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If,Bwana
Fire Chorus
Fire Chorus is a work of construction. If,Bwana
(alias, or, as you prefer, personification, of Al Margolis), presents
a sound form starting from the concept of perception. His concept
of electroacoustic music doesnt belong to the idea of appropriation
(which is behind the gestures of many people now working with natural, non-musical,
or other sound sources). If, Bwana uses his raw materials as animated
objects, letting them appear and disappear in his own sound structures. He
creates an environment for the sounds, mixing music and noise,
human voices, landscape voices, machine voices. The four long tracks on this
album are four explorations and, perhaps, four different sound constructions.
Chimes is a long, continuous immersion, from the inside to the outside. Fire
Chorus paints a picture such as those of Hieronimus Bosch, a kind of imploded
soundtrack for a complicated and distorted world. Day 8: McKennas Brain
is a collage with a strong theatrical aspect, joining metallic sounds to details
of foreign languages. Accidentally Angelica, is a long,concluding, nocturnal
path, a symbol of the eternal If,Bwanas wandering thru the mists of
a panorama of archaic but modern sounds.
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