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• Artist: (VxPxC) Title: Chinatown Nose-Cut Format: CDR Label: Dead Sea Liner (UK) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_deadsealiner011 "This sister piece to (VxPxC)'s "twelve divided by three" and "reticent to manifest" cassettes sees a more electronic slant to their blissful free improv folk sound. A murky psychedelic puddle of Californian sludge peppered with angel dust. Limited Edition of 75."

• Artist: (VxPxC) Title: Reticent to Manifest Format: CASS Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR001 "Reticent to Manifest was made on a cold summer's night in Los Angeles... High on salsa verde and the thick brown air, three men went in and one long string of sound came out. (VxPxC) has been known for pulling some legs and some hair in the past, but this tape is the start of a very long apology of sorts... a way to say "Hey, we like music too... maybe just not the same stuff as you, but you know..." Not a particularly heart-felt apology, mind you, but a start... "

• Artist: (VxPxC) Title: Self-Storage Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS71 "New stunning disk from this shining new-ish LA trio. Like few others, they manage to dig deep into the big psych vibe while keeping their pants on... No copycatsists they bring their own treats to the psychedelic breakfast.. ehh, enough half-ass blabber, these boys mix psych, drone, rock and noise in a way few other does these days.. Kinda like the record you never found but always were looking for at the jumble sales... Edition of 70"

• Artist: 13RXTNLE / fleshghxst Title: death swank Format: CDR Label: noise good Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NG007 Split CDr featuring 9 tracks from 13RXTNLE recorded over the last 2 years. Some of the best work from this project. Fleshghxst is Ohio‘s best kept secret delivering 10 tracks of varying noise. Very tasteful arrangements, a wonderful listening experience, although it might just drive you mad. Limited to 50 copies in full color paper sleeve.

• Artist: 13RXTNLE / i dick the f table Title: the ___ split es dope Format: CD Label: noise good Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NG002 BRXTNLE turns in some live tracks, and some studio tracks of weird noise from all over the spectrum using all kinds of source sounds and instruments. idmtft gives some of his unique brand of audio sculpture including harsh noise, voices, strange music, and all around great sounds.

• Artist: 2673 / Unicorn Title: split EP Format: CDR Label: Kitty Play Records (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_kittyplay002 "An EP split between two electronic bruisers. 2673’s minimalist program is a perfect companion to Unicorn’s (members of Man is the Bastard/Bastard Noise) more complicated and sometimes relentlessly driven scorch. Packaged with hand-inked sleeves pressed by Thumbprint."

• Artist: 5608 Title: C-20 Format: CASS Label: Mudboy (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mudboy_5608.jpg "5608 Is the frank reminders of boondogle supergroup: NorthEast meets Southern Hemisphere(hear?) Join the Jam with: Stefan Neville (of Pumice) and NZ fame, ------->Guitar, Keys, Vocals<--------- Dave Lifrieri (urdog, Xerxes, Manbeard etal.) -------->Guitar and Melodica, <-------------- with Mudboybeats (x members of mudboybeats) -------->Percussion and Harmonium<-------- JAMMIN! This c-20 is like a pill you take to drive, a single solid shot of the best freak money can buy.Dowop, Doom wop, Doom warp you way on down. EDITION OF 133- LISTEN TO A BIT HERE Drawings by Mr. Neville This release will come with a ipod sticker featuring a download code to get this tape out of the internet and onto your ipod. Each sticker/code is good for two downloads."

• Artist: 68 Comeback Title: Golden Rogues Collection Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1970 (This is a USED item) 1995 Sympathy For The Record Industry release

• Artist: A Bloody Occurrence Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Drama (Belgium) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-DRAMA_BLOODY schizoide, belgian famous guitar destroyer raging against electronic sillyness produced by his beloved 'sharki', known from crack w.a.r. and tarantism. its all about friends and frustrations actually. coreleased with audiobot and x+z=0

• Artist: a radio with guts Title: sugat in eleven parts Format: CDR Label: fort hazel Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-FHM33 Experimental ambient noise instrumental jazz. Here‘s how it worked: several musicians jammed out, bits of samples and snippets were reworked, melodic and noise overdubs were done, and the result is here now, the first part of a trilogy.

• Artist: A Real Knife Head Title: split sky Format: CDR Label: Slow Toe (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_slowtoe_str004 A Real Knife Head?s second release, Split Sky, was recorded in their practice space, The Box, in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland. �Straight to 4track, it?s a mixture of sonic shit, minimal guitar and drum, and a cover of Jandek?s Just Die. �A Real Knife Head continue to work the idea of freedom within the limits of equipment, cash and technique.

• Artist: a vibrant struggle Title: whispering bones Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyone ""a vibrant struggle" is a collaboration between norwegians sindre bjerga and jan m. iversen and dutchman steffan de turck (aka staplerfahrer). in the fall of 2007, the trio spent a weekend putting music to tape. this is the third volume from their sessions -following fast on the heels of a release on 905 tapes. a single 31+ minute jam comprised of meditative drones, percussive acoustics, and cacaphonous bliss. edition of 83."

• Artist: A.M. Title: Orla Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $15.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_AMCD One day in early 2004 I arrived home to find the biggest parcel I had ever received sitting on my doorstep, it was crudely wrapped and covered in stamps. I was amazed that anyone would POST something like this through the regular mail system. I brought it inside and cut away the packaging. To my astonishment I found that it contained a large old 'Orla' chord organ and a letter from Marcel Bear (Empirical) saying that he had noted my recent enthusiasm for organ tones (see also With Throats As Fine As Needles and Sunken...). He had found this one at a garage sale and thought that I might like it. My interest in organs had been at least in part inspired by my reading about Charlemagne Palestine and his concept of the "Golden Music". His idea of a stream of sound that may facilitate an ecstatic bliss of religious intensity has been hugely influential to me (in much the same way as Haino's 'sound of the universe'...). I decided pretty much straight away that I would record an album using this organ as the predominant sound source (the only other sound sources are the field recordings of rain on the 1st track and scaffolding pipes on the 2nd). As the recordings progressed from the straight ahead drone of the 1st track I stripped away more and more unnecessary components of the machine until on the last track I was bowing and plucking the spring pegs of the keys. One of my favourite sounds was that of the fan motor itself.

• Artist: Aaron Dilloway Title: Beggar Master Format: CD Label: Hanson Records (USA) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HN132CD CD issue of first full-length LP by ex-Wolf Eyes member Aaron Dilloway. Recorded in Kirtipur, Nepal, March 2005. Originally released on LP limited to 300 copies. Tape manipulations, feedback, crude field recordings, & Nepali dirt. "Side 'Beggar Master' is like a video game of a brick wall chasing a 300 pound wobble legged mosquito. High feedback intercepted by sliding horizontal pile of bricks. Beating thud heart with some open holes in the side corresponding to sludge lake bug liberation. Pumping muscle disorders team up with mud and dirt bubble bath to make larvae spawn engine. Whir and blur background mechanical swamp. The end of the 'Beggar' side cuts off immediately just as you think the whole mess of introduced sound is going to rise up and start knocking down buildings. You can hear the displaced air of the kong leg lifting and zip! The 'Prayer Flush' side starts off as a homage to prehistoric Raptors vs. the Soccer Thugs of Britain. Whistles, bites on the ass, distorted knee scrapes highlight various parts of the first few mins of screaming melee. This fades into some drawn out electro fry. The sound that no living being can stand up to: deep long forked tongue death. Hum of the end. Then the New Blockaders on the Thalid-O-Kid interrupt to make a canal of tumbling pile of canned garbage flowing into a heightened snow storm of singing trident lava-needled record players. Welcome here all trashit, submit your excessive horrible souls to our torture disparagement! If you listen close enough you might be able to hear the behemoth garbage truck rolling up everything into a black hole rear compartment. Background Killoway with his garbage can lid crook pointing the way into vortex nothing. Canned fuzz drops dead after the tidal bleach hand eliminates all movement. If you've heard it all from the Christians how scary the sounds of hell will be, you can hear from Killoway's field recording how your garbage is being treated once it's putrid soul is released. Definitely a mood soundtrack for oblivionic conoise-suers with plans to ride the flume to hell." -- Bonnie Banks, Brutal Sound Effects.

• Artist: Aaron Dilloway Title: Bad Dreams Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRO115 "Dilloway's got a grave problem! Tense ghost clatter and haunted Michigan sputter collapse helplessly into fever, exhaustion, depression. This is home-taping of unconscious dread and hopeless shudder. Originally released in a small edition on his own Hanson Records, Bad Dreams return for the Wolf Eyes / ex-Violent Ramp/Galen/Couch member. When Aaron wakes up, he'll wish he were dead..."

• Artist: Aaron Moore Title: The Accidental Format: CD Label: Elsie and Jack Price: $13.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eaj017sl "as a founding member of the english experimental group volcano the bear, aaron moore has been a part of creating some of the most stimulating and diverse music of the last 10 years with releases on nurse with wound’s united dairies label, and the american label, beta-lactam ring records, to name but two. ‘the accidental’ is moore’s first solo release and is in stark contrast to his drumming and vocal work with volcano the bear. using such instrumentation as bowed and beaten vibraphone, cymbal, chord organ, thumb piano and keyboard, mainly concentrating with one instrument per track, moore has created an album of mesmerizing beauty. shifting, woozy soundscapes, blurred drones, soft conjuring, and deep meditations - perfect for late night headphone trips. on ‘three guineas’, a keyboard is used to create a new lullaby in which we are reminded of years past. the majority of these recordings, made at his home in leicester on a digital 8 track and one microphone in 2003 were intended for an aborted collaboration with oren ambarchi. they then sat on his machine for a year or so until, with the nagging of friends, he set about doing something with them. some of the tracks, he felt, needed the hand of another so he sent some tracks to friends andrew liles, luke fowler and alex neilson to collaborate on. they in turn sent the finished tracks back to moore where he set about editing them for inclusion on ‘the accidental’. the title, ‘the accidental’ comes from the fact that were it not for the original aborted collaboration attempt with ambarchi, moore would not have recorded this music. moore is continuing his work with volcano the bear and his new duo, dragon or emperor, as well as planning several collaborations in the coming months. if a follow up to ‘the accidental’ is to happen, then maybe it will be on purpose next time?!"

• Artist: Aeoga Title: Zenith Beyond The Helix-Locus Format: 7inch Label: Aural Hypnox (Finland) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AH005 "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."

• Artist: Agents at Midnight Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Quodlibet (USA) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_QLCD004 "The full-length debut of noise-jazz duo Agents At Midnight, and a real pro-pressed CD in an edition of 500 copies, the first in 5 years! Meticulously constructed from hours and hours of recording sessions, this album is a distillation of all the many sounds and styles explored by this duo. Rumbling bassy drones, unflinchingly ear-piercing examinations of feedback tones, dizzyingly fast sample-based pieces, musique concrete-inspired collage. And on all of it, sax and electronics flow subtly into one another, bleeding over until the authorship of sounds is often uncertain. Agents At Midnight inhabits a weird hybrid territory somewhere between abstract modern improv, harsh noise, and free jazz, sometimes blending these styles, sometimes veering between them." - limited to 500, co-released with Fargone

• Artist: AGF.3 and Sue.C Title: Mini Movies Format: 2CD Label: Asphodel (USA) Price: $17.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASPH3004CD Two-disc release, one CD/one DVD. "The Compact Disc: Loping, wine-soaked electrical RnB, AGF's third album (her first for Asphodel) finds her dropping neu beat poetry over cookie crumb beats and snaking across sly bass and piano. Tales of friendship, longing, and wandering through anonymous city streets permeate the airwaves. Nineteen tracks of lopsided pop and soundtrack interludes, sparse and torch lit, Mini Movies is the complete sound of disastrous freedom. The DVD: the Mini Movie: Sue C. (Gold Chains collaborator and solo video artist in her own right) and AGF worked together to put together this patchwork mystery of everyday life in the shadows of capitalism, socialism, communalism and community. It is about personal history and personal relationships. Filmed in New York, Long Island, Berlin, London, San Francisco and elsewhere, Mini Movie is a travel diary at once familiar and strange but overall it is a tribute to friendship. The soundtrack is one continuous piece from which most of the tracks on the CD were derived."

• Artist: Akitsa Title: sang nordique Format: 0 Label: Hospital Productions (USA) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HOS163 akitsa - sang nordique - cd reissue of the second akitsa full length. very low end punkish primitivist chunky underwater black metal with hard youth spirit and epic minimalism. essential for fans of bone awl, ildjarn, early absurd etc.

• Artist: Alasehir Title: the stone sentinels Format: CD Label: Archive Recordings (USA) Price: $13.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_archive033 "3 tracks spawned from a night of riffs and jams at Lemur house from Bardo brothers on dual guitars and current Bardo drummer Jason. Heavy psych that sways a little closer to the Sabbath side of jams then the normal Bardo Pond burn. Also features Igler on electronics on 2 of the 3 jams. Single pressing of 600 "

• Artist: Alec K. Redfearn and the eyesores Title: the smother party Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_alecredfearn (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Alejandro Jodorowsky Title: Psychomagic Format: OTHER Label: 777 was 666 (Japan) Price: $15.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_777-009 THIS IS A VCD - "His latest preaching shot live in San Francisco Nov 2004. Location & Director of Cinematography by David Woodard Cover art by Nick Bougas Playable on any PC or DVD player. w/printed craft paper cover. Ltd 150. "

• Artist: Alfa / Picturesque / Fart Fwd / R.O.T. / Muisc Title: xxx-mas / tanneur 30-12-‘00 Format: CDR Label: Glasvocht Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gvcdr04 5 bands showing that impronoise is not for pussies.

• Artist: Alfredo Costa Monteiro Title: Z = 78 ( pt : 195.09 ) Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BOT161 "Alfredo Costa Monteiro has been challenging the borders of improvised music since '95, exploring visual arts, visual poetry and sound. His radical use of minimal objects blew a weird hole in my mind when he performed in the FeF store a few weeks back, scraping the accordion surface with dense flames in the eyes. He has peformed with a seemingly endless list of players such as Peter Kowald, Mattin, Margarida Garcia, Mark Wastell, Giuseppe Ielasi, Ernesto Rodrigues, Masahiko Okura, ... If that summary didn't wet your appetite, his sound has been released on international labels as Antifrost, Creative Sources, Rossbin, A Bruit Secret, Hibari and Sound 323. Packaged in double sided fold-out covers, by Edward Maddison in an edition of only 110 copies. File under = twisted elbows and unpredictable behaviour."

• Artist: Algebrassiere Title: Bip Malentendu Format: CDR Label: imvated Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Imvated_cp77 "impromptu rockballads. radiosamples and ongoing drum solo's. records on Breathmint, Ecstatic Peace, SNSE, etc etc... comes with painted and stencilled art and stapled covers and jewel cases filled with paint and and and... " - comes in sprayed jewel case, with nice-printed paper wrapper, silver tape, etc.

• Artist: Algebrassiere Title: that's irritainment Format: CDR Label: SNSE Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_snse047 Algebrassiere is a seven-armed gilamonster, hairy everywhere except on it's chest, eight cat heads sprouting from it's spine. As it lumbers through the plasma center, it batters upon musical instruments with the severed limbs of Randy Savage. It lives to lick the flames of fire and spew stream-of-consciousnesses into a coffee can that doubles as a toilet. It longs for love, but will settle for a crooked, gap-filled smile from a whiskeystench bum. This album raises a racket that swings, 12 trax of impromptou fiendrocking fuck rock that makes you more virile with each successive listen. Spraypainted, screened, colorcopied that shit

• Artist: Allun Title: onussen Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1947 (This is a USED item) Bar Le Muerte release

• Artist: Allun Title: et sise Format: CD Label: bar la muerte Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_Allun_et_sise (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Aloha Title: the great communicators... Format: CD Label: Polyvinyl Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_73 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Alpendre Title: 01:05:03,924 Format: CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD92

• Artist: andreas brandal Title: the familiar stranger Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosefiftytwo "i don't know where to start describing this one. it is all over the place and absolutely incredible. some of the most well-thought out and composed noise i've heard in quite a while. hand-screened disc packaged in a 2-color, hand-screened cover. edition of 80 copies."

• Artist: Andy Gilmore Title: Lord, hold my hand while i run this race. Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR88 10YR.Series.08 - the eighth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. a truly magnificant collection of guitar and piano pieces from one of the nicest and most creative people i know. Andy creates, whether it be with guitar or piano, pencil or ink, word or thought. clocking in at over 44min, this release contains 13 tracks, one of which is a 14min live piece, each of which exudes the level of emotion and delicateness that we've come to expect from Andy. Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis I’ve only ever paid Andy Gilmore passing interest. I never really gave his Of Lice and Moons much contemplation. It was only when I absorbed myself in Lord, Hold My Hand While I Run This Race that I discovered a truly captivating and emotionally-driven exhibition of sound. These lonesome guitar and piano creations drift and stray out of the disc and implant themselves directly into your imagination, where they reminisce over whispered sighs of sentimental memories and ecstatically rejoice over the empty shells of past glories. In doing so, it evokes a stirring, sequestered awareness of abandonment, and removal from these joyful recollections. These bleaker elements begin to penetrate and alter those thoughts. The stark sensation that you are now withdrawn from reality is a cold wake-up call that spits you back out into Gilmore’s desolate sounds. The clanking of piano pedals and clinking of keys makes for a perfect soundtrack to a despondent existence, but through this, it still manages to radiate splendour and beauty. This won’t just pull at your heartstrings, it will puppeteer them. When we were younger, we couldn’t appreciate the lack of responsibility we had. Now that we’ve grown, we increasingly find ourselves asking, like Gilmore, for someone to hold our hand while we run this race. - James Clarke

• Artist: Andy Gilmore Title: of lice and moons Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR62 another amazing collection of moving guitar/etc workings. for people who like Loren (Mazzacane) Connors, Mick Turner (of Dirty Three), etc. [unlimited CDR version of out of print 10" lathe cut]

• Artist: Angel Corpus Christi Title: Louie Louie Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Gulcher601 "12 songs by for and about Lou Reed 1. Louie Louie 2. Caroline Says II 3. Tell It To Your Heart 4. She's My Best Friend 5. Disco Mystic 6. Banging On My Drum 7. I Want To Boogie With You/Je T'aime 8. Lou"

• Artist: Angel Corpus Christi Title: divine healer Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GULCHER415 The latest sad-funny avant- pop sounds from San Francisco singer-songwriter- accordionist and longtime MX-80 collaborator. With Rich Stim and Dave Mahoney from MX-80.

• Artist: Anomoanon Title: asleep many years in the wood Format: CD Label: Temporary Residence Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_127 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: ANP (Absolut Null Punkt) Title: Metacompound Format: CD Label: Important Records (USA) Price: $13.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IMPREC110CD "Metacompound is the first full length studio album from ANP in 19 years. Lavish metallic ink on vellum packaging by ANP fan and Sunn O))) member, Stephen O'Malley. ANP was formed in 1984 by K.K. Null & Seijiro Murayama. In 1987 ANP broke up. 17 years later they reformed for some live performances and released the singular Live In Japan on Important Records. Metacompound, their first studio recordings in over 19 years, is as indescribable as Live In Japan was. Combining free jazz, heavy rock, industrial noise, glitch and free improvised dynamics, ANP creates a sound that is entirely unprecedented."

• Artist: Antoine Chessex Title: Silences Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tzpCD21 "vocals, sax, tapes, mics, 4-track manipulations by monno's saxophonist and dave phillips collaborator. drone sax vs sound poetry vs ritualistic invocations vs electricity. 120 copies."

• Artist: Antony Milton Title: The End of this Short Road Format: CD Label: Deserted Village (UK) Price: $14.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_DV27 "I recorded it in 2000 a few months before I started the PseudoArcana label, and given that my initial idea for P.A. was for it to focus on harsher and more abstract musics the simple melodic folk songiness of 'Short Road' resulted in it sitting on the shelf for much longer than it perhaps should have. There was a great poet who said of his work that all he had ever done was write the same poem again and again, trying to get it right. I've sometimes felt that I only have the one song inside me, and I've approached that song from a hundred radically different angles and have ultimately become convinced that this song can never in fact be realised in any definitive way. But that one song is still there inside me and there are places on 'Short Road' where I think I come as close to realising that song as anywhere."

• Artist: Antony Milton and Joe+N Title: can you find your what Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR120 two extended tracks totally 35+ minutes, this is a long-distance collaboration between Antony Milton (aka AM, etc, Pseudoarcana label man) and Joe+N (aka Joe Tunis, Carbon label man). the two traded snippets, full tracks and mixes, back and forth during 2006. the sounds included are a great mix of guitar, drone-strings, found sound, vocals and various other noise makers. [packaged in a heavy-duty vinyl sleeve with a transluscent yellow "dimple" cover, artwork beneath, and wrapped in a band of metallic foil tape.] Reviews (2): Modisti [ Antony Milton and Joe+N - can you find your what CDR ] Starting out from what could be described as a ‘textural guitar drone scene’, this duo explores the possibilities of such a medium using a greater scope in terms of spatialization and processing. The harsh, extended character spreads in sweeping strokes, featuring a greater experimental set of techniques, less based on real time instrumental performance and thus allowing a greater sophistication and variation in sound processing. The second track presents a more experimental approach –featuring a casual, accidental attitude as well as a wide palette of sound sources- to the composition of materials as well as a thoroughly refreshing outlook, allowing space to be defined through the absence of sound rather than by featuring large amounts of materials. Foxy Digitalis This postal meeting between two underground label kingpins, Antony Milton (Pseudoarcana) and Joe+N (Carbon records) begins in surprisingly heavy territory. Pulsing fuzzed-out electronics combine with guitar mangling to create a truly disorienting murk. It seems Milton’s recent forays into black metal have spilled over into the work he does under his own name. For a mail collab the distance between the two performers is quite effectively bridged here. The interplay and symbiotic relationship between the Milton and Joe+N creates the impression of a late night jam in a low-lit room, rather than CDRs carted across a vast ocean by indifferent hands. The packaging of this release really does seem to give a good indication of the sounds within, it features a picture of a moth obscured by a piece of yellow plastic (which looks like some sort of factory off cut). The whole thing is bound in silver electrical tape. Sounds pretty haphazard, but it ends up looking cool. So too with the album itself, the sounds some times seem a little random, but it works. Overall the first track reminds me of an extended instrumental track by Gate, which is good thing for sure. Feedback, static and dissonance (the pet hates of creepy audiophiles the world over) are deployed over the course of this piece without fear and to great effect. Track two is more eerie, a moaning violin is married to an ambling acoustic guitar to create the ideal Pagan festival comedown soundtrack. There is a vocal somewhere in the mix, but it ends up only as a suggestion of a voice, like some murmer of a human presence, somewhere back there in the trees. The spell is momentarily broken by the voice of child and the response of a parent (presumably Joe+N). It’s kinda funny and serves as a reminder that you really shouldn’t take this stuff so seriously. “Can You Find Your What” is a successful collaboration on every level. Further fruits of this musical friendship should be eagerly anticipated. 8/10 -- (13 February, 2007) - Cola Nitida

• Artist: Argumentix Title: nightmarcher Format: CASS Label: Below PDX (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX08 "Life in the Pre-Apocalypse brings Argumentix time of leisure to reflect on the immediate. The newest album joins pain and sorrow knuckle scraping on cement floors. A smashed throat spurting grunts, moans and crooning thorns against tape loop manipulations, sequencer configurations, and urban field recordings. A departure from previous albums with focused anger and reluctance to acknowledge the future. Existential crisis has never felt so optimistic. Cover art by Shoosha screenprinted by Nick Bittakis on wallpaper samples of various colors and paterns."

• Artist: Argumentix Title: Tarantula Downpour Format: 7inch Label: Trash Skull Records (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TS01 NOTE: this is a 7" vinyl and DVDR release!!!! - "My first VINYL RELEASE! Side A: “Tarantula Downpour Glass of Wine for Dinner” is based on an all too realistic dream about post-modern identity drowning itself in lack of confidence. It’s also about mind-control through chemical warfare by both force and volunteer. What if the apocalypse has already come and gone and this is just us trying to make sense of the end times? Side B: “Lend Me your Blanket (I Wanna Dream About You)” is a love song to James’s dead mother. She rests inside his voice and Argumentix feels her spirit when he sings. Of course, she would have also thought this music was really strange. DVDR includes 8 original animated videos by James Squeaky, including a video for “Tarantula Downpour,” along with songs from various other releases. They range from crude drawings and feline adventures to dense rotating patterns of melting color."

• Artist: Argumentix Title: Beyond Party Destruction Time Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tzpCD23 "oops, tapes, beats, samples, vocals. evil post-apocalyptic songs for post-apocalyptic 24-hour party people. recycled 12" packaging. cdr + anti-12" 100 copies."

• Artist: Argumentix + Adam Gnade Title: wilderness and the hold gold Format: CDR Label: Below PDX (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BELOWPDX04 "Music journalists by day, musical story-tellers by night, writer Adam Gnade likes to put his words to music and Boss of Goth, Argumentix likes to put music to words. For a night the two loaded up on ecstatic narratives and wrangled together this album, a swirling evil spirits hijacking the amusement park journey. But this isn't soundtrack music. There are beats, melodramatic interludes and crushing gasps for air. This is two story-tellers sharing war stories and raising their fists to the youth. This is something to drink to. This is something to dance to. This is something to die to. Here's to hoping you die before we do. Cover art by Adam, beautifully screenprinted by Ben at Diesel Fuel Prints."

• Artist: Army of Ghosts Title: The Horror Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1969 (This is a USED item) 1999 Parallelism release

• Artist: Arthur Doyle Title: No More Evil Women TOUR CD Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CR104 20 minutes of Arthur Doyle's trademark vocalizations. recorded direct to cassette, this is a great vocal only recording from Arthur, to celebrate his recent mini-tour of the NorthEast US. [limited edition. packaging started as 3 4'x4' paintings on 1/4" plywood. the pieces were then cut into 6"x6" boards that serve as the cover/carrier for the release.] Reviews (1): Volcanic Tongue Although free folk spirit Arthur Doyle is primarily associated with the saxophone, the arc of his trails takes in a whole bunch of classic 20th century song and dance modes. Doyle's vocal style is a particularly original amalgam of a bunch of seemingly mutually exclusive currents, all reconciled with a delivery that is as far-out and unmediated by any concern for traditional expressive modes as it is playful and totally spontaneous. No More Crazy Women (nothing to do with the recent Qbico LP of the same name) is a special tour-only CD-R that bundles three impossibly-great solo vocal performances recorded straight to cassette. Packaging is real sweet too, with each CD fastened to a 6"x 6" painted board. The sound here is somewhere between early jazz scat singing, primitive field moans, the gutteral automatic accompaniment of Bhamanian guitarist Joseph Spence and the syntax-dissolving experiments of Henri Chopin. Features wild versions of "Round Midnight" and "Stormy Monday". Limited to only 150 copies. - David Keenan

• Artist: Ashtray Navigations Title: Four More Raga Moods Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $15.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU004 "Mmmm my mouth is watering at the prospect of listening to this with one look at the various underground luminaries involved: Ben Reynolds, Pete Nolan, Andy Jarvis, Alex Neilson, Chris Hladowski (Nalle / Scatter), Mel Delaney and of course Phil Todd. Do I really need to write anymore?! The album opens with its only raga, an acoustic duet from Reynolds and Jarvis, heavily warped by analogue delay. "Hey Sunflower Motherfucker" has Todd's sun-seeking guitar working its way through thick waves of wow. "The Pete Nolan Effect" is a deep pool of drone (once the microphone returns from its wind-blasted trip outside!) as is the immensely atmospheric final track which sounds like the inners of a dank, dark cave." - Boa Melody Ba

• Artist: Atomic 61 Title: purity of essence Format: CD Label: Cavity Search Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_81 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Aube Title: Reworks Stefano Gentile II Format: CD Label: Silentes (Italy) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SME0720CD "Long static drones and suspended frequencies of harmonic, sonorous wafts in constant evolution riding cyclical hypnotic perennially changing synthetic curved..."

• Artist: Aube Title: Metal On Metal Format: CDR Label: Silentes (Italy) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SME0721 "Another long awaited reissue from Aube. METAL ON METAL (as for AQUA SYNDROME) was published by MANIFOLD records. Also for this work, over the original album, you'll can hear a bonus track and a full live CD. To the discovery of the alchemical secrets and the magic of the metallic materials, of their acoustic characters, and the possible technological manipulations on the sounds that are possible to pull out... It arches of it resonances, mantric vibrations, hypnotics bells rings... That features of sounds of cymbals, plates, rings... that tubular elements are used or more ordinary and simple metallic objects of common use... that they are bowed or scraped..., Aube acquires the sounds and of it transforming its essence... decomposing and recomposing the shape... Fragmenting, expanding,stratifying and elaborating the sonorous matter, constructs complexwafts, resounding weaves carpets, interlaces thin threads of metallic tensions, crumbles and agglomerates acoustic particles, leaves to flowlong, reverberating, harmonic drones... "Metal on Metal", two only, fantastic CD for and a matchless release"

• Artist: Aufgehoben Title: Axiologue / Thermidor One Five Format: 7inch Label: white denim Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WD12 (PICTURE DISC) - "Crafted in their fine tradition, Aufgehoben continue to carve harsh chunks of noise with this, their first departure on 7" vinyl. Guitar and electronics sound like neither, while sprawling percussion tumbles across the rotten landscape. The two tracks on this monochromatic record jump right for the jugular, leaving little time for subtlety or reflection. Not recommended for antique styluses. There are 524 copies of this picture disc record."

• Artist: Auger Title: like little machines Format: CD Label: rectrix Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_RECTRIX02 subtle single-noise-compositions, reminding me of Bernhard Gunter‘s work. from the Rectrix site: Complex, rhythmic noise packaged with a nice minimal look. This is a bit different from the harsh wall of noise stuff that I am used to."

• Artist: AUN Title: Multigone Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $9.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ BLISS32 ".This seven track disc is undeniably the heaviest music that AUN has created so far, a grinding, distorted soundscape that begins with the keening electronic drones and muffled, disembodied metallic riffing that becomes endlessly tanged in a nest of squirming low-end noise in the opening title track, and steadily ratchets up the heaviness with each track, until we come to the punishing "Palejoy", a bludgeoning Industrial metal dirge that has massive, Godflesh-like percussion fused to processed, almost synthetic sounding doom riffage, a black cloud of buzzing, ultra downtuned black dirge drifting over a muffled, slow motion breakbeat. In between, AUN erects vast walls of crumbling distortion and rhythmic guitar loops forged into apocalyptic ambient drift streaked with heavenly synth choirs and sweeping cosmic fx, crushing fifteen-minute blasts of immolating amplifier ragas formed from a nebula of melting woodwind sounds, distant elephantine tympani drums, hellish symphonies of rusted, scraping strings and celestial electronic whiteout that ends up sounding like something from Skullflower's Orange Canyon Mind but one hundred times heavier, and strange deep-space blues jam instrumentals with impossibly detuned guitar soaring through black holes of reverb and tape fluctuation. This is seriously crushing stuff that stands out in sharp contrast to the hordes of amp-leaning feedback riders, and is highly recommended to anyone into KTL, Final, Black Boned Angel, To Blacken The Pages, K.K. Null, Aethnor, Fall Of The Grey Winged One, Fear Falls Burning, Hlidolf, Messiah Complex, and other heavy, textural industrial/ambient/sludge groups. Multigone is packaged in the signature Bliss sleeve with full color artwork, and the disc is attached to the interior of the sleeve on a plastic hub. Issued in a limited edition of 300 copies."

• Artist: Austere Title: Monodia Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_austere1 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Austere Title: Convergence Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_austere2 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Austere Title: caruscate Format: 3inch CDR Label: sound-o-mat Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SEANCE02 5min piece on rectangular CDR in a cellophane-wrapped and decorated paper box {edition of 50]. the cdr is the ouija board, comes with literature on using the baord, etc. amazing packaging! part of the Music for Seances series (http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml)

• Artist: autodidact Title: chinese girlsm have the best asses Format: CDR Label: Crucial Blast Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR37 "8 tracks. Limited to 200 copies. The latest (released June 2004) full length from Texan dronerock/disharmonic sludge pop project AUTODIDACT. Waves of chiming discordant guitars and spare glacial beats surge beneath barely-concealed melodies and noisy pop hooks. The BAND OF SUSANS influence is strong here, as if that band reformed in a hot basement somewhere down south, trying to rewrite PIXIES tunes with a battered, beersoaked drum machine on loan from GODFLESH and cough-syrup drenched vocals moaning/croaking bizarre atonal proclamations. Completely fucked up and really catchy."

• Artist: Autumn in Halifax Title: the soft, soft shakes Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CR177 Recorded in multiple studios over the course of 2007 and 2008, in both Upstate New York and San Diego California, Autumn in Halifax; David Merulla and W.Dirk Doucette, along with various contributors put together another collection of songs with considered arrangements and colored by multiple instruments including Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes pianos, singing saw, accordion, trumpet, vintage effects and the familiar guitars,drums and bass. The warmth of 1970's rock and roll, concise pop songs and subtle experimentation all can be found within this particular song cycle. Reviews (1): City Newspaper Setting out to make a "more pop-sounding" album this time around, Autumn In Halifax leader David Merulla proves that poppiness doesn't have to come at the expense of substance. Merulla's work can flow as gently as a canoe being carried downstream by a slow current, but tends to be heavy on the atmosphere. He also writes prose, and his songs often come across like the sonic equivalent of pastoral scenes described in dense passages of literature. By contrast, "Soft Shakes" immediately gets off to a more anthemic start with the singalong-inducing "Sleepwalkers." As the album goes on, drummers William Doucette and Jonathan Stevens provide lively beats even as Merulla begins to evoke the deep stillness of vintage acoustic Neil Young. Merulla has an unparalleled knack for challenging your expectations while going easy on your ears. As accessible and beautiful as it is, "Soft Shakes" still commands a most rewarding kind of patience. - City Weekly

• Artist: Autumn in Halifax Title: Special Combo Pack Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $15.00 Catalog ID: CR177_CR175 This is a Special Combo Deal. The 2 most recent Autumn in Halifax releases for a special price. Autumn in Halifax & The Leaves - Robert Frank & The Moon BOOKLET and CDR 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] Autumn in Halifax - the soft, soft shakes CDR Recorded in multiple studios over the course of 2007 and 2008, in both Upstate New York and San Diego California, Autumn in Halifax; David Merulla and W.Dirk Doucette, along with various contributors put together another collection of songs with considered arrangements and colored by multiple instruments including Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes pianos, singing saw, accordion, trumpet, vintage effects and the familiar guitars,drums and bass. The warmth of 1970's rock and roll, concise pop songs and subtle experimentation all can be found within this particular song cycle.

• Artist: Autumn in Halifax Title: Kites With Broken Strings Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR117 autumn in halifax is "the quiet avant folk drone guitar and voice of david merulla." and this release showcases pretty much every aspect of that description. in addition to his amazing guitar/looping and vocal work, he is joined on a number of tracks by various friends from his previous stomping grounds in the San Diego (post)pop/rock scene. David does an amazing job of mixing delicate (and catchy) melodies and looping, with abstract sounds and textures . www.autumninhalifax.com Reviews (4): Two Way Monologues A lot of people have a tough time understanding how I can appreciate watching baseball, golf or even (gasp!) curling as much as I do, and I can understand that. The reality is that those activities just move too slowly for the majority of people. It can be the same way with a movie, like one of my all-time favourites, Waking Life. I find that movie riveting, and to date I still am trying to wrap my head around the intricacies of what it all means. I'd be an idiot to expect everyone to have the patience for that type of movie. And I would be an idiot to expect everyone to have the patience for Autumn in Halifax's record Kites With Broken Strings. Patience is absolutely crucial to enjoy Autumn in Halifax. There are moments that occur in the album that are absolutely crushing. The music has a way of lulling you into a mesmerized state where it is just you and the music; and then, like a cold bucket of water to the face, an abrupt change in the pacing or volume awakens you. It is just an incredible feeling when music can do that to you. The key is in the build up, or what I referred to as the lull. Rudimentary rules about song lengths are ignored here, and whatever length it takes to satisfactorily complete the song is used instead. The album title is fascinating, isn't it? Kites With Broken Strings -- what does that mean to you? To me, the one word that comes to mind is potential. A kite with broken strings at is useless; the sole function of a kite cannot be performed without strings. But that doesn't mean it can't regain that potential again and that it hasn't done beautiful things before. Maybe I am completely wrong and the band just named the album what it did because it sounds cool. I hope not. I also like my analysis because it fits well with this music in general. It is only as rewarding as you let it be. A casual listen to songs like "Farewell" just isn't going to cut it. "Farewell" actually offers the listener a great microcosm for what they going to experience during Kites With Broken Strings. Clocking in at 10:38, it is a slowburn, to say the least. In many ways I am reminded of Raising the Fawn but with a heavier emphasis on folk and more of a hint of fragility in David Merulla's vocals. Repeatedly, Merulla plays this quiet tranquil melody against the rhythmic drums, and the melody has more of an effect on me than most hard rock riffs ever do. When I listen to this song I know that everything will go on hold for ten minutes of my life and I can just let myself get lost into this music. And this, as I am discovering, is the true beauty of the drone style. For a minute and thirty seconds "Memphis" plods forward as it builds toward something, but the repetition soothes you -- and then it happens and demands that you perk up and listen. Merulla's voice couldn't be described as polished, it has a raw quality that contrasts well with the meticulous thought that goes into the guitar and instrumentation. I wouldn't suggest playing any of these songs at your next social gathering, but in those late artistic, contemplative hours of the night this is the soundtrack that you are craving. I am asking/encouraging anyone who reads this and would like to share an opinion on what they think the following lyrics mean to post or email and let me know, because I find them utterly fascinating: "Ghostly coma breaks/the radius of your smiles/when I need them most/Sparkles rival faith/Rivals sparkles truth/Sparkles rival faith/Rivals sparkle truth" Those lyrics come from "Stinger Glows Relief," another of the many excellent tracks Kites With Broken Strings has to offer. The song is constructed to force the listener to focus on Merulla's voice and those mysteriously beautiful lyrics. In spite of not knowing precisely what the lyrics mean, the sadness or despair in this song is still bordering on overwhelming. And it doesn't end with the three songs I mentioned. On their own these songs are decent, but as a whole the album is a more powerful and rewarding experience. The learning curve is higher, so you make the call. The flavour of the month or something that you won't be sick of this time in July? That is up to you. Songs to hear: As your attorney, I'd advise listening to the entire album. (Fear and Loathing reference, for those who just decided that I am crazy.) SCORE: 8.5 - Dan City Newspaper Cover story excerpt Rochester City Weekly (OCTOBER 26, 2005) A brisk wind blows through David Merulla's music At times, he inhabits his own music with such a gentle touch that he may as well be a ghost himself. His playing also moves forward at an unhurried pace almost unheard of in this day and age. The arrangements, which feature light electronic touches and playing and recording by members of Kill Me Tomorrow, Bartender's Bible, and the Black Heart Procession, leave ample room for echoes. Echoes in the spaces of buildings, echoes that span the rural American West... echoes of a tree-lined Rochester street bracing itself for the cold. - Saby Reyes-Kulkarni Pop Matters Autumn in Halifax is (mostly) David Merulla, and to get an idea of his music, it helps to know that he’s intrigued by both nature and architecture, and these two obsessions shape his music.  Like the former, his songs are often unconstrained and unpredictable, changing direction and feel without warning.  But like the latter, Merulla’s songs possess shape, though it’s not always apparent.  This is the rewarding part of his music—a few listens just do not suffice.  You have to live with the songs to discern the overall harmony and symmetry of its components, and what first sounded like random noise reveals itself to be part of a larger structure.  Merulla, you might say, paints on a large canvas, and standing too close prevents you from seeing the complete picture.  Once you see it, though, you can’t look away, despite that it’s often haunting, lonely, and unsettling. Kites with Broken Strings is Autumn in Halifax’s new album; consisting of eleven tracks, it exemplifies Merulla’s eccentric brand of folk.  Merulla handles vocal and guitar duties, but it would shortchange him to say he “plays” the guitar.  All the conventions of guitar playing—pleasing chord progressions, catchy hooks, pyrotechnic guitar solos—are absent from Merulla’s songs.  Lest you think, though, this means Merulla doesn’t know the tool of his craft, he does.  His approach, however, is completely different from the classic pop model of verse/chorus/solo/chorus/fade. Instead, his guitar lines drift back and forth, moving in and out of frame, disappearing only long enough to instill a sense of unease and anxiety, returning to both please and taunt.  His playing has been described as “quiet avant folk drone,” and while it’s all of these things, it might be more apt and succinct to say it’s surreal.  Each song on Kites with Broken Strings sounds like a collage of fragments of dream or memories, juxtaposed against one another, the interplay equally revealing and disturbing. Adding to the illusory feel of Autumn in Halifax’s songs is Merulla’s voice, which is always shaky, often shrill, and deliberately off-key.  Yes, this doesn’t sound like the kind of music you play at a party, and it isn’t—at least, that is, not until all the obligatory guests have left and only your core group of confidantes remain.  Autumn in Halifax, you see, isn’t for everyone, but only those who enjoy investing in the listening experience, those who know that rewarding art often requires something from the observer.  And Merulla’s voice and songwriting do require that you pay attention, but together, they are hypnotic, each chasing after one another until they collide. Overall, Kites with Broken Strings is disquietingly serene, much like a memory that has no tangible power in the present, but still manages to disrupt.  Indeed, songs like “A Quiet Long Enough” and “In Slow Arcs” capture the transitory nature of memories, each based on loose guitar patterns that repeat themselves.  “A Quiet Long Enough” is an instrumental song, and the repeating guitar patterns are complimented with backwards electric guitar notes.  This gives the song a reverse momentum, as if any forward progress is always determined, and ultimately thwarted, by what came before.  “In Slow Arcs” features vocals and instrumentation, but still feels transient.  Drums crash into the middle of the song, accelerate the pace, but then disappear into the background.  Later, they repeat the same pattern, creating a bizarre ebb and flow. Lyrically, Merulla isn’t interested in telling stories or creating character sketches; rather, he gives the listeners images and lets them make connections.  You might, for instance, think a song titled “Memphis” would tell of drunken nights down on Beale Street, but that’s too obvious.  Instead, Merulla presents a series of snapshots that, while loosely related, don’t tell a coherent story: “The sound of winter... I came to... Memphis... we left it in the sea.” Likewise, in “Water + Wire,” the listener is forced to make coherence out of fragmented thoughts: “Nothing left unless we rest / Accidents, they... they test / The gentle texture of water and wire.” Only half the words in most the songs are discernible, which somehow makes the lyrics all the more intriguing.  Of course, such lyrical wordplay would be easy to dismiss as artistic pretension, but Merulla’s lyrics make perfect sense within the context of his songwriting. Like both architecture and nature, Autumn in Halifax’s songs deal with the role of space—the space between people, the space between the past and the present, and the space between reality and illusions.  Kites with Broken Strings is perfect for pondering such reflective matters, and while it offers no answers, it makes you realize that questioning is better than knowing. Transitory and haunting, Autumn in Halifax's songs sound like all those past moments that determine your present situation. - Michael Franco Delusions of Adequacy “Thank you...from the bottom of my bloody folk heart,” David Merulla writes in the liner notes for Autumn in Halifax’s Kites with Broken Strings, and I’m struck with what an interesting description that would be for this band: bloody folk. Take your structured folk music, and dissect it, sometimes into its barest components and sometimes into delectable chunks of folk goodness, and you get the unique and endearing sound of Autumn in Halifax. Rochester native Merulla is the heart of his bloody folk sound, assisted on the album with assorted friends, and on this release, he delivers one of the most intriguing albums I’ve heard in ages. There’s tracks here for those who love traditional song structures and those who eschew them, and sometimes both will be pleased in the same song. At the heart of these songs is a moody folk sensibility, but Merulla and friends get so creative in mixing these songs and adding in ebow, lap steel, Rhodes piano, and assorted noises, that the result is something truly unique. The album opens with the quiet “A Quiet Long Enough,” which warps its guitars forward and backward, creating a kind of ambient soundscape. It’s merely a prelude, though, to the lengthy and brilliant “Farewell,” which gives perhaps the perfect feel for Autumn in Halifax’s sound. It’s flowing, eerily moody at times and yet striking in Merulla’s lyrics and lilting vocals. The drums are booming, the guitar repeating its lines in the backdrop, keyboards lilting and pretty by contrast, and what seems incohesive in theory comes together beautifully. “In Slow Arcs” brings to mind Joan of Arc in structure as well as Merulla’s purposefully off-key singing style. “Water + Wire” is sweet and gentle, and Merulla’s singing style is endearing more than jarring, nicely complimenting the rich tones of this quiet yet poppy track. “Echo in the Lower Case” is a gentle instrumental, lilting and smooth and evocative. It leads nicely into the album’s centerpiece, the brilliantly powerful and instrumentally textured “Memphis.” The album is rounded out by the more folky “Aluminum Smile,” creative found songs to back up “Lemon Tigers,” more poppy “Pretty Noise,” the stark and stripped-bare “Stinger Glows Relief,” and the esoteric “Screen of Province” that provides a nice bookend to the opening instrumental. Merulla spins tales in true folk style that take on an almost dreamy feel, his lyrics telling of “birds, avalanches, water, hearts, and silence,” as he notes in his bio. His instrumentation – at times quiet and moody, at times experimental in approach – is the perfect accompaniment to these tales and still works on its own in the instrumentals. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself getting lost in these songs, wondering where the time went, wondering where these strange and discomforting thoughts are coming from. Merulla’s music is meant to lull you disarmingly and strike you with its dichotomies. It’s enigmatic and unusual and startlingly effective. And I’ve yet to hear a release this experimental in approach work so well. This is truly a gorgeous album. - Jeff Marsh

• 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] Reviews (1): Indie Street Radio Autumn in Halifax - The Story: Taking notes from Raymond Carver and Proust in a distinctly contemporary sense, Robert Frank & The Moon uses a traffic accident as the centerpiece to thematically explore and concretize an Augustinian conception of time. The Music: The soundtrack to Robert Frank & The Moon stands on its own right as a contemplative (primarily) guitar-based piece with a distinct interplay between both arpeggio rhythm and warm-sunset-drone, and structured song and ambiance. The �Total Package�: There is an inherent problem of putting story to music in this fashion: timing. That is to say, should one read the story to the pace of the music, is the music composed to fit the average amount of time one takes to read the story, how closely aligned is the music to the story, etc.? I chose to simply read the story at my own pace accompanied by the music without worry of any sort of artistic intention of alignment. While I finished the story sometime in the third song of the �soundtrack,� it would be inaccurate to say that this juxtaposition doesn�t have any meaning. My reading often became one with the pervading rhythm or mood of the piece, mimicking the narrative�s complex, intersecting, and inextricably tangled rhythms of life.

• Artist: él-g Title: Capitaine Présent #4 Format: DVDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Price: $7.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_tzpDVD01 "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.

• Artist: Baka! Title: Ephemere Format: CD Label: Hitomi Recordings Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HITOMI02 Once they played noise music� Then Unique Records released their first critically acclaimed album� Baka have never stopped ever since experimenting, making and unmaking sounds. Dealing with Baka can�t go without evoking their astonishing prolixity - many different projects (Tomek and Gasp by Franck Lafay, Imagho, Frz+Imagho, Sketches of Pain by JL Prades) and above all many live improvisations, where all fields of experiments are tackled: drones, guitars, Electro-acoustic manipulations, guitar feedback... etc. Eph�m�re was born through all this searching. Several live sessions and improvisations were linked, mixed and edited from various stereo tracks. The result is one 40-minute track. The different layers go on dephasing themselves, while acoustic flows roll through the stereo so as to question our own perception. Baka plays with time and space, creates powerful amounts of energy and finally finds light again thanks to crystal-clear arpeggios. The melodies mix themselves, the arpeggios flow together before being in the end melt into organised chaos. We urge you to listening to this new record, this invitation to a trip, both through noise and yourself.

• Artist: Barbara Manning and the Go-Luckys! Title: You Should Know By Now Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1989 (This is a USED item) 2001 Innerstate release

• Artist: Bardo Pond Title: Batholith Format: LP Label: three lobed Price: $20.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TLR043 "released early march 2008. batholith is a collection of six tracks that are near and dear to bardo pond but, for some reason or another, have never previously been released. that one-sentence description might lead one to think that these tracks are "outtakes" or cutting-room floor type material - neither conclusion could be further from the truth. the tracks included on batholith range from previous live staples ("a tune," one made 'famous' by opening bardo's set at terrastock II in san francisco as joined by roy montgomery [and a recording of which was featured on the KFJC compilation live from the devil's triangle, volume 2]) to tracks the band recorded in john peel sessions ("slip away", also available here as a downloadable .mp3 preview). collected as a whole, these tracks form a fluid and cohesive album. batholith is not just an exciting moment for long time bardo pond fans, but a great jumping on point for folks who are relatively new to their craft. as per the three lobed standard, batholith is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. it is housed within heavy "old-style" one-pocket stoughton gatefold jackets bearing new artwork by john gibbons and isobel sollenberger. the record is from an edition of 1049 copies and, and as an added convenience for our vinyl friends, will come packaged with a glass-mastered CD (not CD-R) of the material present on the wax. pre-ordered copies were accompanied by a bonus CD (TLR-044) of previously unreleased bardo pond material."

• Artist: Barky Title: a study in rocking Format: CD Label: Barky (USA) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BARKY01 "Barky is an instrumental trio from the boroughs of New York City, whose peculiar combination of Indie Rock, Avant Jazz, and Americana..." - this record is a great combination of math-rock, a little jam/noodling, and a little jazz-sound. basically, like if Karate played more complex songs, or the midwest math-rock bands threw in some solos. good stuff.

• Artist: Bass Tone Trap Title: Trapping Format: CD Label: Music a la Coque (Italy) Price: $13.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_musicalacoque004 "Re release of 1983 album LP. This english band is a mish mash of freeform jazz, jagged white funk, empty spaces, great to tangle to !"

• Artist: Bats'i son Title: music of the highlands of chiapas Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1948 (This is a USED item) 2004 Latitude release

• Artist: BCT Title: The Life and Times of Steven Character Format: CD Label: Yawn Factory (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_YF001 "Conceived in a thick haze of flatulence and other suspicious airborne activity in 1996, Blatant Crap Taste is the one-man grind machine from Rochester, NY native and technical metal juggernaut, Erik "pinchmaster" Burke. Formerly the creative mastermind behind legendary underground sensations LETHARGY, and current SULACO and NUCLEAR ASSAULT guitarist, the multi-talented Burke handles all the instruments on this 77-song squealography that would literally suck the Tin Man right through a keyhole. Sustained, explosive bursts of humorous intensity is the prime agenda of B.C.T., and via Burke's construction of labyrinth-like mazes of crooked riffing and torrential blast beats, he yanks and twists the listener through a schizophrenic 64 minute minefield of unpredictable aural acupuncture. Despite the prickly nature of the hyper-kinetic, porcupine-needle guitar style, there is an absolute punchdrunk magnetism and sense of groove in the songwriting that slithers and winds itself into your permanent memory. The Life & Times of Steven Character is an essential release for fans of quirky, rhythmically complex extreme metal of the Human Remains/Cephalic Carnage variety, and is truly a testament to the immense talent and staggering creativity of the original Rochester berserker, Erik Burke. Guaranteed to unfold your brain into shrapnel-shaped pieces of THC-stained origa" -- Drew Johnstone

• Artist: Beekeeper Title: anywhere will do Format: CD Label: Muss My Hair Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_55 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Belaska Title: vault Format: CD Label: w.m.o/r Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wmor06 belaska is Mark Wastell: amplified textures and Mattin: computer feedback. "Secrecy is linked to a certain intimacy, which highlights the uniqueness of the moment. This moment uncovers the potentiality of what is usually not seen through small gestures or decision making. Because of its uncertainty this moment of secrecy is taken here as a mode of production. Uncertainty exposes the fragility of established modes of production. This particular moment makes prominent the idea of what is socially peripheral may be symbolically central. I would like to show how this process became possible using the example of my encounter with the safety-box."

• Artist: Below PDX ZINE Title: summer 2007 Format: ZINE Label: Below PDX (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PDX_summer2007_zine 44 pages, hand painted covers. reviews, interviews, surveys, cartoons and more

• Artist: Ben Owen Title: radio in Format: CDR Label: Winds Measure Recordings (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wm02 edition of 100 - letterpress sleeve - "radio>in is a document recording consiting of an fm radio transmitter, a portable fm radio, and mixer. the fm transmitter sent a signal to the portable radio, the portable radio to the mixer, and back into the fm transmitter. no radio station signal was used, tuned to a fragment of unused fm radio band, the fm transmitter signal is captured and sent back to the fm transmitter via the mixer. track three indicates some subtle tuning adjustments during this process. track three is available as an .ogg download from desetxea (072) anti-copyright net label. recorded february 2004 in brooklyn, NY."

• Artist: Ben Reynolds Title: Other World Sermons 2 Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_First_Singular021

• Artist: Ben Reynolds and Andy Jarvis Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: First Person (UK) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_First_Plural009 “This installment of Andy Jarvis' excellent First Person CD-R series features collaborations with another excellent UK-based artist, Ben Reynolds. These three tracks do a fine job of exploring the realm of solo steel-string acoustic guitar. In the spirit of Fahey and other Takoma artists, Jarvis and Reynolds do a marvelous job playing off each other. On the opener, "Princess Metal Mountain," soft drones flow underneath the dual picking, give a sense of tranquility and peace. This is a solemn track with an underlying mysticism. It's like you're being followed by a mythic creature, but every time you turn around it scurries out of site. "Bronze Tower (That Holds Up the Sky)" is short but oh so sweet. This follows two high school lovers through golden fields at dusk one summer evening. The smell of grass is in the air, and they are guided by nothing more than young love. There's an endearing quality to this piece that is hard to pin down, but present throughout. It's quite beautiful. The third, and final, piece is the epic "The Immortal Yip." Meandering through clouds of dust, Reynolds and Jarvis seem to be constantly searching each other out. There's a sense that they are just barely out of reach to each other, but that adds to the overall dynamics of the track. In all, it thrives in its length (it's over 11 minutes) and leaves you wanting more”.- Brad Rose

• Artist: Bethell Title: ep1 Format: CDR Label: Epicene Sound System (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ESR019 "This is one fucked up release. Bethell is the brain child of one Justain Netherly, another ohio resident with some desfunctional ideas. At first you might think this is a grind record, but only if said grind band had Masonna and Merzbow in it's ranks. Then there is all the Galaxy 500/My Bloddy Valintine space/psych parts... then back into the sick noise grind blur. completly fucked."

• Artist: bexar bexar Title: 07.04.99 Format: LP Label: Elevator Bath (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDIst_eeaoa06 07.04.99 is the debut release from Bexar Bexar, an individual (and occasional collective) based in Texas. The record consists of a single piece: A beautiful, fascinating field recording with minimal musical accompaniment. Bexar Bexar has recorded a great deal of material, some of which has recently surfaced on the debut CD, Haralambos, available now from the very fine Western Vinyl label. This one-sided 12" has been issued on black vinyl in a numbered edition of 330 copies.

• Artist: Bhob Rainey Title: Two Bites of a Bitter Sweet Format: 7inch Label: Evolving Ear (USA) Price: $7.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_EE17 "Bhob Rainey is an established bigwig of the global improv/noise/experimental underground as a result of his work alongside trumpeter Greg Kelley in the influential duo, nmperign, his direction of the improvising juggernaut, The BSC, and his numerous solo works and collaborations with the likes of Jason Lescalleet, Gunter Muller, Ralf Wehowsky, Le Quan Ninh, Alessandro Bosetti, and Michel Doneda, among others. Two Bites of a Bitter Sweet is his first release of purely electronic music, and Evolving Ear is tickled to be the messenger on this one. The material on the two side-long, 33rpm pieces ranges from homemade synth textures to field recordings from Lisbon, Venice, Huelva, and other, unremembered locations. There's some singing by Naomi Yang (Damon and Naomi) and Bhob himself, and some words of wisdom from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Overall, a woozy alternate reality is offered for repeated dream pool swims. Beautiful, hallucinatory artwork by Elaine Kaufmann."

• Artist: Big Chief Title: Face Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1939 (This is a USED item) 1992 Sub Pop release

• Artist: Big Hair Title: the pickle farm Format: CD Label: Energy Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_99 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Big Whiskey Title: the bloated museum of treachery Format: CD Label: warm freedom of tongue Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-WFOT1 Seven pieces of outside-rock in just over an hour. Don Rettman (guitars/electronics/stuff) and Dave Bryson (drums/percussion) make a big ol‘ sound that grooves noisily for awhile, and then surges in search of another groove for awhile, and lets the guitar feedback for a ‘nother little while, and then does something else. Hypnotic and noisy.

• Artist: Bill McCarter / Stalingrad Symphony Title: secrets / struggle Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gulcher414 Ex-Crawlspace McCarter‘s unreleased 1978 EP (Velvet-y not-pop) + his 2001 free-rock CDR Struggle. With members of Crawlspace & the Lazy Cowgirls.

• Artist: BJ Nilsen Title: Hazard 06_12_03 Format: CDR Label: Touch Price: $11.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TOCDR5 "Christian Fennesz has started curating a series of events at the Konzerthaus in Vienna as part of the ‘generator‘ series of live performances held there each month. In early December he performed with Philip Jeck and BJNilsen (aka Hazard) as part of the Touch night, during which Jon Wozencroft also showed his films. All the concerts were recorded, and BJNilsen‘s becomes the 5th in the TO:CDR series." CD (wallet) -- factory manufactured.

• Artist: Bjerga / Iversen Title: Sewer Mist Catharsis Format: CASS Label: Swim Harder Cassettes (USA) Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SWC_BjergaIversen Sewer Mist Catharsis is beautiful but frightening droning electronic ambient noise from Norway in the vein of Zaimph, Kevin Drumm, or MB. Limited to 30 copies. -Andrew (SHC)

• Artist: Bjerga / Iversen Title: Empire of Dirt Format: CASS Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR020 "Bjerga/Iversen have been exploring the sound ghosts of the grey area for 3 years now. Deep studies in amplified clutter, tape hiss and the mesmerizing nature of the psychedelic drone has resulted in close to 40 records and a bunch of gigs through Europe and the UK as well as Norway. No rest, no second thoughts, no quality control (some might say) but always in the "now sound", always mucking about, always trying to catch that ghost..... This is a live set from the Overtoom 301 club in Amsterdam, recorded April 6th, 2007" -Sindre Bjerga: Tapes, contact mikes, guitar, kitchen utensils. -Jan-M. Iversen: Electronics.

• Artist: Bjerga / Iversen Title: In broken dreams the world still keeps turning Format: CDR Label: Dead Sea Liner (UK) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_deadsealiner005 "A great slice of industrial ambience from the Norwegian duo - walls of drone improv and inteference cut through with robot birdsong."

• 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�. �It may seem like another contradiction, then, that "(Go with the flow) like a twig on the shoulders of a mighty stream" breaks these documents down into easily digestible (relatively speaking, mind you) and highly selective moments. Suddenly, there is nothing but magic and everything makes sense. From the opaque clouds and glassy ambiance of �There�s always a little light that shines� to the hypnotic and yet playful ultra-minimalism of �Most things are made of water� and their stretched-out metaphorical �ber-message �The trumpets of silence�, descending from its warm opening bass pulsation into a frosty cellar of disentangled frequencies, these are undeniable works of mesmerizing sound art. Extracted highlights from twisting and turning improvisations like �There�s a ghost in the dream machine� surprisingly put them in a league with the en-vogue Guitar drone fraction, while there are stretches of subtle experimentation which are of a decidedly more microtonal nature. On the other hand, these moments of coherency are definitely also a relevant part of their cosmos and they deserve to be appreciated as well. Glued together on a single, cohesive disc, it is almost as if these Norwegian cowboys had simply decided to mix everything they stand for into a delirious DJ mix, taking no detours whatsoever.� Still going with the flow, but for the past four years the flow has dragged us though the muddy swamps, the pitch black forests and down the magic rivers of pure sound�. �When I saw them for the first time, struck by their perplexing quietude and their naive way of drawing ripping sound from random objects. This album is about those times. It is about showing what you missed if you weren�t there when it happened. And about why it is worth remembering if you were.� Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The Norwegian duo of Sindre Bjerga and Jan-M. Iversen has been wowing me for a few years with their dark improv-noise, mostly through their prolific release schedule that sends clutches of super limited cd-rs out into the world through labels like Carbon, Ruralfaune, At War With False Noise, and Utech. It 's hard to believe that these guys are able to explore as wide ranging a realm of sounds as they do with all of their myriad releases, and I hardly ever hear them stay in one spot for long on any given release. Massive Earth-en guitar drone will find itself next to a track of battered toy noises, or the duo will emit crushing blasts of feedback and electronic squonk, then slide effortlessly into glistening ambience that blooms from a field of effects pedals that the artists manipulate in expert fashion. For any newcomers to Bjerga/Iversen's dark noisescapes, I would recommend this disc in a heartbeat. (Go With The Flow) Like a Twig on the Shoulders of a Mighty Stream has been put together as a collection of some of Bjerga/Iversen's best material, culled from an assortment of rare and out of print releases. Sixteen minute epics of flattened high-end feedback tones, mutated radio signals, psychedelic guitar noise and throbbing low-end are matched with shorter tracks like the grinding Teutonic sludgedrone of "Drawn To The Light, Like Moths To A Flame" and the eerie space horror and industrial skulk of "Invisible Empire". The untitled eighth track is the one unreleased recording on here, and it's a killer blat of dark ambience that makes my skin crawl, a deep Lustmordian drone flecked with glitchy computer noises and unnerving dissonance. The whole disc tends to lean more towards the darker, more ambient side of Bjerga/Iversen's improv recordings, but that is where these guys really shine anyways, so who's complaining. The whole disc flows together so nicely that it hardly even sounds like the compilation that it is, and anyone who hungers for the heavier and more corroded end of the deathdrone/dark ambient spectrum needs to hear it. Think Maurizio Bianchi's cold industrial drones combined with the fractured, blackened industrial throb of newer Wolf Eyes, Lustmord's cavernous ambience, early krautrock and the grinding guitar buzz of Earth's 2. Sounds pretty great, right? This is definitely the place to start, and after sinking your ears into this heavy collection of psychedelic industrial drone, you might just want to start hunting down all of the other fifty-plus releases that Bjerga/Iversen have released over the past few years... Nice red and black packaging, and the booklet has some well written liner notes on the duo written by Tobias Fischer.

• Artist: Bjerga / Iversen Title: buring the light at both ends Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR119 36+ min of desperate transmissions from a desolate place. a collaboration including Sindre Bjerga,the man behind the amazing Gold Soundz label (Norway) and Jans-M Iversen, the man behind the, equally amazing, Tibprod label (also from Norway). [from the Carbon Recycled.Series. recycled 2 and 3 fold covers, spray painted and silkscreened with some of the original artwork bleeding thru the paint fog.]] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis This Norwegian duo of Sindre Bjerga and Jan Iversen has been quite prolific in 2005. This is hardly a bad thing as their "Lighthouse Tapes" series has continually offered memorable moments that explore varying styles and influences. On this wonderfully packaged CD-R from the Carbon imprint, the duo slows things down with a soft, disjointed electronic swim in the ice-cold polar seas. "Burning the Light at Both Ends" is one single, 36 minute modern sea shanty. Low level drones keep this long piece together and constantly moving. It's hypnotic reverie for the freezing tides that surround the southern tip of their native Norway leaves no stone unturned. This steady descent into the dementia of being lost at sea, with no hope of survival is undaunting. As it begins with it's rolling waves of watery electronics, you can see the storm clouds forming off in the distance. There's a determination in these tones to face down your gravest fear and continue pushing forward. A stunning build-up of tension twists the listener into a pretzel of nerves. Just over the midway point is when the delirium starts to set in. Through the careful use of orchestral and opera (I think) samples, the duo creates a real-time look at someone losing it in the face of insurmountable odds. This is what it sounds like to have voices in your head. By the time the pulsing electric guitars come into the mix, you are already gone. You are lying on your back, staring into the sun laughing at your own demise. These shambolic tones haunt you and mock you, never letting up until your brain finally explodes into a caustic mash of flesh and bone. In your demise you are reborn. Bjerga & Iversen are two highly talented individuals. One can only hope that their collaborative efforts continue well into 2006. "Burning the Light at Both Ends" is another wonderful and interesting sonic entry into their every growing discography. This is one ship I never want to get off. 7/10 -- (27 June, 2006) - Brad Rose

• Artist: Black Elk Title: Always a Six, Never a Nine Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $11.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR70 "Always A Six, Never A Nine is the second album and the follow up to the 2006 self-titled debut from Portland, OR aggro wreckers Black Elk, whose psychotic brand of crushing, noise-rock influenced heaviosity is a return to the unhinged underground rock force of bands like Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Black Flag and Hammerhead. This new album features ten songs of seething weirdness, with the dissonant, crushing riffage, lunging rhythmic push and awesome freaked out, Yow-esque vocals of singer Tom Glose that made their debut a fave among anyone who remembered the days when Amphetamine Reptile ruled the underground rock scene, but with some interesting new elements (bleak, blackened guitar ambience, a smattering of piano, skyreaching guitar harmonies, etc.) that add new shadows to Black Elk's ferocious sound. Always A Six, Never A Nine is packaged in a heavy four-panel gatefold jacket with an eight page lyric booklet. "

• Artist: Black Twig Pickers Title: north fork flyer Format: CD Label: vhf Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_140 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Blood and Bone Orchestra Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR114 "24+ mins of free improv mastery by this 5+ piece from Rochester NY. instrumentation on these two tracks, recorded live at A\V (www.avspace.org) in their home town, includes alto, tenor and soprano saxes, percussion, trumpet, violin, cello, guitar, electronics, upright bass and voice. these two tracks really capture the flux these guys are creating and riding each time they join together. their interplay is developing more and more, and it shows with the spams of energy and textures. great combination of jazz, noise and the weirdo factor. " [first in the Carbon Recycled.Series. this release comes in two flavors. currently an edition of 100. the more abundant of which comes attached to a 5" x 5" piece of wood, salvaged from a 1920 home (Carbon HQ1), multiple layers of paint and wear. stenciled artwork. the less abundant comes in recycled cd eco-packs, spray-painted and stenciled.]

• Artist: Blood Stereo Title: Hymn for the Crippled Mulato Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR90 10YR.Series.10 - the tenth (and final release) in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. 30+ minutes of a beast emerging from a swamp of static. or a seismic mic on the tail pipe of my brother's Harley. kicks ass! [Blood Stereo is Karen Constance and Dylan Nyoukis]

• Artist: Blowhole Title: reassembled Format: CDR Label: Lunhare (Italy) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare_zzz02 "ive and studio recordings previously released on cassette in 1995. Free-noise(jazz?) assaults, improvisations, objects beaten and scraped, but also a violin. All you can imagine and nothing you may imagine. A manifesto of musical freedom." - part of Lunhare's Lethargy Series - "New releases of recordings dating back to the last millennium"

• Artist: bluetile lounge Title: lowercase Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1920 (This is a USED item) 1995 Summershine/SubPop release. riyl Codeine

• Artist: bones of seabirds Title: subterranean lightsource Format: CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtyfour "it seems that ryan mcgill is complete unable to cover the same ground twice. this is the fourth (i believe) bones seabirds release, and it sounds nothing like any of the others. this one foregoes the guitars (for the most part) and relies on ryan's handmade voice of saturn synth.the first nearly 35 minute track is intense and brutal - like being strapped into some sort of machine that's boring deeper and deeper into the earth only to slowly burn you alive. the second gives a bit of respite, but leaves you lost in a dark cave drone. it's not to be missed. packaged in a folded artwork by matt yacoub, with an obi and an insert. edition of 129 copies."

• Artist: Book of Shadows Title: 777 Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_BookOfShadows "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...."

• Artist: Bottomless Pit Title: Hammer of the Gods Format: CD Label: Comedy Minus One (USA) Price: $11.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CM0001 "Bottomless Pit was formed in the fall of 2005 by erstwhile Silkworm members Tim Midgett and Andy Cohen. Their longtime friends Chris Manfrin (Seam) and Brian Orchard (.22) complete the quartet. 2007 finds the group playing "their blues" - soulful, emotionally intense, and often transcendent postpunk that is as inviting as it is bracing."

• Artist: Brekekekexkoaxkoax Title: we used to be such good friends Format: 0 Label: Hushroom Recordings (USA) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_hushroom004 From Austin TX, an open-ended art music collective focusing on improvisational, indeterminate performances using sound, visuals and movement. Brekekekexkoaxkoax has been recently performing as a quartet with Jacob Green (oboe, organ, electonics), Josh Ronsen (guitar, clarinet, computer), Glen Nuckolls (guitars, banjo, violin), Genevieve Walsh (flute, drums, voice) and sometimes Jason Pierce (organ, cello, drums). Rick Reed, Travis Weller, Josh Russell, Brent Fariss, Alex Keller, Bill Thompson, Vanessa Arn and Elizabeth Warren have also participated in recent events. other releases on RRRecords, Beta-Lactam, phonography, and many more.

• Artist: Brian Ruryk/Mabus(RIP) Title: split Format: CASS Label: Wintage (Canada) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WRT22 "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"

• Artist: Brokeback Title: Morse Code In The Modern Age: Across the Americas Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_2 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Brume Title: zona ventille Format: CD Label: Elsie and Jack Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eaj008 layered, mood dependent music. after many successful years of running with the musique concrète baton, zona ventille represents the final dash for this modern french composer. more than just mere process, this is an artifact of sheer beauty, intrigue and suspense in the tradition of pierre henry and luis buñuel. zona ventille is a constantly mutating soundscape - nothing is static. with recordings on ant-zen, nd, old europa café, relapse, staalplaat and his own brume rec. among others, this release on elsie and jack marks the end of an era for christian renou as brume. elaborately packaged in a metal laser-etched stickered jewel case, featuring a duotone sleeve printed on heavy art-stock card with a vellum wrap - another precious thing courtesy of elsie and jack.

• Artist: Brutum Fulmen / Dan Bodah / Noumena Title: massachusetts Format: CD Label: gameboy Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GB35 three live tracks all recorded in the wonderful state of massachusetts. the first two recorded live at the infamous RRRecords, and noumena‘s is from UMASS student radio. brutum fulmen presents a noiser-than-usual tape piece that makes me really wish he‘d tour soon...dan‘s piece is starts off with a couple minutes of vocal wierdness that leads into a rather strong electroncs set...noumena rounds it out with an off-the-wall improv work of guitar, tapes, and electronics. mellow one second, screaming the next, riffing black sabbath the next. a fitting tribute to a beautiful state.

• Artist: BRXTNLE / fleshghxst Title: Death Swank Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1945 (This is a USED item) Noisegood release

• Artist: Burmese / Fistula Title: split Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR38 "Hyper destructive low-end violence from two of the American underground's most ferocious hate-sludge outfits. Available from Crucial Blast on August 1st, 2004. Crucial Blast regrets to announce the end of your hearing. The good news is, the cause of your deafening is the dual assault of feedback-warriors BURMESE and battle-sludge titans FISTULA. BURMESE annhilate everything before them with a lethal blast of low frequency skree tantrums, cough-syrup drenched blastbeats, WHITEHOUSE-worshipping noise, and demonic free improvised violence. Think KHANATE, DROPDEAD, EARTH, and MERZBOW in an earth shattering, widow-making basement deathmatch. Ohio 's FISTULA batter up with megaheavy sludge, blistering blackened thrash, diseased rock, and some incredibly infectious riffs . Hear these tarpit battle anthems, hail the low frequency berserker. BURMESE burn you down...FISTULA pisses all over the ashes. "

• Artist: Burmese and Cadaver Eyes Title: split Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HCB016 "Like demented twins in crime, Burmese (tUMULt / Load Records) & Cadaver Eyes rephrase Doom, Grindcore and Power Electronics by using an agonizing mechanism of plain brutal aesthetics, ascending these genres to a higher level of cognitive surge. This split CD is difficult and pungent, a warm spew in the face and an endless buzz in the eardrum that fiercely occupies the brain and treats the grey cells as if they were an ashtray. A crude awakening and a classic case of ponderous self indulgence."

• Artist: Burnt Hills Title: Over the Rainbow Format: LP Label: Flipped Out Price: $14.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR21 "soar through the cosmos as five guitars radiate microwaves towards the sun's core, a bass levitates over the rings of saturn and shimmering percussive clatter seals up a black hole at the edge of the universe....co-released with noiseville....edition of 300 copies....available, see catalog"

• Artist: Burnt Hills Title: Tonite We Ride Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR19 "dig the raging thunderstorm of sound as four squealing, reeling and paint peeling guitars thrash riffs, tones and cosmic bursts, a massive bass throbs and centers, propulsive dive bomb drums explode constantly and the sweet glaze of an insistent chiming xylophone rings out from the eye of the storm....one track, one hour and twenty seven seconds long....cover art by bill nace"

• Artist: Burnt Hills Title: Morning Glory Format: CD Label: Ruby Red Label (Portugal) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_RR020 - Morning Glory (CD) - Ruby Red Label $12.00 "Psych trip genius, Burnt Hills drop a 57min wild wild ride to the best possible place. Truly Albany´s best. Play it loud and you will find all sorts of lost zones there! Play it very loud and you will be re-born. "

• Artist: Calliope Title: (in)organics Format: CD Label: Thick Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_71 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Calliope Title: i can see you with my eyes closed Format: CD Label: Thick Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_16 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Cam Deas Title: five bells Format: CDR Label: Blackest Rainbow (UK) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Blackest_CamDeas "2nd edition with different artwork to the first run... The initial 2 seconds of the opener on this 6 track blazer from Cam are screeching electronics which vanish instantly into a seance of a doomed village, with the leader strumming out some bleak herbal drug folk ritual/haze. Track two, 'Where We've Been' blurs into an intense dronescape, smearing into a lighter, more psychedelic, drone piece 'Where We're Going'. 'The Days Are Over' has a floating drone back, layered on top with guitar ala Jack Rose, Blackshaw etc. Title track 'Five Bells' follows burning the guitar into a flaming rage, with a few remaining strum yelps struggling through the flames. The disc closes with a sweet guitar piece entitled 'Two More Days', again similar to Blackshaw and Rose. Cam just moved up for the smoke to the steel city and a bunch of us just discovered his musical vibes. He has a bunch of things dropping soon, and had a split release with Sindre Bjerga not so long ago. The dude has the skills. Limited to 60."

• Artist: Cama Title: demo #1 Format: CDR Label: noise good Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_NG008 Careplace (Canada) and Mauder (Sweden) team up to bring you ultra loud harsh electronix to scrape away at your brain, and leave you a pile of flesh demanding more. Fans of Gov‘t Alpha, Guilty Connector, Taint take note!! Limited first pressing of 50 in slimline cases.

• Artist: Cameron Wood Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: rhizome Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_rhcd15 completely overblown/saturated guitar(?) layers, with buried melodies. harsh but soothing.

• Artist: Candi Nook Title: night of the stumbleflea Format: CDR Label: fencing flatworm Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ff023 expansive and spacious, cramped and claustrophobic, funny and unnerving. an exceptional half hour where the skeletons of noise, acid house and many forgotten sub-genres collide, collapse and rebuild each other, swapping bones.

• Artist: Canyon Title: Fever Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_CanyonFever "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."

• 18 MONTHSSMALLMEDIUM

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (Youth sizes) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR164b Youth Sizes - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of flower and text (blue and gray) on 100% cotton white tshirt.

• 12 MONTHS

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (Infant size White sweatshirt) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR164c 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.

• 12 MONTHS

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (white onesies) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR164d baby onesies - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of flower and text (blue and gray) on 100% cotton white onesie.

• 12 MONTHS

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (Infant size Black sweatshirt) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR164e Infant Size Sweatshirt - flower design (pictured at left), 2 color design of flower and text (gray and black) on cotton/poly blend black sweatshirt.

• MEDIUM

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (grey on grey) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR164f flower design (pictured at left), flower and text in gray and black ink, on cotton/poly blend heather gray tshirt.

• XLARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design (grey on white) Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR164g flower design (pictured at left), flower and text in gray and black ink, on 100% cotton white tshirt.

• MEDIUMXLARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: 2007 flower design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR164 flower design (pictured at left), flower and text are two shades of grey, on heavy 100% cotton black tshirt.

• MEDIUMXXLARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Carbon VINES design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR110 if you're familiar with Keith Fullerton Whitman's label Entschuldigen label, this is the font he used for his official logo (i loved the logo so much, i had to use that font. i pretty much wear my Entschuldigen hoodie everyday). it looks like vines growing in and out of the letters, which are an old-english looking type. these shirts are light brown (almost drab-green) with cream ink.

• LARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Electron Path Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR141_gold 2 color (blak and white) 2 sided design available on 2 different color shirts, Gold (yellow-orange) and Leaf (blue-green). This is the Electron Path design, front has the electron path and the standard Carbon C, while the back has the electron scribbles with the carbonrecords.com web address.

• LARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Electron Path Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR141_leaf 2 color (blak and white) 2 sided design available on 2 different color shirts, Gold (yellow-orange) and Leaf (blue-green). This is the Electron Path design, front has the electron path and the standard Carbon C, while the back has the electron scribbles with the carbonrecords.com web address.

• XLARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: the Andy Gilmore design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR135 an amazing collage of two drawings by Andy Gilmore (check out his site) on the front, in two colors (red and brown), and the Carbon "sketch" logo and slogan on the back (also in two colors), on a "natural" color shirt.

• MEDIUMLARGEXLARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Lies Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CRT_LIES Black shirt with white ink. Front has photo of Clinton and reads "He lied to you about sex." Back has a photo of Bush Jr and reads "But he lied to you about war!" Yeah yeah, i know, Clinton lied about war as well (bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, etc), but he didnt get impeached for it.

• XLARGEXXLARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: Phi-Phenomena on Wheels Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CRT_PHI white on black, double sided with diagram of Phi-RV on front and list of touring bands on back

• XXLARGE

  Artist: Carbon Records Title: red and yellow lines Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CRT_CARBONLINES White shortsleeve shirt with red/orange and yellow ink, including Carbon C logo and glitchy lines

• Artist: Carbonic Title: Forest Creatures Format: CDR Label: Ghost Woods Records (USA) Price: $7.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_carbonic_forest_creatures "Carbonic is Benoit Guerroué, who spent most of his life in Brittany, France, but moved in 2003 to the US, to Rochester, NY. ‘Forest Creatures’ is already his 8th album. The style on the 12 songs with improvisations are a mixture of simple, recognisable, natural (say also : as if living in the woods and thus creating its mood) dreamy moody psychfolk excursions and instrumentals build around a basic collection of songs (vocals, vocal harmonies, harmonica, acoustic strummed guitar, flutes, harmonium, hand percussion, and a few other instruments like piano,..) giving the impression they celebrate the quietness of a life near or in a house in the woods, perhaps dealing with cold now and then but always surrounded by something which is beautiful, because it gives an inner condition that makes us more peaceful inside, in a natural way. Besides, there still is the human person who has to deal with his own ghosts and realities with the surrounding real persons. So in this case, Benoit also sings, more clearly, about that, as a human being, finding his own place within this space, while the forest cures most easily most of the spinning thoughts. Although most of it is recorded on his own (?), more than once, the songs sound as if performed by a duo/trio, even by two vocalists (with some cello on two tracks by Ian Downey). Makes for a rewarding repeated listen, from start to finish." - PSYCHEDELIC & ACID FOLK MUSIC

• Artist: Carl Kruger Title: sound takes Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD87 "The short press text for these new Tibprod releases rave about the 'typical Carl Kruger-style', but since I never heard the mans music, I can't say wether that is false or true. On 'Sound Takes' he presents a couple of pieces that were previously released on various websites. Kruger shows an interest in technoid rhythms and the world of digital cut-ups. Cut and paste instruments, no doubt lifted from obscure sources on the internet, with some dance rhythm in the background. I don't think I describe it very well, but the result is not bad at all. Not startling new either, but nevertheless quite nice." - Vital Weekly

• Artist: Carnitas Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: ignivomous Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IG104 featuring sound of emil hagstrom and roger rimada eating meat. some amplified, some raw. packaged in color paper jacket with digital prints of photos of a taco truck with carnitas sign on one side and a supermarket meat aisle on the other side which also has the titles. it‘s got a nutritional information sticker about meat sealing it and has hand painted CARNITAS on the cdr itself. edition of 53

• Artist: Century Plants Title: Inversions Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_CenturyPlants "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! "

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri Title: Pathetique Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR98 40min+ of top-notch electronic performance/composition from this musician/writer from Rochester NY. this release includes pieces based on live collaborations with various individuals throughout as well as solo pieces, recorded between 2001 and 2005 . the tracks range from static-driven compositions to organic pastoral drones, including guitar, piano, voice, electronics, etc. Chad also has a collaborative release with Brannon Hungness (also featured on this release) coming out on Entr'acte (UK) this spring (2006). [heavy duty vinyl cover, with full color insert and "prism" overlay. factory-colored CDR]

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri Title: enduser Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR36 RE-RELEASE: from chad... "reveals kind of a different side compared to my more recent stuff, which tends to be more "song" or "music" oriented. these were really experiments in the strictest sense. me just feeling my way." - Original Desc: manipulated and processed/glitched works, built from tape recordings Chad made throughout the 90‘s. feels right at home along side releases from labels such as Mego, Meme, and Touch, not to mention, our own Bobo.

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri Title: express yourself Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $3.00 Catalog ID: MP3.03 an amazing collection of pieces culled and manipulated from his on-going weekly radio show/performance (WRUR 88.5fm). and just cause he uses a laptop, don‘t expect the usual glitch-fest. this is really an amazing collection of moving experimentations. [pre-assembled version of MP3.Series release, which is also free to download]

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri and Figure Title: the complete detachment Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BOT191 "A complete brain submission that detaches your head, captures faces and rewires them into an undefined human-hybrid. Like falling asleep under an alien radar-post and losing track of all earthly life around you while analog-synth fumes drag your lungs into the zone. Puzzle solving mode with no solutions. Both Oliveiri and Figure love drinking strange fluids and further exploring the mysteries of life. Packaged in full color fold-out covers by none other than Carlos Pitchphase, in an edition of only 65 copies. File under = alienating upheaval."

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri and Figure Title: Celest Format: CDR Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $16.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte32 "Chad Oliveiri and Brannon Hungness (Figure) are friends from Rochester, upstate New York. Their sounds are improvised, and some of them are recorded. Celest is a collection of a few recent bits Brannon painfully edited together in his bedroom." [packaged in a sealed anti-static-type package. must destroy to open]

• Artist: Chad Oliveiri and Joe+N Title: nowhere is now here Format: DVDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CR129 the video portion was created by Joe+N. an experiment in video confusion. trying to present everyday items in ways that are not easily recognizable, using blurring effects, extreme zoom, extreme motion, and time modification. the audio was created by Chad Oliveiri and Joe+N during a show at Gallery31 in Rochester NY. the audio was created while viewing the video portion. the two were then synced up for this release. 30 min. [NOW ON NTSC DVD-R]

• Artist: Changeling Title: Five Hundred Nights Format: CDR Label: Phantom Limb (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ARM015 "Recorded at the lavish Phantom Limb Recording studios, aka my house, this new cd-r from Los Angeles' premier composer of blissed out loops sounds like it was transmitted directly through time and space from Kevin Shield's brain while recording "Loveless". Lush and yet desolate, this is the best work of Changeling so far, and it only promises to get better. Two massive guitar and keyboard compositions, flying high above the ground, casting shadows on our hearts."

• Artist: Charles Balls Title: less difficult to hard water / progressive furniture totemic Format: CDR Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_bennifer_charles_balls_less

• Artist: Cheapmachines Title: diagrammene Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte18 "Two long tracks, recorded live in Norway: Oslo, Dans for Voksne, 16 April 2005: Bergen, Kunsthall/Landmark, 17 April 2005. Five inch CD packaged in a 5.25 inch floppy disc case"

• Artist: cheapmachines Title: com. ver. Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $3.00 Catalog ID: MP3.05 xperimental electronic recordings since 1997. Com. Ver. = Common Version (common) - ... widely known and notorious, considered by the speaker to below-class, vulgar, or coarse. (version) - ... a variant form or type... a translation from one language to another. -- (Collins English Dictionary, Millenium Edition.)

• Artist: chefkirk Title: MODULAR JAC PLAT Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR131 repeating and scratchy glitches, tones and drones made with who knows what else. 10 tracks named after Chefkirk's favorite birds to watch, listen and lear, woodpeckers and nuthatches. "chefkirk is Roger H. Smith. Working under the inclusive category of experimental noise, chefkirk creates distinctive compositions of sound by combining together improvised drone and harsh electronics forced from a minimal arsenal of glitchy instruments and feedback loops. Being a socially and politically conscious citizen of the world, chefkirk illustrates his deep concern and love for all living things through the artwork, titles, and modest messages on his numerous releases. The whole of his work will unquestionably carry his personal message loudly: animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment, GO VEGAN!" [CDR with full color insert, spray-painted cdr in slim case]

• Artist: Chefkirk Title: The Earth is Mostly Ocean Format: CD Label: Entr'acte (UK) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_entracte17 "This CD contains 9 tracks, totally 32 minutes and 10 seconds. Desalination, oxygenation, and purification by Roger H Smith. The packaging of this CD is based on the percentage of ocean covering the earth. This is officially calculated as 71%."

• Artist: Child Bride / Head Molt Title: split Format: CASS Label: Rats with Wings (Australia) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AE53 "CHILD BRIDE uses organ, guitar, vocals, percussion and samples to weave an ethereal soundscape, perfect for relaxing after a long day of hating yourself. http://www.myspace.com/thechildbride HEAD MOLT uses tapes, guitar, vocals, percussion and hatred to force the listener into their world of seething disgust and painful self loathing, perfect for.......nothing. (TWT) http://www.myspace.com/headmolt (AEN-AE54) Limited Edition of 50 copies. green cassettes, full color glossy cardstock jcard."

• Artist: China PIg Title: auf Zehenspitzen durch die Bruthammer Format: LP Label: Moodswing Records (USA) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist__MUUD_ChinaPig

• Artist: christian renou Title: ex-voto Format: CD Label: Elsie and Jack Price: $13.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eaj016 "Ex-Voto - a votive offering to a saint or divinity. ‘I see words’ With ‘ex-voto’, Christian Renou has forsaken his analogue machines to encourage a fresh approach via digital technology. As Renou states in his liner notes – he cannot escape narrative structures in his music – his sounds are so evocative of soundtracks without an actual film – encouraging the listener to conjure their own accompanying images. Yes, it is incredibly melodic, hauntingly so, though at times this is broken by shards of noise and implacable clicks. Midway through ‘ex-voto’, alien beats provide a base for further evocative outpourings of human vs. machine visions. The introduction of strings brings an elegiac quality to the composition. Renou, when creating this narrative, did not deny the ghosts of history in the name of progress… The disintegration and contamination of a guitar motif appears alongside chopped rhythms and often indistinguishable words. These distant, half-remembered voices babble incoherent noise which battle against the sweet, sweet cracked melodies which pitter-patter and dance around your head. An underlying, delicate metallic whirring plays against a near indecipherable reverie, before the initial guitar melody rears its head for a final time. Layer upon layer of hubble, bubble, toil, but no trouble, ensures this body of work to be Renou’s masterpiece [Frans de Waard / Vital claimed that this more melodic route was something that he’d like to hear more of, whereas Barry G. Nichols / Whiteline blog / Spekk recording artist, extolled the virtues of Renou’s ‘genius’ with this recording]. ‘I see death’ The cd is packaged in the usual high standard expected of elsieandjack. spot varnish and silver ink over beautiful photography and simple layout, printed on thick cardstock - plus Renou’s liner notes printed on a vellum overlay."

• Artist: Christopher Reeg Title: el borracho Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR139 el borracho is Christopher Reeg's first solo full-length release, showcasing Chris' skills on double bass, keyboard/synth, guitar and melodica, as well as other random instruments. with help from some of his Blood and Bone Orchestra band-mates, Jim Colby, Ed Downey and Darren DeWisperlaere, Chris lays down 8 perfectly crafted pieces (28+ min) ranging from abstract drone/textural scapes, melodic instrumentals, to outsider keyboard/sampling/bass/sax improv, and finally rounding things out with a angular rock gem. [packaged in a kraft Arigato folded sleeve with 2 color artwork by Chris and silkscreened by Alex Schmidt] (Chris also plays in Blood and Bone Orchestra, The Years, Ada le O, Entente Cordiale, Crush the Junta, and a couple other offshoots)

• Artist: City Harvest Black Title: untitled Format: VHS Label: City Harvest Black (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CHB_firstvhs VHS of videos and audio from City Harvest Black, a one-man noise-bender-sampler act from Rochester NY.

• Artist: Clon Title: Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances Format: CDR Label: gameboy Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb85 "CLON is a name you might not be familiar with, but you probably know the man behind it. As one half of the Cornucopia, Jorge Castro has put out dozens of high-quality releases and toured the US (most recently Hive Mind and Luasa Raelon) and Europe several times. CLON is Jorge's new solo venture. It isn't a drastic shift from Cornucopia, but definitely has more grit. Sheer force and impeccable composition: the finest aspects of classic Merzbow & Aube releases reimagined for the harsh digital era. CDR edition of 100 in color cover with hand-painted insert."

• Artist: Cock E.S.P. Title: greatest dicks 3 Format: 3inch CD Label: Sunship Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SUN42 The best and worst of Cock E.S.P. from 2001-2003. The material has been layered, refined, edited and enhanced over a period of two months, making this the most complex and multidimensional Cock E.S.P. release to date. Includes special guest appearances by Crank Sturgeon, PrairiePusher, Eugenics Council, Rotten Piece, Panicsville, Newton and Burning Star Core. Co-released with Breathmint, Deadline and Little Mafia.

• Artist: Cock E.S.P. and Suffering Bastard Title: split 10" Format: 10inch Label: Freenoise (UK) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Freenoise666 "Suffering Bastard = Brutal grindcore featuring a dual-bass assault of the highest gain and lowest frequency, complete with brain-rattling vocal violence and remorseless drumkit abuse. Cock E.S.P. = Ugly and unlistenable shrieking noise overload inspired by Duran Duran and a pure unadulterated hatred of humankind. Together at last, in a beautiful green and silver cardboard jacket."

• Artist: Cock E.S.P. Panicsville Title: last train to cocksville Format: CD Label: Sunship Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SUN35 The Upper Midwest‘s two most serious and dedicated experimental music ensembles join forces in a tribute to the grand-daddys of all outsider music: The Monkees. The stunning audio content of this release is surpassed only by the cover and insert photos, which feature an uncomfortable glimpse into the dark world of homoerotic railroad engineer fetish. Co-released with Little Mafia and Nihlist.

• Artist: Cock Robot Title: electric young men Format: CDR Label: radio shock Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-CRobot01 electronic and guitar based deconstructed... rock?

• Artist: Coffee Title: dik mik rabbit ear antennae Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR86 10YR.Series.06 - the sixth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. almost a full hour of Coffee magic. consists of two live recordings from 1997 and 1998. includes the Coffee core of Dave Cross and Tim Poland, along with Brian Shafer (Nod), Phil Marshall, John Olsen (Wolf Eyes), Sticky Foster, Neil Campbell and Nuuj.

• Artist: Coffee Title: presents: muddy waters...electric mud Format: CDR Label: Pirate Scheme Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PS001 on the mysterious Pirate Scheme label. unknown source. mixed-mode CDR (audio and data) containing recording of live Coffee set, and remix of set (and other goodies on data portion of CDR).

• Artist: Colin Andrew Sheffield Title: spring (time) / the bridge Format: 7inch Label: Elevator Bath (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eeaoa04 Colin's sophomore effort from 1999 continues in a vein similar to that of his first record. The digital, mechanical sounds are still present but are now intertwined with deep tones and hidden half-melodies. On transparent vinyl with lovely inner and outer jackets, in an edition of 300 copies.

• Artist: Colin Andrew Sheffield Title: in between Format: 10inch Label: Elevator Bath (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDIst_eeaoa08 recordings by colin andrew sheffield in between is an atmospheric new piece in two parts. It is possible that Colin's work is best listened to peripherally, perhaps while writing or (as is the case with in between) while reading.... front cover text by ilex fenusova The evocative writings which grace the record's jacket come provided by this acclaimed poet from Texas. On transparent vinyl with lovely text-only jackets, in an edition of 295 copies.

• Artist: Colin Andrew Sheffield Title: first thus Format: CD Label: Elevator Bath (USA) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDIst_eeaoa020 ""First thus" is a phrase used by book sellers, publishers, collectors, etc. to describe a book which may be considered a first edition and/or first printing, but which has been available previously in a slightly different form. A true first edition is the original, first printing of a given book, while a first thus is the first printing of a new version of that book. This classification can come about for any number of reasons, though often times it has to do with a new translation of a particular work, the involvement of a new (different) publisher, or with a new forward or introduction.... First Thus is Sheffield's debut solo album. The recordings on this disc were entirely composed using other commercially available recordings. The goal was to distill the essential qualities of these works and then utilize that essence for new recordings. Only very brief sections of the original works were selected. These raw components were then contracted, expanded, layered, and/or otherwise processed until something new was forged. The result is gorgeous ambient music that gradually shifts and unfolds, offering subtle nuance and quiet restraint. In a sense, it is a collection of other people's work, but this music appears here for the first time in a new setting or, if you will, a new translation. Packaged inside two elegant printed sleeves of 100% recycled paper, this compact disc has been issued in an edition of 330 copies. "

• 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: Connie Acher and Blind Drunk John Title: for the love of it Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR11 a mountain of melodie and shimmering strings makes a ghostly trail under sweet vocal clouds with percussion eruption and hot vapor guitar

• Artist: Connie Acher and Jelly Title: Love Pop Format: CD Label: Flipped Out Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOR13 "the rhythm of life in happy harlem spins jelly into the melodie jamming note chomping blur over and under connie’s cascading songs of high beauty"

• Artist: Contagious Orgasm Title: From the Irresponsible Country Sounds Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PACREC105 long-running japanese electronic/experimental/sound collage artist with releases on Ant-Zen, Groundfault, & more.

• Artist: Control Title: The Cleansing Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PACREC103 Aversion Online: "I wish more experimental noise projects would release CD's like this, because it's just impossible to keep up with every limited release, compilation appearance, etc. from artists in such a vast scene that is expanding at all times. This collection displays over 45 minutes of rare material from one of the finest American power electronics acts out there right now, including the contents of "The Cleansing" 3" CD-R (Frozen Empire Media), one track from the "Bitmapping" compilation (Objective/Subjective), two tracks from the "Field Tales" compilation (Hospital Productions), and the excellent "Praying to Bleed" 7" (LSDO). The songs from "The Cleansing" have a good balance of styles involved and to me are reminiscent of sort of a classic death industrial sound with obscured samples and vocals against dark ambient undercurrents and perfectly integrated harsh layers. The heavy flanging and reverb on the vocals in "Cleansing" lend a UK sort of vibe to the piece, whereas "Elite" is the most subdued and minimal of that bunch. In fact, many of these tracks are a bit less harsh than I was anticipating. Of course there are some scorching vocals in compositions like "Praying to Bleed", but I'm pleasantly surprised by just how effective and fluid all of these songs are when listened to as a complete release. Pretty much all of the recordings are on the raw side, but in a manner that makes sense, so everything is ultra thick and a little rugged, but not sloppy, and any muddiness that's involved feels intentional. Like the other new PACrec releases thus far, the package consists of a matte black and white slipcase, here with largely abstract artwork and clean text. Very well done. I hope other such acts with extensive and somewhat scattered discography appearances will follow this lead. This one's limited to 500 copies as well, making it another potential rarity in and of itself in a few years' time, but for now you shouldn't have a problem tracking down this excellent set of recordings."

• Artist: Control R Workshop Title: missing Format: LP Label: control r workshop Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CONTROL01 Missing was recorded a full year before being pressed. The title of this record is in reference to past contributors. The LP captures a live performance originally part of a broadcast on KDVS on 6/28/01, during the trio period spanning 5/01 to 4/02..... Control R Workshop is a sound arts collective operating in Oakland California. Formed in 6/99 Control R Workshop has been performing steadily in the bay area in addition to self-releasing home packaged audio media. Control R Workshop exists as a forum in which self-discipline, group collaboration and individual contribution is embraced and put forth to perform works.

• Artist: Core of the Coalman Title: Spirograph / End Grain Format: CDR Label: Zum (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ZUM_Core "New recordings from Core of the Coalman, the solo works of Oakland's Jorge Boehringer (Treehugger, Brown Bunny Ensemble, Peloton, 7Central and Mountain). Song structures and viola experiments mix with electronic textures and warbly vocals, a deep dig into the carbon fields and nature's edges."

• Artist: Courtis / Kiritchenko / Moglass Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CR122 Collaboration album by Anla Courtis, Andrey Kiritchenko and the Moglass. Co-released by Carbon Records, Nexsound, Gold Soundz, Tibprod and 1000+1 TiLt. tracklist: (1-3) by andrey kiritchenko (sound sources by anla courtis, bandura, objects and field recordings by andrey kiritchenko), (4-6) by the moglass (sound sources by anla courtis, guitar and synth by the moglass), (7-11) by anla courtis (sound sources by the moglass). Alan Courtis (a.k.a. Anla Courtis, Alna Courtis, Courtis, etc.) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on february 22nd, 1972. He studied classical guitar, piano, theory and composition. He holds a degree in Communication Science from the University of Buenos Aires, where he currently runs an annual music workshop. He played electric guitar in diverse bands and in 1993 he co-founded the group Reynols. With this group he has released more than one hundred CDs and vinyls worldwide in labels like Trente Oiseaux, Digital Narcis, Drone Records, Locust, Sedimental, Beta-Lactam Ring Records, Celebrated Psi Phenomenon, RRR, Audiobot Records, Roaratorio, JDK, Reverse, Matching Head, American Tapes, The Last Visible Dog, Carbon Records, etc. Andrey Kiritchenko is a person known as an author of projects like Critikal, Sidhartha, NEX(Nihil Est eXcellence), founder and co-runner of Nexsound records, musician who has largely contributed into the development of electronic music scene in Ukraine and already considered as one of the premiere experimental artist from Eastern Europe. Being involved mostly in experimental electronic and electroacoustic music for the last few years, Andrey is now gaining recognition among the musicians and followers of this style all over the world. His activities range from glitch with blurred beats to electroacoustis experiments, from improv to musique concrete, from drones to microsound. The group under the Moglass came into being in 1997, preceded by five years of home projects that were never released in public. The Moglass widely used the latest technical achievements of the time such as sampling and postproduction of all kinds, hereat gaining a reputation as post-rock musicians and performing at fashionable discos on repeated occasions. Spellbound with the aesthetics of freeform music, the musicians of the group gradually turned away from glossy sound of their early records and began to decline invitations to fancy discos thus gaining freedom of creating music at home and communicating with a bunch of soul mates scattered all over the world. Up-to-date records of the Moglass are spontaneous improvisations, mostly live records, that by no means always can be called free-noise because sometimes they are very gentle and melodic. Reviews (3): Foxy Digitalis I have no idea why it took five different record labels to put this disc into my grubby paws, but I’m certainly glad it got here. This amazing three-way split is pure teamwork; sounds sourced from one amazing artist become fodder for the creative manipulation of another equally brilliant collaborator. Ukrainians Andrey Kiritchenko and The Moglass and Argentinean Anla Courtis take turns weaving masterful tapestries from threads of sound provided by the other participants. Kiritchenko is widely regarded as a pioneer of experimental music in Eastern Europe and is the head of the adventurous Nexsound label. Courtis is probably best known as a founder of the inimitable Reynols, but his excellent solo works have garnered him recent appreciation. The Moglass are a trio who extract dreamy soundscapes from the outer reaches of the atmosphere. Each of these relatively well-known artists lends their distinct flavour to the compositions, and the resulting document resembles a cohesive whole rather than the work of three disparate entities. Kiritchenko begins by combining the sounds provided by Anla Courtis with his own bandura, guitar and field recordings. These three tracks showcase Kiritchenko’s skill in combining sources generated both organically and electronically into complex textural works. Dense drone build-ups melt into static-filled clouds of electronic dissonance; coruscating guitar fragments pierce rumbling waves of sound. Urgency is implied, as if catastrophe is imminent. When The Moglass mix their unique style with that of Courtis, the results are both soothing and unnerving. Each of their three tracks travels a unique path through outer space. What starts out as an alien lullabye soon devolves into shredded strings and guttural scat vocalizing (possibly in Ukrainian). The third, and strongest, track could be the perfect soundtrack for an astral voyage. Courtis closes out the disc by dicing up the sounds provided by the other two participants. The first three tracks find him rubbing elbows with The Moglass, creating the perfect accompaniment for prenatal amniotic stasis. Courtis fabricates crystalline structures from the malleable material provided, resulting in a construction that collapses in upon itself only to be rebuilt in an entirely different way. All rhetoric aside, it’s a heady yet engaging listen. His treatment of Kiritchenko’s work is slightly more organic, as the source material is mainly acoustic. A thousand wind-up toys engage each other in battle before being drowned out by a sea of bells on varispeed. You can almost see the wizard Courtis smiling gleefully over a pile of spliced tape (or maybe a computer full of samples). This rather seamless collection of tracks is definitely the work of people who are at the top of their game. Creating sound art that can hold a listener’s attention is no easy feat, and this recording definitely succeeds at doing just that. I’m definitely going to search out more work from all three of these amazing contributors, and I know there’s a lot out there for me to find! 9/10 - Bryon Hayes Cracked Anla Courtis provides sounds for Andrey Kiritchenko to work on. Anla Courtis also provides sounds for The Moglass to work on. And both provide sounds for Anla Courtis to work on. Obviously, this three way global interchange of sounds and noises has Anla Courtis at the centre (this time), though Kiritchenko starts off followed by the Moglass and ended by Anla Courtis. So much for the basics of this release. What is missing to fill the matrix are the interchanges between The Moglass and Andrey Kiritchenko, but there are no reasons to fill a matrix aside purely formal ones and formality is something that you should forget about completely when confronting this release. Or any release on Nexsound for that matter, because they are all challenging your senses, your hearing restraints and the status of fringe music. What combines the three artists is that they tend to take on sound as something physical, elevating it to a tangible level that works not only through the auditive sense but also via the skin. Even though The Moglass are the most “song-oriented” of the lot from their history onwards, they also step into the chaotic-dynamic lines of this animated soundforgery. They seem to work with sound like a lion tamer works his wild animals, teasing them and teaching them, but always on the lookout for they might break out and wound someone. They are also very eclectic in their work, splunging into all kinds of ambients and sounds which were neatly divided by journalist types and collectors and with a wave of their hand mixing them all together again. And in the end all three have long careers, discographies and impressive biographies to show for them. Andrey Kiritchenko’s tracks are like a wave, but no tsunami but a slow motion wave that surrounds and embrazes you, tightly and densely, and starts to drag you down. His processed field recordings and noises (the notes say guitar but it is hard to believe and anyway wouldn’t be recognizable from something else in this mix except for some parts in his third track) are dynamic and frantically changing while remaining massive and powerfull throughout. When they start to fade out your brain starts to breathe again and you wonder if the crackles of fire in your head are for real or still coming from the CD. But what did you expect from on of Eastern Europe’s foremost proponents of noise and electroexperimental music? This adds very nicely to his growing and recommended discography. The Moglass start off almost atmospherically with waves of almost new age sounds and synths. The stress lays on almost, as almost always. The band is know to prefer being led by the sounds than to lead the sounds, so this time the sounds first lead them to a really quiet and peaceful place and afterwards to more rocky and rough terrain, which still has a lot of good echo. They also add spooky and tripping vocals to great effect and with lots of echo and sustain, though it has to be said that I like their current release “sparrow juice” (also on Nexsound) some more than the big walls and monumental sounds they build up on here. On the other hand, the finely carved and worked out songs on their album wouldn’t really fit here. Anla Courtis has adopted many names during his long career, which started off in Buenos Aires when he studied classical guitar, piano and composition, then threw all of that away to play a very early form of free rock with another guy and a third guy, one of which was a mongoloid who sang and played the drums, under the name of The Reynols. Believe it or not, before Courtis called it quits for The Reynols the trio released more than one hundred CDs and vinyls worldwide almost everywhere and, which is much more important, has connected to likeminded musicians in every town of the world possibly. Here he connects on a completely different level. He actually flies off in various directions during the course of his four tracks, and sometimes he flies into different directions at the same time. A combining element of his contribution is wild creativity and a sense for being “out there”. I have no better words to describe it. He dares to use gentle tone and to fall into more softer paces at times where his cooperators might have chose power and volume in favor of subtlety or microsounds, for instance when he lays softly swaying yet deftly distorted guitar chords over a bass-heavy basis of crackling industrial noise. All in all this three way cluster is a great and powerful invocation of the liberating spirits within noise and experimental electronics. I don’t believe anyone reading the reviews on Cracked regularly has never heard of any of these three artists, but if so, let this be an introductory guideline for you. Vital Weekly The Moglass are also present on a three way compilation, together with Andrey Kiritchenko and Anla Courtis (of former Reynols fame). A release by Nexsound, but also on Gold Soundz, Tib Prod and 1000+1 Tilt. This compilation presents various works by each artist/band, but each of them uses sounds from the others. The Moglass pieces are a bit heavier than on 'Sparrow Juice', dwelling more distortion and psychedelic sound effects. The result is nice, but doesn't match up with their own full length CD. Anla Courtis has three tracks in which he works with the sounds of The Moglass, but fails to set a difference with the group's own sound. Quite spacey and cosmic sound. In the two pieces using Kiritchenko's material, things are also spacious, but less closed. The best pieces are by Kiritchenko, who takes the various sources from Courtis and The Moglass into the world of the computer treatments and processing, creating with their sounds, a music that bears similar markings, but then entirely in the digital domain. Ambient and glitch related, but both at it's very best. - Frans de Waard

• Artist: Craig Colorusso Title: Strap Parts Format: 10inch Label: Moodswing Records (USA) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_MUUD042 "I have always been fascinated by the way music and sound alter the way we perceive time and space. We organize all experiences in these terms. The motivation behind my musical compositions and installations over the past several years has been the exploration of the conventions that determine the way we experience time and space, and thereby our world. These pieces seek to expose such conventions by giving the listener the chance to become familiar with unfamiliar tonalities and rhythms, as well as to register the divorce of space and sound made possible by contemporary audio technology. And they sound good" For fans of such labels as Table of The Elements, Edition, etc. etc."

• Artist: Crank Sturgeon and Gastric Female Reflex Title: live at radio centraal Format: CDR Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Bennifer_gfr_crank_cdr "beniffer editions cordially invite you to take a whiff of the soggy tour panties of crank sturgeon and gastric female reflex who in the midst of poor hygiene and everlasting sunday morning sentiment bring you their first collaboration. these psychic emanations of pedal gazing, pause button cliff-hangers and haphazard button compressions were recorded on dennis tyfus' radio show and edited down to the bare essentials by charles balls. art works by sekitani in tri-silkscreened splendor by thee benifese retions! "

• Artist: Crawling With Tarts Title: Ludiques Manifestes Format: CDR Label: Lunhare (Italy) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Lunhare_zzz01 "Three live recordings from concerts held in Oakland in 1991 and 1992. Intended to be released on cassette in 1999, but kept in the drawer until now, this work is published for the first time. Improvisation sketches on percussive patterns, self-constructed instruments, and even a punky, fast and furious song. Different sides of a group always different from the rest. " part of Lunhare's Lethargy Series - "New releases of recordings dating back to the last millennium"

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: Angles of Descent Format: CDR Label: slippy town Price: $7.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SLIPTO29 "This one contains most of the Crawlspace MP3s from 2001 + one track from 2003. Numbered edition of 33 copies packaged in recycled slim-line jewel cases. Released September 2004."

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: Blimp Music Vol 3: The Amphibious Airship Approaches a Black Hole's Gravity Format: CDR Label: slippy town Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SLIPTO27 "Third chapter in the adventures of the Crawlspace dronecraft (volumes 1 and 2, released in 2000, are sold out). Eddie Flowers, Greg Hajic, and Joe Dean using mostly guitars, plus some percussion and a bit of other live stuff, mixing board and tape deck. Recorded/mixed 2000-2003. Includes the full-length 31-minute version of "There Is No Law in Nature," which was edited and remixed down to seven minutes for 2003's LAW WHERE PROHIBITED BY VOID CD. Plus five other tracks of stoned propeller drones, deep bellows, simulated motor flatulence, and time running backwards. This material was previously released in editions of 20 copies on three different volumes of Crawlspace's 2003 ROCK GENERATION give-away CDRs. Edition of 100. Released April 2004."

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: melbourne cabbage ratio Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR85 10YR.Series.05 - the fifth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. always expecting great things from this veteran noise/out-rock group, and as usual, they deliver with this jam packed release. over 67 minutes full of non-computer aided electronic, out-rock, noise and even a little comedy thrown in.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: Law Where Prohibited By Void Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GULCHER416 Rockin‘ with toys & amps & guitars & stuff--fried boogie, flyin‘ fancies, rock trance, out grooves, kartoon rawk-- ‘lectronic wheeze--records & VHS loopin‘--Sabbath� as folk-jazz hoedown.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: the roaring winds of louie louie Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR51 "Today‘s Whether Report: You done found the eye o‘ the storm right here ‘tween sleepwalk ‘Space and static comin‘ outta the Blower Coast." an amazing work of playground sampling, guitars, percussion, blank tape, radio, video, etc. part 2 of the "trilogy" which started with Crawlspace Slept Here (OutsideTheAntHill) and will conclude with Static on the Blower Coast. [hand-packaged in recycled LP covers. each hand painted and uniquely illustrated. edition of 100]

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH08 Guitars-‘n‘-drums improv comin‘ on strong; toys shakin‘ and eekin‘ ‘tween the cracks; ambient mics for birds and aeroplanes and ice-cream trucks; the blimps are still risin‘. This was gonna be a sorta fill-in disc, constructed randomly of recent (late 2001) recordings, but it turned out to be such a nice listen that we‘re givin‘ the world an edition bigger than the originally projected 30 copies (96 is the plan). Front cover of each package is different; most are photographs chopped down to fit into a jewel case.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: the rain, the park, and other things Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH05 Mix-collage 4-track cassette and dubbing-deck cut-and-paste fuck-up done by Eddie in ‘90/‘91. Featuring snippets of ‘88/‘89 and ‘90/‘91 Crawlspace line-ups, many unknowing "guest stars," XXX-rated humor, spoken word with bass, and solo Eddie insanity (partly while tripping). Numbered edition of 30 in hand-assembled map/envelope-in-jewel-case sleeves.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: ...slept here Format: CDR Label: outsidetheanthill Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-OTAH07 Eddie & Greg start loopin‘ the turntable. Joe‘s layerin‘ on ‘puter. A little "live" percussion but not much. Is that calypso or heavy meddle? Is this Phase 1 of The Roaring Winds? What the fug‘s goin‘ on!? Ever-changing laser-printed sleeves in colored jewel cases. 100 copies.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: birds of the southern regions Format: CDR Label: slippy town Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-SLIPT01 "Walk Away Slowly" (4:26) rock-slip; "Birds of the Southern Regions (33:06) layers of ‘Space improv; "Short Thing April 1" (5:13) a bit o‘ blimp; "McKeever" (31:40) takin‘ it to the street. Handmade torn-cardboard-in- jewel-case package.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: static from the slowdown Format: CDR Label: slippy town Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-SLIPT13 The "trilogy" (?) is completed (??). 16 bite-size "tunes" done with turntable, blank tape + EQ, CD loops, acoustic guitars, trumpet, bird call, jaw harp, percussion, guitar amp, voices, & mac. Ssssss . . . kraaaang! Cover art by Greg circa 1975. 100 copies.

• Artist: Crawlspace Title: godzee Format: 10inch Label: behemoth Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist-BET400 Eddie Flowers, Joe Dean, Mark McCormick, Keith Telligman, Bob Lee from 1991.

• Artist: Crazy River and Sindre Bjerga Title: black stained songs from silver spines Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR172 recorded live at Sound of Mu in Oslo Norway, this nearly 25min piece slowly builds into a drone/tone/static throb with periodic blasts of heavier tones, thuds and feedback. always quality sounds from this duo. [packaged in 5x7 chipboard stay-flat with silkscreen and splattered artwork. includes sprayed cdr]

• Artist: Crazy River and Sindre Bjerga Title: Everything We Know is Barely Being Held Together Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR148 2 live tracks recorded is Oslo and Stavanger Norway in 2005. scratchy drone-transmissions from the north. this is some quality throb/drone/heavy sounds. another feather in Sindre's frozen cap. [packaged in heavy vinyl sleeve with handmade green paper, sprayed with silver. veluum cover for liner notes on back and sprayed CD] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The duo of Bjerga and Iversen have been prolific recorders of heavy free-drone and guitar/electronics based psychedelic improv over the past two years, and many of their releases have been finding their way into Crucial Blast. Using electronic noise, found sounds, and heavily distorted guitar drones, the duo consistently deliver slabs of evocative, weighty drift that at times sound like a trippier, FX-drenched version of Sunn O))). But the musicians are also busy outside of their core collaborative project, as we find Sindre Bjerga teaming up with a project called Crazy River for a massive 33 minute drift jam split across two tracks on this handmade disc from Carbon. The group open with "Black Forests Of The Mind", a live improvisation recorded in Oslo, Norway in 2005, and it's a massively heavy zoneout punctuated by weird noises and voice samples. The sound of revving engines and small machines is fed through a thick wall of delay and released to float over a thick amplif ier hum that builds in volume and heaviness over the course of the set until it becomes a buzzing black roar of ambient drone-metal swirled with druggy FX and whirring noises, like Sunn O))) mixed with Nurse With Wound or something along those lines. Nearly eighteen minutes long, the jam finally winds down into a hazy, muted hum. The second track "Brusied But Not Broken" was captured in Stavanger, Norway in 2005 and is another epic improvisation, this time composed from random percussion, squelchy tape manipulations, and hushed riffing. It's a dense soundworld of scraping textures and sampled piano concertos, unnerving stereo panning that send monstrous chewing sounds and snarls spinning around the room, metal scraping and digging sounds, and heavily distorted psych-rock riffing that's buried under it all. A really creepy free-noise jam that sounds like the audio soundtrack to some demented slasher flick. A really nice handmade package as usual from Carbon, with a green paper sleeve sprayed with silver paint and layered with a vellum insert that's printed with the track info, and slipped inside of a heavy plastic sleeve.

• Artist: Critikal Title: graphorrhea Format: CD Label: Zeromoon (USA) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_zero008 "Dmytro Fedorenko (Kotra), Andrey Kiritchenko, Tobias Astrom and Jeff Surak (Violet) join forces to present this masterwork of muscial fragmentation. The new fab four of the electronica world. Check out myspace.com/critikally for audio samples...and become their friend while you're at it. Co-released with Kvitnu|Nexsound|Hwem."

• 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] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast The Rochester, NY free-sludge trio Crush The Junta first came to my attention last year with their crusher of a debut, the Curse Of Abraham CDR on Carbon. Featuring members of Entente Cordiale, Blood And Bone Orchestra, SQ, Pengo, and Hilkka and taking huge open chord riffs and syrupy, slow moving tempos and using them as the foundation for extended improvised jams that are filled with heavily textured feedback and amplifier noise, Crush The Junta's sound fell somewhere in between the Grey Daturas and Gravitar at their most psychedelic and the austere slowcore of Codeine. Massive and expansive, the trio uses synthesizer and electronic drones along with their core drums/guitar/bass lineup, their music is almost entirely instrumental (save for the occasional howl of ecstasy rising up above the dirge), and their first 'real' CD release The Disappeared further expands upon their trippy metallic jamming. "The Mist Rolls In" opens the album with a series of thu nderous, distorted open chords and saw toothed drone, somewhat Western in feel, almost like a rougher version of the newer Earth stuff crossed with Codeine's Barely Real. But the following track "Skull Against Stone" shifts the album into the abstract, a loop of guitar noise spinning off above guitar noise and buzzing cables and an quasi-krautrock beat until it starts to sound like a riff from the The Who stuck on repeat. "Steps Of The Temple" is one of the only tracks to feature any sort of vocal accompaniment, a few lines of spoken word poetry delivered over slow, sludgy dirge riffing. The rest of the album explores similiar territory, huge blown out psych-sludge jams, thick amplifier drones, pretty indie rock tunes played at glacial tempo, all of it surrounded by a vague sense of political unrest and dystopia. Check 'em out if you're a fan of high energy, distortion laden improv/psych/dirge rock like Heavy Winged, Alasehir, and Grey Daturas. Packaged in a cardsto ck jacket that comes in a heavy plastic mylar sleeve.

• 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.] Reviews (2): Foxy Digitalis 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 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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  Artist: Crush the Junta Title: hanging design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR157_RED the Crush the Junta "hanging" design. brick red shirt with gray and white ink and wrap-around design.

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  Artist: Crush the Junta Title: hanging design Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CR157_BLUE the Crush the Junta "hanging" design. muted blue shirt with gray and white ink and wrap-around design.

• Artist: Cyrus Rego Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Emperor Jones Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_149 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: D9 Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Heart and Crossbone (Israel) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HCB021 "Named after one of the most imaginative and infamous key roles in the Israeli occupation, D9 is as merciless as this monstrous bulldozer, ramming reality in its' forehead with their post apocalyptic hectic predictions, directed towards the Israeli state and the worlds' systematic moral corruption, fueling their fury with an offensive portion of old school hardcore punk, and generating this boiling wrath into an original crushing blend of sly grindcore and bare boned power violence hostility, with a fair amount of devastating sludgy riffage and obscure electronic noise intervals to make their squashing sound even more quirky and disturbing. Recommended if you like Dropdead, Pig Destroyer, Man is the Bastard, Burmese, early Facedowninshit, Capitalist Casualties, Dystopia and Siege."

• Artist: Danny O'Really Title: And Evening With... Format: CD Label: Solitude Records (Netherlands) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Solitude_Danny a solo album of guitar manipulations from this long-time Dutch noise/rock guitarist

• Artist: darph/nadeR Title: the green album Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1942 (This is a USED item) 2002 Samsa Records release

• Artist: darph/nadeR Title: the red album Format: CDR Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1943 (This is a USED item) 2001 Samsa Records release

• Artist: David Kendall's Difference Quartet Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Macro-Eden (UK) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_MTR004 "The Difference Quartet marks the beginning of a new direction for David Kendall: graphic scores. Written for 4 players, the piece is notated by a computer screen which slowly shifts between lighter and darker shades of gray. The recording is not rough, but it is gritty; ambient city noises drift in from outside, giving this particular recording an incredibly personal, almost meditative feel. Edition of 100. Pacakaged in a black digipak, white spraypaint stencil on the front"

• Artist: David Kendell Title: Triumph of Individuality Format: CDR Label: gameboy Price: $9.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_gb97 "The title for this one is most appropriate as Mr. Kendall's work and vision rest in a realm all his own. Working with digital noise in a time when the genre titans are dusting off their analog gear again, Kendall's intense programming stands out, but it stands tall. Combining elements of improvisation, composition, field recordings and pure noise, Kendall's work is both sharp and vivid. This one is crisp. Analog purists beware. CDR edition of 100."

• Artist: day twenty-eight Title: peep! Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_day28 (This is a USED item) all girl indie rock group out of Michigan, mid-90's

• Artist: Dead Machines Title: mystery of the fall off islands part two Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR84 10YR.Series.04 - the fourth in the Carbon 10 year anniversary CDR series. more amazing handmade electronics and tape manipulation from John Olson (Wolf Eyes) and Tovah O‘Rourke, otherwise known as The Dead Machines...

• Artist: Deciduous vs Conifer Title: leaves and needles Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CR153 2 tracks, 50+ minutes. DvsC is a trio consisting of R. Scott Oliver, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Entente Cordiale, Crush the Junta and more) and Joe Tunis (Joe+N, Entente Cordiale, Crush the Junta, SQ and formerly of Pengo). the trio plays only non-electrically enhanced instruments, including batteries (so no eBows). instruments on these recordings include acoustic guitar, homemade string instrument, double-bass, homemade mallets, bowls, bells, wooden box drums, bottles, melodica and more, "creating a non-shamanistic/spiritual approach to earthly music. it is what it is." [laser cut wooden cover with the DvsC logo, image behind the cut-out, with the CDR inserted into an adhesive backed vinly sleeve] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis Deciduous vs Conifer is the quiet, non-electronically enhanced improvising trio of Joe Tunis (Carbon Records, Joe+N), Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra) and R. Scott Oliver. The three employ a wide variety of instrumentation across the two extended tracks; one can hear various percussive instruments, bowed string instruments, bowls, whistles, and any other sound producing device that is ready available without requiring electricity. The most successful aspect of these two works is how well the space is activated with their array of instrumentation. The incorporation of silence and subtle sounds demand the listener’s attention, while an occasional louder groove does arise, it is in these tinier aspects that the group really shines allowing plenty of breathing space while weaving intricate layers in and out of one another. The first of the two untitled tracks has a slightly jazzier feel especially towards the end where a very free and heady groove develops between the stand-up bass and drums. This brings a feeling of resolution to the heavy instrumental tension and silent interludes found in the beginning. The second track is a bit more out there with the heavy use of chimes, bowed strings and even a beautiful meleodica duo; this is the set where the trio can be found at their absolute peak with a focus on tension, texture and the subtle building and decay of sound. Where this work becomes extremely interesting is in the live context as the trio plays at a level in which the audience is forced to be extremely mindful of the sounds they make. Even the subtle shifts of ones body in the chair makes quite a racket during a performance with a very attentive and engaged audience. This aspect of the work does make itself somewhat evident in the recording as the audience is occasionally heard as a part of the recording, especially towards the beginning of each track, but unfortunately the real thing can only be experienced in the flesh. Regardless of my good fortune of experiencing Deciduous vs. Conifer live, I do have to say that this is exciting and vibrant recording full of wonderful textures and sounds. The disc is also wonderfully housed in a plastic sleeve attached to a laser-cut wood panel. 9/10 -- Cory Card (7 August, 2007) - Cory Card

• Artist: DEL Title: No Escape from the Valley of the Cannibals Format: 7inch Label: Killer (Norway) Price: $7.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Killer002 "Fairly structured, and no uncontrolled noise-bleedings. But; exotic drums, guitar textures, drifting loops and source-sounds from seventies erotic cannibal films. Building towards a quite stunning climax. Personell are Kjell R. Jenssen on percussion, Lasse Marhaug on mixing and construction, Per Gisle Galåen on guitartreatment and Fredric Sevendal as guitar-slave. 33 rpm, edition of 500 where 50 are on heavy blue vinyl (sold out), 250 are on transparent green spotted vinyl and 200 are on heavy black vinyl."

• Artist: Demons/THAMES Title: split Format: CASS Label: Wintage (Canada) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_WRT30 "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"

• Artist: Destructro Swarmbots Title: Clear Light Format: CD Label: Public Guilt (USA) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PG011 "Destructo Swarmbots has carved a unique niche for themselves over the past 4 years. Their live shows consist of chaotic walls of white noise, improvised textures and battered instruments. Their recordings are delicate, at times meditative, washes of ambience constructed from countless piles of tortured sounds. Influenced heavily by 200+ needle-dropped, out of print psyche records, "Clear Light" is their strongest effort yet and the next step on their journey to artistic isolation."

• Artist: Devillock Title: these graves Format: CD Label: SNSE Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ SNSE062 "DEVILLOCK: It’s all in stop motion. It’s all real. Up, out from under all places molded and GUNKED. Slithering spool tapes sliding like thin brown snakes under, amongst, and finally overtop and around. They overtake the crumbling corpsed-up organ grinder. He, with his grin full of rot and fingers of stank, is ever so pleased to allow the decayed magnetics to engulf his skeletal frame, it is how his power is attained (maintained). Only when wrapped tightly and over his entire torso and head (a tape mummy!) will he begin to play. Quietly at first, as if from a distance - but he is there, RIGHT THERE GODDAMIT - and then the groan and the moaning howl and the static insects all begin to draw near, an orchestra of loneliness. Can you still feel your legs? As your head is slowly filled with ants, you are posed a question: “What do you make?” he is asking. “What do make... of THESE GRAVES?” DEVILLOCK is Justin Chris Meyers on organ, tapes, and electronics. Justin also runs the record and tape label Tone Filth and has other additional musical projects including Panther Skull. Matthew St. Germain (Freedom From record label) plays bass on the first track of These Graves. Pete Swanson (D Yellow Swans) mastered this album."

• Artist: differenz Title: jazz workshop Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1940 (This is a USED item) 1995 Shadow Records release

• Artist: Dio Daga Title: the lost powers of freedom Format: CDR Label: haamumaa Price: $9.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Haamumaa_Dio_Daga_thelostpowe "His second solo guitar album, now with distortion and screaming feedback. Dark atmosphere trance music." - Haamumaa.

• Artist: Disguises Title: Weaponizer Format: CDR Label: Wintage (Canada) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_wrt12 "Debut full length by Toronto's noise/punk barfers. Nine tracks of harrrd sci-fi, total wasted psych. During recording sessions for the album, the group developed a lean, muscular physique. A garunteed punch in the sonic plexus."

• Artist: Diving Bell Title: s/t Format: CD Label: Moodswing Records (USA) Price: $9.00 Catalog ID: Diving Bell "The appropriately titled, Diving Bell, is the collaboration between Craig Colorusso (guitar, field recordings) and Joel Westerdale (drums), both formerly of China Pig, and their self-titled record is nothing short of breathtaking. A diving bell is a large bell shaped container made of a combination of glass and metal. The bell can be large enough for multiple people to stand in, and it is placed in the water, allowing individuals to stay underwater for a long period of time, a perfect description of the feeling you get when listening to this band."

• Artist: Dixie Prix Title: Le Tombeau de Dixie Prix Format: CDR Label: Pirate Scheme Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_PS002 The ideal thing for club owners to clear the place out when it‘s closing time. No matter what kind of show, be it Pop, Jazz, Punk or Extreme Noise, this disc will have everyone out in no time.

• Artist: DJ QBert Title: wave twisters Format: CD Label: USED Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1922 (This is a USED item) 1998 Galactic Butt Hair release

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: upload: a continuous mix Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_upload (This is a USED item)

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: missing time : the abducted remixes Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_missingtime (This is a USED item)

• Artist: DJ Soul Slinger Title: Don't Believe Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_DJSoulSlinger_dontbelieve (This is a USED item)

• Artist: DJ Thumper / Vankmen Title: split Format: CASS Label: hatestate (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HS015 "both sets recorded live at the Ravesploitation festival in Los Angeles, in complete hi fidelity by Jonathan Snipes. Gabber power and spirit of punk."

• Artist: Dolores Dewberry / Origami Genitalia Title: split Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR109 Split CD featuring two of the snizziest experimental music projects to emerge from Minneapolis since Snizzy McSnizzerton and his Band of Snizz. Dolores is known well for her appearance on Susan Lawly's "Extreme Music from Women" CD, and is here in full power-electronics mode, complete with porn samples. Origami Genitalia is an electro-acoustic soundtrack collaboration between Eric Hofferber (Gentle Tasaday) and E.W. Hagstrom (Cock E.S.P.) Co-released with Apop, Sunship, Gold Soundz, Little Mafia and Nihilist.

• Artist: Doug Theriault / Kathleen Keogh Title: Broken Flowers Format: CDR Label: Audiobot (Belgium) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BOT130 "Based in Portland, Oregon, Doug uses varied organic and electronic sound instrumentation, concrete sounds, voice, light gradients (sensors), space and performative movement in connection with architecture and notation systems. He has concentrated his efforts on building an instrument for controlling sound through light via MIDI programming and real-time light changes. From a wave of the hand in midair to the guitar’s own internal feedback, signals produced from the guitar are manipulated and replayed in unpredictable, unrepeatable permutations through the use of gestural controllers and the software program LiSa. On this sonic excursion he performs as part of a duo with vocalist and choreographer Kathleen Keogh, here on dictaphone and voice. Packaged in full color covers by Tisbo, in an edition of only 75 copies. File under = abstract improv mutilation"

• Artist: Dual Title: Pyroclastics Format: CDR Label: Quodlibet (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_QLCDR001 "Doug Theriault and Ed Chang atom-smash supersonic guitar frequencies with laptop-generated blender blast-beats to create 16 non-stop ear-pummeling electro-noise action tracks. Improv, destroyed. This is Dual at their most-focused, and most-insane..."

• Artist: Durán Vázquez Title: Ghetto, Borghetto Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR108 "It is a work that arose from the experimentation with software effects, and in a very intuitive way." Durán is a Spanish noise artist, with releases on Alg-a netlabel and Crónica. transmissions.... contact?.... responses.... contact? parts of this almost sound like the tribute release(s) Sub Rosa did years ago for philospher Gilles Deleuze. [packaged in spray-painted slim jewel case with spray painted cdr] Reviews (1): Modisti Distorsion processed electronic sources progressively give way to denser texture of various other materials featuring all maner of idiomatic, mediatic, music samples and instrumental processings that contribute to the weaving of this accretion of assorted noise. Constant disruption comes to mind as a common denominator of these busy sumperimpositions of unrelated, chaotic materials, thus illustrating an illuminating portrait of present day relevance. The internal logic of the accretions obey its obvious lack of coherence, thus drifting in a careful manner if totally devoid of aim, purpose or message. It is merely a portrait in its recurrent, relentless insistence and merciless precission of development.

• Artist: E.W. Hagstrom Title: Emil and friends Format: CDR Label: e.f. tapes & cdrs Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_EF186 Ten collaborations between Emil and his friends. Featuring: Ovo, Mike Shiflet, PrairiePusher, Domokos, John Wiese, Gary Glitter's Hard Drive, Panicsville, Burning Star Core, Shaun Kelly and Tore H. Boe.

• Artist: Earth Crown Title: Fuck Your Country Love the Land Format: CASS Label: Rat Ward (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AE55 "EARTH CROWN "Fuck Your Country Love The Land" cassette c22 Sounds like a pile of dead animals rotting in a West Baltimore gutter. Broken glass sparkles in his his eyes. A real noise fucker who's down for life. (AEN-AE55) Limited Edition of 50 copies. black cassettes, full color glossy jcard."

• Artist: Ed Chang Title: marble / latch Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR106 here's an amazing drone guitar release from Ed Chang, the man behind NYC-based Quodlibet label. member of Spin-17, and all around free-improv, experimental, out-there musician. this showcases his softer, more subtle drone-infestations/incantations. [packaged in heavy vinyl sleeve with b&w photo by Ed on the front, and veluum back cover. cds are spray painted] Reviews (1): Modisti A careful work exploring the possibilities of continuous electric guitar drones developed over extended periods of time. Featuring smooth transitions between the different sound masses, the static character is the result of a careful mastery; the balance involved in handling feedback being akin to that of high-tension wires. Quite subtle in its approach, the materials are displayed with a certain Indian tanpura quality in the slow unfolding of overtones. Other tracks present harsher surfaces, with noise elements that emphasize rougher textures and larger doses of processing.

• Artist: Electric Annihilation Title: Issue #01 Format: ZINE Label: Electric Annihilation (USA) Price: $3.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_electric_annihilation01 EA is a 20-page music publication, b&w on tabloid-size (11 x 17 pages) newsprint. Circulation of 5,000 copies. The first issue includes interviews with: Thurston Moore Henry Rollins John Olson (Wolf Eyes/American Tapes) Emeralds Sun Araw Wet Hair Nomen Dubium Plus scene reports from Gothenburg Sweden (written by Matthias Andersson of Release the Bats), Cleveland (by Sam Goldberg) and Iowa City (by Shawn Reed). Also an article by Jon Isaac. There's a centerfold poster too. Cover artwork and border/frames by Zachary Fleming.

• Artist: Electric Mono River Title: No sunlight down here Format: CDR Label: Dead Sea Liner (UK) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_deadsealiner019 "Live mini-album of mono spectral meditations and caveman incantations from Norwegian supergroup of Sindre Bjerga, Per Gisle Gal�en and Martin Powell."

• Artist: Eleventh Day Dream Title: eighth Format: CD Label: Thrill Jockey Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_109 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Eli Keszler Title: R.L.K. Format: CD Label: Rel Records (USA) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_REL003 "Long piece in 3 parts; Bowed percussion, drumset and electronics. Hand embossed/stamped and painted arigate pak with insert. Edition 2: Avaiable now in edition of 500."

• Artist: elsieandjackandaube Title: Rewriting the book Format: 2CD Label: Elsie and Jack Price: $14.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_eaj009 "elsie and jack are proud to present, REWRITING THE BOOK a double cd monster that contains many genre defining moments within its 154 minute, 28 track lifespan. 2 years in the making, it encompasses an eclectic array of artists from around the world, all contributing recordings exclusively made for this release. for the previous elsie and jack release, PAGES FROM THE BOOK, akifumi nakajima (aube) created 61 sounds, ranging from 10 second loops to 4 minute drones, using a copy of the King James bible. these source sounds, in conjunction with the original concept, were open to so many different interpretations that they were then sent to a number of artists to create their own music. some of the artists used nothing but the source sounds; some in a very minimal way, some in a more complex manner. others used the sounds as a starting point to build their own music around, so that the samples become an integral part of their own particular vision. A few ­ drekka, hood and volcano the bear - introduce a more obvious if unconventional song structure to the proceedings. the differing approaches create an eclectic sound, bound cohesively into a whole by the continuing theme of the pages from the book. this release marks the first time that aube has been remixed. however, the story is not yet complete ... the next stage in this epic sees akifumi versus everyone versus aube. further reading: www.elsieandjack.com/akifumivseveryonevsaube what more could a girl and boy want?"

• Artist: Emil Beaulieau Title: live in WNY Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR115 two 30+min live performances by "America's Greatest Living Noise Artist." first set is from July 2003 recorded at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester NY. in the middle of the set, Emil instructs all the visitors in the space, that they MUST enter the performance area before he continues on with his set. YES! the second track is from a performance in August 2003 at Hallswalls in Buffalo NY. Mr. Beaulieau getting melodic towards the end of the set, completely annihilating an orchestral moment. [second in the Carbon Recycled.Series. cover is a "recycled" LP, cut down to 5" x 5" square]

• Artist: Entente Cordiale Title: life underground Format: 2CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CR167 This is a set of studio and live Entente Cordiale recordings. disc 1 consists of a studio session at the Bunker in Rochester NY, recorded by Nuuj (of Pengo/Asthmatic/Tuurd). three pieces varying from the EC guitar pattern/drone approach, and ending with an on-the-edge of falling apart secular mantra before diving into the most uncharacteristic EC sounds to date (channeling the then future direction of Tumul). disc 2 consists of a long live set recorded at Soundlab in Buffalo NY, when EC (accompanied by Nuuj) opened for the Yellow Swans. a marathon blast of loud guitar riffs, drones and deep synth action. [sprayed and silkscreened 5x7 chipboard stay-flat kraft envelopes with sprayed discs] Reviews (1): Foxy Digitalis I know that I�m not the only wholehearted advocate for Rochester, NY�s most excellent Carbon Records imprint, but I feel like there just isn�t enough love being broadcast throughout this worldwide �web� of ours for this high-quality label. I can�t say enough how consistently these guys (guy, actually) issue quality recordings. Carbon Greatness Exhibit A: this latest double CD-R of guitar goodness from Entente Cordiale � a trio consisting of Chris Reeg, Will Veeder and Carbon boss man Joe Tunis. These guys specialize in slow-motion shredding and extended feedback wrangling. The two discs that comprise �Life Underground� demonstrate the two unique faces of the EC oeuvre. The first disc is a home studio recording, while the second disc documents a single live show from a few months prior to the studio session. Both discs amply serve as platforms for the group�s relaxed approach to improv, but each contains a unique cache of treasures befitting the specific recording environment. In the studio, EC showcases their sense of balance: melody is played off of dissonance, and quietude begets commotion. On the first track, a short guitar line repeats ad infinitum underneath a slowly-building web of textured guitar noise. The second and third tracks are lengthy feedback-laden sludge feasts whose landscapes are littered with the debris of ruined guitars. The live disc is a demonstration of the drone-to-chaos aspect of the EC sound. What starts out as a manageable slow-burning ember of sound erupts into a frenzied blaze, with furious waves of feedback cast to and fro. A churning cascade of deep-end drone pierces the madness, reeling in any stray frequencies. There is almost two hours of music on �Life Underground�, enough to satiate the hungriest of out-guitar fans. After this, do we need any more evidence that there is quality music coming from the bowels of post-industrial America? I think not, but I welcome it anyway. 9/10 - Byron Hayes

• Artist: Entente Cordiale Title: the recognition of common interests Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR150 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] Reviews (2): Foxy Digitalis Entente Cordiale is a three-piece unit whose work revolves mainly around string drone. “The Recognition of Common Interests” is their third full length offering, as well as there most accomplished and satisfying work to date. Starting off with “an understanding is met” the trio create a wonderful space that merges pure simple melodic beauty with dissonance in such an elegant manner that one almost always wants to begin the album over again as soon as the track comes to completion with its final trails of drifting smoke. When one is finally placated enough, for the time being, with the strange beauty of the first track and decides to move onward, one is greeted with a complex array of deep drones, heavy slow-ass riffs, odd repeated and shifting noises, and enough space augmented with the correct use of silence to keep the air filled with an almost uncomfortable and engaging tension. This music of Entente Cordiale is complex and deeply satisfying on many levels. These three players are really expert at creating and manipulating sounds and their interaction with one another displays that they really no how to listen to one another as well. 9/10 - Cory Card Crucial Blast Rochester free-rockers Entente Cordiale return with their first "real" CD after a couple of CD-R releases that were well received over here at Crucial Blast HQ. Exploring themes of alliance and collaboration, Entente Cordiale (named after a historical agreement created between the English and the French at the dawn of the 20th century) craft a nearly 50-minute jam that while broken up into seperate tracks, seems to flow together as one huge organic piece. At first, this feels like the quieter side of members Joe Tunis and Chris Reeg, whose other band Crush The Junta just came out with a hefty new CD-R of improvised free-rock sludge that buried me beneath a heavy blanket of distorted goop. Here they are joined by Will Veeder (also of Hinkley, Torpedoes, and Muler), and the first track, "An UNderstanding Is Met", is a fragile, drifting tangle of folky guitar strum and clanging pipe chimes, almost like the Dead C lazily playing on the backporch of some country farm, idyllic and folky and dreamy. But when the second track "Roots" emerges, the guitars take on a darker hue, the strings suddenly detuning and coiling up like serpents, scraping fretboard growls sliding across the neck of the guitars, fluttering heavy synthesizer electronics buzzing ominously beneath Entente Cordiale's deformed blues licks and buzzing amplifiers. The following tracks continue in a similiar vein, sparse guitar lines repeated ad infinitum over buzzing synths and droning melodica, distorted mangled riffage clawing it's way through clouds of thick feedback, quietly pretty passages of amp hum and simple strummed chords, occasionally dipping into pools of Earth-y guitar rumble and raucous skree. It's the last five minutes of the album, however, on the last track "How Long Can It Hold", where the band cuts loose and whips up a scorching tempest of noisy guitar racket and reverberating speaker float. While not as "heavy" as their previous CD-Rs, The Recognition Of Common Interests still occupies that hazy realm between Iversen/Bjerga's trippy guitar-based improv, The Dead C at their most formless, and occasionally, the deep rumble of Earth's 2. Simple but effective packaging in a heavy mylar sleeve that holds the disc in a professionally printed card sleeve.

• Artist: Entente Cordiale Title: 100 yrs Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR102 a little over 34min of triple-guitar damage and drone. 2 tracks. not too far from their first release, 1904, at first. but the second track, ends with a crushing 10+min drone and dual-drummer action. even took us by surprise ; ) [original covers were hand-silkscreened, edition of 102. 2 color print job. about 30 of them are silver and gold, while the rest are silver and dark blue, on heavy watercolor paper (textured). re-release is a simple color-printed cover. folded into a plastic sleeve.] Reviews (1): Crucial Blast More formless, heavy amp-drone jams from the Rochester-based group Entente Cordiale. 100 yrs is made up of two long, untitled tracks...the first features a gradually building storm of shambling free-guitar-noise, lots of mangled, howling feedback, and loud vibratory drones emitting from the amplifiers. The second track works up some great, shimmery feedback textures into almost My Bloody Valentine style blobs of wobbly, melodic pink noise before lumbering into a crushing horizontal dirge with two drummers pounding away under waves of amplifier chant. I love it when formless guitar noise and feedback rock creeps into that sugary territory between mid-90's Skullflower and MBV's Loveless, and this track delivers. Loud, lo-fi, melted drone-rock with three guitars that draws from the whole amp sludge/Skullflower/Earth 2 legacy...I can never get enough of this stuff. 34 minutes of pure guitar damage. Comes packaged in a heavy watercolor paper sleeve with blue and silver artwork screenprinted onto it.

• Artist: Entente Cordiale Title: 1904 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR80 a 22+ minute experiment in guitar drones, swells and even some melodies. 3 guitars, multiple (distortion) pedals and some very loud amps. think Gate, Earth, Vibracathedral Orchestra, etc. Reviews (3): Crucial Blast This single-track, 23 minute disc contains some excellent, gluey, guitar-based improvised drones that sort of bridge the gap between Earth 2 and the celestial sludgy krautrock of SKULLFLOWER's Orange Canyon Mind, with thick rumbling feedback dripping slowly over swells of repetitious chords and peals of strangled guitar strings. ENTENTE CORDIALE rarely employ any actual melodies in this recording, but those that do appear, surface only momentarily before they are dragged back down beneath the mighty amplifier hum. The Rochester, NY based group uses 3 guitars and an army of distortion pedals to erect 1904, and it's a solid monument of amp worship along the lines of early EARTH, VIBRACATHEDRRAL ORCHESTRA, FULCI, and SKULLFLOWER. The unmarked disc is packaged in a minimal but nice looking cardstock wallet in a resealable plastic sleeve. Modisti [ Entente Cordiale - 1904 CDR ] A collective approach to the development of extended drone textures created by means of electric guitars. Featuring a dense flow of pulsating, transparent veils, the superimposition of overtones and processed fabrics creates a complex dome of continuous noise. The vault’s nerves become increasingly close, layers getting thicker, their continuous character contributing to add to the density of the whole although the careful process of addition unfolds according to a calculated plan. The immediate reminiscences of the materials –such as harshness and protest- are here counterbalanced by the extreme subtlety with which the sounds are handled. More importantly, they subtly hint at the fragility beneath the complex veil of abstract noise, which simultaneously states an almost trance-like recurrence of rhythmic statements of collective celebration/cry. Foxy Digitalis 1904. 100 years ago. I can't imagine anyone back then thought the advancements in music technology that have happened in that time would have ever been possible. Entente Cordiale are another new addition to the fantastic Carbon imprint. This short release contains only one track that clocks in at just under 23 minutes. From what I can tell, there is nothing here other than two, distorted, improvised guitar tracks. It's simple, but there is still a lot happening. There are some other minimal effects as well like reverb (and possibly some subtle tremolo), but they aren't very important. What makes this release good is how the guitars play off each other so well. Because of this, the track is dense, sucking in all the sounds of the space in which it was recorded. Each takes its turn at the forefront as well. While one will play something more melodic, perhaps higher on the fretboard, the other will continue laying down thick layers of distorted goop below. Keeping this low-end constant allows the track to sound more full. I feel like this is one, really short moment stretched into 20 minutes. It unfolds so slow that, at times, it feels like it's not unfolding at all. It's like you're just sitting there having your ear drums massaged by sound. Like I said, it's simple, but in that simplicity is something quite beautiful. As a short debut, Entente Cordiale definitely have my attention. I can't wait to see where they go next. - Brad Rose

• Artist: Eric Ostrowski Title: Magnificent Forest Format: DVD Label: Eric Ostrowski (USA) Price: $25.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_erico_dvd_cd NOTE: This is a DVD/CD combo release. "This exciting release is the follow-up to E. Featured on the DVD: Skull and Blackberries, The Hummingbird, Sidewalkography, The Woodpecker, Boom Chickadee, Bumblebee, Pink Elephant, Valentine, and a bunch more. Total running time on the DVD is approximately 42 minutes. DVD is NTSC Open Region. The CD features 75 minutes of solo violin sawing. There's also a booklet in the package chronicling some of the natural and supernatural history and legend surrounding Seattle's Lake Washington. Limited first edition in 500 hand silkscreened 4 color covers." check out this page for samples/etc - http://www.endsound.com/erico/magnificent_forest.html

• Artist: Estasy Title: s/t Format: CDR Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_Estasy "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

• Artist: Eugene Carchesio Title: Garden of Souls Format: 3inch CDR Label: Kindling Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_KIN13 solo release from this collaborator of Leighton Craig and also member of G55 with Leighton and Simon Ellaby.

• Artist: Euphone Title: The Calendar of Unlucky Days Format: CD Label: Jade Tree Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_4 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Euphone Title: Breaking Parole Format: CDEP Label: Hefty Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_5 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: evapori / totstelle Title: drift Format: 3inch 2CDR Label: Anti-information (Germany) Price: $11.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_AICdisc006 double 3”cdr 2×20min. 1st ed/100. 50 in a special styrofoam package (which is what i have in stock). "being part of a mass implies a lack of selfcontrolled movement, the mass inertness is part of every individual, even if you try to change direction the code of the old movement still cannot be escaped."

• Artist: evapori / [-hyph-] Title: bewegungen /fragmentation itself Format: CDR Label: Anti-information (Germany) Price: $11.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ AICdisc001 split cd-r 60min, 1st ed/100

• Artist: everlasting the way Title: long-stretching-motorcycle-hymn-highway Format: CD Label: USED Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1932 (This is a USED item) 2000 Monitor Records release. this is Sean Meadows of June of 44, Lungish, etc fame.

• Artist: Excepter Title: Self Destruction Format: LP Label: fusetron (USA) Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FUSE041LP "Players: John Fell Ryan: Vocals, Programming, Processing, Synth; Dan Hougland: Programming, Synth, Echo; Caitlin Cook: Vocals, Echo; Calder Martin: Vocals, Guitar, Percussion; Nathan Corbin: Synths. "Self Destruction" was recorded in the winter of 2004 and mixed, edited and reprocessed mostly in the winter of 2005. Self Destruction is the first Excepter record to be feature multi-track recording and overdubbing. Outside of Dan Houglands drum programming and a few vision directives from producer John Fell Ryan, the playing is entirely improvised by the group. Self Destruction is also the first Excepter record to prominently feature the polyphonic synthesizer playing of Nathan Corbin. The husband-wife duo of Caitlin Cook and Calder Martin make the final statement on the album as they take sole vocal duties on the last track, Your House. This recording has been edited short for maximum sonic impact on vinyl." - Recording Notes. "First off, Self Destruction is a house record. Perhaps more in spirit than in its realized form, but if that sounds like a joke, stop reading. New Yorks most amorphous five-necked entity (which includes Other Musics own Dan Hougland) have never been strangers to taking the longer, more undulating gravel road, as evidenced by the stretched out subterranean sermons on last years Ka album. On Self Destruction , Excepter crawl out of the cellar and into the warehouse. This is a house record. If Xenakis had made one. It is throbbing mental machine music that (much like the quintets live shows) appears to detour, but often climaxes with the religious fervor of a Wicker Man/Moodymann ritual. Definitely more Black Mahogani than Black Dice. Excepter just traveled all over New Weird America, and torched it in the process. Incendiary." - AK, Other Music."

• Artist: Extreme Noise Terror / Cock E.S.P. Title: split Format: OTHER Label: Little Mafia (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_LM068 THIS IS A 5" VINYL RECORD. EXTREME NOISE TERROR needs no introduction; the legendary British crust/grind band has spent 25 years building a reputation for uncompromising aural brutality as well as genre-crushing experimentation. Presented here is an alternate recording of "Human Waste" - a track from the band's recent "Law of Retaliation" album on Osmose Productions. http://www.extremenoiseterror.co.uk http://www.myspace.com/extremenoiseterroruk COCK E.S.P. was born from the American cassette undergound in 1993, producing extreme and unlistenable electronic noise. Over hundreds of releases and dozens of chaotic live shows, the group has distanced themselves from their avant-garde peers with their aggressive attitude and absurdist sense of humor. Presented here are three brief tracks unreleased elsewhere, which appear to be somehow inspired by M�tley Cr�e. http://www.cockesp.com http://www.myspace.com/cockesp

• Artist: failsafe Title: about time Format: CDR Label: sijis Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep01 "here‘s a question. you‘ve grown up loving dance music, slowly disolving your spine twisting the night away, getting home and playing midi until it‘s time to call in sick at work. everything‘s great. then suddenly one day you notice it‘s been nearly ten years since you left the house, let alone went to a club, but the machines are still there, getting smaller every year, looking at you. Sound familiar? of course not, otherwise everybody would have made this wonderful ep. an ep that says above everything, "take a fish out of water for long enough and you might be able to explain to him what water is." this is music for those happiest dancing in a sitting position. you have been warned."

• Artist: Family Battle Snake Title: Ventral Stream Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS63 "The is sounds of your haywired central nervous system committed to tape... Beautiful, slowly evolving, yet unnerving electronic psych that bleeds out to a total shutdown on side 1. Blood is still boiling on side 2 even if the comatose state of mind is a fact... exploring the inner workings of a life support machine.. Black case C-30 cassettes in black/yellow fold-around paper cover. Edition of 50"

• Artist: Family Underground Title: Salt of the Sun Format: CD Label: Ikuisuus (Finland) Price: $15.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_IKU_FamilyUndergroundCD "New minimal full-length album from Family Underground that abandons the drug-hit-sally-inside feel of early Velvets jags for the sound of the last gasp of Lou Reed's long-suffering amp in the final seconds of 'Black Angel's Death Song' extended to oblivion. Comes in a fold-out four panel digipak." - Volcanic Tongue "An oozing sprawl of malevolent drone and thick buzzing electricity from Denmark's Family Underground." - Boa Melody Bar

• Artist: Fantastic Ego Title: the river is down Format: 3inch CDR Label: Phantom Limb (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ARM016

• Artist: Fantastic Ego Title: Ego Trip the Light Fantastic Format: CDR Label: Phantom Limb (USA) Price: $7.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ARM002 "From Ged Gengras (Antique Brothers) comes this accomplished take on the new wave pop song ("Down in the Park") and some inspired no wave guitar and sonica instrumentals. For fans of Current 93 and any Beta-Lactam Ring releases"

• Artist: fervent Title: conjestion Format: CDR Label: more mars (Greece) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_mm02 "fervent is a solo project by a.m., who lives in larissa (greece). This is his first release. Guitar, numb keyboards, ackward field recordings, silly talks and extensive editing comprise this almost 60 minute album of (that should be thought of according to his own words as) 'meta-emo'."

• Artist: Fields of Gaffney / Pernath Title: split Format: 7inch Label: Morc Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_morc28 four new songs bringing the lofi-era back to life. Fields of gaffney is the new band of Eric gaffney, co-founder of sebadoh. though his releases over the past ten years have been very rare, he has lost nothing of his songwriting talents: these songs can easily stand the comparison with the songs he wrote for the critically acclaimed albums ‘III‘ and ‘bubble and scrape‘. this is his first single since his contribution to sub pop‘s singles club in 2000. Two new Pernath-hits as well. songs about mad cows and saying goodbye in spanish - for fans of swearing at motorists. a welcome follow-up to their split single with bingo trappers,wio and mongrell

• Artist: Finkbeiner Title: lucky scorpion Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR11 Scarey outsider freak stays up for 48 hours straight and concocts a demented classic. Kinda sounds like John Fahey at the end of a week long Alcohol and prescription pill binge. This record is not recommended for small children or anyone recovering from acute psychosis.

• Artist: Finkbeiner Title: the challenge Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR16 Completely damaged outsider strum and wank. Seriously overamped, distorted and making no apologies. If every young aspiring guitar player had to listen to this record instead of overdone crap like Joe Satriani, the world would truly be a better place. Finkbeiner‘s guitar abuse is in the similar realm as Rudolph Gray, Alan Licht and Kenji Hano. All of those guys should be on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine. And in a perfect world they would be. Also, all beer would be free. "Can you face the Challenge?"

• Artist: Finkbeiner Title: washed up Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CR19 Deconstructed instrumental pop songs and expansive higher key head benders. "You‘ve got yr chocolate in my ratweed!" this is the first finkbeiner recording of non-solo material. here, he‘s joined by c.dugan on bells, and also backed up by his bandmates charles and jona on a couple of the songs.

• Artist: flea apparitions and lame prey Title: split Format: 3inch CDR Label: small doses (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_dosethirtysix "this is the first in a small doses split personality series. lame prey and flea apparitions are both products of the same mind, that of lorne zeman. lame prey starts the disc off with a long piece that mixes up huge, harsh sounds that tend towards power electronics with feedback laced calms in the storm. the flea apparitions portion takes a similarly harsh but more relentless approach built from tape loops. edition of 66 copies."

• Artist: fluf Title: Mangravy Format: CD Label: USED Price: $4.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUSED_RELEASE1918 (This is a USED item) Headhunter Records release

• Artist: Flywheel Title: s/t Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Price: $3.00 Catalog ID: CR02 Flywheel is a catchy 3-piece pop band. The band consists of 2 girls on guitar and drums, and an ever-changing male lineup on bass.

• Artist: fm3 Title: Buddha Machine II Format: OTHER Label: fm3 (China) Price: $23.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BuddhaBox2 "The Beijing-based duo FM3 is back with an all-new version of their wildly successful 2005 release, the Buddha Machine. Introducing Buddha Machine 2.0: 9 new loops. 3 new colors. Pitch bend. Blurring the line between music box and musical instrument, the Buddha Machine 2.0 is an interactive album that lets users customize the listening experience. Drop the pitch and the music ebbs in a low ambient drone. Boost the speed and suddenly its alive with melody. Add a few more machines, set them at different speeds and you have an evolving audio perfume. Plug it into a mixer, add some beats or vocals or guitar... FM3 won't mind. In fact, they encourage people to use the Buddha Machine as inspiration. Since its release in 2005, the original Buddha Machine has sold more than 50,000 units worldwide and has won praise from artists as diverse as Daft Punk, Gorillaz, Low, Monolake, Sunn O))), Blixa Bargeld and Mike Patton. Legendary producer Brian Eno was the first customer for the original Buddha Machine and nearly 3 years later told FM3 he still "cherishes" his purchase! Similar in shape and design to the original Buddha Machine, but boasting more robust construction and improved sound quality, the 2.0 comes in three colors: burgundy, grey and brown. For those who haven't experienced the pleasure of the original, the Buddha Machine is essentially a small plastic box that plays ambient loops. The loops repeat endlessly until the "track" is switched or the two AA batteries (not included) run out. The machine has its own built-in speaker and there is also a headphone jack for a more personal experience. But the charm of the device isn't nearly as specific: the Buddha Machine has a calming presence in today's fast-paced world. Its charm mixes with FM3's innovative music to provide the owner with an experience that is hard to define. Essentially, it's a box with a life, a tool for living, and to many, it's a friend. Founded in 1999 by Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian, FM3 are considered pioneers of electronic music in China. Inspired by Buddhist prayer boxes found at temples around Asia, the duo released the original Buddha Machine in April 2005, winning acclaim in publications including BoingBoing.net, The New York Times and Arthur magazine." ---- IF YOU WANT A SPECIFIC COLOR, EMAIL ME AFTER YOU PLACE YOUR ORDER WITH YOUR COLOR PICK--- THANKS!!!

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Shiva Knows Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK010 another self-release by the ever prolific, Rochester legend, Larry J Patti. minimal synth and noise guitar pieces, dark transmissions from somewhere.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Restop Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK011 another self-release by the ever prolific, Rochester legend, Larry J Patti. (sometimes-broken-up) synth noise, sampling and drones.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Conservative Puke '77 Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK009 Foot and Mouth Disease is back, this time with an increasingly omninous sound. heavy noisy synth and effectedness.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Not So Real... Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK008 sample/damage/drone/noise solo project from Rochester native and no.1 noise-fan Larry J. Patti.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Clear III Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK007 sample/damage/drone/noise solo project from Rochester native and no.1 noise-fan Larry J. Patti.

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: Two Sicilies Format: 2CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK06

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: don't kill animals - urban noise Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK005 another release from F+M (Larry Patti). recycled cdr covers, HARDCORE DEMO SCENE IS NOT DEAD!!

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: ...but what ends when the symbols become schtick? Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK002

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease Title: santa muerte Format: CDR Label: Cornsilk Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CORNSILK004

• Artist: Foot and Mouth Disease / Better Title: split cassette Format: CASS Label: BT Recordings (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_BT003 "C40. F&MD contributes one long track of pulsing, varied noise/electronics. Betty's side is four shorter tracks of decaying tape noise"

• Artist: Formatt Title: extended Format: 3inch CD Label: ROBORECORDS Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ROBO004 The very matter of sonic microscopy, pulling found sounds out of context to fully explore and adjust their hidden characteristics, never exposing light on their unpresuming origin, has become the driving vessel for investigating the extrems of auditory perception. His sound never stays silent till the last, yet squeamishly evoking timorous phrases that gradually coalesce around the subtle treasures of the soil. Fractured breathy analog injections, titled from a scarcely asserted sonic palette, are decidedly adjustable, hovering forward yet peeling their modulated delays fully into the arctic backbone of resonating hollowness. Providing a few flirtations with fuzzy pulses and fluctuating watery plops, the frictional rhythmic resistance that comes drifting onto the surface is suspiciously dark in its corners of scooped out complexity. As if the stark subtlety and finesse has fallen into the clutches of a hypnotic state of mind, mysteriously paying homage to imminent dub techniques, that fight like Kilkenny cats over evaporated sinewaves. Formatts work tends to emphaze a schizophrenic structure, infusing the sound-clusters with highly deliberate analog patterns hence any potential sound grown to the surface gets seemingly restructured into the core of its faceless vessel.

• Artist: Fossils From the Sun Title: Somebody's Gotta Lose Format: 3inch CDR Label: Abandon Ship (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ASR040 "The latest release from Ray Hare's (Century Plants, Burnt Hills) Fossils From the Sun is a 19 minute sonic geography where fuzzed guitar propulsion buckles into static beats and shaken vox damage. Think Omit's desolation, Spacemen 3's nod and Alan Vega's terrorism. Refract that through the brutality of Century Plants Bloodrise and Somebody's Gotta Lose appears on the horizon � a dub of the sun"

• Artist: Fossils From the Sun Title: From Another Sun Format: CDR Label: Tape Drift (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TD06 "Monster solo debut from Ray Hare of Century Plants and Burnt Hills. Ranging from meditative guitar mantras to blissed out noise to hazy melodic riffage, and covering most of the points in between, this release has fast become a favorite here at Tape Drift headquarters. A very tight and driven set, this has the conceptual purity that only a debut can have, as it represents years and years of preparation and inspiration. Get on the train early - there's much more to come and you won't want to have missed out on the beginnings. Edition of 50."

• Artist: Found Magazine Title: issue #6 Format: ZINE Label: Found Magazine (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_FOUND06 "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!"

• Artist: Found Magazine Title: issue #3 Format: ZINE Label: Found Magazine (USA) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Found_03 "(March 2004, 96 pages) Kick His Heart's Ass - The Love And Heartbreak Issue! "For Sale. Set of his & hers gold wedding bands. (Never used) $50.00." The best, most heart-wrenching finds yet, coupled with interviews with The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Popcorn Pete- The World's Greatest Finder."

• Artist: fourier Title: remixes Format: CDR Label: sijis Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_sijisep05 "we apologise for the lack of commercial sucess inherent in above releases. as a means of compensation here are some free pop remixes. help yourself."

• Artist: freiband Title: martin. seven [new] aspects Format: 3inch CDR Label: TIBProd (Norway) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TIBCD36

• Artist: Friction Title: hours of operation - discography 1991-1994 Format: 2CD Label: Polyvinyl Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_132 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Further (AUS) Title: the crow read Format: CD Label: Comrade Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_12 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Further (AUS) Title: infinite space Format: CDEP Label: Comrade Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonUsed_9 (This is a USED item)

• Artist: Future Guru Title: funeral for bucky Format: 3inch CDR Label: sound-o-mat Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_SEANCE03 5min piece on rectangular CDR in a cellophane-wrapped and decorated paper box {edition of 50]. the cdr is the ouija board, comes with literature on using the baord, etc. amazing packaging! part of the Music for Seances series (http://austere.org/oracle/seances.shtml)

• Artist: Futurians Title: Crashing Metal Format: CDR Label: Gold Soundz (Norway) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_GS66 "Another slab of amphetamine-fueled stoner-punk from Don Lonie pals Clayton & co. An angry swarm of mutant wasps have taken over their drum machine, and eats it out from the inside... Edition of 70"

• Artist: G3 Title: s/t Format: 3inch CDR Label: White Flag (USA) Price: $6.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_whiteflag04 featuring Tim Albro and Jesse Kudler from HZL, and joined by Ben Stanko. each playing various forms of guitar, electric, acoustic and harmonics, respectively. and each also using other devices such as rebab, contact microphone, synthesizer and electronics.

• Artist: Gang Wizard Title: 4515 Thesis: A Series Of Split Pots - 2007 Tour CDr Format: CDR Label: tanzprocesz (France) Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_ tzpCD19 "GW in europe in february 2007 !!! teddy bear noise, blast rock, invocations."

• Artist: Gastric Female Reflex and Crank Sturgeon Title: s/t Format: 7inch Label: Bennifer Editions (Cananda) Price: $5.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_bennifer_gfr_crank "on one side, torontosaurs gastric female reflex expose their vulnerable underbellies by offering the gift of song, as transmitted through the cackle of thirty meter bronze age jump ropes, and then swatted with limitless spools of tape culled from businessmens faculty tape recorders. the flipside is deepwoods maine-based crank sturgeon, taking a similar story and running it into the side of a convent full of shark-eating nuns. setting loose the angry hornets, these ladies of the lord respond with high powered leaf blowers, stopping now and again to play a little violin and pee in their dixie-cups. not your typical avant "electro-acoustic" record, both projects assure this baby can dance like a school of fish, drunk on mercury and TAB cola perhaps, but to an effect that is glorious and spacious; snakey and experimental as all hairy heck, yet an electro-doot we can all blorp and weeze and get primative with."

• Artist: Gate to Gate Title: 1 Turn Black Keys Format: CD Label: PacRec (USA) Price: $8.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_TRO113 "Confused like a two-headed snake trying to bite its own non-existant tail, Gate to Gate churn through gross tones, bass shudder and worst of all - vocals - with exactly the maladroit precision you'd expect from such a beast. This release presents one new 38 minute mess of blackened clatter and clunk, as well as collects their two extremely limited cassettes BANE and HOUSE WITH THE CLOCK IN ITS WALLS in remastered form. Heavy-handed and heavy-footed industrial noise by all accounts. from the blackened minds of Greh (Hive Mind, Chondritic Sound) and Mike Connelly (Hair Police, Wolf Eyes, Gods of Tundra). nearly 80 minutes of satanic black sludge."

• Artist: Gays in the Military Title: People is Beautiful Format: CD Label: gulcher Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_Gulcher602 "Cover art by Peter Bagge! 1. Firepigs: A Tribute To America's Heroes 2. Hips Or Lips? 3. Evil Physician/Evil Position 4. Tiger Cage 5. AIDS Team (The Dirty Version) 6. Beverly Hills Cock Part Two 7. A Message"

• Artist: Geisha Title: Die Verbrechen Der Liebe Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $11.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR68 "This hour-long, six track monolith follows Geisha into a psychedelic black storm, their blown-out and raw rock infused with a bone-rattling recording and covered in a thick sheen of white noise and gritty distortion. As with their previous album, the spirit of seminal noise rock / sludge rock (think Cherubs, Melvins, My Bloody Valentine's Isn't Anything for coordinates) is combined with violent, chaotic NOISE and tainted with blurred VHS cassette visions and vague allusions to BDSM, and then jammed through an orgone accumulator, forming a ferocious, crushing rock beast that reveals it's powerful hooks and melodies underneath the churning distorted bass rumble and sludgemetal riffage , blasts of psychedelic drone-noise and corrosive skree, percussive pummel, and deranged singing. The sound is immense, and the first five tracks on Die Verbrechen Der Liebe deliver Geisha's in-the-red heaviness and hooks in surplus. "Prelude To Amber Pays The Rent", "A Wilderness, Except By Sight", "Sportsfister" - every one is a crusher. But then Geisha pull out the monstrous thirty-minute, thirty-five second closer "Theme From Diana", and the tone changes completely. This track is a re-working of a "metal percussion" set that Geisha originally performed live several years ago, and it begins as a slowly building fog of voices and effects and shimmering metal that blooms into an expanse of droning, fx-heavy guitar, looping samples, cosmic effects, and improvised percussion. It's a kind of rumbling industrial dronescape that stretches out forever, until suddenly in the last few minutes the drifting drones and psychedelic guitars and sampled voices suddenly explode in an immolating nuclear blast of overdriven, speaker-annhilating noise and the track immediately, terrifyingly changes shape into a monstrous lumbering noise-metal dirge that bulldozes out of your speakers, whooshing Hawkwind effects swooping overhead, the band knotted together into a white-hot blast of ultra heavy riffage, distortion, and a wall of percussive force. "Diana" is one of the most crushing pieces of music that I have ever heard from Geisha, like some majestic and brutal conglom of Swans, Skullflower, Merzbow, and Burmese forged into a destructive space-metal supernova. Crucial Blast is releasing the CD version of Die Verbrechen Der Liebe in a limited edition of 1,000 copies, packaged in a full-color gatefold jacket. "

• Artist: Geisha Title: Mondo Dell'Orrore Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR52 "Devouring/rebirthing the concept of "noise rock" into something frighteningly beautiful and brutally heavy, GEISHA deliver crushing blasts of impossibly hyperdistorted rock baked in massive frequency overload and massive hooks and melodies and sinister crushing riffs, all of it slathered in filthy throbbing feedback and white noise horror holocaust, like the early 90's alt rock of Isn't Anything-era MY BLOODY VALENTINE and DINOSAUR JR. mashed together with the most brutal sort of Unsane/Am Rep style racket and distortion-drenched psych/noise into a sludgy metallic mass, jamming with a small army of pedal-smashing harsh electronics troglodytes playing awesomely catchy/crushing pop songs buried beneath a hellish storm of skree and amp-blowing fuzz. Terrifying. Beautiful. Licensed for North America by Crucial Blast."

• Artist: Genghis Tron Title: Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5 Format: LP Label: Crucial Blast Price: $12.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR75 "Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5 is the final installment of the five-volume remix series that has been produced in co-operation between Genghis Tron and five labels (Relapse, Lovepump United, Anticon, Temporary Residence Ltd., and Crucial Blast), and features a myriad number of artists reshaping and reimagining various songs off of Genghis Tron's 2008 album Board Up The House (Relapse Records). Each volume is pressed in a run of 1,000 copies on colored vinyl that ties in with the sleeve art. Board Up The House cover artist, Jon Beasley, has provided each remix album with alternative artwork. The Crucial Blast entry in the Board Up The House remix series features Tim Hecker (Mille Plateaux, Alien8, Staalplaat, Fat Cat) turning the title track "Board Up The House" into a fuzz-entombed bliss-scape, Aidan Baker/Nadja's fifteen-minute glacial vision of "I Won't Come Back Alive", and another remix of "I Won't Come Back Alive" rendered as a blur of distorted electro by Dudes You Can Trust, which is the solo project of Michael Sochynsky from G-Tron taking a heavy mangle approach. This remix platter is easily the most distortion-laden entry in the serie"

• Artist: Genghis Tron Title: Dead Mountain Mouth Format: CD Label: Crucial Blast Price: $10.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_CBR53 "Dead Mountain Mouth is the wickedly anticipated full length album from GENGHIS TRON, and the follow-up to their imaginative debut EP, Cloak Of Love. Recorded at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou (Converge), Dead Mountain Mouth moves beyond the rapid-fire electro/grind genre-splicing of Cloak Of Love, and forms something more fluid and cohesive, an arcane union of digital dreams and brutal heaviness, where speedcore eruptions blossom from clouds of maximum beat-driven electronic bliss, and futuristic metal riffage seethes from your speakers. These ten gloriously-dense and triumphantly catchy jams soar through valleys of immense crush and alien vistas of 8-bit wizardry unlike anything you've heard before..."

• Artist: George Steeltoe Ensemble Title: Church of Yuh Format: LP Label: Heat Retention Records (USA) Price: $13.00 Catalog ID: CarbonDist_HRR014 "In 1999 The George Steeltoe Ensemble began experimenting in free jazz and other improvisational forms through weekly "church" sessions at the Lexington, KY home of Brian and Elisa Osborne. Since its inception the Ensemble has taken many shapes, performing throughout the Midwest and South and participating actively in New York's free music community. Currently the Ensemble is comprised of a rotating field of multi-instrumental improvisers and performing artists, and performances have combined music with improv dance, performance art, and street parades. Some of the performers to have retained their heat in the last six years include: Michael Barker, Casey Block, Daniel Carter, Jeff Chapple, Tom Clark, Ross Compton, Jay Dunbar, Peter Evans, Dave Farris, Lathan Hardy, Trevor Healy, Erik Hinds, Michael T. Jackson, Joel Lambdin, Brian Osborne, Elisa Osborne, Melissa Putz, RADAR Dance, Speight Rhue, Mark Savage, Blaise Siwula, Robin Siwula, Jeffrey Shurdut, and Marc Vajack. " This recording includes the following players: Michael Barker electronics, bass, vocals , guitar, Daniel Carter alto and tenor saxophones, flute, trumpet, piano, Thomas Clark electronics, keyboards, Jay Dunbar bass, Lathan Hardy alto saxophone, Trevor Healy contact mic,