NEW GLOBAL ENSEMBLE

New Global Ensemble/Debut Album "Dream Walking" Release 5 December 2025 Benjamin Boone (US) Soprano & Alto Saxophones Stefan Poetzsch (DE) Violin, Viola, Live Electronics Aaron Bebe Sukura (GH) Gyil, Mbira Baffour Awuah Kyeremateng (GH) Voice, Asalato, Prempensua Óscar Mascareñas (MX/IE) Voice Artist, Live Electronics Anthony Monahan (IE) Electric Guitar, Live Electronics https://sonicrendezvous.com/product/n... https://www.amazon.com/New-Global-Ens... https://www.de.fnac.ch/a21201213/New-... https://www.oneworldsmusic.com/new-gl... Cover Design: Carolina Vallejo, One World Records Pictures: Aaron Bebe Sukura: Erich Malter Irish landscape: Alice Daniel Studio Ireland: New Global Ensemble Penny Samuel Adu Gyamfi, Vivivi Studio, Accra, Ghana Ben Wanders, Wanderland Studio, Limerick, Ireland Mixed and Mastered by Peter Heider, Gartenhausstudios, Erlangen, Germany Additional Mastering by Mike Marciano, Systems Two, Long Island, NY, USA Video Ghana: Red Entertain, Camera: Steve Mensah, Kelvin Oppong Video Ireland: Benjamin Boone Video editing: Stefan Poetzsch Dream Walking combines the talents of six musicians from the United States, Germany, Ghana, Mexico, and Ireland into a cohesive whole. Saxophonist Benjamin Boone and violinist/violist Stefan Poetzsch, who have collaborated as a duo for over 30 years, surrender any need for primacy to the overall goal: creating fascinating and uplifting soundscapes with a surprising collection of instruments that includes gyil (marimba), mbira, prempensua (two different lamellophones), asalato (two shakers connected by a string), live electronics, voice, electric guitar, and many others. This mélange of electronic and electric and acoustic has the effect of both grounding the album here on Earth and sending it soaring into the stars, or even into dreams. The entire album is intended to be heard as a multi-movement composition. “Each track has a story and feeling that naturally flows into the next. Sounds from different times and traditions all mix from one track to the other, and also blend within tracks. For example, Óscar Mascareñas' singing is sonically like Irish chant music, or even the sound of Baroque singing, and we recontextualize it by having him sing over modern sounds like pulsating processed guitar loops, processed violin, and jazz-influenced saxophone,” says Poetzsch. Yes, the album plumbs emotional depths and carries the listener skyward, but much of it is also ebullient and rhythmic and, well, fun to listen to. To paraphrase American poet Walt Whitman, Dream Walking is large, it contains multitudes. And as much as introspection and inspiration are key to the human experience, so are laughter and dancing and communal joy. And all of those are here. The proof is in the pudding, or the soda bread, or the brukina, or the flan: Dream Walking is an important album for both musicians and listeners alike. ~Jason Crane, Benjamin Boone, Stefan Poetzsch