MANZANERA MACKAY

AM.PM BFD

JA

Jazzy ambient improv from Roxy Music instrumentalists. In the 70s, Roxy Music were all about grabbing attention. With opening tracks like Remake/Remodel, Do The Strand and Street Life, perhaps only their labelmates King Crimson could claim to enter the room more exuberantly. Blue Skies, the song which opens the latest album from Roxy duo Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay, is the antithesis of exuberance, with a deep bass groove, smatterings of light percussion and meandering horn giving the opener its only real direction. The pair’s musical relationship stretches back more than half a century, though AM.PM finds them at their most spontaneous. A hazy aesthetic permeates an album that was conceived and largely executed during the pandemic. These improvisational pieces thrive on the liberty that being locked up allows, with…

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