hey guys,
the long awaited (around here anyway) Crush the Junta full-
length CD is now available. details below. i've also included reviews
from past Crush the Junta releases.

http://www.carbonrecords.com/mailorder/

Artist: Crush the Junta
Title: the disappeared
Format: CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $8.00
Catalog ID: CR151
45 minutes of improv noise-rock heaviness. ranging from full-on
overblown jams, to thick drones, to even some melodic pieces.
includes lots of guitar, bass, synth and drums, with some vocals
sprayed here and there. similar at times to Grey Daturas, Heavy
Winged, Alasehir/Bardo Pond and Codeine. check out
ctj.carbonrecords.com for more info. [packaged in a heavy vinyl
sleeve with pro-printed card-stock cover. cover artwork by Andy
Gilmore - birdbrid.blogspot.com]











Foxy Digitalis
RELEASE: the curse of abraham
Made up of two tracks “Curse of Abraham” is the first full length
CDR by Crush the Junta; a trio that bring forth a blend of pounding
doom-inflected sludge with hints of math and indie rock weaving their
way in and out of the mix. To lay it out simply this trio really
knows how to lay it all flat out and show no mercy with their sonic
assault.

The first track starts out with some guitar swells and ambient drum
noises slowly but surely coalescing into a lumbering monster. What
really sets this track ablaze is the rumbling undertones of Chris
Reeg’s stand-up bass, as it forms a foundation for the drums and
guitar to play over as well as maintaining its own directional
clarity. As the first track trudges forward a sudden silence is
reached until a quickly strummed guitar moves in and out and then
explodes into more extreme heaviness. But the real clincher comes in
the third movement of this track where the guitar becomes the
rhythmic foundation, laying it down with a jazz infused math-rock
swing, while the bass and drums find their way in and out of its
simple repetition.

The second track, another live effort continues on with similar
energies, beginning a bit more melancholy than before, invoking the
desert airs of Earth’s latest forays. Slowly the beast reappears
moving forward with its single-minded energy to destroy, littered
with some melodic leads that soon explode into all out chaos only to
recover and find a new path to trod down, before making a half tempo
return to the main riff that got the set going in the first place and
eventual return to a (slow) full speed accompanied by the faintly
heard cries of someone screaming vocals over the din and finally
chaos takes us out. 9/10 -- Cory Card (26 September, 2007) - Cory Card



Crucial Blast
RELEASE: the curse of abraham
Just found out about this new trio from Rochester, NY, which includes
Joe Tunis somewhere in it's lineup. When the fuck does this guy
sleep? In addition to running the massive avant-noise label and
mailorder Carbon, doing one-day tours where he performs short, fast
sets of his solo experimental electronics at various locations around
Rochester, collaborating with a million different artists, and
playing in the amp-cranking free-rock unit Entente Cordiale, Tunis
apparently also operates this killer group alongside Dennis Mariano
(also of TIger Cried Beef and Hungness) and Chris Reeg (Blood And
Bone Orchestra, The Years). Reeg and Tunis are actually both in
Entente Cordiale, and that group's hazy, droning noise rock improv is
sort of the starting point for what Crush The Junta are doing. But
this outfit however definitely gets more raucous, combining formless
guitar riffs and feedback, meandering basslines a la The Dead C and
likeminded rock deconstructionists, electronic textures, synths, and
freeform percussive splat into waves of amorphous rock action that
crest with loud and burly bursts of psychedelic sludgery that come
close at times to Grey Daturas-levels of sonic muscle. The Curse Of
Abraham is one of the group's first recorded works, a document of two
live tracks that each toe the twenty-minute mark, and which run the
gamut between brooding, pummeling krautrock workouts, spidery
meandering math rock jams, and punishing metallic sludge dripping
with woozy, detuned guitars and howling screams. One of the heaviest
releases from Carbon to date - keep it up, Joe! I'm looking forward
to hearing more from this band. The spraypainted disc comes packaged
in a hefty, hand-assembled chip-board envelope similiar to that Pengo
disc we carried last year, with full color artwork glued to the front
and splattered in dual-color paint, with a color insert.



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Joe Tunis - Carbon Records
PO Box 10718 Rochester NY 14610
joe@...
www.carbonrecords.com







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