AM PM is the 2023 instrumental collaboration between Roxy Music members Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay.

 

A saxophone and guitar-heavy, ambient set, AM PM captures the instinctive instrumental interplay and unique textural sounds for which both players have come known for.

 

Phil Manzanera comments, “After the discipline of working on song structures with Tim Finn, it was  liberating to just try and find solutions to unstructured bits of music. It’s like starting out on a journey with no idea of where to go and then ending the journey in a beautiful location. The music has turned out to be nothing like we could have pre-written and difficult to categorize except to say it’s really a musical expression of our two brains still interacting 50 years on”. 

 

Co-produced, engineered and mixed by Mike Boddy (Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry, The Fall) and recorded at Phil Manzanera’s Gallery Studios, and 5DB, London, guests include original Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson, Anna Phoebe on violin, Seth Scott on flute, George Goode on tuba, Yazz Ahmed on flugelhorn and Mike Boddy on bass/programming/keyboards.

 

CD edition.