Label: Alga Marghen - NMN 048CD

待望のリイシュー！！Sonic Arts Unionへの参加でも知られる米実験音楽の巨匠Robert Ashleyによる、後のノイズシーンにも多大な影響を及ぼした初期大名作。全編通してかなりの高内容になっていますが、やはり聴きものは何と言っても表題曲の[Wolf Man]。1964年にシャルロット・モーマンのアヴァンフェスで初めて披露された、口に突っ込んだマイクに向かって絶叫しその音をグルグルとフィードバックさせた轟音爆裂ノイズはマジで圧巻。



Remastered edition.
The Fox (1957) electronic music and voice
characters adapted from a folk song by Burl Ives

The Wolfman (1964) tape, voice and feedback
produced at the University of California at Davis by Composer-Performer Edition
first performed at Charlotte Moorman's "Festival of the Avant-Garde", New York, fall 1964

The Wolfman Tape (1964) tape-speed manipulation and mixes of many layers of "found" sounds
used as "sound environment" by Bob James for a jazz improvisation (ESP Records, 1965)

The Bottleman (1960) tape composition with contact microphones, loudspeaker, vocal and other "found" sounds
composed for a George Manupelli film of the same title; single-projection version

All tracks created, processed and mixed at Robert Ashley's studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Digipak with 12-page booklet