JOAN LA BARBARA Voice Original Instrument 1976 LP on Wizard Avant Experimental

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JOAN LA BARBARA: “Voice Is The original Instrument”

Label: Wizrad Records

Label Number: RVW2266

Original 1st US pressing of 1976, stunning avant-garde private pressing. TOP CONDITION!!!

GRADING:

LP Record: Excellent ~ Near Mint

Jacket: Near Mint

Some words on this issue: JOAN LA BARBARA: “Voice is the Original Instrument” (Wizard Records – RVW-2266) Recorded on February 26, 1976, Barbara’s debut album. Joan La Barbara's career as a composer/performer/sound artist explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries, creating works for a wide array of media, developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques (multiphonics, circular singing, ululation, and glottal clicks that have become her "signature sounds"). “This album, her first, presents what are essentially etudes, albeit ones that sound like no etude ever written. Be it a haunting meditation on all the possible timbres and tones that can be achieved on a single pitch, a disconcerting sensory deprivation exercise, an attempt at circular breathing while singing, or an exercise in multiphonics (singing multiple tones at one, also known as overtone singing or throat singing, a common feature of the indigenous vocal music of Mongolia, specifically in Tuva), La Barbara comes to each with a playful excitement. Her fascination with the overlooked corners of the voice is quickly apparent. The most amazing moment of this disc is when you realize that there is no overdubbing, that everything here was created and recorded in real time with just her vocal chords as the source. Like many of the sounds that come out of the avant-garde, La Barbara’s voice is the result of embracing the freedom and curiosity of a young child and critically considering the yelps and howls they make. The best music comes only when you’re willing to relax and not take yourself too seriously.” (Dusted). In short a milestone recording, essential to anyone even vaguely interested in the avant-garde aesthetic of the vocal range originating out of the human larynx. A chilling piece de résistance. Original pressing.

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