Joe McPhee – The Willisau Concert [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield How still I sit

How still I sit

their voices summoning ghosts of fortunes past while ‘Exhaust’ finds an aperture in our protagonist’s daydream-dérive

this release brings these two worlds together in harmony

syncopation vs ‘free’ time

like a specter lost in an abandoned house

Joe McPhee – The Willisau Concert [LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield How still I sitJoe 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