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TOM CARTER & ROBERT HORTON DUO  Lunar Eclipse  cd
Important
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.

 Tom Carter biography 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.