn Defever

Notes

External links

* [http://hightwo.com/hto14.html/ Album notes and reviews from High Two]