hey,
welcome to the November 2007 edition of the Carbon Records Newsletter.

(if you know someone who wants to be on this list, have them email
me. if you are on this list and would like to be removed from it,
check out the links at the bottom of this email, and sorry in
advance. ok, on with the news:)


News:
====================
Quickie 3-day 20% OFF sale in the mailorder catalog - starting right
now! going till friday night at 11:59pm. get it while its' hot! and
that includes the 3 BRAND NEW Carbon releases, and even the 3-way
combo deal. that means you can get the 3 releases for the price of
2! deal deal, what a deal!!!

Carbon will have a table at this Sunday's (Nov 4) Bop Shop Record
Show here in Rochester. 10am to 4pm. admission is FREE. i'll have my
entire stock.

The Carbon.SoundSystem (podcast) #32 has just been posted!!!

The mailorder site now includes REVIEWS in the descriptions of the
releases. for now, only Carbon releases have them included, but i'll
add reviews for non-Carbon releases as time goes on.

A|V, a performance space i help run here in Rochester has recently
been shut down due to some zoning issues with the City. we are
currently looking for a new space to continue to hold the visual and
music shows. if anyone can help in any way, it would be very much
appreciated. we're still booking some of our shows at other venues in
town, in the interim. if you care, you can follow along at
www.avspace.org


Band Info:
====================
Joe+N was interviewed recently on Foxy Digitalis by Cory Card (of
Stone Baby). its posted here - http://www.digitalisindustries.com/
foxyd/features.php?which=270 Cory also reviewed a couple new Carbon
releases, including the latest efforts from Entente Cordiale (http://
www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=2790) and Crush
the Junta (http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?
which=2785)


New Releases:
====================

Artist: Placenta Popeye
Title: black fever
Format: CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $8.00
Catalog ID: CR159
31+ minutes from this french noise duo. deconstructed songs, similar
to the DeadC with their guitar and vocal work sometimes low-key drone/
tones, sometimes more aggressive and harsh. its all very good. (at
least) 1/2 of the group runs the Tanzprocesz label (http://
tanzprocesz.free.fr/). [packaged in Stumptown-Arigato package,
sprayed and stenciled, multiple colors, with insert and sprayed and
stenciled CDR]


Artist: Stone Baby
Title: fully render(ed) /cloud/s
Format: CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $8.00
Catalog ID: CR160
44+ minutes from this drone/creeper duo (Cory and Jen) from Rochester
NY. guitars, violin, effects, dulcimer, homemade tape machine and
more. really amazing layers of sounds from just two people. good
sense and mixture of denseness and space. [packaged in a 5x7" kraft
chipboard envelope, original cloud artwork from Cory, affixed with
clear/thread-grid tape and sprayed/splattered, insert/notes and
sprayed CDR]


Artist: Colonel Parmisan
Title: Retaste
Format: 3inch CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $6.00
Catalog ID: CR161
20 minutes from this solo Rochester arist - Brian Blatt. also plays
in Gaybot, Dufus and No, among others. this is two tracks. one short
studio piece, synth/textural warbly-ness. and a longer live synth/
drone/noise/voice piece. amazing repetition of melody in the noise
context, with hiss, static and air/fog mixed in. [cdr is wrapped in a
cardstock insert, inserted into a vinyl sleeve, affixed to a
(roughly) 5x5" piece of plywood, which is painted with various layers/
colors, and then stenciled with more colors. CDR is also stenciled]



RECENT RELEASES:

Artist: Tumul
Title: spray-stencil design
Format: TSHIRT
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR123
various color shirts (light heather gray, dark heather gray, orange,
dark red) with mixture of ink colors (white, black, gold, orange)
with variety of sizes (not all colors in all colors, so its a surprise!)

Artist: Noh
Title: s/t
Format: 3inch CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $6.00
Catalog ID: CR158
duo of Larry J Patti (Foot and Mouth Disease) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N,
Crush the Junta, Entente Cordiale, former-Pengo, etc), doing analog
and electronic heavy/deep synth. [3" CDR housed in a LP cover,
sprayed and stenciled. limited to 50 copies!]

Artist: Joe+N
Title: Day-Tours 2005/2006 - the best part of today was it wasn't
yesterday
Format: 3CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $15.00
Catalog ID: CR96
this is a BOXSET containing 2 audio CDRs and 1 video DVDR. material
culled from the 2005 and 2006 Joe+N Day-Tours. each of the audio
discs contains 3 tracks around 20min long. the DVDR contains 7
videos, also each roughly 20min in length. [packaged in a 5" x 7" x
1" kraft box, each with a unique color image transfered onto the
cover, along with spray paint, and each package comes with some
variety of Day-Tour postcards, including this year's (2007). limited
to 50 copies!!!]

Artist: Crush the Junta
Title: the curse of abraham
Format: CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $8.00
Catalog ID: CR156
two live tracks, totally 42+ minutes. ranges from the stoner/heavy
riff-n-drive that live CTJ audiences have been experiencing, to some
more deconstructed, almost US Maple-influenced jitters. [packaged in
kraft chip-board envelope with full color artwork affixed and dual-
color spray splatter. disc is also sprayed. also includes color insert.]

Artist: Crush the Junta
Title: hanging design
Format: TSHIRT
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR157
the Crush the Junta "hanging" design. comes in muted blue and brick
red shirts with gray and white ink and wrap-around design.

Artist: Entente Cordiale
Title: the recognition of common interests
Format: CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR150
nearly 48 minutes of sometimes sparce, sometimes dense, guitar work
by this trio consisting of Will Veeder (Hinkley, Torpedoes, formerly
of Muler), Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Crush the Junta, Ian
Downey is Famous, DvsC, Ada le O, The Years) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N,
Crush the Junta, Tuurd, SQ, DvsC, Ada le O, formerly of Hilkka and
Pengo). other instrumentation includes heavy synth, droney melodica
and homemade pipe chimes. co-released by Phantom Limb Recordings.
[packaged in a heavy vinyl sleeve with pro-printed card-stock cover]

Artist: Deciduous vs Conifer
Title: leaves and needles
Format: CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR153
2 tracks, totally 50+ minutes. DvsC is a trio consisting of R. Scott
Oliver, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Entente Cordiale, Crush
the Junta and more) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N, Entente Cordiale, Crush the
Junta, SQ and formerly of Pengo). the trio plays only non-
electrically enhanced instruments, including batteries (so no eBows).
instruments on these recordings include acoustic guitar, homemade
string instrument, double-bass, homemade mallets, bowls, bells,
wooden box drums, bottles, melodica and more, "creating a non-
shamanistic/spiritual approach to earthly music. it is what it
is." [laser cut wooden cover with the DvsC logo, image behind the cut-
out, with the CDR inserted into an adhesive backed vinly sleeve]

Artist: Sindre Bjerga and Joe+N
Title: slow collapse / building nature
Format: CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $8.00
Catalog ID: CR149
the second in the Joe+N collaboration series (the first being with
Antony Milton. this release consists of six tracks totally 27+
minutes, this is a long-distance collaboration between Sindre Bjerga
(Gold Soundz label man) and Joe+N (aka Joe Tunis, Carbon label man).
the two traded tracks over 2006/2007, Sindre started the recordings
with some heavy synth loops/drones/etc. Joe then overdubbed various
instruments (guitars, drums, field recordings), extending/looping the
originals at times, to get them to a final state. [packaged in a
heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a translucent red "dimple" cover,
artwork beneath, and wrapped in a band of metallic foil tape.]

Artist: Kelli Shay Hicks
Title: Buck Again
Format: CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00
Catalog ID: CR144
“A needle in one arm and a bouquet in the other”. This is Kelli
Shay's first full-length album. The thirteen tracks here were
recorded in 2005 in Chicago with Butchy Fuego of Pit er Pat. Buck
Again is not unlike Kelli's live performances in its sparseness, but
each song flows into the other with the addition of ambient sounds
that weave through an instrumentation consisting of little more than
guitar, autoharp, violin, and voice. [Each package is unique-- hand-
painted in gold and silkscreened in Nashville, Tennessee at Isle of
Printing.] “She sounds like Strawberry Shortcake is coming to get me”.


coming up later in the fall will be Crush the Junta's first full-
length studio CD. its all mixed and mastered. just needs to get
pressed. cover at by Andy Gilmore!

coming up in the winter will be releases by more Joe+N collaboration
releases (with John Charlton and sleepwalkers local 242), Nôh/No
split, Brian Blatt, SQ, Andy Gilmore mixing Ada le O, Joe+N, Hilkka
(really?), Tuurd, (VxPxC) and more.



Shows (Rochester, NY):
====================
Sun Nov 4th - Bop Shop Record Show - Carbon Records table!!! - Bop
Shop Atrium (274 N. Goodman St, Rochester) - 10AM

Sat Nov 10th - Antique Brothers, Stone Baby, Century Plants, The
Circle and the Point and Mirable Dictu - No Radio Records (312 East
Seneca Street, Ithaca) - 7PM

Sat Nov 10th - Hinkley and Old Boy - Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave,
Rochester) - 9PM

Sun Nov 11th - Antique Brothers, Sleepwalkers Local 242, Stone Baby
and Century Plants - 247 Lark Street, Albany NY (, ) - 8PM

Tue Nov 13th - Eastern Seaboard, Stone Baby and sleepwalkers local
242 + Joe+N - Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave, Rochester) - 9PM

Thu Nov 15th - Up-Tight (Japan), Kohoutek (DC) and Pengo - Bug Jar
(219 Monroe Ave, Rochester) - 8PM

Sat Dec 1st - Tumul, Mordecai! and White York - The Landfill (,
Rochester) - 8PM


you can also check out the Carbon Shows Calendar Site at http://
www.carbonrecords.com/calendar/ for up-to-the-minute additions/
changes/etc.

And now, you can subscribe to the Carbon Shows Calendar using iCal on
the Mac, or other calendar applications that support the iCal
standard. the Carbon iCal URL is http://www.carbonrecords.com/
calendar/carbon.ics



Media Updates:
====================
- new Photos at http://www.carbonrecords.com/photos/ including Stone
Baby, Entente Cordiale and Yellow Swans.
- check out the latest Carbon Records podcasts (details below) -
http://www.carbonrecords.com/soundsystem/



MAILORDER:
====================


New Releases since 10/3/2007 (23 items)
======================================

Akitsa - sang nordique (0) - Hospital Productions $12.00
akitsa - sang nordique - cd reissue of the second akitsa full length.
very low end punkish primitivist chunky underwater black metal with
hard youth spirit and epic minimalism. essential for fans of bone
awl, ildjarn, early absurd etc.


Behemothaur - Necroglacial Enema (CDR) - Ruralfaune $10.00
"Haunted echoes of sacrificial chants. Coming down from a foggy
middle earth, here are three occult Sabbaths by the south island’s
lost souls. Long distorted messes noires, noisy and sharp-edged
guitars, skinned voice. Totally tortured and massive; welcome the
birth of the new Milford sounds" Limited to 73


Colonel Parmisan - Retaste (3inch CDR) - Carbon Records $6.00
20 minutes from this solo Rochester arist - Brian Blatt. also plays
in Gaybot, Dufus and No, among others. this is two tracks. one short
studio piece, synth/textural warbly-ness. and a longer live synth/
drone/noise/voice piece. amazing repetition of melody in the noise
context, with hiss, static and air/fog mixed in. [cdr is wrapped in a
cardstock insert, inserted into a vinyl sleeve, affixed to a
(roughly) 5x5" piece of plywood, which is painted with various layers/
colors, and then stenciled with more colors. CDR is also stenciled]


Grey Daturas - Dead In The Woods (CD) - Crucial Blast $11.00
"A re-issue of the out-of-print 2004 monsterpiece from the Melbourne,
Australian trio Grey Daturas. Originally released through the band's
own Crashing Jets imprint, Dead In The Woods is a massive exhortation
of lumbering metallic sludge rock, freely improvised amplifier noise
and crushing riff splatter, and massive, sky-streaking psychedelic
corrosion. The Crucial Blast re-issue of Dead In The Woods features a
full remastering by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound, and will also come
with a brand new packaging design via a 4-panel case printed by
Stumptown Printers. "


Hair Police - s/t (CD) - Hospital Productions $12.00
"cd collects early hospital cassette, mortuary servants 7" and
unreleased material from drawn dead era. total basement dirge hell."


Heads of Pagans - Under the Tall and Darkened Arches (3inch CDR) -
Ruralfaune $7.00
"Under the darkened arches the two ghosts of the damned stag preach.
Playing a repetitive bleak suite, they bring us to the final
punishment with a hidden depressive voice and crowleyfic
guitarscapes. Magickal pain" limited to 66


Hototogisu / Prurient - snail on a razor (CD) - Hospital Productions
$12.00
"live in person collaboration of mid ranged feedback hell laden with
raw human drones of cosmic existential turbulence. features matt
bower, marcia bassett and dominick fernow."


Kvlt Of Unicron - untitled (show tape) (CASS) - Epicene Sound System
$6.00
"two side long tracks on the new side a is KofU as 3 piece, blasting
out blackened beats and tone harshness. Side b is the whole group on
an unusually harsher jam. Each side sounds drastically different than
the other, and drastically different than the debut while still
retaining the droned out creep factor that has folks referring to
them as a “super group”. ltd to (?) pro printed covers on textured
paper."


Light of Shipwreck - From The Idle Cylinders (CDR) - Crucial Blast $9.00
"Light Of Shipwreck is a one-man band operated by Ben Fleury-Steiner,
a Deleware-based drone artist and owner of the excellent Gears of
Sand Recordings imprint, which has released discs from some of our
favorite ambient/drone/drift artists including Encomiast, Cordell
Klier, and Aidan Baker. It was actually through Aidan Baker that we
found out about Ben's Light Of Shipwreck project; knowing that we're
fanatics for "heavy ambient" sound, Light Of Shipwreck was
recommended as something we should check out. At first expecting
something more along the lines of the kind of floating ambient rumble
that marks so much of my favorite Baker solo stuff, I was pleasantly
surprised by how percussive the tracks I heard online from LOS were,
the dense, ominous feedback drones and heavy rumbling ur-riffs
floating freely over a mechanistic tribal-rhythm freakout. We ended
up getting in touch with Ben from Light Of Shipwreck and it turned
out that he had a nearly hour-long disc that he wanted
to have released through our Crucial Bliss imprint, and here we
are: a three-track full length of rich, crushing power-ambient,
titled From The Idle Cylinders, a reference to the American
Objectivist poet George Oppen whose work is a consistent influence on
Light Of Shipwreck's imagery, with huge slabs of resonant sheet metal
shimmering in an ocean of heavenly feedback and reverberating guitar
drone, and surges of droning tribal Krautrock percussion floating
along with distorted ambient doom powerchords and washed out vocal
cord bliss, each track running upwards of 20 minutes in length. A
totally breathtaking piece of music, like Steve Reich, Brian Eno,
Can, and Earth swirled together into an austere, hypnotizing heavy-
trance masterpiece. This limited edition CD-R of From The Idle
Cylinders comes packaged in the signature Crucial Bliss foldover card
sleeve with the disc itself attached to the sleeve on a plastic hub
and featuring striking photo design, in a print run of 200!
copies. "


Placenta Popeye - black fever (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
31+ minutes from this french noise duo. deconstructed songs, similar
to the DeadC with their guitar and vocal work sometimes low-key drone/
tones, sometimes more aggressive and harsh. its all very good. (at
least) 1/2 of the group runs the Tanzprocesz label (http://
tanzprocesz.free.fr/). [packaged in Stumptown-Arigato package,
sprayed and stenciled, multiple colors, with insert and sprayed and
stenciled CDR]


Sorc'henn - Harmonium Pieces And Dead Reveries (CDR) - Ruralfaune $10.00
"Ritual & funeral music from Breizh (Brittany), played under a dead
pine tree. Breizh is synonymous with the magic green and golden
colours of the Arrée Mounts where he mythical and the mystical blend
with nature. A country of moors, gorse, and heather, crests and
ragged rocks, peat bogs, forests, marshes, green and wooded valleys.
Possessed and lost" Limited to 66


Souvenir's Young America - s/t (CD) - Under Radar $9.00
"Monstrous instrumental post-metal from Richmond, Virginia that
crushed our skulls! We've heard previous recordings from these guys
that we really liked, which saw them working with a mixture of spare
Neurosis/Godflesh informed heaviness and cinematic post-rock like
Godspeed You! Black Emporer or Explosions In The Sky. Really good
stuff, very pretty at times, and heavy n' crushing at others. Well,
this debut full length on the ever-stellar Underadar label takes
those basic ideas and carries them into a whole new realm of
beautiful, flowing, HEAVY instrumental music that we have totally
fallen in love with. These songs are heavily layered, masterfully
assembled instrumental creations, emotionally moving and majestic
like Red Sparowes, filled with dense shoegazer buildups and gorgeous
droning electronc swirl, massively heavy prog-rock dirges and sludgy
piano-accompanied rock, never descending into boring noodling or
overextended jams. A range of instruments are used here, keybo
ards, percussion, samples, guitars, accordion, xylophone, cello, and
much more. The whole album sounds like a soundtrack for a killer lost
road-trip movie scored by members of Neurosis and Godspeed You! Black
Emporer doing a weird mix of 70's prog and biker rock, and 80's
soundtrack metal, but with all sorts of forays into lonesome,dusty
country guitar-twang, long droning expanses of floating electronic
drones, supremely beautiful and often super-crushing !!! This is
ABSOLUTELY A MUST GET for fans of heavy instrumental ambient metal/
post-rock (Red Sparowes, Mogwai, Mono, Pelican, Isis, etc.), and
soundtrack-influenced heaviness (Zombi, Chromelodeon). Very very
highly recommended!!!!"


Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water (LP) - Crucial
Blast $12.00
" The limited-edition yellow-clear vinyl version of Souvenir's Young
America's powerful sophomore album An Ocean Without Water is now
available from Crucial Blast - only 150 of these were pressed, and we
only have less than 25 copies in stock. Richmond, VA's cinematic
instrumentalists SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA present their second full
length, "An Ocean Without Water", recorded with John Morand
(Labradford, Sparklehorse, 4 Walls Falling) at Sound of Music. The LP
version of "An Ocean Without Water" comes in a full color sleeve with
original artwork by Sasha Barr. Lush, shimmering guitar ambience and
hypnotic, propulsive instrumental heaviness wind through the dusty
highways and burnt twilight skies of "An Ocean Without Water," the
sophomore album from Richmond's Souvenir's Young America. Divided
into six flowing movements, "An Ocean Without Water" is filled with
intensely beautiful melodies that drift on lonesome harmonica strains
and sparkling, celestial electronics, shot thr
ough with mystic, western slide guitar, passages of crushing angular
riffage, rolling tribal drumming, and transcendent blues. Through
their intricate song arrangements and moody textures, Souvenir's
Young America has created an epic, emotional narrative. The sound
draws from the collected DNA of forebears like Popul Vuh, Earth,
Labradford, and Neurosis, yet they form a powerfully evocative
instrumental language all of their own. Features collaborations with
Aughra (Magic Bullet Records) and Nick Forte (Sublight Records, ex
Rorschach / Beautiful Skin). "


Stone Baby - fully render(ed) /cloud/s (CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
44+ minutes from this drone/creeper duo (Cory and Jen) from Rochester
NY. guitars, violin, effects, dulcimer, homemade tape machine and
more. really amazing layers of sounds from just two people. good
sense and mixture of denseness and space. [packaged in a 5x7" kraft
chipboard envelope, original cloud artwork from Cory, affixed with
clear/thread-grid tape and sprayed/splattered, insert/notes and
sprayed CDR]


The New Blockaders / Thurston Moore / Jim O’Rour - the voloptulist
(CD) - Hospital Productions $12.00
"high tension collaboration of long drawn drone with english clutter
dissovling into tape hiss ambient with booming free barbaric yawps
from these legendary characters. chris corsano guests on the o'rourke
piece."


Various Artists - showtunes of the condemned (CD) - Hospital
Productions $12.00
"two years in the making, showtunes of the condemned emerges not as a
compilation, but a massive unified whole. spinning, spinning,
spinning. a dark, edgy, electronic epic, acting as a pandora's box of
social and urban anxiety. ranging from lo-fi ambient soundscape to
high-tech industrial powernoise, and rotten sound collage, the varied
styles on this cd merge into a compelling argument for despair.
featuring roughly fifteen minutes each from: smashed femur dance
party, sinking body, pleasurehorse, work/death, kites, and meerk
puffy, plus an extensive short story of contemporary mythology from
scott wilson."


Various Artists - Old Tyme Lemonade (CD) - Hospital Productions $12.00
"eclectic compilation of independent music from providence including
noise, grind, hardcore, electronic, and experimental. reissue of
extremely limited cassette release. 100 specially coloured pink
lemonade numbered copies randomly inserted into the first pressing.
landed, noise nomads, necronomitron, mindflayer, knights of timbre,
em dath rir, prurient, dropdead, mahi mahi, seratone, football
rabbit, suffering bastard, smashed femur dance party, throne of
blood, kites, lightning bolt, knifestorm, meerk puffy, white mice,
patootie lobe"


Various Artists - October 2007 Carbon releases package deal (OTHER) -
Carbon Records $20.00
This is a packaged deal. The 3 October 2007 Carbon releases,
including Placenta Popeye (CDR), Stone Baby (CDR) and Colonel
Parmisan (CDR). so get three releases for only $20 ($4 off the normal
price). release details below.

Placenta Popeye - 31+ minutes from this french noise duo.
deconstructed songs, similar to the DeadC with their guitar and vocal
work sometimes low-key drone/tones, sometimes more aggressive and
harsh. its all very good. (at least) 1/2 of the group runs the
Tanzprocesz label (http://tanzprocesz.free.fr/). [packaged in
Stumptown-Arigato package, sprayed and stenciled, multiple colors,
with insert and sprayed and stenciled CDR]

Stone Baby - 44+ minutes from this drone/creeper duo (Cory and Jen)
from Rochester NY. guitars, violin, effects, dulcimer, homemade tape
machine and more. really amazing layers of sounds from just two
people. good sense and mixture of denseness and space. [packaged in a
5x7" kraft chipboard envelope, original cloud artwork from Cory,
affixed with clear/thread-grid tape and sprayed/splattered, insert/
notes and sprayed CDR]

Colonel Parmisan - 20 minutes from this solo Rochester arist - Brian
Blatt. also plays in Gaybot, Dufus and No, among others. this is two
tracks. one short studio piece, synth/textural warbly-ness. and a
longer live synth/drone/noise/voice piece. amazing repetition of
melody in the noise context, with hiss, static and air/fog mixed in.
[cdr is wrapped in a cardstock insert, inserted into a vinyl sleeve,
affixed to a (roughly) 5x5" piece of plywood, which is painted with
various layers/colors, and then stenciled with more colors. CDR is
also stenciled]


Waverly Hills - The Nurse (CDR) - Ruralfaune $10.00
"Unhealthy, hypnotic, oppressing and depressive sounds from the
haunted sanatorium. Welcome the monolithic funeral doom of the
Waverly hills ghosts. Totally sick, dark, cold, and lonely…" limited
to 74


Wether / Teeth Collection - split (7inch) - Epicene Sound System $5.00
"one track of scorched-black drone from each artist. bitter layers of
disorienting electronics, seriously dense pulses, and metallic scrap.
pro pressed 7” and offset printed covers. ltd to 300 copies. a split
releases from no horse shit and epicene."


Yellow Swans - At All Ends (CD) - Load Records $12.00
"At All Ends is the third record in the Yellow Swans vast body of
work. This record is an assured record of chiming drone and heady
pelvic sky fuckery. New sounds emerge from the YELLOW SWANS camp that
are more hushed, and whisper with the logic of deep space. Whereas
the last record was a laser beam guided minimal transmission with
dark overtones, this new release injects sonic clouds full of pink
oxycontin. Guitar lines sketch out a melodic vision that stupifies
with hypnotic repetition. Elements of lush drone stretch the
proceedings in vast strokes. Yellow Swans veer towards krautrock
territory with this new record, and it will go down in the big books
as their most beautiful and vibrant record thus far. Layer upon layer
of rich and dense guitar chug build into multi-orgasm songscapes that
leave the loins sore and the mind spent. An exhausting journey into
pleasure and single-mindedness. FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS..."


Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession (CD) - Load Records $12.00
Beaming down from the sky like a ray of white-hot light intent on
saving us from outselves, the Yellow Swans come up with their second
studio record. Thier other record was “Bringing The Neon War Home” on
narnack Although the band has countless releases documenting their
live aktions, “Psychic Secession” is a work of uncomprimising vison,
weaving together all sides of this duo’s 20-sided die. Moments of
quiet hum but up against crunchy speaker burners to make this record
essential listening. The last few years have seen the Yellow Swans
coat the planet with live dates in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand,
and Europe. Songs on this record were road tested in front of this
planet’s hungry eyes.... you might have heard “True Union”, which has
been a staple of many of these live sets. This record was originally
released in Austrlia by the Numerical Thief label, and comes to you
on LOAD in a remastered format. The new master will allow you to hear
the whispered hush, disjointed pol
yrhthymic attack and squealing how, in a new manner, as the
Australian version is a bit noisier


Zaïmph - sexual infinity (CD) - Hospital Productions $12.00
"marcia bassett of double leopards, hototogisu, fame on her first
proper solo full length has given us one of our favorites in the
history of hospital productions. sexual infinity stands refreshingly
organized into six escalating pieces of her signature guitar, voice,
and electronic moodscapes entrancing the listener with sinister
seduction. comparisons to early 80’s power electronics and industrial
acts as uncommunity, mathausen orchestra and ramleh reside in the
underbelly of zaïmph’s ability to generate ominous, gritty, and doom
laden atmosphere cloaked in a thick lush drone. what begins with raw
ethereal guitar shadows of longing delight closes with vital gripping
electronic tension."




Carbon Records
PO Box 10718
Rochester, NY 14610
www.carbonrecords.com