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previous artist: james horton		there are 7 titles featuring robert horton in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: hototogisu

$13.13

new to stock as of
april 5th, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
electro-acoustic-composition
digital-musics
minimalism-drones

important (usa) #imprec 178 cd

rameses iii “basillica / origins” double compact disc set

robert horton - after the red rose (7:49)
keith berry - basilica (6:07)
gregg kowalsky - rose blood (15:54)
astral social club - tigers in the snake pit (8:52)
origins i (4:14)
origins ii (11:29)
origins iii (7:12)
origins iv (12:50)
origins v (5:02)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "tigers in the snake pit"

important press release...

rameses iii - basillica/origins - double cd
imprec178 - cd

basilica is rameses iii´s eagerly anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed release honey rose (important), basilica is a double album of live recordings of new rameses material accompanied by re-interpretations of those same recordings by contemporaries robert horton, keith berry, gregg kowalsky and astral social club.

each artist approached to contribute to the basilica disc was given free range to experiment with the live files, to re-invent and re-interpret the recordings as they saw fit.minimalist sound-sculptor keith berry rolled out the slow-motion waterfalls of basilica and gave the album an early focus and provided inspiration for the glacial artwork. gregg kowalsky played the rose blood remix as part of his own performance at the overlap 02 event in san francisco using its tuned sinewave oscillators, cassette tapes and loops to induce, to quote the man himself, "a psychoacoustic listening experience". our subtle textures were pushed way into the red when noise veteran neil campbell sandblasted the original tracks into the howling mirror of astral social club. his tigers in the snake pit was remixed live in the very same venue in which it was originally performed and finessed with some post-performance layering.and robert horton was open-minded and kind enough to allow rameses iii to remix his remix, leading to the gentle trumpet curlicues and electronic birdsong entwining the original drone of after the red rose.

although basilica was originally envisioned as a single disc album, once the remixes were complete it slowly became evident that they should be paired with a disc of live recordings in order to put the basilica disc into context. in contrast to the heavily-produced and painstakingly-constructed rameses studio albums, all five of the previously-unreleased tracks on the origins disc were recorded directly to stereo at various venues around london. as such, they fully represent those moments in performance where the trio strive to make the most beautiful music they can.

$12.96

new to stock as of
december 4th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
experimental-instruments
electro-acoustic-improvisation

important (usa) #imprec 159 cd

sky city “sky city” compact disc

are you on the solar ark or not
the sky is crying
its after the end of the world
a visit to sky city

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "the sky is crying"

important press release...

sky city - sky city
imprec159 - cd

sky city features tom carter (charalambides), robert horton, lisa cameron & lee ann cameron. lisa cameron is a drummer and percussionist from austin, texas, whom tom carter has played with in the past. lisa creates exquisite noise by vibrating snares and cymbals with feedback. when she heard tom carter and robert horton’s lunar eclipse, she wanted to record with them. lisa and vocalist lee ann cameron drove from austin to the bay area and a session was planned. in the meantime, tom was journeying in new mexico and drove by a road sign to sky city, so he had found the name for the new group.

the day of the session, lisa and lee ann drove from san francisco, picked up tom in oakland and arrived at the studio on the hill. lisa had somehow left her equipment in sf. as they drove up, i heard tom say, “that’s so texas.” then the magic started.

lisa asked, “do you have a cymbal?”
“yes”
“an extra contact microphone?”
“yes.”
“a snare?”
“yes.”
“some strips of metal?”
“yes.”
then we walked over the abyss together into sky city.

sky city is psychedelic space music with all the atoms of surfaces freed to inter and counter react. noise in the outer dimension. horton’s homemade inventions, carter’s lyrical ebow guitar lines. the walking on the moon vocals of lee ann cameron. the vibration of material planes by lisa cameron. the broken blues of the boot (horton’s oldest instrument 4 strings on a piece of wood the shape of italy). sun ra ark and neil young’s arc put through a digital blender and reconstituted for space travel. the magical musical thing (mmt) a toy synthesizer from the 70’s. a great drawing on the inside cover by natacha robinson. a chance for music induced time travel to parallel worlds and an opportunity to recieve a collect call for the future from sky city.

$12.96

back in stock as of
december 4th, 2007

first in stock on
february 2nd, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
free-improvisation
jewelled-antler

important (usa) #imprec 104 cd

mudsuckers “mudsuckers” compact disc

endocrine disrupters (17:35)
here come the mud dragons (9:09)
longjaw mudsuckers (11:07)
electric sunflower (6:06)
sweet (16:41)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "endocrine disruptors"

important press release...

swamp noise drone. feedback is layered like mud on the carcass of song structure. robert uses primitive cassette manipulation as well as digital processing to thicken the sound into a swamp. think credence clearwater revival without the one chord they knew. on three of the songs, pete uses his analog reel-to-reel wall-of-sound processing apparatus. longjaw mudsuckers was inspired by a mid-eighties cassette where merzbow mixed john hudak’s nature sounds into a screaming mass of sonic debris. robert recorded a stream after the huge new year’s day storm and pete plugged it into his system, making it sound at times like a stream, an ocean, and robots whispering mechanical secrets.

this cd contains some of the first recordings of tom carter’s circuit bending. individual attributes of gabe mindel’s guitar roar, tom carter’s ebow laptop whirl, and horton’s clanky homemades merge into the mud stew. driving the swirl are samples of boogie woogie piano, riffs from the session, and pounding drums of guests michael donnelly and doug “moonshine” jin. the last number, sweet, conjures the bar room sound of kansas city, 1920, but recorded inside a thermonuclear reactor. the sounds created are so raw and tormented it’s hard to believe they were having a good time. must have something to do with the times, the war and the general vacuity of that season’s holidays.

how did these recordings happen? during the torrential rains of december 2005, caused by global warming, robert horton invited tom carter, gabe and pete of the yellow swans, and glenn donaldson up the hill to his home in el cerrito for food, drink, and music-making. as it turned out, pete and glenn couldn’t make it, so gabe, tom, and robert vibrated the peaceful el cerrito neighborhood to mud. we had beer, wine and much feedback. the turbulence of the sounds matched the late december weather. the following week when pete came over to overdub his sounds, robert had found an article on mudsuckers in the berkeley daily planet. the headline was “mudsuckers may be ugly, but they have value.” a band was born.

a mudsucker is a fish that’s mostly a mouth, which spends its whole life on one patch of mudflat. scientists use these fish to monitor carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, and other toxic chemicals in coastal waters. the group’s name as well as some of the song titles were taken from this article. the second song, here come the mud dragons was a phrase spoken by three kids splashing in the mud in a local park. another song electric sunflower, was named by glenn donaldson in an email explaining why he couldn’t be at the session.

$12.01

new to stock as of
may 14th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
free-improvisation
minimalism-drones

music fellowship (usa) #mf 31 cd

robert horton “sleep, wake, hope, and then” compact disc

the case of the home run noodle
solstice (take back the night)
yesterday’s sun
2 are halves one
after the other one
blue moon rest stop
sleep, wake, hope and then
waltz of the soul eating cell phones

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "solstice (take back the night)"

music fellowship press release...

robert horton
sleep, wake, hope, and then cd [mf31]

sleep, wake, hope, and then are the most recent pieces by robert horton, striving to create an album full of recordings that shimmer and change the light.

on two pieces horton enlists the magic of gong-ologist and percussionist dean moore. dean is a hidden treasure who lives and plays in seattle and is a member of the group yuan, along with horton, michael shannon and edward guerriero.

the rest of the pieces are horton conjuring spirits with his homemade instruments, teasing objects with contact microphones, squeezing tones till they splinter into high harmonics and weaving webs of fractured bytes into modal vodka.

horton's has performed and recorded for almost 30 years in a variety of outlets. he founded the appliances, part of sf's first wave of punk bands in 1979, and formed the tribal noise drone group plateau ensemble in 1983. since then, he has been a prominent contributor to the last two revolutions in home recording, both the cassette culture of the 80s and 90s and the cdr zeitgeist of the 00s.

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.

$8.01

new to stock as of
august 25th, 2006

onomato (usa) #ono horton cd

robert horton “first light” compact disc recordable

first light

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "first light"

$16.51

new to stock as of
september 19th, 2007

threads:
modern-psych
experimental-instruments
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones
free-improvisation

preservation (australia) #pre 013 cd

tom carter / robert horton “monsters of felt” compact disc

corsican hash (4:46)
monsters of felt (17:18)
tapebugs remember (6:35)
heavenly breakfast (13:31)
tombstone mind (4:06)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "corsican hash"

third album from the duo of charalambides’ tom carter & simultaneously everywhere/everyman robert horton, with guests michael shannon, brad & eden rose, and henry kuntz ...

i’d comment more on just how damn prolific these guys have been over the past few years if their output wasn’t so solid / surprising / non-repetitive and (let’s face it) ... great. tom’s elegiac guitar and robert’s experimental instruments / jerry-rigged electronic warble are certainly made to augment each other; that each piece here works a different mentality (gauzy drones, eastern-leaning acoustic improv, tape-machine meltdowns...) so well is testament to their versatility as musicians...

excellent stuff; no matter if this is your first time hearing these dudes or your 100th...
nice australian edition in a fold-out poster-sleeve...

preservation press release...

tom carter & robert horton
monsters of felt
preservation

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. over the past 5 years carter has 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.

their most developed work thus far, monsters of felt hits a mesmerising zone both urgent 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 favourites 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 and compelling step for two most intrepid musicians.

$7.81

new to stock as of
march 31st, 2008

threads:
modern-psych
guitar-themed
minimalism-drones
free-improvisation

students of decay (usa) #sod 03 cd

“molten strings, train wrecks and birdsong” compact disc

birchville cat motel - twin copper hydra (3:12)
zaïmph - flying in dark (9:52)
brothers of the occult sisterhood - seraphim (3:02)
taiga remains - the blind astrologer (7:24)
c. spencer yeh - solo violin ii (7:25)
peter wright - paralytic sonata pt.1 (5:21)
robert horton - a round the carter family table (4:18)
the north sea - and then the solstice came (4:17)
family underground - so low (7:02)
fred lonberg-holm - lorenzo@xirius.com (9:47)

click the play button to hear an excerpt of "paralytic sonata pt.1"

earliest title i could get on students of decay ; this “string music” themed comp with standout contributions from mms perennials c. spencer yeh, birchville cat motel, zaïmph, and many others ...

students of decay press release...

sod - 03

"molten strings, train wrecks, and birdsong"

almost two years in the making, "molten strings, train wrecks and birdsong" is an expansive compilation loosely centered around sound made by stringed instruments. strings are the primary sources of sound on all of these recordings, and the majority of the works are generated solely from them. the record offers a wealth of different approaches to these instruments. from the scathing, feedback blasts yielded by fred lonberg-holm's cello and mini-amplifiers, to the dexterous blur of c. spencer yeh's violin fretwork, from the pastoral vistas of peter wright's danelectro 12 string, to the billowy dirges of birchville cat motel, zaimph, family underground, and taiga remains.

lending the record even further diversity are joyous bouzouki renderings from the north sea, and damaged, eerie and beautiful contributions from robert horton and brothers of the occult sisterhood. presented together, the record is cohesive in the same way that the best compilations are, flowing effortlessly from track to track and, in the process, demonstrating the diversity and immense capability of all things stringed.

cd (ltd. 1000)

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