ANTS RECORDS

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 doesn’t 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: McKenna’s 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, Bwana’s wandering thru the mists of a

panorama of archaic but modern sounds.

If, Bwana (born Al Margolis) is a composer and musician. He

has number of recordings under his own name, and has

collaborated with such artists as David Prescott, Adam

Bohman, and Tom Hamilton. He’s a member of the group The

Styrenes. Lastly, he’s the deus ex machina behind Pogus

Productions, one of the leading labels of the American

experimental scene.

track list

1) Chimes 13'09"

2) Fire Chorus 11'39"

3) Day 8: McKenna's Brain 13'39"

4) Accidentally Angelica 21'26"

released 21/06/2004