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Tom Carter/ Christian Keifer- From the American Songbook (Preservation CD)
wild improv takes on these chestnuts, sometimes barely resembling the source. liner notes presented as a deck of 8 printed cards with musings on each piece by byron coley, tony conrad, tetuzi akiyama, james toth, sharon krauss, sean smith, glenn jones, & tim rutili. from the preservation website: "This second collaborative work from the pair is an expansive and ambitious recasting of American music now in the public domain. The influence of the songs collected here is long and widespread for their style and lyricism, forging a rich tradition and ever evolving history. With their interpretations, Carter and Kiefer have taken the songs that have seeped into their souls and extended upon them in such a way that brings something entirely new to their original ideas. It's something that's entirely theirs in spite of such source material, and with that, From The Great American Songbook brilliantly reveals a true hallmark of American music invention."
13$ postpaid in US, 15$ europe/canada/mexico, 17$ asia and elsewhere

Christina Carter/ Pocahaunted (Not Not Fun split LP)
from NNF site: "Been beautifully blissed on this pairing for months now and we're amped it's finally public unveiling time. Christina Carter has trekked around this country (and planet) countless times in the past decade plus, both by herself and with Tom Carter in Charalambides, and the constant gypsy-drifting has weathered her song-stories down into spare, spiral reflections on life, death, and afterlife. Here she lays down four perfect vignettes of acoustic guitar pattern, softly sung desperation, and dangerous intimacy. A beatific bring-down. Sisters-with-voices Pocahaunted handle the B side wax, and their two tracks span the psych-ward spectrum from doomy warpath exile ("Sweat Lodge") to octave-climbing estrogen ecstasy cloud-tripping ("Silk Fog Traveler"). Both were recorded by Bobb Bruno at Eagle Rock HQ across summer '07 and cling like cotton to the memory banks." black vinyl....
15$ media mail postpaid in US, 21$ europe/canada/mexico, 25$ asia and elsewhere

Tom Carter- Skyline Grinder (three lobed CD) 9$
steel string rivulets funneled into a narrow tonal canyon, with wrecked soloing slammed on top. similar in mode to recent live gigs, only replacing the 16 second delay with a vox jaguar, lapsteel, and ebow. not available for sale except from me (and whoever else i sell it to)....
9$ postpaid in US, 11$ europe/canada/mexico, 13$ asia and elsewhere

Primordial Undermind- Beings of Game PU (camera obscura CD)
sole document (almost) of my brief tenure in primordial undermind, free improvised heavy rock/ prog w/ viola, drums, bass, gtr, electronics, etc.....
8$ postpaid in US, 10$ europe/canada/mexico, 12$ asia and elsewhere

Charalambides- Rose/ Thorn (Klang! LP)
long awaited klang! debut of charalambides. this record has been brewing since 2000, and is now finally available under the auspices of eclipse/ klang!. two side long improvisations in much the same vein as IN CR EA SE, a bit more topographical perhaps, but still horizontally serene and horizonless. chord organ, lap steel, vocals.
20$ media mail postpaid in US, 26$ europe/canada/mexico, 28$ asia and elsewhere

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SARIN SMOKE - Smokescreen LP (comes with bonus live CD EP) (three lobed recordings)
from the same sessions that produced the wholly other 12", this one piles heaps of modal yearning on top of the already substantial blurry haze of the earlier disk. more beautiful art by liz harris, this time on a beautiful 2 panel foldover letter press sleeve. bonus CD is a short set from sacramento in 2005 (i think). another classy three lobed production, numbered pressing of 657.
15$ media mail postpaid in US, 21$ europe/canada/mexico, 23$ asia and elsewhere

TOM CARTER/ CHRISTIAN KIEFER - A Rather Solemn Promise CD (great pop supplement, UK)
Another T. Carter duo creeps down the pipeline. This time it's with Christian Kiefer, who some of you may recognize from his Tompkins Square CD with Sharon Krauss a couple of years back. This is an all-improvised set of threadbare-loose, (mostly) electrified folk blues- and it's almost normal enough to sneak onto the iPod of your average goateed tea sipper, but there's enough dense high-end steel rail shimmer to send the timid packing. Rambling, dusted, and deeply psyched out, sort of like The Hired Hand re-imagined by the Crosby-led Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra (c. 1969). Covers designed, rendered, and hand-screened by Rob Fisk of Free Porcupine Society. Numbered edition of 500, from the label folks responsible for the now-defunct Earworm Records.
LOWER PRICE: 10$ postpaid in US, 12$ europe/canada/mexico, 14$ asia and elsewhere

TOM CARTER/ ROBERT HORTON/ LISA CAMERON/ LEE ANN CAMERON - Sky City CD (important)
the latest horton-related outing on important. the camerons are well known to certain shadowy texans as a chunk of jerry sighnfeldz astro feed shak (or something like that), and lisa has pounded skins for years with brave combo (pre-polka), st37, devil bat, and roky erickson. lately she has been splitting sonic hairs via contact microphone and vibrating snare head in venison whirled, and this is the trail she pursues here. joined by lee ann on vox/ percussion, tom on gtr/ electronics/ etc, and robert on ... whatever the hell robert happens to be playing. far and away the most ra-damaged load of glass buckshot to be blown out the front door of chez robert into the mean streets of el cerrito in some time. and for fuzz historians, there are plenty of dispatches from the land of wah.
LOWER PRICE: 10$ postpaid in US, 12$ europe/canada/mexico, 14$ asia and elsewhere

TOM CARTER/ ROBERT HORTON - Steel Jaguar for Rocket CD (digitalis)
from the digitalis catalog: "Charalambides' Tom Carter and Robert Horton have become close collaborators over the past few years, appearing in a handful of projects together from Kyrgyz (w/ Jewelled Antler-ites Loren Chasse and Christine Boepple) to Mudsuckers (w/ D. Yellow Swans). But when they are stripped back to a duo, the sonic onslaught is just as dense and impressive. "Steeljaguar Rocket" is the second album, following-up "Lunar Eclipse" on Important Records. Horton again acts as the puppetmaster, pulling the strings to move each sound into its right place. Expansive improvisations and full-on psychedelic freakouts intermingle, creating a cosmic web of enchanted debris. Fiddler extraordinaire Hal Hughes adds exponentially to the dynamics at work with his marvellous playing on the title track. The strained violin notes whisk the listener away to the dirt-soaked alleys of Damascus. It's a hypnotic journey through jewel-encrusted foreign lands, like a solo flight to sun. Everything is not peaceful on "Steeljaguar Rocket," however. Digging further into the cataclysm finds Carter & Horton turning up the volume knobs and cranking out wailing solos on top of a bed of heavy drones and cacaphonic drums. Like Horton's Future Ears project, it's equal parts noise, free jazz, and fractured folk bliss. There is no stone unturned on "Steeljaguar Rocket," and just as it feels as though it will collapse in on itself, Carter & Horton bring everything back down to earth, ready to begin again."
LOWER PRICE: 6$ postpaid in US, 8$ europe/canada/mexico, 10$ asia and elsewhere

MUDSUCKERS- S/T CD (important)
first release by this collaborative project of tom carter, robert horton, and yellow swans (gabriel mindel/ pete swanson). the most roaring and dense horton assemblage to date, with walls of sound verging on gravitational collapse. "feedback is layered like mud on the carcass of song structure... think creedence clearwater revival without the one chord they knew."- robert horton, from the important catalog description.
LOWER PRICE: 8$ postpaid in US, 10$ europe/canada/mexico, 12$ asia and elsewhere

FRIDAY GROUP- S/T LP (beta lactam ring)
restocked a bunch of copies of the debut friday group release. this one has a pulsing serenity in place of the extreme wigginess of the live stuff, and remains the definitive friday group recording to date (just wait for the next LP, however). from the BLR records catalog: "From out of the Great Republic of Texas, and a new side project from Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Brian Smith (Iron Kite) rises a lone star called Friday Group. In a seemingly appropriate gesture, the opening scherzo of droney solo guitar twang blows dusty debris across the speakers, as if a small sand storm in a remote part of Amarillo. With wind wrestling loose gutters and flat chimes, the first movement is almost a weird paean to Ry Cooder's desolate Paris Texas score. Axe attacks hover thick and dragging in the hazy distance, strings sounding as if played a single wind at a time. Jittery, slithery, prepared warbled tremolos flutter warm in extended notes that drip like old paint. If you've never had the pleasure, the later addition of harmonium and the further devolution of the guitar into howling halos of rusty hinges is virtually the embodiment of a drive through western Texas. Slow motion, spacious landscapes of thirsty air and lazy lizards. Perhaps The Great Republic will rise again. In the mean time, Tom Carter's Friday Group will make mincemeat out of a month of Sundays."
LOWER PRICE: 10$ media mail postpaid in US, 16$ europe/canada/mexico, 18$ asia and elsewhere

TOM CARTER/ ROBERT HORTON - Lunar Eclipse CD (Important)
"Lunar Eclipse was culled from over 30 hours of recordings taking place, inedvertantly, on the equinox, lunar eclipse and winter solstice of 2004 .The duo of Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Robert Horton sound as if they are channeling the natural power of these significant calender days into the music. They both noticed something special was happening during the initial recording session when they looked at a clock and realised that they'd been playing for over 5 hours. Thoughout the album Carter slowly plays louder and more powerfully than usual over drone-master Robert Horton's organic & electronic chimes, drones, jangles, dangles and splendor. The result is a vast, expansive sound cavern full of hidden melody, slow drones, textured tribal gong and hidden mystic rhythm.From the very start, when Horton drones in and Tom Carter strikes a single sustained echoing electrified note Lunar Eclipse sounds like the music is infused with that shock and weird light of an eclipse. Track one, Lunar Eclipse, is a slow drone metal meets Neil Young psychedelic freakout with vocals that sound as is they’re recorded inside of a deep cave. On other tracks Horton’s homemade instruments such as the electric barometer, boot, and sex machine fuse with Carter's twisted lap steel ebow shimmerings, prepared guitar. At other moments Tom's guitar or lapsteel solo over the top of the swirling noise chasm. On the last track Robert and Tom both play Horton’s homemades welding a Harry Partch web of rhythm together untill it implodes in metal drone fragments of screeching fury. Lunar Eclipse demands to be listened to in it's entirety as one whole experience. It has an undeniable power that will return again and again much like the natural events that subconsciously inspired the recordings." (from Important catalog listing)
LOWER PRICE: 8$ postpaid in US, 10$ europe/canada/mexico, 12$ asia and elsewhere

KYRGYZ - s/t CD (Foxy Digitalis)
"Kyrgyz is a name that will be unfamiliar to most, but the band's members read like an all-star team of Bay Area improvisers. This quartet consists of Tom Carter (Charalambides), Loren Chasse (The Blithe Sons, Thuja, etc), Christine Boepple (Skygreen Leopards Skyband), and Robert Horton (Broken Mask, Infinite Article, etc). Kyrgyz's debut album is 60 minutes of droned-out bliss. With its roots firmly planted in trance-inducing soil, the six songs here stretch their branches toward the sun. When four artists of this caliber come together in a single setting, the expectations are high. There is tension to spare. But Kyrgyz is such a perfect blend of all their talents that it never implodes beneath the pressure. Horton is the hand that guides this mix of heavy, hypnotic drones, a thicket of acoustic scrawl, and even free jazz skronk.. After preliminary mixes from Chasse created a thick organic atmosphere, Horton took that feeling and ran with it. Each sound is carefully chosen and blended together magically. There are equal elements of Charalambides and Jewelled Antler throughout Kyrgyz, but again it is Horton that upsets the balance to create something completely new. In the end, this is nothing short of brilliant." (from Digitalis catalog description)
LOWER PRICE: 6$ postpaid in US, 8$ europe/canada/mexico, 10$ asia and elsewhere

TOM CARTER - Glyph CD (Foxy Digitalis)
Two acoustic tracks sandwiching one long lap steel track recorded in the smoke filled center hallway at bullbabe studios. One last stab at channeling the gnarly mystery of Texas angst-blues-ecstasy. No effects, just fingers, glass, steel, nylon, and space. found a few copies of the original gatefold- jump fast!
LOWER PRICE: 8$ postpaid in US, 10$ europe/canada/mexico, 12$ asia and elsewhere

SPIDERWEBS/ TAMBURO + McDOWELL/ LAWLER - Strands Formerly Braided CD (Music Fellowship)
Features Spiderwebs (Tom Carter/Sandy Ewen), Mike Tamburo/ Matthew McDowell, and Keenan Lawler. Powerhouse tracks by all three (especially the under-documented Lawler). "The act of braiding the strands together affects the structure and fibers of hair, taking days or even weeks for the hair to relax back into its natural position. This relationship between strands in a braid is similar to relationships between people. Each interaction, especially ones with close friends, affects and influences the interactions you have later on. Thus, Strands Formerly Braided is a fitting title for this edition of the Music Fellowship's Triptych series because the three featured artists have a long history of improvisation and collaboration." (from Music Fellowship catalog description).
LOWER PRICE: 6$ postpaid in US, 8$ europe/canada/mexico, 10$ asia and elsewhere

FURSAXA - Amulet CD (Last Visible Dog)
Not a Wholly Other family release per se, but close to our hearts nonetheless. Tara is instrumental in the continuing secession of the Psychic Nation Underground from consensus reality and remains a valued comrade (and unacknowledged legislator of the Line 6). Her Terrastock set was purely massive, enveloping, and generous; powerful without oppression, and by far the best thing I saw that weekend. I'm grateful to have a handful of copies to sell on behalf of my partner Natacha Robinson, whose fantastic cover art is well suited to the mystique within. "Fursaxa has never quite turned out a studio album that reflected the power and awe of her live shows. Instead, fans have had only a series of tour cd-rs as compensation for this deficiency in her output. Rectifying this problem (at least in part), comes the CD reissue of Amulet along with half of her previous tour cd-r, 'From the Cult of Moon Mountain'. This hour plus selection of live material captures Fursaxa at her very best, and will hopefully make believers of those who haven't yet had a chance to catch her during her tours. Two of the tracks feature extra fuzz and wah from Bardo Pond's Michael and John Gibbons! This is the Fursaxa that people need to hear, raw and intoxicating; beautiful and perhaps still a little bit dangerous." (from Last Visible Dog catalog).
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