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IMAGINE if you can a more surprising recording location than that chosen by virtuoso saxophonists John Butcher and Joe McPhee back in April 2010.
Unaccompanied, and under the huge skies of the rock-strewn and treeless Chihuahuan desert in Texas, they played standing and walking on the cruciform shale walkways and inside the giant steel doors of the four buildings full of sculptural works by New York artist and architect James Magee, ex-denizen of a New York City junkyard.
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