The 400 Years Suite

Personel

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

Artist Biography

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