"Drag City and Yoga Records proudly present Matthew Young's Traveler's Advisory. He told me that the post-Second World War rebuilding of Europe, which was still very much in progress when he went there in the later 1960s had affected him deeply, and particularly the presence side by side of old and new architectures he made an explicit connection between this and his music, which was intended to be modernist and exploratory but also drew deeply on older folk traditions. He travelled for a time in Europe where Porto Novo (significant title!) was recorded, feeding his hunger for buildings, abstract art and an ever-widening circle of cultural associations. Brown grew up fascinated by architecture. Never a very "Southern" town in its architecture because of the influence of the north-south rail link, Atlanta had to be rebuilt after the most destructive wave of the Civil War swept through it. Brown grew up in a seaboard state and while Atlanta was a railroad town rather than a port like Savannah or Charleston, it bore a name that reminded itself constantly that there was an ocean out there and beyond it a mysterious Old World. He more than once considered giving up music, until he realised that there was a way to make the music he wanted. He was a man never at ease with the world of jazz clubs and dances. Travel is a key concept and reality in Marion Brown's life and music.
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