hey,
welcome to the March 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:)


News:
====================
Carbon was recently featured in the Democrat and Chronicle
(Rochester's daily), in the business section, nonetheless! check it -
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20080309/BUSINESS/803090311/1001


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:
==========
Chad Oliveiri's latest release, Pathetique, is still getting some
decent airplay around the country, thanks to the help of Rob Rioux at
Pirtlegimp promotions (http://www.pirtlegimp.com).


New Releases:
====================
Carbon is hunkered down, working on 1/2 dozen releases to be released
in the next 3-5 weeks. stay tuned, releases by Entente Cordiale, Joe
+N, Stone Baby, John Charlton and more!!!

RECENT RELEASES:

Artist: Tuurd
Title: Cover the Earth
Format: TSHIRT
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $10.00 / $15.00
Catalog ID: CR152
comes in short and long sleeve styles, in black or brown shirt with 2-
color (white and brown) Cover the Earth logo.

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]

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/spring 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):
====================
Sat Mar 29th - Health, Science vs Withcraft, Pegacide and Tuurd - Bug
Jar (219 Monroe Ave, Rochester) - 9PM

Tue Apr 22nd - Peter Brötzmann/Han Bennink duo - Hallwalls (341
Delaware Ave, Buffalo) - 8PM

Tue Apr 22nd - Laundry Room Squelchers and the International Noise
Conference - Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave, Rochester) - 8PM

Sat Apr 26th - Dead Meadow, Crush the Junta and more - Bug Jar (219
Monroe Ave, Rochester) - 9PM

Thu May 1st - A Night of John Cage: Ed Downey and Deciduous vs
Conifer - House of Hamez (389 Gregory St, Rochester) - 8PM

Mon May 12th - Demons, Pengo, SIck Llama and Helicoptre Sanglante -
Bug Jar (219 Monroe Ave, 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:
====================
- check out the latest Carbon Records podcasts (details below) -
http://www.carbonrecords.com/soundsystem/



MAILORDER:
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New Releases since 2/5/2008 (13 items)
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Birchville Cat Motel - s/t (CD) - Insample $12.00
recently unearthed copies from Insample honcho Simon Baker. CD comes
housed in a 7" sized gatefold cover. "Possibly able to be pigeon-
holed as 'out-of-nowhere', but not. Wellingotn's Birchville Cat
Motel, aka Campbell Kneale has used guitar, cymbal and electrics to
create an (unconscious) juxtaposition of elements distilled from;
Teutonic pulse, contemporary Japanese power electronics and the last
decades worth of UK bedroom excursions which stands as an integrated
whole. Or as Opprobrium put it... "really is improvised noise of a
quite rare and exquisite nature...""


Brian Ruryk/Mabus(RIP) - split (CASS) - Wintage $5.00
"Side A: Finds Ruryk busting up the joint full on Acusto-G-tar shred,
tape warp melt, tuna can jam,sample-fizz, and Brian's wonderful sense
of humur, add 1/4 cup of punishing assault + blend! Side B: Mabus
(RIP) holds it down with bad splices, and D grade edits done with the
pause+record. A slow-fi sound collage containing field recordings of
Parkdale, Westinghouse MRC-13, early morning cable TV, and various
audio masturbatory devices that biuld into a speed fueled death-raga.
Ltd. Ed. 50"


Demons/THAMES - split (CASS) - Wintage $10.00
"Part of the ongoing Wintage Tape Subscription Club Side A: Demons
create a totom of Psychodelic Brain-wash, the proto-prog travelouge
for the psychonaut in all of us. To Jupiter and beyond..set the
controls for the heart of the yada yada yada... hands down favorite
release to date, only Black Monoliths & Tracers remain! Side B:
THAMES hail from Montreal and create wasted walls of Psychodelic
scum. Blake Hargreaves(Dreamcatcher, Cousins of Reggae) & Alexander
Moskos(Drainolith,Unireverse) kick you in with a bucket full of Brain-
skunk, obliterating and Phat! Ltd. Ed. 100"


el-g - Capitaine Present #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.


Heavy Winged - Feel Inside (CD) - Archive Recordings $13.00
"Brand new three trax release from Portland/ Brooklyn based unit
which comes on the heels of the bands recently re-issue disc, and
highly excellent three lobed release "blacc lust", comes three long
playing journeys into psych noise dronedom. I'm not a huge fan of the
press release description game where the label goes on to babble and
make absurd quotes like "sounds like every band that has sold a shit
load of records this past month if you combine Sunno))) with your
mamma then you know exactly how great this record is". I'd just like
to humbly state to me it comes off like the Bardo Pond brothers
recording in the lo-fi high fuzz induced kitchen of the Goslings.
Package comes packed in a double cover center opening sleeves with
the outer shell being a vellum overlay wonderfully executed
graphically by Chase Middaugh. Single pressing of 600 copies."


LSD Pond - s/t (2CD) - Archive Recordings $18.00
"wo nights of improvised recordings from the Lemur House in
Philadelphia tracked during off nights of the eastern US tour of LSD
March, Masami Kawaguchi’s New Rock Syndicate and Bardo Pond. Each
disc represents one night’s worth of material edited by Michael
Gibbons,without overdubs. Personal from each night vary and thus
present different types of material."

"Comes packaged in a ½ fold letterpress sleeve with silver foil
stamped front and rear covers with 8 page photo booklet saddle
stitched inside that hopefully conveys the mode and energy of the
recording sessions. CD’s are in black hand stamped envelopes bound
together with letterpress obi bands. All hand made and hand
assembled. Design and graphic work all executed by old friend, and
label owner, Keith Utech. single pressing of 1000 copies"


Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop (Directors) - Sumatran Folk Cinema (DVD)
- Sublime Frequencies $19.00
"A film by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls), Sumatran
Folk Cinema is a psychedelic collage of images and sounds from the
heart and soul of the island's culture with the main focus on music.
Witness classic dangdut rock music, street and country scenes, raw TV
excerpts, Minang orchestras, night markets, a variety of folk
musicians, audio/visual artifacts and much more wrapped in a 60
minute kaleidoscope complete with an epic soundtrack. Sumatra is the
northwestern entry point to the Indonesian archipelago. Its 40
million inhabitants are primarily Muslim and speak the national
language of Bahasa Indonesian. Most of the film was shot during a
span of two weeks in August of 2004 in and around the cities of
Medan, Padang, Bukitinggi, and Padang Panjang. It features a variety
of street musicians, nightclub acts, folk groups, and incidental
happenings that surround musicians in their daily lives. This film
has no narration nor is it meant to express any particular theme
or agenda. This is intuitive folk cinema and film collage, shot on
location as it unfolded and assembled in an attempt to capture the
essence of being there. All material was shot before the "Tsunami" of
December 26, 2004 destroyed the city of Banda Aceh and the
northwestern coastal areas of Aceh province. The Bandah Aceh segment
was shot by David Martinez in 2003. The additional footage of the GAM
(Free Aceh movement) rebels ambushing a government motorcade was
filmed by Billy Nessen in 2001. GAM has since declared peace with the
Indonesian government, given up their weapons and filtered back into
Aceh society. All region DVD contains bonus footage of musical
performances and trailer segment. Color; 60 minutes; digipak; NSTC
format."


Narita Munehiro - ether: solo electric guitar works (CD) - Archive
Recordings $13.00
"with high rise being basically an in-active band the last few years
narita munehiro has been keeping his electric guitar skills sharp
with gigging around tokyo in varies duo’s and other small groupings.
(as evidenced by the fantastic cd between narita and drummer hano on
psf) this archive release documents 2 live sets from narita recorded
in late 2005 and the summer of 2006 that put on display the recent
solo works of the man who the term psychedelic speed freaks was
really captured from. running time of around 40mins one time pressing
of 600 copies packed in an extra glossy 2.5 panel sleeve with
appropriately chemically treated photographic work from the live dates."


The Wire - #287 January 2008 (ZINE) - The Wire $8.00
On The Cover: Rewind 2007: our massive annual survey of the last 12
months in underground music, with 16 pages of charts, including the
50 records of the year, as voted for by our crack team of critics,
plus reflections from writers and musicians on the highs and lows of
the last year of alternative music activity. Features: Stefan Németh
(With his new Film project, the Viennese Radian founder is
reinventing the guitar for the digital age); nsi. (Tobias Freund &
Max Louderbauer's Non Standard Institute is open for new electronica
business); Cross Platform: Ian Forsyth & Jane Pollard (Louise Gray
hears about the duo's forensic re-enactments of significant rock gigs
and scientific Victorian entertainments); Invisible Jukebox: Keith
Rowe; Steve Jansen (The ex-Japan drummer and David Sylvian
collaborator talks about the global networking that fed into his solo
album); Six Organs Of Admittance (Keith Moliné hears about the latest
apocalyptic folk-blues and drone rock epic from Com
ets On Fire/Badgerlore/Current 93 member Ben Chasny; Once Upon A Time
In Stockholm (The enlightened Sweden of the late 60s produced the
free rock and psychedelic folk of Pärson Sound, International
Harvester and Träd Gras Och Stenar)."


The Wire - #288 February 2008 (ZINE) - The Wire $8.00
"On The Cover: Vladislav Delay (Whether as Luomo, Uusitalo or Delay,
Finnish electronica producer Sasu Ripatti has always avoided slipping
into generic blueprints). Features: Wooden Shjips (The San Francisco
fuzz quartet conjure transcendent incantations from traditional
tools); Warrior Queen (How MC Annette Henry's uncensored stream of
Jamaican patois is enlivening the dubstep scene); Cath & Phil Tyler
(The twining harmonies of this husband and wife duo recall the heyday
of English pastoral folk song); Cross Platform: What's opera.doc? (La
Fura Dels Baus' post-industrial Wagner Ring cycle and Hideaki
Takahashi's 'media opera' update the medium for the digital age);
Invisible Jukebox: George E. Lewis; Hot Chip (The London quintet
hatch a witty hybrid of urban electronic musics, taking in everything
from minimal techno to Puerto Rican reggaeton); Sightings (The New
York avant power trio explain to Marc Masters how their customary
clouds of distortion and overdrive were parted
by new producer Andrew WK)."


Uptight - Early Years (CD) - Archive Recordings $13.00
"a re-issue of the out of print 99 five track album from Tokyo pysch.
Unit uptight. Audio tracks have been slightly remastered with the
addition of two unreleased tracks dating back to the bands earliest
years 1994. Comes housed in a 2.5 panel foldout heavy stock sleeve
pressing of 600 copies."


Various Artists - Proibidão C.V: Forbidden Gang Funk from Rio de
Janeiro (CD) - Sublime Frequencies $14.00
Proibidão is the name given to a certain kind of electronic funk
music produced in Brazilian favelas, especially in Rio de Janeiro
where it started to appear in the beginning of the '90s as a parallel
phenomenon to the growth of drug gangs along the city's more than 600
slums. A raw mix of live funk vocals and Miami bass structures, these
anonymous funk tracks are spread illegally by DJs and gang-sponsored
parties. Proibidão is a raw musical genre that captures the dark side
of Brazilian favelas. The explicit lyrics of apology to drug gangs
and the violent content makes them illegal to broadcast through radio
or as live public events. Proibidão can only be heard in the bailes
or dances that the gangs organize and that run every day of the week
in different locations in the slums around Rio. The production of a
Proibidão occurs in different ways. A DJ spins Miami bass rhythms
straight from sample CDs, and an MC talks on top of it, mainly live
in street bailes and then recorded
through a simple multichannel to a minidisc or simply straight. No
mix is done and only sometimes an extra production is done. The gang
leaders, to spread the respect and love for the gang as well as hate
to the other gangs, finance the bailes and hire the DJs and sound
systems. At most parties, this is recorded live and spread then as an
mp3 or CD to different other DJs and bailes. Its life runs a minimum
of 6 months and depending on its popularity, it can go on for more
than one year. The selection featured on this CD compiles music
recorded live during the beginning of 2003 in different favelas from
Zona Sul, South Rio de Janeiro -- a zone once controlled by the drug
gang called Comando Vermelho, mainly responsible for the city's
growing rates of homicide and power corruption, as well as Rio's and
Brazil's growing drug consumption. C.V Comando Vermelho (Red Command)
is a criminal organization that was founded in 1979 in the prison
Cândido Mendes, on the island Ilha Grand!
e (RJ), as a connection of common prisoners and militants of the
Falange Vermelha (Red Phalanx), which fought the military
dictatorship. During the entire 1990s the criminal organization was
the strongest in all of Rio de Janeiro, but today the principal
leaders have been arrested or are dead, and the organization is not
as strong. The Comando Vermelho still control parts of the city and
seeing streets tagged with "CV" is common in many favelas in Rio de
Janeiro. This CD is in no way an apology for these groups, but a
document to portray a moment in time in Rio de Janeiro's musical and
social history. All audio imperfections are left as they were when
collected, as these tracks are the only remaining documents of this
music. Recorded and assembled by filmmaker Carlos Casas, courtesy of
some anonymous MCs and DJs in different bailes along the favelas of
Zona Sul, Rio de Janeiro during March-April 2003.


Various Artists - Latinamericarpet: Exploring the Vinyl Warp of Latin
American (CD) - Sublime Frequencies $14.00
"...Psychedelia Vol. 1. "Latinamericarpet is a non-stop collage of
vinyl artifacts culled from stacks of forgotten LPs of the 1960s and
1970s from Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, and Isle de Pascua
(Easter Island). Historically, Latin America was part of the "new
world" that Christopher Columbus "discovered" in 1492, which soon was
brutally conquered by the Spanish and Portuguese. Obviously it was
only a "discovery" from a Eurocentric perspective because, in fact,
on these vast lands there were hundreds of advanced native cultures
living for centuries. However, after countless years of violent
colonization and internal wars, the independence emerged on the whole
continent, launching a group of new countries with their own unique
identities. But what is Latin America nowadays? A complex answer for
a complex puzzle: some people would say it's a huge cocktail that
combines -- in a more or less chaotic way -- the ruins of pre-
Columbus cultures and diverse European traditi
ons mixed with a high dose of pseudo-tropical weathers, Latin manners
and unstable economies... although that's also a simplification:
Latin America is just Latin America, and it deserves to be
"rediscovered." But let's go straight to the record. This compilation
brings together some glittering sounds from LPs that have been
somehow forgotten over the years. Although most of the tracks
presented here were recorded during the peak of the psychedelic era
in the late '60s and early '70s, this is not a collection packed with
guitar group psychedelia, although there are a few unknown gems here
that qualify as such. There are also pop and folkloric songs,
children's songs, odd instructional record excerpts, and a few other
anomalies from our neighbors to the south. These selections are only
brief samples of what was made in Latin America in those glorious
years, but while we wait for further works that can bring to light
more sounds from this "undiscovered" continent, just relax, !
turn on your stereo and keep this magic Latinamericarpet flying." --
Compilation liner notes by Albano Costillares (Argentina)."


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