
Charles Moore and John Sinclair met in the early ’60s and quickly formulated what Leni Sinclair deemed “a friendship made in heaven.” Their late-night talks and shared musical obsessions led to the formation in 1964 of the Detroit Artists Workshop, and subsequently Strata Records.
A cooperative where musicians could feel comfortable and carry out creative concepts, Detroit Artists Workshop was where much of the city’s rebellious music—whether free jazz or hard rock—could cross-pollinate. Over time, the Detroit Artists Workshop mutated into an even zanier entity called Trans-Love Energies, a management collective handling furious Motor City rock icons Iggy and the Stooges and the MC5. Appropriately, Moore played flugelhorn on the MC5′s 1971 album High Time.
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