{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Master's Voice | type = Album | artist = Unknown Instructors | cover = UnknownInst_Master.jpg | alt = | released = March 6, 2007 (mail order)<br />March 20, 2007 (street) | recorded = October 13, 2005 | venue = | studio = | genre = Experimental rock, improvised music | length = {{Duration|m=41|s=18}}<ref>{{cite web|title=The Master's Voice|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-masters-voice-mw0001514291|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=March 15, 2019}}</ref> | label = Smog Veil | producer = Joe Baiza, Dan McGuire, Joe Carducci<ref name="verbicide"/> | 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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Watt|first=Mike|author-link=Mike Watt|title=july 29, 2006|url=http://hootpage.com/hoot_news.html|website=Mike Watt's Hoot Page|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref> The core quartet of Mike Watt (The Minutemen, fIREHOSE, The Stooges, Dos, Banyan),<ref>{{cite web|title= Unknown Instructors – The Master's Voice|url=https://www.discogs.com/Unknown-Instructors-The-Masters-Voice/release/1340279|website=Discogs|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref> George Hurley (The Minutemen, Firehose, Red Krayola),<ref>{{cite web|last=Rashidi|first=Waleed|title=George Hurley|url=https://www.moderndrummer.com/2007/11/george-hurley/|work=Modern Drummer|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref> Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress Of),<ref name="verbicide"/> and poet/saxophonist Dan McGuire reconvene on the album,<ref name="verbicide"/> with guest vocals on three tracks by David Thomas (Pere Ubu)<ref name="verbicide"/> and on another track by artist Raymond Pettibon.<ref name="verbicide">{{cite web|last=Huddle|first=Mark|title=Interview: Joe Baiza and Dan McGuire of Unknown Instructors|url=https://www.verbicidemagazine.com/2007/09/07/interview-unknown-instructors/|publisher=Verbicide Magazine|date=September 7, 2007|accessdate=March 15, 2019}}</ref> In addition, Watt also contributes a vocal of his own. The album was recorded at Total Access Studio in Redondo Beach, California,<ref>{{cite web|last=Watt|first=Mike|author-link=Mike Watt|title=watt (himself)|url=http://www.hootpage.com/hoot_gallery-watt.html|website=Mike Watt's Hoot Page|accessdate=October 26, 2019}}</ref> 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.
==Recording== According to Dan McGuire, the previous album ''The Ways Things Work'' was recorded in one day and came off jazzier because of it.<ref name="verbicide"/> With the rhythm section more familiar now, McGuire wanted a harder edged album this time.<ref name="verbicide"/>
==Track listing== #"Swarm" #"In Your Town Without You" #"At The Center" #"This Black Hat Is Rage" #"Twing"-Twang #"End Of The World" #"Tar Baby Sees The Rising Sun" #"Machine Language" #"Doghouse Riley" #"Maggot Sludge"
==Personnel== *Mike Watt - bass; vocals on track 2 *George Hurley - drums *Joe Baiza - guitar *Dan McGuire - vocals (except where noted); saxophone *David Thomas - vocals on tracks 4, 7 and 9 *Raymond Pettibon - vocals on track 5
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