{"product_id":"john-iverson-many-worlds-interpretation","title":"John Iverson - Many Worlds Interpretation","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany Worlds Interpretation is a collection of cosmic Americana for electronics, guitar, and\npercussion culled from Jon Iverson’s extensive home-studio archive.\n1984, Los Osos, California. In a small cinderblock cottage, hand-painted with bright psychedelic\nflora, Jon Iverson created vibrant new worlds. He spent long days and nights immersed in sound,\nperfecting home recording on his 8-track reel-to-reel, combining his love for kosmische and Berlin\nSchool electronics with an infatuation with ethnographic sounds and expansive guitar music. In a\nduo with fellow sonic traveler Thomas Walters, Iverson released missives from the studio on a\nself-titled LP released on country legend Guthrie Thomas’ Eagle Records. That release featured\nthree electro-acoustic compositions (“Naningo”, “River Fen”, and “Fox Tales”) as well as a\ngathering of guitar duo tapestries. Many Worlds Interpretation re-imagines those interplanetary\nworks alongside several unreleased compositions that also feature synthesizer, guitar, and\npercussion, creating a re-visioned album which leans into Iverson’s electronic studio wizardry.\n\nAll songs have been carefully transferred from analog tape to high resolution digital, retaining their\nvintage studio warmth, but mixed and mastered for modern ears and audio systems. The album is\npressed at 45rpm, further enhancing the audiophile experience.\n\nArtist Statement\n\nI worked in a Harley Davidson parts warehouse in the summer of 1976 in the San Francisco Bay\nArea. The goal was to save enough money to buy transportation for college and a Teac 4 track\n1\/4\" reel to reel tape machine. By September there was a rusting monkey-vomit green car in the\ndriveway and shiny new Teac with a Sony condenser microphone in the bedroom. At this point I\nhad been playing guitar for a dozen years and like most children of the sixties, dreamed of joining\na band.\n\nWent to college instead to study business.\n\nBut all was not lost. 1978-1979 was spent as Weird Al Yankovic's roommate and we recorded\nand created enough songs to play shows around San Luis Obispo, California, where we were\nattending college. Many of those recordings have yet to be heard by the public, including the first\nperformances of My Bologna and many other parodies of pop songs of the day. We sent tapes to\nDr. Demento, we auditioned for The Gong Show and were barred from playing at the local college\nafter one memorable performance. Wild times.\n\nI, however, was more intent on working on \"serious\" music, with albums from Vangelis,\nTangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre providing inspiration. DJing at the local college radio\nstation and then public radio outlet provided exposure to an endless stream of obscure albums\n(Sky Records from Germany was a particular favourite). Most of them would never make it to the\nair, but my buddies and I would pass them around like exotic treasure.\n\nFast forward a couple more years and I had picked up a Mini-Moog and eventually a Prophet V synthesizer as well as starting a collection of instruments from around the world. The Teac and synths formed the basis for a growing DIY studio that had taken over a modest-size garage (pictured on the cover) that had been converted into a two room cottage in Los Osos, California.\n\nThe Teac was eventually joined by a rented Otari 1\/2\" 8-track and then finally a vintage MCI JH-100 2\" 16-track. The compositions on this album were recorded on these three machines between 1982 and 1989. At some point an Apple II computer with Alpha Syntauri sound card and\nkeyboard were added and then later the first personal computer sampling hardware\/software kit, the Decillionix DX-1. The DX-1 forms the rhythm track for “Fox Tales” and the Alpha Syntauri was programmed to create the pulsing synth for “Naningo”. “River Fen” was tracked with both the Alpha Syntauri and the Prophet V.\n\nI knew this music wasn't commercial, but didn't care. It was inspiring working with the first computer-based synths and semi-pro gear. Home studios were still rare in the early 80s until the Tascam Portastudio blew the DIY door wide-open. But I was more interested in sound quality so stuck with reels of tape instead of lower fidelity cassettes.\n\nDuring the time these songs were recorded, I was also collaborating with my good friend and mandolinist, Tom Walters. “River Fen”, “Naningo” and “Fox Tales”, were solo recordings that also ended up on the first Iverson \u0026amp; Walters album, First Collection. The other four pieces on this new LP were never fully finished or released until now.\n\n— Jon Iverson, September 2022\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Seance Centre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40861290168379,"sku":"O50 - 2022","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0259\/9403\/5259\/products\/953463.jpg?v=1665328411","url":"https:\/\/3345.nl\/products\/john-iverson-many-worlds-interpretation","provider":"3345 Record Store The Hague","version":"1.0","type":"link"}