Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio has across four decades woven together improvisation and celebration, always insisting that performance fire is nothing without human warmth. Recorded in Germany in 1989, Alika Rising! Documents the debut of one of the Trio's seminal line-ups: El'Zabar on percussion and vocals, Malachi Favors on bass, and Ari Brown on soprano sax and piano. Originally released by Sound Aspects, Germany.