Joe McPhee, Graham Lambkin, Charlie McPhee, Oliver Lambkin – Live In The Batcave
Label: Black Truffle – BT054
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Australia
Released: 29 Oct 2019
Genre: Jazz, Non-Music
Style: Free Improvisation
Black Truffle invite you to an evening of drunken revelry in the Batcave! After a chance meeting at a local supermarket in Poughkeepsie, New York, Joe McPhee and Graham Lambkin have performed together as a duo extensively in recent years, in addition to their joint work excavating some of the wildest tapes from McPhee’s archive for Lambkin’s now defunct Kye label. Live in the Batcave documents an evening the two friends spent together in the company of Joe’s brother Charlie and Lambkin’s son Oliver in November 2017 at Charlie’s house in Poughkeepsie. The LP captures seven increasingly drunken snapshots of the four shooting the breeze, playing flutes and whistles, drumming on anything at hand, and playing records. Edited together in Lambkin’s distinctive style of lo-fi domestic tape collage, the multiple simultaneous cassette recordings of the shenanigans abruptly cut in and out and fall out of sync, creating disorientating, woozy echoes. Mics are bumped, stories are told, drinks are poured, text messages arrive, and AACM-esque flute jams are interrupted by violent bursts of laughter and wet-mouthed sound poetry. All the while, classic soul records play, initially in the background, but coming increasingly to the fore until the record culminates in a strangely moving free-associative singalong. Live in the Batcave is a truly unique document that exists somewhere between free jazz, audio verité, performance art, and everyday life. File next to your copy of Das Kümmerling Trio.. (mint / new)
Tracklist
A1 High Above The Batcave 6:56
A2 Charlie’s Song 2:36
A3 Cable Flow 2:37
A4 I Don’t Want To Be Right 6:17
B1 Eulogy To The Paddock 2:36
B2 I Stand Accused 3:45
B3 Jukebox (Underneath The Batcave) 12:12
