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If, Bwana
Thirty
Please note: This release packaging comes as an 11” x
17” sheet, folded into thirds, ending up as a brochure
style booklet, with the CDs in paper sleeves, all
inserted into re-sealable plastic sleeves. There is no
jewel case, tray card etc. There is a bar code.
Originally released as a 3 CDr set on Inyrdisk to
commemorate 30 years of If, Bwana, and now available on
manufactured CDs, this triple disc gracefully spans 3 and
1/4 hours of riveting musique concrète and refined
experimentation from Al Margolis. These recent recordings
come to you re-mastered and repackaged from the
self-released tapes sold in a nearly invisible edition
during a brief tour, sub-titled within Thirty
as Blue Two, Green Three
and Yellow Four. Thirty captures If,
Bwana championing familiar territory with haunting long-form
drone compositions such as Organ
Life(less), Massed
Roses and Forks,
Waves, Bees and forging ahead with new sonic focus
into the infinite worlds found within bassoons and voices.
From an Avant Music News review by Dan Barbiero:
“In the course of its three-plus hours, Thirty reveals some
of the major tropes and favorite sound sources Margolis has
explored over the years. One of these is tropes is the
creation of variably dense drone music out of looped,
stretched or otherwise manipulated samples of instruments or
voices. A good example is 8
Notes, 16 Speakers, x Players, which begins with
single stabs of a piano note which gradually multiply and
expand in pitch until evolving into cyclical waves of sound
that give the impression of a slightly detuned tamboura. Forks Waves Bees is a
more conventional, thick drone piece, while Diapason
40 takes what sounds like stretched horn tones and
layers them into long, dissonant chords.
“One of the hallmarks of If, Bwana is the enlistment of
acoustic orchestral instruments and human voices into the
service of electronic experimentation. James
(Leuven) Piece constructs a virtual string ensemble
from spare samples of string instruments; Al,
My Bassoons elongates the notes of a bassoon—an
instrument that Margolis returns to again and again—until
something resembling an organ dirge results. Ross
Bassoon 2 transforms the bassoon into a complex
drone, as does Kat Lib
Bday Bassoon. At the other end of the
spectrum, Roe Girls 2
is a sparse, space-filled piece in which female voices
singing three notes are overlapped in and out of synch.
Pushing the exploration of voice into more radical
territory, Secular Totems
is a collage of fragmented vocalizations that are neither
speech nor song, yet somehow seem to convey emotional states
in a dramatically direct way.”
Contemporary work at its deepest, and a must for any If,
Bwana fan. |
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Composer(s) |
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21090
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Enzo Minarelli |
21089
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Aliona Yurtsevich |
21088
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Yiorgis Sakellariou |
21087
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id m theft able |
21086
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Kasper T. Toeplitz |
21085
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Tom Hamilton |
21084
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David First |
21083
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Tomomi Adachi / Jaap Blonk / Owen F. Smith / Duane
Ingalls |
21082
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Marta Sainz &
If, Bwana |
| 21081 |
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Aliona Yurtsevich |
21080
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If, Bwana |
21079
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Ulrich Krieger |
21078
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Triple Point |
21077
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Robin Hayward |
21076
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Ron Nagorcka |
21075
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Secluded Bronte |
21074
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David Rosenboom |
21073
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Peter Batchelor |
| 21072 |
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Alvin Lucier |
| 21071 |
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Lou Cohen |
| 21070 |
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Brian Chase |
| 21069 |
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Jerry Hunt |
| 21068 |
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If, Bwana |
| 21067 |
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Jorge Antunes |
| 21066 |
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Enzo Minarelli |
| 21065 |
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Tensions At The Vanguard |
| 21064 |
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Frances White |
| 21063 |
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Noah Creshevsky |
| 21062 |
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If,Bwana/Trio Scordatura |
| 21061 |
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Nate Wooley |
| 21060 |
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Leo Kupper |
| 21059 |
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Pauline Oliveros/ Francisco López/Doug Van Nort/Jonas
Braasch |
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Philip Corner |
| 21057 |
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Alvin Lucier |
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Dimitri Voudouris |
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Birds + Machines |
| 21054 |
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Kiva |
| 21053 |
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César Bolaños |
| 21052 |
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Lionel Marchetti & Olivier Capparos |
| 21051 |
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Tom Hamilton/
Bruce Eisenbeil |
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Source Records 1-6 |
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Noah Creshevsky/ If,Bwana |
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Simon Wickham-Smith |
| 21047 |
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Kenneth Gaburo |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Annea Lockwood |
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Felix Werder |
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Dimitri Voudouris |
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Nick Didkovsky |
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Montreal Sound Matter |
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Anla Courtis |
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Crawling with Tarts |
| 21038 |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
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Hans Otte |
| 21036 |
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DIY Canons |
| 21035 |
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Band/Myers |
| 21034 |
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Chris Brown |
| 21033 |
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Tom Johnson |
| 21032 |
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Roger Reynolds |
| 21031 |
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Trios - Collaboration |
| 21030 |
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Beth Anderson |
| 21029 |
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Hamilton, Silverton, Margolis |
| 21028 |
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Warren Burt |
| 21027 |
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Jorge Antunes |
| 21026 |
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David Dunn |
| 21025 |
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Roger Reynolds |
| 21024 |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
| 21023 |
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Pauline Oliveros |
| 21022 |
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David Rosenboom |
| 21021 |
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Ross Bolleter |
| 21020 |
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Kenneth Gaburo |
| 21019 |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
| 21018 |
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Leo Kupper |
| 21017 |
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Robert Rutman |
| 21016 |
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Matthew Ostrowski |
| 21015 |
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various |
| 21014 |
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Rune Linblad |
| 21013 |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
| 21012 |
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Pauline Oliveros |
| 21011 |
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Rune Linblad |
| 21010 |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
| 21009 |
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Leo Kupper |
| 21008 |
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various |
| 21007 |
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If, Bwana (Al Margolis) |
| 21006 |
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Trigger |
| 21005 |
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Big City Orchestra |
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If,Bwana |
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Frog Peak Music |
| CUE |
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C.U.E. Records |
| SOP |
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Sound of Pig Cassettes |
| ANTS |
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Ants (Italian Label) |
| ANIMUL |
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Ned Rothenberg |
| HOMLER |
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Anna Homler |
| OAKSMUS |
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oaksmus (German Label) |
| GD STEREO |
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Geoff Dugan |
| ANOMALOUS |
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Anomalous Records |
| NONSEQUITUR |
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Nonsequitur |
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