Joe McPhee - Cosmic Love

Recorded in Poughkeepsie, NY, 1970.

In 1968, the same year that Anthony Braxton made his first solo LP "For Alto", Joe McPhee began a series of home recordings, assisted by his friend and future producer Craig Johnson.
McPhee had initially worked as a trumpeter, and he'd only picked up tenor saxophone earlier in the year. Along with his very first documentation on tenor, these tracks included solo recorder and a starling "sound on sound" recording, an early commercial overdubbing technique. In years to follow, McPhee would sometimes use the multitrack recorder in performance, referring to it as his Survival Unit. McPhee continued these highly experimental recordings in 1970 and 1973, using instruments not usually associated with him, including deftly manipulated microphone feedback, nagoya, harp, and Space Organ (a Wurlitzer), which he combined with tenor saxophone and the tour-de-force "Cosmic Love".

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• Sound on Sound
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• Cosmic Love

[jadosphere1]

...walking hand to hand...

[naniznaniz]

in the moon....

sky

[postmeback]

a lovely surprise, similar to some of pharoah sanders' work - the serene repeating chords adding an atmosphere out of, say, 'love will find a way', but combined with the freer edge of Sanders' late 60s and early 70s playing. also, that move from calm melodicism to shrieks/overblowing and back again, as demonstrated on 'the creator has a masterplan', etc.

[potheadcop]

!!!