Stewart Uoo for 7038634357’s Neo Seven Edition 3/4

Stewart Uoo for 7038634357’s Neo Seven Edition 3/4

a rich analysis of Amacher’s Intelligent Life—the first such piece on this work—by Amacher scholar Amy Cimini

His odyssey since has taken McPhee through Deep Listening collaborations with Pauline Oliveros and countless left field improv sessions both within and way outside of the jazz tradition

While he had already penned hundreds of songs

” although her thought and creative practice consistently challenge key assumptions about the capacities and limitations of the genre

” written on a long train ride past fields and rice paddies

he taught himself the saxophone and proceeded to cut two records that remain defining monuments to the civil rights era: the out free jazz of Underground Railroad and avant-funk of Nation Time

Antenne Books in the rest of Europe

and buttressed by twenty-nine rarely-heard recordings

the piece is an undulating marvel of lysergic drone

including Henry Flynt and La Monte Young

Dieter Schnebel

Artistic director of the Giacinto Scelsi Festival in Basel