JULIUS HEMPHILL - Dogon A.D. LP T-Shirt could have been or perhaps

could have been or perhaps never were at all from the start

I can only recommend it to all you droners out there

but the songs contain vivid worlds and are quietly ambitious

Captured entirely live and bristling with spontaneity

and keyboardist Kristoff Lalicki

JULIUS HEMPHILL - Dogon A.D. LP T-Shirt could have been or perhapsOne of the most important jazz albums of the 1970s finally on vinyl in its definitive edition. Julius Hemphill's Dogon A. D. is the missing link between the avant garde and the blues, between the cotton fields and outer space. Recorded on a freezing February day in 1972 at Oliver Sain's Archway Studios in St. Louis no heat, malfunctioning equipment, some musicians didn't even show up and yet what emerged was nothing short of a masterpiece. An "almost