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Charalambides formed in Houston in 1991 amid a flock of fearlessly exploratory (and often drug-induced) rock bands, when Tom, Christina, and Kyle Silfer put down their beers and picked up their instruments. Eventually Kyle went home to New York, and Christina & Tom assumed the name Charalambides for what eventually turned into a flood of releases- beginning with 1992's Our Bed Is Green on their own Wholly Other label, and continuing with dozens of LPs, CDs, and cassettes on labels such as Siltbreeze, Eclipse, Time-Lag, and Kranky.

Exile is the beautiful new Charalambides album. Five years in the making, it was recorded between 2006 and 2010 in various locations in New Hampshire, western Massachusetts and New York City, mixed at Black Dirt Studios, and mastered at Sand with Paul Gold. The group remains the core duo of Christina and Tom Carter, with contributions on one track by the string section of Helena Espvall and Margarida Garcia.

Deeply imbued with the full historical spectrum of American folk and blues song form, Exile is a tapestry of suppliant invocations directed at the heart of the unseen spiritual forces surrounding us. Dense arrangements and thickly-overdubbed tracks sit side-by-side with material that ranks among the sparest and most skeletal the group has recorded, giving Exile the psychic scope of their classic Market Square album while building on the refinements of the more recent Likeness and A Vintage Burden releases.

This album quite coincidentally marks Charalambides' 20th anniversary. Since their last album, Tom Carter has released a series of collaborations and solo works on a wide array of labels, while Christina Carter has been steadily releasing her solo work through labels including her own Many Breaths imprint.

"Christina has a beautiful voice, clear and bell-like. I've heard her influence on lots of women in the experimental underground music scene. I never heard anyone quite as vulnerable and as strong. It's kind of magical. I never get tired of listening to it. It's fresh every time I put it on." - Kim Gordon, New York Times

"Charalambides are among the most beautiful and mysterious groups to have emerged from the American desert. ...They have created a glowing template of humanist/mystical improvisation that has kneaded brain muscles from here to Kokomo." - Byron Coley, The Wire

Extreme Jet Rock’n’Roll from Japan

GUITAR WOLF

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Guitar Wolf are a total rock’n’roll experience. Self styled as “The World’s Greatest Jet Rock’n’roll Band” they take rock’n’roll to it’s logical conclusion and beyond. Jet Rock’n’Roll is Guitar Wolf’s self styled unique combination of extreme volume, heavy distortion and screaming.

Guitar Wolf live is a complete energy overload that is akin to being in the blast zone of a sonic atom bomb explosion. Taking their initial influence from 50’s rock’n’roll, The Ramones, Eddie Cochrane, Johnny Thunders , Joan Jett and Link Wray, the ‘Wolf then liquidate these influences into a maelstrom of noise. Onstage Guitar Wolf take highlights from their back catalogue and with the addition of a few unsuspecting cover versions they then proceed to demolish them all into submission. Witnessing Guitar Wolf live is a mandatory rite to passage for any aspiring rock’n’roller

On record Guitar Wolf inject their live energy into the recording process by never recording anything below red and on one occasion recording an entire album without having ever played any of the songs before-to ensure the sound was raw enough! In fact, Guitar Wolf’s sixth record, “Jet Generation” proves if you rock hard enough you can break the laws of physics: “Jet Generation” is the loudest CD ever recorded in history of recording music-Guitar Wolf are Jet Rock’n’roll!

Bear witness to the live extreme noise terror that is Guitar Wolf at the venues below in June…..

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