Iverson And Walters
First Collection
After almost two years of work, Infinite Fog is glad to invite you to a new journey through the fog of time and enjoy the reissue of this great ambient/folk record from 1984. A well-known to collectors, but extremely rare record by Jon Iverson, a multi-instrumentalist from Palo Alto and his college friend, mandolinist Tom Walters. They shared a love for singer/songwriter fare and gigged around campus playing covers of Neil Young, CSN, and Loggins/Messina in the late '70s. 'First Collection' was recorded during the spring of 1984 in a small garage that had been converted to a one-room apartment in the seaside community of Los Osos, California. With an instrumentation of 12-string guitar, piano, mandolin, analog synthesizers, and sampler, the duo has recorded nine bright, weightless, and diverse compositions where electronic experiments mix with ethnic rhythms, sweeping through inspired folk reminiscent of the works of Master Wilburn Burchette, William Ackerman, John Fahey and Robbie Basho, to homemade pastoral space folk exuding sophisticated, pale, lunar sonic moods that somehow might remind of the work of Roedelius from the early '80s. Equipment used for tracking included a rented 1/2" 8-track Otari MX5050 analog tape machine and assorted mics. With only a few thousand albums pressed, 'First Collection' has become a collectable in some circles. Now, almost forty years later, 'First Collection' has been remixed and remastered from the original 1/2" tapes for this release.