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Christina Carter
Sunday 20th May 2012
Cafe OTO
18-22 Ashwin St
Dalston
London
Setlist:
01. Wanted To Talk
02. Do Not Love A Woman
03. London
04. Rocks
05. Pathos
Recorded and seeded by stubba: seated front centre. Aiwa CM-DS6 > Sharp MD-MT888 > Audacity 1.3 Beta (slight amplification) > Trader’s Little Helper (Flac 16-bit, 44.1khz)
http://www.kranky.net/artists/carterc.html
CHRISTINA CARTER
BIOGRAPHY
Christina Carter was born in the bayou city of Houston, Texas in November of 1968, and co-founded the group Charalambides there in December of 1991. Ever since then, she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice, guitar (both electric and acoustic), piano, and keys. For the past several years, Christina has utilized extended improvisational guitar passages within and without song-medley structures; re-contextualized certain Charalambides songs within the spare single guitar/voice form that birthed much of the group’s music; and recently, investigated ‘the song’ as a thing unto itself, specifically concentrating on ‘the word’- both in her own lyric writing and her interpretions of the work of other lyricists.
In addition to performing extensively in the US, UK and Europe as a solo artist, Christina has played and recorded in various groups and duos with Black Forest/Black Sea, Maria Chavez (as Weird Cookie), Loren Connors, Chris Corsano, Dredd Foole, Sandy Ewen, Paul Flaherty, Gown (as The Bastard Wing), Shawn David McMillen, and Thurston Moore. She is also a permanent member of Scorces (with vocalist/pedal steel player Heather Leigh Murray).
Concurrent with her work as a musician, Christina has expanded her involvement in writing and visual art. Her poetry has been published by Digitalis Industries, The Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Glass Eye, and Slow Toe Press. In 2007, her art piece Forever 21 appeared at Salon Mijangos in San Antonio, Texas as part of a concert/exhibit featuring Tom Carter, Warmer Milks, and Tetuzi Akiyama. Forever 21 was a labor of love and destruction: six of her handwritten diaries cut up painstakingly with scissors into miniscule pieces, which then filled a large yellow plastic shopping bag.
Christina currently resides in Austin, Texas. Her latest albums are the Charalambides album Exile (Kranky), the double LP reissue Texas Blues Working (Blackest Rainbow), and two solo CDRs: Trickster Who Is Like God (Many Breaths) and a reissue of Future In Past (Many Breaths), originally released on the Wholly Other imprint in 2002.
KRANKY TITLES AVAILABLE
Original Darkness
Electrice
Living Contact
EXTERNAL LINKS
Wholly Other – www.wholly-other.com
Tom Carter
Sunday 20th May 2012
Cafe OTO
18-22 Ashwin St
Dalston
London
Setlist:
01. Untitled
Recorded and seeded by stubba: seated front centre. Aiwa CM-DS6 > Sharp MD-MT888 > Audacity 1.3 Beta > Trader’s Little Helper (Flac 16-bit, 44.1khz)
http://www.kranky.net/artists/cartert.html
TOM CARTER
BIOGRAPHY
Tom Carter’s solo electric guitar work sculpts a rich landscape of immensely-stacked grit and beauty, weaving interlocking strands of melody into towering long-form (and often high-volume) drones.
Born barely south of the Mason-Dixon line, and just in time for the Summer of Love, Tom Carter led a decidedly non-hippy existence being shuffled around various farm and mining towns in Maryland and Ohio by his newspaperman father, before finally making his way to Texas in 1985, just in time to watch all the good hardcore bands die. Already obsessed with American pre-punk and British post-punk, Carter dove into the lysergicly spiked musical waters of Texas with both feet, augmenting his guitar skills with unreliable instruments, cranky analog electronics, and disintegrating practice amps. Over the ensuing decades, he refined his evolving ideas of complete tonal immersion (and the quest for the perfect fuzz tone) into a layered sonic toolkit of rough beauty. He now lives in New York City.
Although best known for his work with iconoclasts Charalambides, which he co-founded with Christina Carter in 1991, Carter has recently focused on his eponymous duo with No Neck Blues Band co-founder Pat Murano; Sarin Smoke, his duo with Pete Swanson; and his solo performances and recordings, which have increasingly featured visual components – including collaborations with filmmakers Martha Colburn and Margarida Garcia.
Carter is well-known for collaborations with other musicians. Major projects include free-rock improvisers Eleven Twenty-Nine (Carter, Marc Orleans, and Michael Evans), Spiderwebs (with Houston improviser Sandy Ewen), Badgerlore (with Rob Fisk, Ben Chasny, Liz Harris, and Peter Swanson), and various collaborative ensembles with Bay Area sound artist Robert Horton. Other fellow travelers have included Marcia Bassett, Christian Kiefer, Paul Flaherty, Tetuzi Akiyama, Shawn David McMillen, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, Loren Connors, Pip Proud, Inca Ore, Jandek, Bardo Pond, Starving Weirdos, Ensemble Economique, Steve Gunn, Robert Millis, and Matt Valentine, among many others.
Carter has released dozens of recordings in every available format for many different labels, including kranky, Digitalis, Eclipse, Important, Root Strata, and 3-Lobed. His most recent solo release is available on his own Wholly Other imprint, which he has operated since 1995.
“Instead of macro-analysing which direction Guitar music should take in the 21st century, his interest is personal and seems to derive from the question what’d happen if one were to continue the last seconds of a Garage-Rock song, when the singer and the rest of the band have already left the stage…” – Tobias Fischer, Tokafi.com
“At the heart of Tom Carter’s music lies a fascination with the acoustical possibilities of the guitar – not as a single instrument, a single voice, but as a multitude of voices, all waiting to be discovered through a little expert handiwork.” -Fragil.org (French, translation from Visitation Rites blog)
“Carter shows he has no boundaries as he pierces the atmosphere and heads into deep space.” -Foxy Digitalis
SELECT DISCOGRAPHY
appearance on Pelt Rob’s Choice CD [VHF, 2000]
Monument CD-R [Wholly Other, 2001]
appearance on Pip Proud: A Yellow Flower CD [Emperor Jones, 2001]
Pip Proud & Tom Carter: Catch a Cherub CD [Emperor Jones]
Root King LP [Eclipse]
KRANKY TITLES AVAILABLE
Monument
EXTERNAL LINKS
Wholly Other – www.wholly-other.com