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- In May 1972, Miles met up again with Paul Buckmaster, an English classical cellist who was involved in pop music and experimental rock and introduced him to the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. The two men immediately thought up scenarios that combined funk rhythms with the formal and resonant abstractions of contemporary music. On 1 June, in the midst of extreme confusion, Miles brought a number of musicians into the studio using different instruments: a guitarist, a bassist, several drummers and percussionists, as well as three keyboards and the sitar and tablas of the “Indian Room”.
The structures devised by Paul Buckmaster were quickly forgotten, and when David Liebman came to the studio straight from his doctor’s waiting room, he was thrust in front of the microphone without headphones,
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