Build an ark
USA
Formed: 2001
Years Active: 2000
Genres: Jazz, Electronic, R&B, Folk, Vocal, Avant-Garde
Styles: Soul Jazz, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz/Groove, Soul, R&B/Soul, Folk Jazz, Contemporary Folk, Vocal Jazz, Vocal/Standards, Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, Improvised Music, Avant-Garde Jazz, Neo-Soul, Contemporary R&B, Post-Bop, Modal Music
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Build an Ark is a Los-Angeles-based transcultural and intergenerational musical collective that was founded in 2001 as a pacifist response to the September 11 tragedies in New York City. The group took its name in honor of Sun Ra's Arkestra, though they ascribe more to Ra's concept of "Arkestry" -- that music has the power to alter the destiny of people's lives -- rather than musically. Directed by DJ, producer, and arranger Carlos Niño, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and musical director Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, and veteran vocalist and comp...
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- Michael White (3)
- Dwight Trible (1)
- Phil Ranelin (0)
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- NOMO (4)
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Performed Songs By
- Sun Ra (20)
- Pharoah Sanders (14)
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