A Rather Solemn Promise, by Tom Carter/ Christian Kiefer (CD on Great Pop Supplement)

A Norman Records recommendation (12th July 2007)

	Description:	CD on Great Pop Supplement
	Format:	CD
	Label:	Great Pop Supplement
	Price:	£7.99
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Rating: ecstatic This record left our Mingus Rude feeling ecstatic.

Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer : "A Rather Solemn Promise" (The Great Pop Supplement) A nine track limited, hand screen printed, edition CD (500) from the Charalambides head honcho and collaborator. Avant-pysch/folk type meanderings of the free and out there...Guitars, banjos, mandolins. Instrumental music of quite some beauty that has the space to breathe, feeling uncluttered, considered and extremely stoned by the campfire. If you like Loren Conners or the more free-floating angles of the so-called free/folk axis.

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A musical landscape that is intense, searching, and emotionally resonant in ways that are unexpected and unwarranted. Tom Carter, has spent his entire career in the world of improvisational music, with his regular group Charalambides, as a solo performer, and as a member of various other groups devoted to free improvisation and psych-folk. Christian Kiefer, is primarily known for three releases on Australia’s legendary experimental music label, Extreme, albums that waffle between folk-ambience soundscapes and singersongwriter material. The product of their meeting is experimental music, Carter and Kiefer performing live improvisations directly to the recorder and is presented here edited but without a single overdub. The beauty of the music lay it the way it which moments of droning, searching, atonal sound coalesces suddenly into chord-based, tonal music, only to fly away again. The process continues without plan, intuitively the music breaks, connects, breaks, connects again, as Carter switches from lap steel to acoustic resonator and Kiefer switches from resonator to banjo and then to dulcimer. Each artist’s technique informs the other: Carter’s slabs of sound pressing Kiefer’s playing into more abstract moments, and Kiefer’s tendency to search out melody encouraging similar playing from Carter’s guitar. When the afternoon was over, Kiefer set about editing down the two hours of recorded sound into an album-length release.

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