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Artist:	CARTER & ROBERT HORTON DUO, TOM
Title:	Steeljaguar Rocket
Label:	DIGITALIS
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	DIGI 032CD

"Charalambides' Tom Carter and Robert Horton have become close collaborators over the past few years, appearing in a handful of projects together from Kyrgyz (w/ Jewelled Antler-ites Loren Chasse and Christine Boepple) to Mudsuckers (w/ D. Yellow Swans). But when they are stripped back to a duo, the sonic onslaught is just as dense and impressive. Steeljaguar Rocket is the second album, following-up Lunar Eclipse. Horton again acts as the puppetmaster, pulling the strings to move each sound into its right place. Expansive improvisations and full-on psychedelic freakouts intermingle, creating a cosmic web of enchanted debris. Fiddler extraordinaire Hal Huges adds exponentially to the dynamics at work with his marvelous playing on the title track. The strained violin notes whisk the listener away to the dirt-soaked alleys of Damascus. It's a hypnotic journey through jewel-encrusted foreign lands, like a solo flight to sun. Everything is not peaceful on Steeljaguar Rocket, however. Digging further into the cataclysm finds Carter & Horton turning up the volume knobs and cranking out wailing solos on top of a bed of heavy drones and cacaphonic drums. Like Horton's Future Ears project, it's equal parts noise, free jazz, and fractured folk bliss."

Artist:	CARTER & ROBERT HORTON DUO, TOM
Title:	Lunar Eclipse
Label:	IMPORTANT RECORDS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	IMPREC 069CD

"Lunar Eclipse was culled from over 30 hours of recordings taking place, inadvertently, 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. Throughout 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."

Artist:	CARTER & ROBERT HORTON DUO, TOM
Title:	Monsters Of Felt
Label:	PRESERVATION (AUSTRALIA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	PRE 013CD

2007 release. The Preservation label presents Monsters Of Felt, the third collaboration between Tom Carter and Robert Horton. Robert Horton's musical exploits are diverse, heady and spans over three decades. From his early punk days to joining various groups in pursuit of free jazz, drone and even psychedelic hillbilly, Horton is happily hard to pin-down. He also makes his own instruments. One found regularly across the 30-plus releases he's been involved with since 2005 is the "boot," a four-stringed instrument that plays like an otherworldly dobro or slide guitar. Tom Carter has been a lightning rod-like figure for the American psychedelic, folk and experimental underground scenes since forming one of the country's central cosmic travellers in Charalambides. Carter has since spread his wings into solo work and collaborations with the likes of Bardo Pond, Tower Recordings and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore. However, it's the pairing with Robert Horton that emerges most frequently in his busy schedule, as they continue to foster their pairing into a singular kind of chemistry. This album hits a zone both fierce and lulling at once. The radiating undertow of Horton's sonic manipulations -- including sound sources from cassettes, field recordings, computer, bass and the "boot" -- accompanies Carter's re-routing of American guitar traditions into mantras of trance and white light. The set also features appearances from kindred spirits and free-folk favorites Brad and Eden Rose, along with Eastern instrument journeymen Henry Kuntz and Michael Shannon. It all adds up to Monsters Of Felt being yet another exciting step for two most intrepid musicians. Limited edition deluxe packaging featuring unique, award-winning design.

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