lol, that's much like myself - in our audio circle of young servicemen, we had two reel to reels and everyone of us bought some vinyl and networked outside of our circle borrowing, sharing on loan mostly early rock - then the brothers would want to record some of ours having overhearing our listening sessions and started to excitedly share their favorites influenced by their uncles and parents listening's, telling/teaching us the history of jazz greats as well as the latest evolutions on up to date to Motown production(s) sounds. I was already a Chicago, B.S & T fan of horns, so jazz was an enlightenment which I gravitated to naturally - great fun!
Guys were always quietly plugged in by headphones jamming out day and nights.
Very soft partying, as a group were all much more interested in the music though, I cannot tell a lie, Sometimes on weekends, big 3 way Pioneer Speakers would be placed in open windows and we would party out on the summers grass. Playing as D.J.'s for the entire Battalion .
But yeah, both "Mwandishi" and "Crossings" were very well produced with space between instruments and notes with blackness of dead air between - hyper Avant-Guard unlike anything else before it was just so remarkably lush and cool improvised expressions.
We were both getting a musical education about that same time (1972)
Happy listening's
