The Master's Voice
Studio album by
Unknown Instructors
ReleasedMarch 6, 2007 (mail order)
March 20, 2007 (street)
RecordedOctober 13, 2005
GenreExperimental rock, improvised music
Length41:18[1]
LabelSmog Veil
ProducerJoe Baiza, Dan McGuire, Joe Carducci[2]
Unknown Instructors chronology
The Way Things Work
(2005)		 The Master's Voice
(2007)		 Funland
(2009)

The Master's Voice is the second album by American improvisational band Unknown Instructors.[3] The core quartet of Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges, Dos, Banyan),[4] George Hurley (The Minutemen, Firehose, Red Krayola),[5] Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of),[2] and poet/saxophonist Dan McGuire reconvene on the album,[2] with guest vocals on three tracks by David Thomas (Pere Ubu)[2] and on another track by artist Raymond Pettibon.[2] In addition, Watt also contributes a vocal of his own. The album was recorded at Total Access Studio in Redondo Beach, California,[6] the same studio where Black Flag recorded many of their classic mid-80's album releases and where Watt and Hurley's The Minutemen had recorded Project: Mersh in 1985.

Recording

According to Dan McGuire, the previous album The Ways Things Work was recorded in one day and came off jazzier because of it.[2] With the rhythm section more familiar now, McGuire wanted a harder edged album this time.[2]

Track listing

  1. "Swarm"
  2. "In Your Town Without You"
  3. "At The Center"
  4. "This Black Hat Is Rage"
  5. "Twing"-Twang
  6. "End Of The World"
  7. "Tar Baby Sees The Rising Sun"
  8. "Machine Language"
  9. "Doghouse Riley"
  10. "Maggot Sludge"

Musical Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "The Master's Voice". AllMusic. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Huddle, Mark (September 7, 2007). "Interview: Joe Baiza and Dan McGuire of Unknown Instructors". Verbicide Magazine. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  3. ↑ Watt, Mike. "july 29, 2006". Mike Watt's Hoot Page. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Unknown Instructors – The Master's Voice". Discogs. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  5. ↑ Rashidi, Waleed. "George Hurley". Modern Drummer. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ Watt, Mike. "watt (himself)". Mike Watt's Hoot Page. Retrieved October 26, 2019.
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