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  Artist/Title: SQ - big leaves on a small tree - Black 4 Format: TSHIRT Label: Carbon Records Price: $10 Catalog ID: CRTSQ_BIGLEAVES_BLACK Black shortsleeve tshirts Black shirt with white ink. Front left pocket with (older) Carbon logo. Back includes SQ lake scene from "big leaves on small tree" release.

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  Artist/Title: sq - 06.29.00 4 Format: CDR Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR35 35 minutes of free-improv swells, bursts and dialogues, recorded like at the Bug Jar (Rochester NY). accompanying the SQ duo were John Schoen (Pengo) on alto saxophone and r.nuuja (Sheet) on japanese noise making devices. [limited edition of 75, numbered and packaged in sealed kraft cardboard CD folders. must be torn to open.]

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  Artist/Title: sq - __moments imaginaires (8988) 4 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR26 SQ returns with a new long player guaranteed to rearrange the molecular structure of your eardrums. Macro and micro tones clash and fuse in a post-everything petri dish. Not content with just simply pulverizing their guitars and drums into atomized dust, the SQ gang preform post production autopsies on the raw tapes and concoct new vistas in damaged sound. Like that kid who always has green fluid dripping out of the corner of his mouth, this will fascinate and scare you at the same time. "Best of the year, so far." _Journal of Mutation Research (May 2000) Reviews (1): All About Jazz Straddling genres can be a difficult task. It's not difficult to make great music, mind you, but it can be very difficult to find an audience for that music. sq, aka Speed Queen, is an improvising duo. But instead of drawing from clear roots in the jazz or euro scene, the duo uses sound textures more common in noise and electronic bands. Interestingly, sq doesn't fall into many of those genre traps either. Credit Speed Queens Marc Faris and Joe Tunis for having the wits to come up with their own path. The eight tracks are varied, not at all programmatic, yet one can make narrative associations with many. Even their titles are atypical; jazzers tend to short titles, and the laptoppers seem to prefer abbreviations. The first track here is ":thank you k for space harmonics body hearING, NG, NGNGNG:" The percussion rattles, and speeds up like a train; then there's a switch, a shift. In a sense this is pure music: It's often difficult to tell which instruments are playing. John Cage would probably approve. Percussion and guitar, surely. Bowed bass? There are major shifts in dynamic range, then silences where you think the disc may have ended. Imagine Captain Beefheart's "Kandy Korn" or "Mirror Man" horn squawks, but with no rhythm track at all. - Steven H. Koenig

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  Artist/Title: sq - big leaves on a small tree 4 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR10 Six long investigations into improvised and composed density. Ranges from math/metal to sublime ambient droning. Fans of Gaster Del Sol, godHeadSilo, Slint and Spacemen 3 take note.

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  Artist/Title: sq - monosite 4 Format: CD Label: Carbon Records Price: $8 Catalog ID: CR20 Two men effortlessly levitate two tons of pure sound. Open and out free rock that blisters and drones. Brings to mind the Dead C., A Handful of Dust and the Air Traffic Controllers. "I can‘t believe it‘s not Kiwi!"