Gruntle
(Absurd) Used CD $5.00
Al Margolis’s mid-aughts sounds and loops and musique concrète. Beyond ambient, before noise, in a gray area with more hints to modern classical music than one might guess. In over-sized, circular sleeve.
I Am Sitting In Phill Niblock's Kitchen
(Monotype - MONO042) CD $13.50
Warburton time-stretched about one-hundred If, Bwana recordings and multitracked them into a single forty-five minute sludge cocktail, before decanting and editing them into a single span of music. Al Margolis then added the ambient sounds of the food-preparation parlor of the titular multimedia minimalist. The two subsequently performed live in Belgium in 2008, mixing the recording with live electronics, clarinet, violin, and a time-stretched and pitch-shifted piano piece of Warburton’s, Speed Study I.
Rex Xhu Ping
(Pogus) Used CD $5.00
Joining Margolis (on tapes, electronics, clarinet, and sundries) are Laura Biagi (vocals), Dan Andreana (speaker, tapes), Detta Andreana (tapes, bowed cymbals), and Orchestre de Fou. From 2005
Thirty
(Inyrdisk - IYD90) 3xCDR $13.25 (Out-of-stock)
Over three hours of riveting musique concrete, long-form drone compositions, the infinite worlds found within bassoons and voices, and refined experimentation from Al Margolis, remastered and repackaged from the self-released tapes sold in a nearly invisible edition during a 2013 tour. Gatefold package, sturdily pasted-on art over disk envelopes and an insert. Edition of 99.