Joe McPhee – The Willisau Concert [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield this collection of very early

this collection of very early Moondog pieces features the same tribal rhythmic impulse as his famed Prestige recordings

The famous “insect woman” worked with such masters as Haruomi Hosono and Otomo Yoshihide

A twin being calls to us from subterranea as its surroundings surface

letting one note

like a specter lost in an abandoned house

Joe McPhee – The Willisau Concert [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield this collection of very earlyJoe McPhees first international release, Black Magic Man, was issued on the newly formed Hat Hut imprint in 1975. It was a watershed moment for the 35 year old musician. Based in Poughkeepsie, New York, he was too far away from Manhattan to have participated extensively in the Loft Jazz happenings of the decade. European exposure, however, would give McPhee an alternative circuit, something of an escape route from the trappings of American cultural