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Front cover of the album WE KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

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JOE MCPHEE & STRINGS

WE KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

Joe McPhee
Mat Maneri
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Michael Bisio

Grande image WE KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS JOE MCPHEE & STRINGS

Joe McPhee: tenor saxophone, spoken words
Mat Maneri: viola
Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello
Michael Bisio: double bass

Prelude

2:06

We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (for Maya A)

4:15

Singing Birds I

4:37

Four Windows

6:38

Play

4:29

New Forms, New Sounds

10:21

Singing Birds Il

5:23

Singing Birds III

4:05

Singing Birds IV

2:16

Singing Birds V

3:32

Singing Birds VI

3:45

Variations on a Theme

6:14

Compositions: 1, 5, 7, 12 by Joe McPhee, Michael Bisio, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mat Maneri; 2 & 6 by Joe McPhee; 3 by Michael Bisio, Fred Lonberg-Holm; 4, 11 by Michael Bisio, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mat Maneri; 8 by Joe McPhee, Michael Bisio; 9 by Joe McPhee, Fred Lonberg-Holm; 10 by Joe McPhee, Mat Maneri.

Recorded by Jim Clouse on October 21st 2021 at Parkwest Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Mixing and mastering: Jim Clouse
Liner notes: Michel Dorbon
Photography: Lord McPhee
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

Almost four generations of musicians; four very strong musical personalities, four very rich musical careers and, above all, four musicians who know how much the confrontation of different ideas pushes music forward; and it is exactly what we had hoped from this band, that they find a common language richer than the sum of the individual languages of each of them, a coherent musical material that respect each personality without reducing the great diversity of their individual approaches. If there was no doubt at the outset that Joe McPhee, Mat Maneri, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael Bisio would be able to make a great recording, eventually, they have done much more, finding original forms and producing an album on which the diversity of the pieces in no way detracts from the cohesion of the whole - quite the opposite, in fact.