For sheer persistence and musical integrity, it would be difficult to outdo Canadian songwriters Frank Phillet and Neil MacIver, the duo that, for all intents and purposes, is Magic Music. Over the course of their nearly 30-year partnership, the two men have continued to follow a committed course of musical development with mostly no commercial or record label support or interest. Phillet and MacIver hooked up musically for the first time in 1970, gaining their first professional work that year, the composition and performance of an original score for Bertolt Brecht's The Cauc...