Monster is a new quartet featuring four generations of improvisers. It was created first as an ad hoc ensemble for the 37th edition Unlimited Music festival in Wels, where its debut album was recorded live, and the Muku Artacts festival in St. Johann, both in Austria, but it has found a life of its own and continues to perform.
The quartet features legendary and seemingly ageless American sax player Joe McPhee (b. 1939, but joking that he is “ now 300 years old”. He played in the first edition of the Unlimited Music and Muku Artacts festival and curator of the 33rd edition of the Unlimited Music festival); Austrian bass clarinetist Susanna Gartmayer (who
