JOE MCPHEE - Nation Time LP Lo-Fi When I wasnʼt recording songs

When I wasnʼt recording songs I was hiking several miles to the beach

but not necessarily together

the Ethio-jazz of saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya and hints of the pan-human ‘ancient music’ that sat underneath Arthur Russell’s melodies on First Thought

Luckily these Hands are up to the challenge

following his 2016 debut Zurhyrethm

JOE MCPHEE - Nation Time LP Lo-Fi When I wasnʼt recording songs"It's been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become Nation Time, his debut LP. It was December 1970, thirty one year old McPhee was inspired by Amiri Baraka's poem 'It's Nation Time,' and the students at Vassar College didn't know what hit them. 'What time is it?' shouted the bandleader. 'C'mon, you can do better than that. What time is it?!' "The music on Nation Time came