| The Master's Voice | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Unknown Instructors |
| Cover: | UnknownInst_Master.jpg |
| Released: | March 6, 2007 (mail order) March 20, 2007 (street) |
| Recorded: | October 13, 2005 |
| Genre: | Experimental rock, improvised music |
| Length: | [1] |
| Label: | Smog Veil |
| Producer: | Joe Baiza, Dan McGuire, Joe Carducci |
| Prev Title: | The Way Things Work |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Funland |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
The Master's Voice is the second album by American improvisational band Unknown Instructors.[2] The core quartet of Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges, Dos, Banyan),[3] George Hurley (The Minutemen, Firehose, Red Krayola),[4] Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of), and poet/saxophonist Dan McGuire reconvene on the album, with guest vocals on three tracks by David Thomas (Pere Ubu) and on another track by artist Raymond Pettibon.[5] 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-'80s album releases and where Watt and Hurley's The Minutemen had recorded Project: Mersh in 1985.
According to Dan McGuire, the previous album The Ways Things Work was recorded in one day and came off jazzier because of it.[5] With the rhythm section more familiar now, McGuire wanted a harder edged album this time.[5]