a r t i s t : Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer
t i t l e : A Rather Solemn Promise
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : The Great Pop Supplement
c a t : gps17
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : Sep/2007
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 69,10 MB
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Charalambides' Tom Carter teams up with fellow string
alchemist Christian Kiefer for some Loren Mazzacane
Connors-influenced spectral blues. Once you've got over the
gorgeous hand-screened sleeves (courtesy of Badgerlore's Rob
Fisk) you're in for the kind of freeform guitar duets that
made similarly-minded outings (such as last year's excellent
Tetuzi Akiyama & Donald McPherson head-to-head) such
captivating listening. The tone varies between the rollicking
Takoma-isms of 'Glass Palace' and the slide guitar weirdness
of 'Song the Land Sings', via the ghostly banjo bust-ups of
'Snake River', with each piece delivered with a stereo
dynamics setup whereby one musician takes the left, the other
the right, giving a real sense of being in and amongst the
performance. Tom Carter's guitar in Charalambides has always
been enriched with a kind of starkly atmospheric resonance,
and in Kiefer he's clearly found a likeminded artist.
Consequently, it's a great pleasure to hear the two meandering
through these psyched-up American Primitive discourses with
such a gnarled authenticity.
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01-The Night Watchman [06:30]
02-Unknown Foxen [06:16]
03-Commune of Anarchs [04:18]
04-Red Flower in the Greys [04:30]
05-Song the Land Sings [05:42]
06-Birds of A Grey Country [06:00]
07-Snake River [02:58]
08-Glass Palace [10:42]
09-After Dresden [05:20]
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52:16 min