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WHOLLY 016LP
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"Spiderwebs is the duo of Tom Carter (Charalambides, etc.) and Houston improvising guitarist Sandy Ewen. Starting from the sparse and sometimes pastoral base of Spiderwebs' two previous releases, Strands Formerly Braided (Music Fellowship) and Away Away (Collective Jyrk), Brighton Beach constructs towers of fuzz, electronics, and naked scrape from which the duo launch deep into the inarticulate heart of sonic maximalism. Since Spiderwebs' 2003 inception, Carter's guitar playing has traveled a long, strange road from his spacious improvisations with Heather Leigh-era Charalambides to the immersive pyrotechnics of his current solo playbook. Ewen's mangled percussive explosions, high-harmonic shrieks, and Bailey-esque realtime stereo panning echo the aesthetic terrorism of electric Donald Miller, and provide a perfect foil to Carter's damaged looping psychedelia. Both push their sound to improbable extremes to launch Spiderwebs into the upper realms of higher-key incandescence. Edition of 255 hand-numbered & hand-titled copies with 2-color silkscreen covers and photo/ text inserts."
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WHOLLY 014LP
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..When You Can Haul Ass Down The Freeway. "One-sided LP of looped/live collage action swirled up into mass gtr/ drum ritual terror. Far darker than previous FG stuff. Blank LP side is a blood-red silkscreen."
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WHOLLY 015LP
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"Brand new 2009 recordings of galactic guitar ooze, laid down in NYC USA, and drawn from the same vertically stacked west coast psych loopage motherlode that spawned earlier recordings like the pair of Shots At Infinity releases on Important Records. Hand silkscreened gold or white techno tantra artwork on matte black covers."
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WHOLLY 013CD
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"A rare document of a brief arc in Charalambides' 17 year (and counting) trajectory, somewhere between the extreme spatial attenuation of the long gone Crucial Blast CDR Being As Is and the gentle intergalactic trio sway of the kranky disk Unknown Spin -- and quite distance from both the exclamatory exhalations of Joy Shapes and the layered songcraft of Likeness. These are spartan duets of formalistic near-symmetry, a reminder that there was a time when Charalambides swung as close to the axis of Incus and FMP as to that of Takoma and ESP. Christina (voice) and Tom Carter (guitar) improvise non-textual melodic lines around a locus of mirror clarity, occasionally overlapping various strands using two DAT machines and a mixing board, in a nod to the pre ProTools digital scrap heap. Originally issued as a Peter King lathe cut LP on Eclipse Records in an edition of 100 in 2000, the reissue of this extreme rarity is remastered from a superior source for maximum clarity. Inkblot artwork courtesy of Heather Leigh Murray. The whole package is dedicated to Bruce Connor (R.I.P.). The reissue at hand is an edition of 500, with fold-over printed sleeves in the style of Electricity Ghosts."
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WHOLLY 012CD
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"Trio recordings (featuring Heather Leigh Murray on vox/ pedal steel/psaltry) that date from the same sessions that produced Joy Shapes. Completely improvised, and similar in feel & instrumentation to 'Natural Light' from Joy Shapes, these five pieces snake out of a gently detailed terrain of interlocking thought forms, eventually weaving themselves into towering thickets of monolithic spikes. Some of the most emotionally charged and harsh Charalambides sounds ever laid down, before or since, and unlikely to be repeated in the same way ever again. Edition of 300, xeroxed cardstock sleeves." Limited stock.
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WHO 004CD
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"Third solo release by Paul Guilford/Locasta of the Dave Dove Paul duo, this time under the pseudonym Artificial Subterrane. Long and layered bass triggered synth pieces form some kind of oblique 'concept' album somehow related to the fact that there are no naturally occurring lakes in Texas. Sounds involved range from appropriately aquatic to 'ambient' (if your idea of ambiance is a construction site)." Last available release on the Charalambides' old (and 2007 revitalized) label...
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