Recent Carbon Records (20 items)

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  Artist/Title: John Horner - s/t 8 Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR207 2 sides, each around 12 minutes of heavy pummeling solo bass guitar excursions. [C24. limited edition of 51. Wood cut and stamped Stumptown press covers, with color copy inserts]

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  Artist/Title: Carbon Records - Carbon Emblem Design 10 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonTSHIRT_CarbonEmblem Black ink on solid gray shirt. Available in S, M, L, XL, and 2XL

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  Artist/Title: Tuurd - Hand Design 10 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CarbonTSHIRT_TuurdHand Red ink on heather gray shirt. Design by Mike Turzanski - www.miketurzanski.com. Available in S, M, L, XL, and 2XL

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  Artist/Title: Tuurd - Not So Heavy / Pollock Dracula 9 Format: 7inch Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR206 Culled from the same recording session as Tuurd’s LP I Wish My Wife Was This Dirty, this single features the almost poppy (but still heavy and loud) Not So Heavy, and the slow trudging Pollock Dracula. [Packaged in a silkscreened Stumptown press fold-together kraft sleeve featuring artwork by Mike Turzanski. It also includes two 7” x 7” one-color silkscreened prints on heavy chipboard of Turzanski’s work. Digital download coupon included. Random colored vinyl. Limited to 100 copies.]

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  Artist/Title: Sympathetic System - box chocolate 8 Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR204 Sympathetic System is Peter Vincent from the Rochester area, but currently residing in Brooktondale, NY. This release is a collection of improvised single-takes, but you'd be hard-pressed to discern that. They come across as composed thoughts, laid out with guitars, vocals, homemade synth, a bent drum machine, keyboard, and more. An amazing use of space and tone. Similar to the Wolf Eyes related project Starecase, or Shadow Ring at times, or Jandek at other times. Completely captivating. [C32. Edition of of 58 copies in standard cassette cases. Comes with digital download coupon]

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  Artist/Title: Rash - The Weight of the World 16 Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR202 The Weight of the World is the debut release from this duo consisting of Scott Oliver (Torus) and Patrick Doyle. Incredible heavy, yet intricate, guitar compositions, much in the same vein as early Earth and Gate. [Packaged in a handmade and charred wooden box. Includes a coupon for a free digital download, which includes 2 bonus tracks! Limited to 40 copies. C45]

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  Artist/Title: Rash / Bruise Halo - split 8 Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Price: $6 Catalog ID: CR203 A split release from the heavy duo of Rash, consisting of Scott Oliver (Torus) and Patrick Doyle, and Bruise Halo (Joe Tunis from Tuurd, Tumul, Jungle Heart, Crush the Junta, formerly of Pengo). Two dueling sides of layered heaviness. Rash utilizing guitars to create a thick layered beauty (RIYL Earth, Gate, etc). Bruise Halo's side consists of a bass guitar centered piece, layered with distorted keyboard, effects pedals, and overblown vocals. [Packaged in a canvas bag with stamped titling. Includes a coupon for a free digital download. Limited to 35 copies. C45]

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  Artist/Title: Carbon Records - CR200 Poster 16 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR200_POSTER VERY Limited edition 18" x 24" poster. Hand sprayed, stenciled, and silkscreened. Each one unique. There were originally only available to Kickstarter backers. I have just a handful left. They ship rolled up in a heavy-duty poster tube.

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  Artist/Title: Carbon Records - CR200 Wooden Print 16 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $20 Catalog ID: CR200_wooden_print VERY VERY Limited edition print of the CR200 logo, on a 12" x 12" x 1/4" piece of sanded birch plywood. Will ship protected in an LP mailer.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - CR200 16 Format: LP Label: Carbon Records Price: $15 Catalog ID: CR200 A mighty comprehensive snap-shot of the underground sounds emanating from the city of Rochester New York circa now (2012). From the post-noise extreme sounds of LICKER & r. nuuja (both members of Pengo) to the more pastoral psych smudged compositions of Joe Sorriero (of Nod) & Drippers, this collection of Western NY weirdos addresses the question “What the hell is going on in Rochester to create such odd sounds?”. This LP is the 200th release on long time Rochester based record label Carbon Records. We think in due time that this LP will sit easily next to other regional compilation records like Waste Sausage (Black Eye Records - Australia) & Labyrinths And Jokes (Hanson Records - Michigan) as a definitive & defining document of the Flower/Flour City's post-everything scene. The LP consists of r.nuuja (Pengo), Colonel Parmesan (Thunderbody), Dr Hamburger (Tumul, Jungle Heart), Crush the Entente (Crush the Junta and Entente Cordiale collaboration), Stone Baby, Martin Freeman, Tumul, Autumn in Halifax, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Ian Downey is Famous), Joe Sorriero (Nod), Licker (Pengo), Drippers, Andy Gilmore, Pengo, MntDst, and the Bloody Noes. White vinyl with digital download coupon. Mastered by James Plotkin. Reviews (3): Beats Per Minute Rochester seems a weird place, if Carbon Records is any indication. This local noise label, started in 1994, has long specialized in bringing the best leftfield tunes that the upstate NY town has to offer, and with CR200 they’ve released a massive compilation of bands their mining has dredged up over the years. Kicking off with some Phil-Elverum-goes-black-metal instrumentation (courtesy of Chris Reeg) and spanning more traditional noise in addition ambling acoustic guitar experimentation, fractured yelps of pop songs, and doomy drones, this compilation represents a wealth of diversity in the label’s stable. Whether it’s the kraut-noise stomp of “Free To Starve”, Crush The Entente’s contribution, or Autumn In Halifax’s austere, bluesy spiritual “David O David”, there’s incredible tracks throughout. If this is the work of a great curator, then, well, good on Joe Tunis for bringing these tracks together and celebrating the best the region had to offer. But if the general darkness of these tracks is inherent to the Rochester experience, we might be worried about the emotional state of that city’s inhabitants. Above I list several noise and psych bands in the “For fans of”, but this time you shouldn’t necessarily take those as guidelines so much as benchmarks: by and large the tunes on CR200 take a similar sort of intellectual preparation. These are tracks that, while endlessly intriguing, present a pervading heaviness that even in the most accessible moments can be a bit off-putting. That all being said, if you’re willing to give it the time it demands, it’s a compelling cross section of a widely under-examined scene. It’s like wandering into your city’s weirdest art gallery – in the dingiest warehouse space – and allowing yourself to be bombarded with what the underground has to offer. Choice Cuts: Autumn in Halifax – “David O David”, Joe Sorriero – “Electricity’s Out!”, Crush the Entente – “Free to Starve” - Colin Joyce South Wedge Quarterly Consider this a voyeuristic glimpse into what your neighbors have been up to. Small cities and towns across America all tend to have their own experimental music scenes and record labels. But it's rare to find them as uniformly dedicated and pedigreed as Carbon Records. CR200 marks the label's 200th release. It's on vinyl and cassette. And it includes exclusive recordings from several Carbon artists, new and old, all local. There's a wide range of material and recording quality among this set of (mostly) instrumentals. Some of this is rather poised, like Andy Gilmore's chiming guitar pointillism on "Clipper Ship," or the oddly tender power electronics of Dr Hamburger's "Twin Speak." And some of this is expectedly shambolic, though never predictable. Despite the variety in approach, it all hangs together rather nicely as an often breathless sonic document; the sound of your city's shadows. It even flows -- a debt owed solely to the label's curative skills and James Plotkin's expert mastering. You're very lucky to live in a city with a Carbon Records, even if you don't know that. Buy this LP or the LP/cassette boxset at Needledrop. Consider it a contribution to the untamed local arts. And then realize how lucky you are, indeed. - Chad Oliveiri Weirdo Records In every ignored town across the US, the reason there's a scene... the reason there's anything at all for you to check out while you sit bored in front of your computer... is usually that one lone sonofabitch has been grinding it out there, breaking his back day in & thankless day out to champion some local bands that no one gives a fat shit over. That single guy, he's out there telling everybody within earshot about the bands that he likes & dragging people to shows & giving his friends money for their bullshit basement recordings, and doing it over & over & over again. That guy actually causes subtle changes in the way bands sound in the area over time. In Rochester that guy is Joe Tunis & he's been whipping up bass-heavy doom, electronic freedom & some other cool shit out of nuthin & with zero dollars since 1994. A tip of the hat on his 200th release, which sounds like Rochester and no place else.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - CR200 (LP + 4X cassette box set) 32 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $25 Catalog ID: CR200_bonus A mighty comprehensive snap-shot of the underground sounds emanating from the city of Rochester New York circa now (2012). From the post-noise extreme sounds of LICKER & r. nuuja (both members of Pengo) to the more pastoral psych smudged compositions of Joe Sorriero (of Nod) & Drippers, this collection of Western NY weirdos addresses the question “What the hell is going on in Rochester to create such odd sounds?”. This LP is the 200th release on long time Rochester based record label Carbon Records. We think in due time that this LP will sit easily next to other regional compilation records like Waste Sausage (Black Eye Records - Australia) & Labyrinths And Jokes (Hanson Records - Michigan) as a definitive & defining document of the Flower/Flour City's post-everything scene. The LP consists of r.nuuja (Pengo), Colonel Parmesan (Thunderbody), Dr Hamburger (Tumul, Jungle Heart), Crush the Entente (Crush the Junta and Entente Cordiale collaboration), Stone Baby, Martin Freeman, Tumul, Autumn in Halifax, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Ian Downey is Famous), Joe Sorriero (Nod), Licker (Pengo), Drippers, Andy Gilmore, Pengo, MntDst, and the Bloody Noes. White vinyl with digital download coupon. Mastered by James Plotkin. The 4-cassette box set include 15min sides from Colonel Parmesan, Dr Hamburger, Entente Cordiale, Martin Freeman, r.nuuja, Stone Baby, Pengo, and Jungle Heart. Packaged in library-style cassette binder (VHS size) with white cassettes and spray/splattered labels. Includes digital download coupon.

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  Artist/Title: Carbon Records - CR200 tshirt 8 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CR200_shirt Special edition tshirt commemorating the release of CR200. designs on both sides (back has new Carbon Records logo), blue (and some gray) ink on heather gray shirts.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - CR200 - SPECIAL EDITION BOX SET 80 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $75 Catalog ID: CR200 box set Check out this SPECIAL and VERY LIMITED EDITION of the CR200 LP and cassette box set, packaged in a hand made wooden box. Silkscreened designs on front and back, and each is hand decorated. Box also includes a CR200 shirt and other goodies. When ordering, I will contact you to get your shirt size. More info on the compilation... A mighty comprehensive snap-shot of the underground sounds emanating from the city of Rochester New York circa now (2012). From the post-noise extreme sounds of LICKER & r. nuuja (both members of Pengo) to the more pastoral psych smudged compositions of Joe Sorriero (of Nod) & Drippers, this collection of Western NY weirdos addresses the question “What the hell is going on in Rochester to create such odd sounds?”. This LP is the 200th release on long time Rochester based record label Carbon Records. We think in due time that this LP will sit easily next to other regional compilation records like Waste Sausage (Black Eye Records - Australia) & Labyrinths And Jokes (Hanson Records - Michigan) as a definitive & defining document of the Flower/Flour City's post-everything scene. The LP consists of r.nuuja (Pengo), Colonel Parmesan (Thunderbody), Dr Hamburger (Tumul, Jungle Heart), Crush the Entente (Crush the Junta and Entente Cordiale collaboration), Stone Baby, Martin Freeman, Tumul, Autumn in Halifax, Chris Reeg (Blood and Bone Orchestra, Ian Downey is Famous), Joe Sorriero (Nod), Licker (Pengo), Drippers, Andy Gilmore, Pengo, MntDst, and the Bloody Noes. White vinyl with digital download coupon. Mastered by James Plotkin. The 4-cassette box set include 15min sides from Colonel Parmesan, Dr Hamburger, Entente Cordiale, Martin Freeman, r.nuuja, Stone Baby, Pengo, and Jungle Heart. Packaged in library-style cassette binder (VHS size) with white cassettes and spray/splattered labels. Includes digital download coupon.

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  Artist/Title: Joe+N - 6:55 now its 6:56 9 Format: CASS Label: Carbon Records Price: $5 Catalog ID: CR201 C-45, with each side containing the same material. Improv acoustic guitar and vocals songs, overdubbed with synth, electric guitar, and other sources. Cover is recycled wooden board with cassette attached with rubber band. Each cover is unique.

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  Artist/Title: Carbon Records - 2012 Skull Design - Black shirt 10 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: Carbon_2012_SkullTShirt_Black The 2012 Skull design. 3 color design (gray, metallic-black, and white) on black shirt.

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  Artist/Title: Carbon Records - 2012 Skull Design - (recycled) White shirt 10 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: Carbon_2012_SkullTShirt_White 2012 Skull design on recycled white shirts. These are not used shirts, but rather, overprinted (from Counter Fit Fest) shirts, with the back band listing from CFF remaining intact. Slum it up! These have a special 3 color version of the skull design, burgundy, black, and metallic gold.

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  Artist/Title: Various Artists - All TUMUL's Party 4.0 Poster 10 Format: OTHER Label: Carbon Records Price: $4 Catalog ID: Carbon_NotATP4_Poster A hand silkscreened, 3 color poster for the 4th All Tumul's Party hosted at Rochester Contemporary Arts Center in Rochester NY. This is NOT affiliated with the big/real ATP. Roughly 11" x 18".

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  Artist/Title: Tumul - Pyramid/Cross design 8 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: Carbon_Tumul_Pyramid_Cross_Tshirt The brand new Tumul shirts are here! 3 color hand-silkscreened design on white shirt.

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  Artist/Title: Tuurd - I wish my wife was this dirty 12 Format: LP Label: Carbon Records Price: $12 Catalog ID: CR198 35 minutes of mostly slow, sometimes fast, and always super heavy and thick bass and drums, with limited vocals. Tuurd rises from the ashes of Hilkka (math/indie rock band around for 13yrs). Featuring Nuuj (Pengo, Asthmatic, r.nuuja) and Joe Tunis (Tumul, Crush the Junta and formerly of Pengo), on bass and drums respectively. metal/stoner/doom/spazz/noise. In the tradition of two-man acts such as Ruins, godheadsilo, Halo, Lightning Bolt, Big Business, Hella, Orthrelm and Om and influenced by the sounds of Corrupted, Abruptum, Sleep, Harvey Milk, Crom, Melvins, Karp, Killdozer, Zeni Geva, Thrones, Earth, Sunn 0))), Codiene, Painkiller, Oxbow, Cheer Accident, Slug, Unsane, Pelican, Meshuggah, 400 Blows, Isis, and of course Black Sabbath. Limited to 300 on brown vinyl with full color sleeves. Reviews (3): Weirdo Records Nuuj & Joe Tunis (aka half of Pengo) duo of bass & drums. Slow, vibrating stoner metal with growly vocals that sometimes does a 180 & picks up for fast & muscular riff workouts. Bass distortion is great sounding- it's a record that could make you want to buy a motorcycle. Upstate Soundscape Rochester sons Nuuj and Joe Tunis are pretty busy guys. They can be spotted on the roster of numerous projects, many of which are backed by Tunis’s Carbon Records. While some of those former projects include Pango, Crush the Junta, and the deteriorated Hilkka, I’m glad they’ve come together as Tuurd, a name both infantile, idosyncratic, and awesome. For such a simple and straightforward sound on their debut EP I Wish My Wife Was This Dirty, Tuurd keeps me focused. Following suit in the vein of stoner metal/sludge metal/prog rock, Tuurd has found a sound that fits in between all these genres. The first track “Water” starts off with a climbing riff and a constant drum thud, taking us on a journey down a dark and weary moat. As the song progresses, the bass maintains a slow and sturdy progression. About halfway through, a voice that sounds like an orc from Middle Earth growls “I’ll show you some power, to get you some water.” In fact, Sauron would enjoy rocking out to Tuurd in his chamber on Mt. Doom. Combined with the simple melody and captivating concept, this is a strong first track. Not all the songs are as hypnotic as “Water.” If you are looking for something more upbeat, “Reeses Feeses” fits the bill. As the second track, this song accomplishes hooking the listener by opening with straddling chords (if The Black Keys got dirty, they’d create something similar), and rare pauses, leaving time to think. It’s not for long until Tuurd propels back into the ruckus for a roll in the mud. Throughout the album the lyrics and vocals are scarce, but when they come in its satisfying. Tuurd has a unique falsetto that I haven’t heard before within metal, almost satirical, but just enough. There’s a meditative quality to stoner metal that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. The grit, sweat, and pacing remind me of great warriors barging their way through knotty forests. It’s not in your face crazy or senseless strumming. Especially a band like Tuurd, which has an interactive quality and each song seems to emphasize rhythm and drive as with “Eating Ice Cream with Satan,” which is focused on the back and forth play between guitar and drums. It pushes and pulls until the lyrics brag about eating ice cream with Satan in hell. Not going to lie, I’m pretty jealous. Similar to “Eating Ice Cream with Satan” is the album’s eponymous track, “I Wish My Wife Was This Dirty”. It opens with curly cueing dizzying guitar, paired with an intense drumbeat that begs for a breather.The drums continue to chant, until the sound stretches and grows. A lot of this album is focused on exploring a certain riff, repeating it, then building upon that solid noise and contrasting it with excellent drums and humorous vocals. Tuurd’s biggest quality is keeping it together, seen in the gritty distortion of “Sliding Down” and the massive collisions in “Doot do doot.” Overall, I’m impressed with Tuurd’s hilarious concept and physical skill. Honestly, I wish my wife was this dirty, too. Aquarius Records First we've heard from this oddly monikered duo, just bass and drums, who traffic in a sort of sludge/doom dirgery, the bass super distorted and blown out, sounding in places more like a guitar than a bass, but unfurling thick slabs of buzzing low end, while the drums deliver a plodding caveman accompaniment. The vocals might be the strangest of all, a sort of sung/spoken demonic growl, which give Tuurd a much more abstract experimental vibe. It really does sound like a Neanderthal version of OM. The groove is dark and stonery, thick and sludgey, but when it slows down, and gets a little mathy and dynamic, stripped down while the vocals gurgle malevolently, it's transformed into something else entirely. Which is also what happens on the second track, at least in the first half, the band ditching the sludge for some dense mathy noise prog, the bass and drums in a wild tussle, which finally gives way to a more slithery downtuned groove. It's hard to really nail these guys down, the label mentions all sorts of other duos, from Lightning Bolt to the Ruins, as well as other bands that occupy a similar sonic space, Sleep, Abruptum, Killdozer, Slug (someone needs to reissue all the Slug records!), Black Sabbath and a bunch of others. But to our ears, Tuurd sound like slowed down power violence, like Man Is The Bastard covered by Corrupted, or some rare Slap A Ham 7" spinning at 5 or 6 rpm, but that's only one side of the Tuurd, the band totally capable of whipping out some seriously dense downtuned progginess, the combination of the two is what makes this stuff so good. Murky and muddy, dirgey and doomy, crusty and filthy, heavy as fuck obviously, proggy and mathy and not without a sense of humor (check out "Eating Ice Cream With Satan"). Definitely recommended for fans of any and all of the above mentioned bands, and anyone who like their music sloooooow and loooooow. Super striking cover art, the album titled drawn in dirt on the front, the band name smeared in mud (please let it be mud!) on the back. Pressed on brown vinyl (of course) and includes a digital download. - Andee

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  Artist/Title: Andy Gilmore - Lord, hold my hand while i run this race. 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 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