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TOM CARTER & ROBERT HORTON DUO - Lunar Eclipse
imprec069 - CD - $11.99 
Lunar Eclipse was culled from over 30 hours of recordings taking place, inedvertantly,
on the equinox, lunar eclipse and winter solstice of 2004 .The duo
of Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Robert Horton sound as if they
are channeling the natural power of these significant calender days
into the music. They both noticed something special was happening
during the initial recording session when they looked at a clock
and realised that they'd been playing for over 5 hours. Thoughout
the album Carter slowly plays louder and more powerfully than usual
over drone-master Robert Horton's organic & electronic chimes,
drones, jangles, dangles and splendor. The result is a vast, expansive
sound cavern full of hidden melody, slow drones, textured tribal
gong and hidden mystic rhythm.From the very start, when Horton drones
in and Tom Carter strikes a single sustained echoing electrified
note Lunar Eclipse sounds like the music is infused with that shock
and weird light of an eclipse. Track one, Lunar Eclipse, is a slow
drone metal meets Neil Young psychedelic freakout with vocals that
sound as is they’re recorded inside of a deep cave. On other
tracks Horton’s homemade instruments such as the electric barometer,
boot, and sex machine fuse with Carter's twisted lap steel ebow
shimmerings, prepared guitar. At other moments Tom's guitar or lapsteel
solo over the top of the swirling noise chasm. On the last track
Robert and Tom both play Horton’s homemades welding a Harry
Partch web of rhythm together untill it implodes in metal drone
fragments of screeching fury.
Lunar Eclipse demands to be listened to in it's entirety as one
whole experience. It's has an undenialble power that will return
again and again much like the natural events that subconsciously
inspired the recordings.
BIO
Tom Carter
Tom Carter is best known for his work with Charalambides, which he
co-founded with longtime creative partner Christina Carter in 1991.
Since 2002, Carter has also undertaken solo work and collaborations.
His 2003 solo tour, centered around the seminal Brattleboro FreeFolk
Festival, featured unaccompanied solo shows and musical excursions
(on stage and tape) with Bardo Pond, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole,
the MVEE Medicine Show, Ian Nagoski, Tower Recordings, and Double
Leopards, among others. He is currently a member of Badgerlore, Friday
Group, Spiderwebs, Kyrgyz (along with Loren Chasse, Robert Horton,
and Christine Boepple), and his duo with Robert Horton. He runs the
Wholly-Other Cdr label which has released the Charalambides music
onto the world.
Robert Horton
Founded the Appliances, part of SF’s first wave of punk bands
in 1979. Played at the inaugural mayoral ball for Jello Biafra.
ISM also in 79 was one of the first SF noise bands playing a series
of house shows. Robert formed Plateau Ensemble in 1983, a tribal
noise drone group who played in the Bay Area until 1987 drawing
members from the Jon Hassell Group, ROVA, KU KU KU, Glorious Din,
Eternal Glands of Secretion, Gamelan Seka Jaya, etc. Through out
the 80’s and 90’s Robert participated in the cassette
revolution releasing tapes in Japan, Italy, Belgium, Britain, and
the USA. During the mid 90s to 2004 Robert’s time was mostly
in doing Anti- Racism Educational groups called the UNtraining.
He continued to record but hoarded it all for himself. Lately the
dam has broken with releases on Foxglove, JYRK, 267-lattajjaa, Celebrate
Psi Phenomena, New American Folk Hero, Barl Fire, Spanish Magic
and Outa.
Robert records under his own name, Egghatcher, and Future Ears.
He is currently a member of Kyrgyz, Beautiful Friend, Infinite Article,
Broken Mask, and the duo with Tom Carter.
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