hey,
welcome to the January 2008 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:)


HAPPY NEW YEAR!

News:
====================
the END OF YEAR INVENTORY SALE which includes EVERYTHING, is winding
down. i'm going to keep it in effect for another week or so, gearing
up for my yearly/daunting inventory task. everything is at least 15%
off, and some stuff is as much as 50% off!!! even including recently
added items.

and since the flurry of updates from late december, i have just added
a bunch of new versions of the latest Carbon TSHIRT design, including
adult sizes in white and heather gray, and a bunch of kid and toddler
sizes. check them out on the mailorder SHIRTS page - http://
www.carbonrecords.com/mailorder/shirts.php - great belated xmas
presents!

i've added a ton of USED items to the mailorder site and more will be
coming, including vinyl. full listing is down below in the MAILORDER
section.

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:
==========
The brand new Crush the Junta CD is now out. studio recordings from
early 2007, mixed and edited throughout the summer and finally
available for your speakers. more details below in the New Releases
section. and don't forgot the "the curse of abraham" CDR from this
summer.



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

Artist: Carbon Records
Title: 2007 flower design
Label: Carbon Records
Price: vary depending on size (adult, kid, toddler) and style
(tshirt, onesie, sweatshirt)
Catalog ID: CR164
flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of flower and text
on various shirt colors (black, heather gray and white) and various
sizes including adult, kid and toddler sizes.


Artist: Crush the Junta
Title: the disappeared
Format: CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $8.00 $6.80 (15% sale)
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]




RECENT RELEASES:

Artist: Joe+N
Title: leaves fall
Format: 3inch CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $6.00
Catalog ID: CR163
nearly 17min of solo electric guitar. three, almost equal length
pieces. the middle, lighter one, is sandwiched in between two slabs
of thick heavy guitar throb, ala Alasehir/Alumbrados, [3" CDR
affixed to a 5" square piece of 1/4" plywood with twine.
the plywood is sprayed and stenciled on one side. disc is also
sprayed/splattered] limited to 25!!!

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]

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.]



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



Shows (Rochester, NY):
====================
Wed Jan 9th - Tuurd, Sarah Johnson, City Harvest Black and Foot and
Mouth Disease - Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave, Rochester) - 9PM

Fri Feb 8th - Crush the Junta, Nod, Ian Downey is Famous and more -
Montys Krown (, ) - 9PM


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
Deciduous vs Conifer and Autumn in Halifax.
- check out the latest Carbon Records podcasts (details below) -
http://www.carbonrecords.com/soundsystem/



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

New Releases since 12/1/2007 (15 items)
======================================

Arklight - Hell's Black Intelligence (CASS) - tanzprocesz $6.00
"psychedelic noise devil incantations. pre-industrial voodoo music.
C-30 packaged in golden handmade cardboard box. limited to 50
copies." -- REVIEW: Side One – Anatomy of hell - A typewriter forces
voodoo pins into glass. Corpse shadows rise up, soil dripping off
their bony shoulders, swaying robes, carrying plastic bags full of
metal. A chorus of tongue-less moans drift like heavy toxin, as the
contents of the bags are tipped into the jaws of an ever hungry
typewriter spitting sparks of gluttony. This rain of motorized limbs
twitch and scrape the horizon, making shapes - a haunted geometry of
dying spasms. Head-butted guitars to the kzzzzzz of cymbal, behind
every vocorded deflation crashes more mechanical debris as animal
heads float on a carpet of lice. Gnarling electrics creep though the
undergrowth like wire brambles, knotted petals that rot under their
own weight. Side two – Beyond Hypothermia - is a broken beatbox, its
batteries leaking into guitar string claws and gi
ddy disorientation. Drill piano death and dented wood, vocals drowned
in creamy scorch. Wire-wool tea cosy of illegible keyboard and
rotting reverbed gloom. My skin creeps in a tide-like motion to the
carnage, all those textures jostling for attention, making new
sensation, awaking perspectives. Fuck this is a gloriously strangled
tune. Never heard of Arklight before but that mix of Robedoor(esque)
texture and murky experimentation is a winner with me. Pushing doom
metal beyond the one chord reverb, all wrapped up in a suitably
tainted gold slipcase that is marred by slug trail scribble. -
Rottenmeats -


él-g - Capitaine Présent #4 (DVDR) - tanzprocesz $7.00
"Capitaine Présent" is a subconscious audio-serial started in 2004 by
él-g. This Fourth episode is a film with Stolen images from google,
edited in a 20 minutes long futurist didactic movie with 300
different voices, inserts and orgasmic crescendos. It talks about
life, universe, teenagehood, theme parks, enterprises, synaptic links
and sweet skizophrenia. Tristan Tzara meets PizzaHut meets You. And
yeah it's french only because it's impossible to subtitle this
object, no place for it. Capitaine Présent #1-2-3 included for yr
never-ending audio pleasure. Totally queer pink plush handmade
packaging. 50 copies.


Carbon Records - 2007 flower design (TSHIRT) - Carbon Records $10.00
flower design (pictured at left), flower and text are two shades of
grey, on heavy 100% cotton black tshirt.


Carbon Records - 2007 flower design (TSHIRT) - Carbon Records $22.00
this is the hoodie version of the Carbon 2007 Flower TSHIRT. i only
have 1 extra of each size listed above for sale (they were pre-orders
for locals). these are nice and heavy pull-over hoodies, two shades
of grey design on black hoodie.


Carbon Records - 2007 flower design (Youth sizes) (TSHIRT) - Carbon
Records $8.00
Youth Sizes - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of
flower and text (blue and gray) on 100% cotton white tshirt.


Carbon Records - 2007 flower design (Infant size sweatshirt) (TSHIRT)
- Carbon Records $12.00
Infant Size Sweatshirt - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color
design of flower and text (blue and gray) on 50/50 cotton/poly white
sweatshirt.


Carbon Records - 2007 flower design (onesies) (TSHIRT) - Carbon
Records $8.00
baby onesies - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of
flower and text (blue and gray) on 100% cotton white onesie.


Carbon Records - 2007 flower design (Infant size sweatshirt) (TSHIRT)
- Carbon Records $12.00
Infant Size Sweatshirt - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color
design of flower and text (gray and black) on cotton/poly blend black
sweatshirt.


Carbon Records - 2007 flower design (TSHIRT) - Carbon Records $10.00
flower design (pictured at left), flower and text in gray and black
ink, on cotton/poly blend heather gray tshirt.


Carbon Records - 2007 flower design (TSHIRT) - Carbon Records $10.00
flower design (pictured at left), flower and text in gray and black
ink, on 100% cotton white tshirt.


Crush the Junta - the disappeared (CD) - Carbon Records $8.00
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]



Entente Cordiale - the recognition of common interests (CD) - Carbon
Records $8.00
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]


Richard Francis - Together alone, together apart (CD) - CMR $8.00
"Edition of 300. Tracks 1 and 2 recorded 2006-2007, track 3 recorded
2003 and previously released on V/A Audible New Frontiers CD (Physics
Room/Radio NZ). Sound sources: field recordings of indoor and outdoor
spaces; handling of fabric, wood and plastic; self noise of home
stereo amplifiers, loudspeakers and record players."

'The building blocks of 'Together Alone, Together Apart' by New
Zealand's Richard Francis are 'sound moments': sonic interludes of a
dozen or so seconds of environmental sound, whose subtle arrangements
and cross-contaminations are the springboard for the compositions
found here. Given the quiet volumes, sounds at the threshold of
audibility are presumably those which have captured his imagination.
A soft hiss and variable low end frequency introduce the first
untitled track, with small crackles, glitches and echoes sporadically
breaking through. The second is considerably more dramatic, with a
flapping rhythm emerging from a grounded hiss like a moth's wings
beating against glass. The final track is almost undetectable, even
with headphones, and strengthens the connections between Francis's
work and the reductive strategies of Bernhard Gunter or John Hudak.
Here, swells of deep frequencies rise and fall along a fog of
unsettled static, concluding a refined and highly recomme
nded album.' - THE WIRE 286, December 2007


Skullflower - IIIrd Gatekeeper (CD) - Crucial Blast $12.00
"A reissue of Skullflower's acclaimed 1992 album IIIrd Gatekeeper,
featuring the lineup of Matthew Bower (guitar), Stuart Dennison
(drums and vocals), and Anthony DiFranco (bass). IIIrd Gatekeeper is
an immensely heavy album that was originally released on HeadDirt,
the label run by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu/Final fame back in
the early 90's, and featured Skullflower at their heaviest, grinding
out slow, sludgy riffs and crushing, almost industrial rhythms amid a
tempest of psychedelic guitar noise and dense sheets of feedback -
easily the most crushing, rock-based music that Skullflower ever
produced. IIIrd Gatekeeper served up a skulldozing dose of post-
industrial dirge rock that sat comfortably next to Godflesh, Swans,
and Ramleh in terms of dark, druggy, hypnotic lumbering heaviness.
This is one of our favorite albums ever at Crucial Blast, and we are
presenting this reissue with new liner notes, a new package design
that retains all of the original artwork from t
he HeadDirt release, and a remastering job courtesy of Scott Hull at
Visceral Sound."


Wildildlife - Six (CD) - Crucial Blast $12.00
"A couple months ago (we’re talking mid-Spring ‘07, here), I received
an email from Robotic Empire boss Andy Low commanding me to check out
a couple of songs that a band from San Francisco called Wildildlife
had posted online, immediately. I knew that the dude has a solid idea
of what kind of sounds I’m into, so I pulled up the link immediately
and was totally blown away by the two Wildildlife tunes that I heard.
Heavy, crunchy riffage rolling over celestial FX freakout and gang
choral voices, part pop, part neo-psychedelic noisiness, part
metalloid skullcrush. Super melodic and catchy but vaguely menacing
and dark all at the same time. The band toured through here about a
month later, and I was even more floored by their manic live energy;
the band summoned up a wicked whirlpool of dense distorto crunch and
freaky singing, raging metallic percussive pummel, tribal rhythms and
crushing effects-soaked guitars, subdued floatational drones and
ecstatically gorgeous melodies, all
let loose in a series of sky-streaking eruptions of psychedelic
lowcore and swirling, cosmic sludge. Going back to a review that
Terrascope Magazine wrote about one of the band's earlier CD-R
releases, this sounds vaguely like Black Sabbath and Butthole Surfers
jamming together with ancient forest mystics, an experience both
brutal and beautiful, and which proves that Wildildlife have already
established themselves as serious purveyors of blown-out psych
heaviness.These guys have become one of my favorite new bands, and
I’m MEGA excited to be presenting their first full length Six through
Crucial Blast. The CD version of Six comes in a posh, full-color 4-
panel gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton Printers, which houses the
disc and a full-color 8-page booklet filled with amazing, surreal
photographs by Sabina Holber."





Newly added USED Releases since 12/1/2007 (71 items)
======================================

68 Comeback - Golden Rogues Collection (CD) - USED $5.00
Allun - onussen (CD) - USED $4.00
Army of Ghosts - The Horror (CD) - USED $5.00
Aube - Recontextual Abstraction 1996 (2CD) - USED $6.00
Barbara Manning and the Go-Luckys! - You Should Know By Now (CD) -
USED $5.00
Bats'i son - music of the highlands of chiapas (CD) - USED $6.00
Big Chief - Face (CD) - USED $4.00
Big Whiskey - pictures of an exhibitionist (CDR) - USED $4.00
bluetile lounge - lowercase (CD) - USED $4.00
Bride of No No - b.o.n.n. apetit! (CD) - USED $5.00
BRXTNLE / fleshghxst - Death Swank (CDR) - USED $4.00
BRXTNLE / i dick m the f table - The ____ Split Es Dope (CDR) - USED
$4.00
Cruzados - after dark (CD) - USED $3.00
darph/nadeR - the green album (CDR) - USED $4.00
darph/nadeR - the red album (CDR) - USED $4.00
differenz - jazz workshop (CD) - USED $5.00
DJ QBert - wave twisters (CD) - USED $6.00
DJ Spooky and Scanner - The Quick the the Dead (CD) - USED $8.00
everlasting the way - long-stretching-motorcycle-hymn-highway (CD) -
USED $5.00
fluf - Mangravy (CD) - USED $4.00
Gorilla - meconium, the squid row daze (CD) - USED $4.00
Gorilla - Deal With It (CD) - USED $4.00
Guzzard - Get a Witness (CD) - USED $4.00
Guzzard - quick, fast, in a hurry (CD) - USED $4.00
Happy Mothers Day, I Cant Read - s/t (CDR) - USED $4.00
I Love You But Ive Chosen Chosen Darkness - s/t (CD) - USED $6.00
Jawbox - s/t (CD) - USED $4.00
Juneau - s/t (CD) - USED $8.00
Kreidler - Au-Pair (CD) - USED $5.00
Kreidler - Appearance and The Park (CD) - USED $6.00
L7 - Bricks are Heavy (CD) - USED $4.00
Lesser - gearhound (CD) - USED $6.00
Low - owL Remix (CD) - USED $6.00
Machine Go Boom - Thank You Captain Obvious (CD) - USED $4.00
Madame Chao Productions - Catering to the Greatest Uncommon
Denominator (CD) - USED $4.00
Matmos - quasi-objects (CD) - USED $6.00
MC 900 Ft Jesus with DJ Zero - Hell With the Lid Off (CD) - USED $4.00
mikroknytes - s/t (CD) - USED $4.00
Mix Master Mike - Anti-Theft Device (CD) - USED $6.00
Money Mark - Marks Keyboard Repair (CD) - USED $5.00
Mouse On Mars - vulvaland (CD) - USED $4.00
Mouse On Mars - cache coeur naif (CD) - USED $4.00
Mouse On Mars - Autoditacker (CD) - USED $6.00
Mudhoney - Piece of Cake (CD) - USED $4.00
Muslimgauze - Emak Bakia (CD) - USED $6.00
New Order - Get Ready (CD) - USED $5.00
Ova! / Happy Mothers Day, I Cant Read - s/t (CD) - USED $4.00
Pipe - Ball Pen (CD) - USED $4.00
Poster Children - Informational:RTFM (CD) - USED $4.00
Poster Children - Junior Citizen (CD) - USED $4.00
Radio Shock - s/t (CDR) - USED $4.00
Resolve - Jack (CD) - USED $4.00
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Prayer / Salvation (CD) - USED $6.00
Salaryman - karoshi (CD) - USED $4.00
Skin Yard - 1000 Smiling Knuckles (CD) - USED $4.00
Spring Heel Jack - 68 Million Shades... (CD) - USED $6.00
Stereolab - Miss Modular (CD) - USED $6.00
Stereolab - Sound-Dust (CD) - USED $6.00
Supersuckers - La Mano Cornuda (CD) - USED $4.00
Tarwater - Remix EP (CD) - USED $4.00
The Cocktails - s/t (CD) - USED $6.00
The Infusion - s/t (CD) - USED $4.00
The Invisibl Skratch Piklz - The Shiggar Fraggar Show! (CD) - USED $8.00
The Sundays - static and slience (CD) - USED $5.00
Totemplow - applaud the execution (CD) - USED $5.00
U Can Unlearn Guitar - this art is spent (CDR) - USED $3.00
Various Artists - Pulled from the wreckage (CD) - USED $4.00
Various Artists - Further Mutations LoRecordingsvolume4 (CD) - USED
$8.00
Various Artists - Hotel Massachusetts (CD) - USED $4.00
Various Artists - Ninja Cuts: flexistentialism (CD) - USED $8.00
Various Artists - Necropolis: The Dialogic Project (CD) - USED $6.00



Carbon Records
PO Box 10718
Rochester, NY 14610
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