John Charlton
Stats:
Birth: October 24, 1977Members: John Charlton
Contact:
studiesinsound@yahoo.comwebsite: John Charlton website
Bio:
Breaking music with anything he can get his hands on.Releases (5):
- Form Disruptor (CDR)
- i don't think the dirt belongs to the grass (3CD)
- May 2008 Carbon releases combo (OTHER)
- opposite ends of 90 (CDR)
- Walking the Red Road (CDR)
Past Shows (2):
- Sat Jun 14th, 2008 - second day of 2 day event at RoCo (Rochester Contemporary (RoCo) - Rochester, NY)
- Sat Apr 16th, 2005 - John Charlton, Ten-Ton, Minamata and Like Language (Mass Art - Boston, MA)
Media:
- John CharltonZhiishii from Walking the Red Road - CR147 (3.3 MB) - AUDIO (DOWNLOAD)
- Flood from Walking the Red Road - CR147 (2.5 MB) - AUDIO (DOWNLOAD)
- Order No. 0189 from Form Disruptor (3.2 MB) - AUDIO (DOWNLOAD)
Related Reviews (4):
Foxy DigitalisRELEASE: Walking the Red Road
Chicago area guitarist/sound artist John Charlton 's debut “Walking the Red Road,” is deep study into the very nature of the guitar; incorporating its past, present and potential future within a span of 40 minutes. The tracks range in style from delta blues numbers such as “Stephen Taukus Pharaoh,” and the opener “Flood” to more experimentally bent approaches to the instrument, as is the case with the track “Chelvdra” where he trends a similar path to Area C’s Eric Carlson or when the guitar is employed as a percussive instrument as on “Zhiishii.” The biggest shock is the albums closer, “The Montauk Project,” where your ears are suddenly engulfed in a dense swath of layered feedback and beautiful overtones invoking Michael Morley at his most ferocious.
As Charlton veers through guitar styles on “Walking the Red Road,” he maintains an almost baffling amount of clarity, allowing his voice on the instrument to really ring through, no matter what style he is playing off of. Each track is imbued with an expansive amount of space and layering that resembles nothing more than walking down some desolate dusty road. Though he may at times tread similar territory to some of the Takoma revivalists, Charlton manages to create a very distinct and refreshing approach that sets him far beyond the same old finger-picking that this writer has heard way too much of lately. Hopefully we’ll hear from him again very soon. 9/10 -- Cory Card (22 August, 2007) - Cory Card
Modisti
RELEASE: Walking the Red Road
[ John Charlton - Walking the Red Road CDR]
Superimposed layers of acoustic guitar reminiscent of those extremely reverberant and static playing styles associated with vast plateaux, progressively lead to complex textures of increasingly processed sound. Departing from the original source and occasionally turning back, only to begin once more, the music is clearly influenced by rhythmical concerns, while subsequent developments include the use of a wider timbre palette and highlighted acoustic features. The use of processing greatly boosts the possibilities, clothing the instrumental with a nightmarish outlook and, at the same time, continuing to cling on to form which is by now almost inviable.
Mimaroglu Music
RELEASE: i don't think the dirt belongs to the grass
triple-disc compilation celebrating 12+ years of joe tunis’ (Joe+N) carbon records label... spiralling out one disc at a time from rochester, ny, first to the rest of the usa, then to the rest of the world... a very nice thing: three full-color printed discs housed in a triple-amaray case with a gatefold carstock insert, all inserted into a very familiar-looking “cloth parts” bag (uline represent!)
right off the bat what strikes me as impressive/attractive about this comp is its relentless diversity; one track might be minimal computer music; the next some lo-fi broadband noise, then a sound-art piece, then a song by a rock group... but at the same time there’s a tangibly real commonality to not just the participants herein but the noises they choose to make and (re)arrange. and this, my friends, is what ultimately makes a good comp; tying bonds and an overall thread.
that said; there’s something on here for everyone... and in fact you might end up, like myself, enjoying just about everything on this set, from the pieces by the names you know/trust to those by otherwise unknowns (for example; i didn’t know john charlton ’s name, but his acoustic guitar/tibetan singing bowls/wine glasses piece on here - click to your left for a sound-sample - ended up being one of my favorite pieces.) for $20 it’s an absolute steal... - Keith Fullerton Whitman
Volcanic Tongue
RELEASE: i don't think the dirt belongs to the grass
Massive, genre-defining 3xCD set packaged in a DVD case with full-colour artwork and full colour card stock insert housed in a natural-colour cotton bag with single-colour ink stamp art/logo and featuring exclusive tracks from a gob-stopping selection of underground players orbiting the Carbon universe. Limited to 500 copies. Tracks from: Aaron Rosenblum, Andy Gilmore, Anla Courtis, Antony Milton, Asthmatic, Autumn In Halifax, Blood and Bone Orchestra, Blood Stereo, Carlos Giffoni, Carpentry, Caustic Solution, Chad Oliveiri, Chris Reeg, Cock ESP, Coffee, Craig Colorusso, Crawlspace, Crush The Junta, The Davenport Family, Dead Machines, Entente Cordiale, Foot and Mouth Disease, G55, Gastric Female Reflex, Heathen Prayers, Hilkka, Hinkley, Howard Stelzer, Irene Moon, Joe+N, John Charlton, Justice Yeldman, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lunt, Mike Shiflet, Nancy Garcia, Neil Campbell, Pengo, Phroq, Pumice, Rainbeaux, Sindre Bjerga, Sindre Bjerga/Jan-M Iversen, Sq, Taiwan Deth, Taurpis Tula, The Body, The North Sea, Thurston Moore and Tinnitustimulus. Highly recommended.