Wizards was my first deep trance electronic music album. This album was inspired by Terry Riley , one of the earliest people ever to compose and perform long, extended, cyclic pieces in the electronic format. This music was composed and performed in '81 and '82.
I consider this album my best work.
The instrumentation is three Sequencial Circuits PRO-1s, Crumar Traveler One and a Yamaha SK-20, all real time recording to a Teac 4-track reel-to-reel. I mixed the four tracks to a Teac A-7300 Master 2-Track tape recorder using a DeltaLab DL-2 to create the delay track. In 2006, I used a Tascam 34B 4-track to remaster all my master tapes to digital master of 196 KHz/24 bit .WAV files using Soundforge 8 software.
The original Wizards LP was published in the Summer of 1982 with the black and white cover. The initial tracks had not names and were call Movements I-V. Several years later sales had slowed down, in an effort to improve sales we tried the color cover and I created names for each track, as shown on the samples.
Here is a picture of me taken in 1982 during the creation of Wizards.
25th Anniversary Reissue of Wizards Vinyl Album
Limited Edition, 300 Pressings
Sold out in Europe in less than 2 Weeks!
Wizards is the second full length vinyl album they have published. The first one was Mudboy/Orphan Fairytale, a bit of narrative synth weirdness. Their next LP's will be by Ben Reynolds (IK), Watersports (USA) and Idm Theft Able (USA). The first two are soothing synth and instrument meditations. The last one is a weird mix of collages and tape manipulation.
Bread and Animals have an archival series running as well. focussing on back catalogue picks of interesting artists. Their first archival release was a 10 CDr boxset by the New Zealand weird sound poet Witcyst. The next one will be a 5 CDr boxset by the New Zealand drone/trance combo Armpit (including members of Birchville Cat Motel, Futurians, Clay Man In The Well, Rahmane, etc.). They are also working on a 5 tape box by the American "free-jammer" Henry Kuntz, a Bay Area (USA) improvisor who did lots of stuff ranging from sjamanistic free-jazz to tapeworks and meditational stuff.
To download the sample of any song, right click and "Save Target As . . .". Click on any song to listen to it.
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