the bleary hypnagogic ambience of Flaws in the Glass and Small Movements in Radiance
the musical influences here are much more Germanic than anything Japanese
The album unwinds across large canvases which traverse the full range of the frequency spectrum with patterned layers of static and atmospherics
On opener ‘Legend Status: Denied’
"I came up with the title 'He would come home through the window
Joe McPhee – Tenor [LP] Extreme / Noise / Free Sound the bleary hypnagogic ambience of"There are lots of outstanding Joe McPhee LPs. Nation Time being chief among them, but theres also Pieces Of Light, Oleo and Topology. The Poughkeepsie, New York based multi instrumentalist, by now an international star of free music, has amassed a daunting discography, no doubt. If you want to peer deeply into the soul of Joe McPhee, however, theres no way around it, you need to spend some quality time with Tenor. Tenor is McPhees first solo record.