Dr Lomax ambitiously composed and produced a 12 album cycle released in 2019 400: An Afrikan Epic is divided into thirds and explores thousands of years of the history that is pre-colonial Afrika, the Ma’afa (the 400 years between 1619 and 2019), and Afrofuturism expressing a vision of what Blacks in America will heal toward in the next 400 years; a healthy, high functioning, and united bloc of the African diaspora With 400: An Afrikan Epic, Lomax celebrates the resilience, brilliance, strength, genius, and creativity of a people who continue to endure while o!ering a transformative view of the future
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Mark Lomax, II- drums
Edwin Bayard - tenor & soprano saxophones
Dr. William Menefield- piano
Dean Hulett- bass
William Manley- violin
Erin Gilliland- violin
Norman Cardwell-Murri- viola
Mary Davis- cello
Cora Kuyvenhoven- cello
Pei-An Chao- cello
Wendy Morton- cello
Track Listing
- The Historical Now: The Story of Us
- Ancestral Drum Call
- Prelude: Dogon’s Descent from Po Tolo
- Ancestral Walk Pt. 1
- Village Celebration
- The Present Now: Remembering to
- Forget and Forgetting to Remember
- Ancestral Walk Pt. 2: I Am Because We Are
- The Middle Passage
- Birth of the Blues People
- The Future Now: Return to Uhuru
- Ancestral Walk Pt. 3
- Spiritual Renewal: Ancestral Drum Call
- Uhuru: Freedo