Syncronicity

VINYL FORMAT. Comes with a digital download code! Syncronicity, the second release from Joe McPhee Survival Unit III, documents a fiery performance at Chicago's Hideout in 2007. This is free improvisation at its finest. The sound is a fluid, sometimes melodic, sometimes noisy dialogue between friends. Syncronicity is three incredible musicians communicating as one conscious expression.

"Along with Peter Brötzmann, Ornette Coleman, and Evan Parker, Joe McPhee is one of the legends of his musical generation, which redefined improvised music as a medium of dynamic energy, unbridled expression, and surprise. With incredible vitality, he has manned alto, tenor, and soprano sax, pocket trumpet, valve trombone, flugelhorn. He has been an active thinker, as well as a vibrant player, devising unconventional music theories and a series of guiding axioms for his own improvisation, which he called "Po Music" - a methodology for sounding out new "positive, possible, poetic" ways of approaching his instruments and creating sounds. He has crossed a wide range of musical idioms, from the bold out funk of his first album, Nation Time, to the fiery, un-tempered free jazz of Survival Unit III. Michael Zerang and Fred Lonberg-Holm are closely identified with the local avant-garde jazz scene and justly known as two of Chicago's most unpredictable forces in free improvisation. Both Zerang and Lonberg-Holm approach their instruments with total abandon in their searches to develop new techniques and new sonic possibilities. The two have met McPhee in a musical setting before, as part of the Peter Brötzmann Tentet." - Brandon Hopkins, Chicago Weekly Online