Label: Tribe Tapes

オリジナルはエクスペリメンタル・アーティストHal McGeeが主宰する老舗レーベルHalTapesより90年代半ばにリリース。多くの重要タイトルを揃えるSound Of Pig、Pogus Productionsのファウンダーとして知られ、自身も80年代から音楽活動を継続しているAl Margolis/If, Bwanaのレアカセット[Iceless, Faceless]がCDリイシュー。数名のゲストを招き作り上げたテープ加工を主軸とした実験録音で、ボーカル、ARP 2600、多彩な生楽器が一緒くたでゴロゴロと流れ行く粘着度の強いノイズ音響。リマスタリング版を収録。







Professionally-manufactured CD in full-color, 4-panel digipak.

Originally released via HalTapes, 90s
Remastered by Grant Richardson
Layout by Max Julian Eastman

1. UMBRELLEN
Al Margolis: tapes, processing, piano

2. PRELUDE TO AN ONGOING CONVERSATION
Brian Charles: dijeridu
Al Margolis: vocals, whistler, percussion
Danielle Reddick: percussion
Paul Richards: drums

3. REVENGE
Trigger (Paul Hoskin, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Leslie Ross) on tape
Al Margolis: ARP 2600, tapes

4. A CLARION CALL
Brian Charles: bass clarinet
Al Margolis: accordion, alto clarinet, electronics

5. ICELESS, FACELESS
Al Margolis: tapes, processing

6. YAMMING
Al Margolis: vibe samples
Danielle Reddick: percussion
Paul Richards: drums

"'Iceless, Faceless' has always felt like a 'lost' release to me. It
was originally released on Hal McGee's Haltapes label, just as he was
suspending the labels activity. So I'm very pleased that Max/Tribe
Tapes is reissuing this (as a CD!!!) and rescuing it from 'the void'.
I hope it is still worth a listen."
Al Margolis, July 2022

"I first encountered Al Margolis (If, Bwana) in 1984, through the cassette networking mail method. It is impossible to remember where I first read about Al and his projects. Perhaps in Graham Ingels' "Castanets" column in OP magazine. Soon we started trading cassettes and later that year we collaborated through the mail for the first time, on the second side of a cassette release on Al's Sound Of Pig label, titled "An Organized Accident". In 1986 we collaborated on a cassette called "Untranslatable" on my Cause And Effect label, and on 'Symbolic Accidents Of Ceremony" on Gary Mundy's Broken Flag label. In 1987 we issued two more collab cassettes 'sacrifice Of Reason" and "Joint Venture" before embarking on a tour that included performances in Brooklyn, Boston, Toronto, Windsor, and Memphis. Over the last four decades Al and I have maintained a friendship that includes occasional collaborations. No matter how much time has passed in-between our collaborations we always easily find that special Bwana Dog groove."
Hal McGee, July 2022