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Al Margolis/If,Bwana
An Innocent, Abroad
The new Al Margolis/If, Bwana cd is comprised of Issue, for electronics and multi-tracked
voice, and An Innocent, Abroad, a 40 plus minute work for electronics, vocals,
and flutes. An Innocent, Abroad can be best described as a Sonic Oratorio: an
assemblage, a construction of an event that never happened or will happen. A live
installation for radio, perhaps.
There is no "meaning" to the text. All parts were drawn or are inter-related
to the original vocal track, recorded by Lisa Barnard, which is no longer present.
The text/voice part has been multi-tracked and now represents five "separate
entities". The electronic parts have been extracted and processed from
the original vocal track. The five flute parts were performed by Jane Rigler
and Jacqueline Martelle, and was be improvised by them. They recorded to the
separate voice tracks. None of the performers heard the entire piece that they
worked on.
Lisa Barnard is a vocalist and performance artist. Most noted work is her
interpretations of her dreams into original performances for Deep Listening
Institute's annual Dream Festivals. Jacqueline Martelle is a flutist and arts
administrator, living in New York City since 1996. She performs new music and
has recorded on the Mode and Centaur record labels. Jane Rigler, flutist, composer,
educator and producer is an active featured performer in contemporary music
festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe as a soloist as well as within chamber
ensembles
Al Margolis was one of the prime movers in the cassette underground scene
of the 1980s (between 1984 and 1991 his Sound Of Pig label released over 300
cassettes of music by the likes of Merzbow, Costes, Amy Denio, John Hudak and
Jim O'Rourke) and is the éminence grise behind twenty-three years of
music under the name If, Bwana. He is the man behind the Pogus label, as well
as label manager for Deep Listening, XI Records, and Mutable Music.
What has been said about his work:
"It's as if one of Eliane Radigue's pristine works had been left out
in the garden to accumulate a layer of sonic moss and dirt." (Dan Warburton)
"The resulting texture sounds more like a Horatiu Radulescu piece performed
by Morphogenesis." (DW)
"a kind of scary cross between the lunatic fringe of English esoteric
explorers (Nurse With Wound, pre-menstrual Current 93) and late 60s AMM."
(DW)
The cd cover, Vixen de Milo, is a 20 year ongoing work by Dan & Detta
Andreana.
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