Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love
Lift Every Voice and Sing (LP)
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Smalltown Supersound are going hard on the free jazz this year - so much so that they've set up new sub-label Actions For Free Jazz to accommodate the load. This was the slogan for Smalltown Superjazzz and was borrowed at the time from Don Cherry and Krystzof Penderecki’s The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra track Actions For Free Jazz Orchestra from the 1971 album Actions. The inspiration for the label is BYG Actuel, Incus, Freedom and ESP-Disk. AFJ's latest foray into the genre pairs New York saxophonist Joe McPhee with Norwegian drummer Paal Nilssen-Love. The duo cycle through six impressionistic skronk workouts on the album Lift Every Voice and Sing. Recorded in Oslo’s small and intimate St. Edmund’s Church the 13th of December 2017, this LP features compositions by James Weldon Johnson, Thelonious Monk and Joe McPhee plus two by McPhee and Nilssen-Love. The album was mixed, edited and mastered by Lasse Marhaug and is vinyl only, no digital. Artwork by Kim Hiorthøy.
This edition
500 copies, strictly no repress
Release notes
Recorded at St. Edmund's Church, Oslo, Norway on the 13th of December 2017 Concert presented by Konsertforeninga and Smalltown Supersound © & ℗ 2019 AFJ-Series/Smalltown Supersound Distributed by Honest Jon's Vinyl only, no digital. 500 copies.
| A1 | Consideration | ||
| A2 | Lift Every Voice And Sing | ||
| A3 | Mr. D.C. (For Don Cherry) | ||
| B1 | Voices | ||
| B2 | Circumstantial Evidence | ||
| B3 | Big Joe Tell Me What You Know |
- Joe McPhee
- Arranged By, Trumpet [Pocket Trumpet], Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax]
- Paal Nilssen-Love
- Arranged By, Drums
- Joakim Haugland
- Executive-Producer [Executive Production]
- Lasse Marhaug
- Executive-Producer [Executive Production], Mixed By, Mastered By, Edited By
- Thomas Oxem
- Recorded By
- Kim Hiorthøy
- Sleeve [Record Sleeve]
