Name: Likeness
Brand: Charalambides

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krank113

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Limited edition

Release date

2007-10-22

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Charalambides

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Folk

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Charalambides is a trio of Texas creative musicians known for their extended guitar and voice compositions and improvisations. Their music explores a range of tonality, utilizing volume, space, silence, folk and psychedelia. The group was initially formed as a recording project in 1991 and has since evolved into performing music of a more public nature.

Originally based in Houston before relocating to Austin in 1997, Charalambides has gone through various configurations over the years. The core duo of *Tom & Christina Carter* has been accompanied by guitarist *Jason Bill* from 1993 to 1996 and steel guitarist *Heather Murray* since 2000.

If you enjoy the sounds of artists like Fursaxa, Jackie O Motherfucker, or Steven R. Smith, then Charalambides' unique blend of experimental folk and atmospheric noise will surely captivate your ears.

charalambides are the true originators of the us free-folk psyche movement. tom and christina carter aka charalambides have been recording and performing live in various configurations since 1991 and run their own highly acclaimed label wholly other. more recently christina has guested on current albums by thurston (moore) and dj shadow amongst others. 'likeness' is the newest release from the duo. recorded over a period of several weeks during the spring of 2006, the album is a return to the spontaneous composition of previous charalambides records such as 'houston' and 'union'. musically, the album departs from the warm psych of 'a vintage burden' (their album from 2006) in favour of the lush and layered vocal strata of christina's later solo works, and a chillier, more abrasive guitar sound that favours the velvets over the byrds. lyrical content largely derives from public domain american popular song from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, edited, rearranged, and largely deconstructed by christina into abstract 'protest' songs for the century at hand. on kranky.

Likeness

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