hey guys,
just wanted to send a quick mid-Dec newsletter with some recent
updates to the mailorder catalog. if you order in the next couple days
and pick USPS Priority shipping, you should be able to get your stuff
by xmas. and the $5 TSHIRT SALE is still going strong. here are the
latest updates:

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


NEW CARBON RELEASES:

Artist: Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves
Title: Robert Frank & The Moon
Format: BOOKLET and CDR
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $8.00
Catalog ID: CR175
The short story Robert Frank & The Moon written by David Merulla began
as a title written in one of David's notebooks and then continued to
reappear in subsequent notebooks and on various scraps of paper.
David's affinity for the Swiss photographer Robert Frank plays a
subliminal part in seeing the story through however the story is more
about memory, shapes and origami. The companion soundtrack ep is an
instrumental music recording by Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves, meant
to be listened to while reading the story, however can also be enjoyed
by itself. The ep was recorded live to two track at the Wolf Den,
Rochester, New York by Joe Tunis, mixed by Chris Reeg & David Merulla.
Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves is David Merulla, Scott Oliver, Chris
Reeg and Joe Tunis. [package include a 5x7 booklet with pro-printed
cover, silkscreened cdr and silkscreened kraft stay-flat envelope]


Artist: Bjerga / Iversen
Title: (Go With The Flow) Like a Twig on the Shoulders of a Mighty
Stream
Format: CD
Label: Carbon Records
Price: $8.00
Catalog ID: CR178
.. that is kinda what Bjerga/Iversen have been doing, since the humble
beginnings 4 years ago.. After more than 50 releases and about the
same number of gigs since then, it is perhaps somewhat of a
contradiction that it’s all more or less just as humble….

“Thanks to its piercing frequencies, paranoid multitasking, mantra-
like grooves and billowing fields of feedback, this record represents
both one of the last bastions of true Punk and a 21st century take on
the Krautrock spirit. It is the kind of music that would have your
parents worried if you listened to it alone in your room. It is also,
in a way, the exact opposite of what you would associate with the
Norwegians just by reading about them. If this is a best-of, then it’s
probably the least representative in the world.”

This CD collects some choice cuts and edits from our now quite
(stupidly) extensive recorded catalogue.. It might not be an easy task
to single out the best moments, which would sort of be beside the
point anyway.. In a way it’s all the same song, the song that never
ends.. We tap on to the frequency, and sometimes the psychedelic
transmissions are seeping through like burning sunlight on
technicolored drops of water and other times the harrowing, fleshy
minimalism of solitary organ notes and foggy feedback overtones dig
out deeper, darker furrows in uncharted territories….


and the rest of the RECENT CARBON RELEASES:
http://www.carbonrecords.com/mailorder/search.php?search_field=label_id&search_v\
alue=20&show_recent=1




And New Mailorder Releases since 12/3/2008 (23 items)
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Aeoga - Zenith Beyond The Helix-Locus (7inch) - Aural Hypnox $8.00
"From beyond the mundane symbolscape, the 2nd album of Aeoga -
entitled 'Zenith Beyond the Helix-Locus' - emits aural phenomena from
devouring multi-layered elemental ambience to amorphous and
hallucinatory sequences entrancing one's awareness thoroughly. The
fifteen formations manifest themselves in various forms; bright and
luminous helixes intertwine with shadowed and shapeless non-beings.
All in all truly overwhelming material where acoustic instruments and
electronic equipment mingle themselves to channel forth the aural
elemental current. (total time: 67:11) Comes in an oversized 4 panel
cardboard covers. Limited to 1000 copies."


Arktau Eos - Mirrorion (CD) - Aural Hypnox $12.00
"Presented in seventeen chapters that can be approached as singular
gateways or a slowly unfolding journey of epic proportions, the debut
album of ARKTAU EOS is a challenging, complex work. Born of intense
private musico-magical sessions held in places abandoned by man and
further refined in the temple-laboratory of the duo, it is the
distillation of seven arduous months of work. As the title suggests,
'Mirrorion' is the music of stellar light thrown down from the
Heaven's zenith and its eldritch reflections in the depths below,
uniting atavistic elemental noise with serene passages of crystalline,
spectral ambience. Ultimately, 'Mirrorion' seeks to surpass such
earthly definitions in favour of a non-dual vision of reality,
hopefully transforming the listener in the process. For this recording
ARKTAU EOS have favoured an organic approach with majority of
instrumentation being of acoustic variety, including the unearthly
choral of the kanglings, piercings blasts of windbones,
accelerating steel-plate rolls, singing bowl and various kinds of
stringed instruments. Comes in an six-panel, A5 booklet. Limited to
1000 copies."


Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves - Robert Frank & The Moon (BOOKLET and
CDR) - Carbon Records $8.00
The short story Robert Frank & The Moon written by David Merulla began
as a title written in one of David's notebooks and then continued to
reappear in subsequent notebooks and on various scraps of paper.
David's affinity for the Swiss photographer Robert Frank plays a
subliminal part in seeing the story through however the story is more
about memory, shapes and origami. The companion soundtrack ep is an
instrumental music recording by Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves, meant
to be listened to while reading the story, however can also be enjoyed
by itself. The ep was recorded live to two track at the Wolf Den,
Rochester, New York by Joe Tunis, mixed by Chris Reeg & David Merulla.
Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves is David Merulla, Scott Oliver, Chris
Reeg and Joe Tunis. [package include a 5x7 booklet with pro-printed
cover, silkscreened cdr and silkscreened kraft stay-flat envelope]


Black to Comm / Datashock - CDR w/ video (CDR) - Ikuisuus $6.00
"Incredible, spooky-spiritual-drone masterpiece by the most hip German
experimentalists Black to Comm (Mark Richter) and the free-noise group
Datashock companied by new member Marcel Türkowsky. Here all together
creating a flavor of blissen alien soundscapes, whirling on, changing
and evolving all the time, generating hyperzonic tensions inside the
crown-chakra so long that the eyes start to see pulsating flames
inside and outside your imagination. Rich in Colour of sound and for
sure not a restless headfuck, but a stony stoned psychedelic vibration
of something spiritually exciting, something which reminds the outer
inner worlds, and how close they are. The fog of the lake & the ghosts
of the forgotten old new days. Recorded nearby Berlin's Goldmund
festival in August 2007, in a place which used to be a summercamp for
kids in the times of GDR the point which alone may cause the climbing
in such a mystical level. Peaceful & strange at the same time.
Includes 9 minute Quicktime video
by Renate Nikolaus!!!" Music and video recorded at Goldmund Festival,
Wukensee/ Biesenthal 08/2007


Book of Shadows - 777 (CD) - Ikuisuus $10.00
"The Book of Shadows CD 777 on the label Ikuisuus is the bands seventh
release. The band was formed in 1999 when ST 37 founder Carlton
Crutcher and his wife Sharon began seeking a magical, improvisational
musical outlet. The band has stayed true to this vision for 9 years of
live shows, studio recordings and numerous musicians. All of the
recordings on 777 were recorded in 2007 and represent a peak for Book
of Shadows as a live band as well as a studio band. For this CD,
Sharon on vocals and Carlton on keys, are joined by Eric Archer
(Numbers on the Mast) on guitar/electronics, long time Book of Shadows
guitarist/composer Aaron Bennack, guitarist Jonathan Horne (Plutonium
Farmers), Johnny McCollom (Primordial Undermind) on percussion, Matt
Thies (Numbers on the Mast) on keys/electronics, Greg Elliott
(Spagirus) on dulcimer, and Vanessa Rossetto (The Mighty Acts of God,
Bright Duplex, Pulga, etc...) on viola, bowls and bells!!!....You are
the magic that you make...."


Canyon - Fever (CDR) - Ikuisuus $6.00
"Spacy bluesounding dreamwaves and echoes from the skyside of life.
Good medicine for the warped psychotic & hyperactive mind, even it
might sound as a devil itself first, but when we go really into it, we
start to feel (=see) heavenly admiring peace, kind of a mix of Brian
Eno's Ambient works and Popol Vuh's crystal tuning, with a well touch
of bluesy minimalistic vibration. Recorded by Mikkel Valentin
Dunkerley (from Denmark) in his home June 2008, using only electric
guitar & reverb effect."


Century Plants - Inversions (CDR) - Ikuisuus $6.00
"Latest from Albany guitar duo whose six string damaging has often
shred the guitar beyond recognition. For this outing, however, Century
Plants plug in, and allow their guitars to be guitars. Psych raga,
melting icebergs of roaring drone, metallic strum and clang, oceanic
melody and even a helping of pastoral song melody separate this from
previous smash ups. Hardiman and Hare create these hypnotic states
from the ground up, building their sound out of pure improvisation. Oh
yeah, the guitars don't always sound like guitars! "


Estasy - s/t (CDR) - Ikuisuus $6.00
"black velvet mask, golden wigs, untied shoes, candle flames &
beautiful trickling of wax, vine leaves, powder puffs. mystery is the
word. all tracks recorded in darkness. its about spiritual evol love
emotion....its not the pills...oh oh whatever" - emi estasy


Found Magazine - issue #6 (ZINE) - Found Magazine $5.00
"In My Life. FOUND #6 features stories of birth, childhood,
adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, old age and death. Love
stories and hate stories, stories of leaving jobs, friends, and family
behind, and making new connections. Folks struggle to keep their homes
in the midst of a mortgage crisis; others dream of rock stardom. One
guy faces his deepest fears, while another simply longs to have his
old face back. Valentines and wedding proposals; a search for a
science friend and a search for a dead cat that's gone missing. Plus,
our friends Miranda July and Daniel Clowes share favorites from their
own lifelong collections of finds. Be the first one on your block to
hold the new issue in your hands!"


Halo Manash - Am Kha Astrie (CD) - Aural Hypnox $12.00
"As the apex of Spring heralds awakenings, Halo Manash emerges from
Winter and hibernation ~ Treefaced. Horns spiral skyward and antlers
ascend. A tripartite trunk arises – a pillar that splits all worlds.
Am Kha Astrie, a work of heliotropic, elemental ambient, is an
opening, an awakening, a summoning, a crossing of thresholds. After
their previous oneiric and minimal album, Am Kha Astrie sees Halo
Manash re-integrate a more diverse instrumentation and a multiplicity
of soundsources to create their work, which consists of seven
interrelated tracks. Am Kha Astrie is a complete work in itself, but
can also be viewed as the second facet of a tripartite series of works
that are part of one holistic creation. Archaic elemental drums, bones
and spiraling animal horns merge with various metal percussions,
chimes, wind-instruments, voices and a multitude of other instruments
to create a deep, earthly and yet celestially-bound opus. Am Kha
Astrie is a massive and sometimes ominous work, a
primal experience of coming-into-being, with all the terror, ecstasy
and divine awe that it implies. Comes in a hand finished cardboard
booklet, in an edition of 1000 copies."


Halo Manash - Language of Red Goats (CD) - Aural Hypnox $12.00
"Guided by nether nectars and dream herbs, oneiric visions and the
light of lunar tides, Halo Manash Language of Red Goats aims to be a
cartography of cavernous elemental realms and regions, sources and
springs that run deep and thick with the fluids of life, death and
dream. What was seeded at the Thin Veils has been gathered at Harvest
time, and is offered to the seeker as a libation and guide into the
ever-liminal, shrouded spaces, for dream-vigils and awakenings.
Language of Red Goats is a complete work in itself, but can also be
viewed as the first facet of a tripartite series of works that are
part of one holistic creation – three faces of the same being. More
akin to a primitive fieldrecording in the realm of oneirotropic
exploration, than an actual album, the work consists of one lengthy
tripartite soundscape. Utilizing only gongs, bells, metal bowls and
wind instruments, as well as flocks of birds, the work is in contrast
to earlier more refined works that feature a wide
multiplicity of instruments and soundsources. Language of Red Goats is
a bare, primitive and sometimes raw aural landscape, and yet
nonetheless achieves a rare subliminal intensity and an edge of
otherwordly luminosity. Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in
an edition of 920 copies."


Hassu Pelle - s/t (CDR) - Ikuisuus $6.00
Hassu Pelle (Funny Clown) from Tampere, Finland was active only a
couple of years at the first part of 2000s. This hilarious quintet was
formed by Pelle Eloton, Pelle Svanslös, Ulkomaan Pelle, Pelle Jätkä,
and Apupelle who was involved with the recording session. Hassu
Pelle’s self-titled first and only record was originally released by
the band members themselves with the edition of approximately only 30
copies. Hassu Pelle played some mind-boggling live shows for the
handful of people mostly just in their home town. These small
audiences were witness to the surprisingly fresh and thrilling musical
happiness. First impression might be that Hassu Pelle’s music is just
“foolery”, but hidden underneath the seeming simplicity these
compositions carry true brilliance. Eight catchy tracks were recorded
at those mighty days when Hassu Pelle was dancing at the peak of their
strength. At the recording session they used the simple one-take-style
without overdubs. The result is extremely
playful, yet confident, jagged with the taste of life. Hassu Pelle
played beautifully bittersweet, yet at the same time hysterically
merry music, which could be described in this context as "circus
music". Even the most hardened humourless person will get a smile on
the face while listening to Hassu Pelle. There's no other ensemble
which has reached such enchanting carnivalistic atmospheres like Hassu
Pelle. This cultural achievement from Ikuisuus label saves these
sounds of delight from the oblivion. Step into the circus, you won't
regret!


Keijo - Neverending Blues (CD) - Ikuisuus $10.00
"According to Indian mythology everything was born and will be born
with vibration, sound. What Western civilization calls music, is
narrow, nothing but strictly controlled thread in that vibrating area.
Other kind of threads have been mastered elsewhere. Inevitably these
threads will also face each other and become one. Basic note chimes in
blues, raga and mantra. I dreamt of musics and players who can
modulate with music, no matter which cultural background they come
from – I felt I understood something about the sounds I sometimes
heard in the evening just before falling into sleep and in the morning
when I woke up." Keijo Virtanen (Kheta Hotem, Free Players, Rambling
Boys) makes his long distance walk into the stream of folk/
countryblues continuum. These marvellously rusty and dusty tracks have
been cooking with tender flame in Keijo’s mind&soul for a good while:
"When I was just a little boy, I used to just lay down under the
blanket (just before falling to sleep) randomly
switching the channels of our transistor radio. Under the crunches and
washes I also found the new pirate radio stations and there, among the
speeches came out the echoing, rhythmic, electric guitar music.
Eventually under rock music and British pop music I discovered the
sounds of the black people of North America. I felt like those deep
singing voices and wailing guitars would somehow also belong to this
kind of environment, to rural, middle-of-nowhere Finland, surrounded
by wildlife and physical work with our own hands and whatever we may
get grown from the land.


Kheta Hotem - Bowl Ceremony (CDR) - Ikuisuus $6.00
"Gigging with a varying and often an extensive group, Kheta Hotem has
visited the studio with a somewhat stripped basic essence. This
release is a collection of sense-filling presentations starting with a
ritual-like bowl ceremony, which leads into results closely related
with free jazz and ethnomusic. In their gig brochure the group claims
they continue the more than 1000 years old musical tradition of
Komutia, where the musician acts as a mediator between the world of
sounds and everyday existence. The instruments Kheta Hotem use are
traditional instruments of ritual music: the didgeridoo and different
percussions. However, the synthesizer and the electric guitar are not
forgotten, either. Acoustic instruments, including the human guttural
voices, meld with those produced electrically - the traditional
Komutian rituals turn into avant-garde. One can admire and listen to
the outcome as an impressive technical performance, and experience the
atmosphere to the marrow."


Predator Vision - IIIrd Gatekeeper (CASS) - Abandon Ship $5.00
"Self-released earlier this year, this one finds PV at their most
predatorial. They are ceaseless infinity jammers with a hunger for
psychsploration and a tight yet loose style that can sometimes seem
too good to be true. This being their second release, one can only
wonder what's in store for them. Featuring Mr. Ducktails himself:
Matthew Mondanile, Real Estate's Etienne Duguay, and Ben Daly of
Wavehead. Keep an eye out for their split LP with Sun Araw to be
released on Not Not Fun."


Taurpis Tula - Cadillac Sitting Like a Ton of Lead (LP) - Ikuisuus
$16.00
"Cadillac Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead, the brand new album from the
Taurpis Tula trio of David Keenan (Tight Meat Duo), Heather Leigh
(Scorces/Dream Aktion Unit/Jandek) and Alex Neilson (Tight Meat Duo/
Directing Hand/Jandek/Richard Youngs et al), represents the absolute
apex of their twin guitar/drums incarnation, with two side-long
improvised psychedelic blues that combine the kind of epic string-
muscle of Fushitsusha, Ohkami No Jikan, Kousokuya and Rallizes Denudes
with a sublime avant-garage sensibility and massive pockets of time-
killing freedom. Further amplifying the malevolent narcosis of their
debut LP on Eclipse, Cadillac… is a full blown rock record that full
delivers on their vision of Yoko jamming with Red Transistor in a
world where the conventional middle-brow ‘canon’ is pretty much
upended in favour of primitive avant garde brut. There are grooves
here that are as magnetic and future-visioned as The Magic Band circa â
€œBig Eyed Beans From Venus†or the final
seconds of amplifier meltdown on Mainliner’s Mellow Out while the
playing is at an all-time ESP-channelled high, with the group
generating glorious metal-inflected simultaneities without the
slightest whiff of ‘dialogue’ or even listening with ears.This is
a profound statement of the kind of freak-out freedoms inherent in the
most primal blues/rock forms and a revitalising connection to the
source of *it*, further building on the kind of form the group were
packing during their monstrous jam at Thurston Moore’s Nightmare
Before Christmas. Features Heather Leigh on vocals, harmonica and
pedal steel, David Keenan on electric guitar and Alex Neilson on
drums. Packaged in individually silkscreened sleeves by disobedient
Belgian artist Jelle Crama and featuring all-original artwork by
Heather Leigh on the front, the insert and the labels, Cadillac
Sitting Like A Ton Of Lead comes in a limited edition of 440 copies."
- Douglas Gully.


Telecult Powers - Amazing Laws of (CDR) - Abandon Ship $5.00
"Abandon Ship is proud to announce it's 50th release! And with it
comes the first non Temple of Pei Telecults album. It took some
convincing via Vulcan mind-meld, but I couldn't feel more honored. So
wipe the dust off of your ouija board, reshuffle your deck of tarot
cards, and hem the stitches on your voodoo doll. Some real-deal
mystical shit is about to go down. Keep a tight grip on your salvia
pipe, for it may be your only companion on this dark voyage. Some
local myths turned heroes in this mind-expanding duo. Trade in your
distortion and delay for magickal boxes of pure analog spirit. Nobody
has kept it realer than these guys. "


The Julie Mittens - Featuring Lexie Mountain (CDR) - Abandon Ship $5.00
"The Julie Mittens were among the first groups that I asked to do a
release for Abandon Ship Records. It's been nearly a year now, and
well worth the wait. They've made some treacherous waves over the past
few years, from their Sloow tape to their latest Holy Mountain
release. This one is no exception. Fresh off their US tour, the Julie
Mittens decided to properly document it with sister releases on ASR
and the Netherland's own Cut Hands (http://www.cuthands.net/
catalog.htm) label, respectively. Not only are the two releases
completely different from each other, but each CDr is housed in it's
own one-of-a-kind sleeve which boasts a unique photo taken on their US
tour. That's 200 different sleeves in total, with screenprinting on
each taboot! Recorded by Steve Sanford at the Golden West Cafe in
Baltimore on September 10th, and features Baltimore's own Lexie
Mountain on vocals for the 2nd track."


Totally Dad - Video for the Snake (CDR) - Abandon Ship $5.00
"Three hell-hermits from Middleton Street extra choose to live like
field mice. one yea cooks, one ha cleans, and one cuts doh paper. if
they notice the night late has begun, they drop their gold duties and
fold instruments into towels bang. It has all been full saved.
Somebody does it better than."


Vapaa - Se Soi, Soi! (CASS) - Ikuisuus $6.00
"5 live performances from Keijo's Free Players, all from 2005. A
magical merging of guitar / bass / drums / synth into a psyched out
wash of meditative sound." - Boa Melody Bar


Various Artists - Aural Holograms Vol. I (CD) - Aural Hypnox $12.00
"All of You who have gone before, across the ages we call You, to join
us and together reach the unsetting stars of the White Nights, the
Horizon of Hollow Earth. The very first part of the Aural Holograms
series incorporates various call and response patterns manifesting
vibrating, subtle energies, all of which have been accurately divided
into separate rhythmic dimensions and time-shifting aural tapestries.
The overall experience - i.e. the ecstatic effect - is transmitted by
the intensity of syncopated rhythms, reed organ lingering on a few
tones, self-transforming vocal work accompanied with carefully chosen
oscillating tunes and a variety of percussive patterns utilising
artefacts crafted according to the methods of traditional metallurgia,
as well as real-time tape operations. { 61°26'N 21°52'E } The rum is
poured on the ground, words are spoken in secrecy: the Dead Men will
come to tell their tales. Comes in six-panel hand finished cardboard
booklet, in an edition of 1.000
copies."


Xenis Emputae Travelling Band - The Crooked Pool (2CDR) - Ikuisuus $9.00
"The Crooked Pool compiles two discs of hitherto unreleased folk-magic
from March 2007 to March 2008. It was recorded among cliffs, moors,
streams and woods while seeking convocation with the genii locorum of
the Yorkshire moors. The Crooked Pool contains eleven psychogeographic
explorations with harmonium, recorder, flute, psaltery, violin and
guitar. 80 minutes of feral drones, wordless hymns, death dirges and
quiet rustic meditations. It will be the 18th XETB release."


Ø +YN - La cancion del ciempies / Quise ser buho (CDR) - Ikuisuus $6.00
"This is Ø +yn : a group formed by Gustavo Valerga, María Victoria
Arener, Pablo Picco and César Young. Four people from different parts
of the country mixed together in Córdoba (one of Argentina’s bigger
towns, 600 km west from Buenos Aires). Recorded in 2007 and mixed this
year, ¨La canción del ciempiés¨ (¨the song of the centipede¨) comes
from the same recording sessions of ¨Copa de un árbol sin raíz¨ [LP
that is about to be finished later this year]. Vocals are mostly
throat singing by María Victoria, Gustavo makes all the guitar walls,
César does the drumming and Pablo the keyboards & flutes. Spectral
melodies in second track ¨Quise ser búho¨ (¨i wanted to be an owl¨),
sung by the special quest, our friend Gubia from Ecuador. Long minutes
of electric static after some thick guitar and keyboard barriers,
mixed with tons of voices, just to uncannily land in some woods near
home, calmly hypnotized by some hand made stick flutes. We like folk,
we like drone, we like to hit electric
guitars, we like overtone singing and we like the trees that cover us
at night. Just sit back there and enjoy the music from the heart of
the centipede."








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