Daniel Carter on flute, clarinet, trumpet, alto and tenor sax Todd Brooks on prepared guitar and electronics Robbie McDonald on homemade analog synth boxes & tape manipulation
Influences
mysticism & occult/esoteric writings, Henri Bergson, Bakunin, Max Stirner, rhizome theories, Theodore Kaczynski, topology and landscapes (deserts, lakes, mountains, quarries, open spaces), fluxus, HAMAS, Georges Bataille, collage, writings concerning 2012, magic mushrooms and the divine cactus, concentric line drawings, International Movement for an Imaginist Bauhaus and Situationist International, Hakim Bey, John Cage, Gurdjieff, free-musics past and present
Sounds Like
Spontaneous ecstatic cosmic blissers combining the frequencies and tones of oscillators, handmade synths, prepared guitar, tape loops, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, and flute.
35 tracks in 69 minutes! Rippers and Creepers is an eclectic mixtape and aural document featuring a killer clutch of underground artists, a snapshot of the “grotesque sounds of now”. Each group/artist contributes one short two-minute piece that either "rips" or "creeps" based on their own interpretation. The tracks compiled have been collaged and stitched together to make one long continuous track on each side of the tape resulting in a non-interrupted journey beyond the fringe. Curated and with artwork by Todd Brooks, Rippers and Creepers is a part of Pendu Org's continued efforts to promote “esoteric ostranenie of contemporary weirdo culture”. This is first in a series that will be released quarterly. Rippers and Creepers Mixtape Vol. 1 featuring HeteroSkeleton, Blastocyst, Pukers, Oubliette, Ghost Moth, Vestigial Limb, Kristin Calvarese, Buffle, Pink Canoes, Usurper, Harshcore, Fully Dilated, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Fish & Sheep, Valerio Cosi, Howlin' Magic, Pet Coffins, Family Battle Snake, Pax Titania, Skozey Fetisch, Arachnid Arcade, Josh Lay, Mike Shiflet, Craniopagus, Sons of Bronson, Demonologists, Women in Tragedy, Sorc'henn, Eastern Seaboard, VxPxC, Saints, Lanterns, Nonhorse, Gullwing, Panicsville
Ghost Moth
"Sealand Fortress" CDR
Edition of 123
House of Alchemy (2007)
Ghost Moth split with Fossils
"Industrial Society and its Future b/w Symbols of Decay" CS
Edition of 75
Pendu Sound (2007)
Ghost Moth began in April 2006 when guitarist/junk-jammer, Todd Brooks (CM*Chaos Majik, Abuse Report, Mialessot) asked free-jazz multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter (Test! / Other Dimensions in Music) to join with him and knobbie-twister, Robbie McDonald (Old Ghost / Skulking) for a recording session. The result of that performance laid the foundation of what was to come. The first 2 recordings were released under the moniker, Mialessot w/ Daniel Carter & Old Ghost. They played two shows as Hemorrhage, but have since been known as Ghost Moth.
Ghost Moth establishes each space it inhabits as a Temporary Autonomous Zone (T.A.Z.) declaring absolute freedom, "freedom of" and "freedom from". Leaderless in collaboration. A belief in spontaneity and anarchy as a gateway to the sublime.
Todd Brooks also runs Pendu Org Arts and Actions (www.pendu.org) which includes Pendu Magazine/Gallery, Pendu Sound Recordings, and Pendu Bookshop. (visit Pendu Org).
Rippers and Creepers Mixtape Vol. 1 (2008)
Pendu Sound
Format: Cassette (C69)
35 tracks in 69 minutes! Rippers and Creepers is an eclectic mixtape and aural document featuring a killer clutch of underground artists, a snapshot of the “grotesque sounds of now”. Each group/artist contributes one short two-minute piece that either "rips" or "creeps" based on their own interpretation. The tracks compiled have been collaged and stitched together to make one long continuous track on each side of the tape resulting in a non-interrupted journey beyond the fringe. Curated and with artwork by Todd Brooks, Rippers and Creepers is a part of Pendu Org's continued efforts to promote “esoteric ostranenie of contemporary weirdo culture”. This is first in a series that will be released quarterly. Rippers and Creepers Mixtape Vol. 1 featuring HeteroSkeleton, Blastocyst, Pukers, Oubliette, Ghost Moth, Vestigial Limb, Kristin Calvarese, Buffle, Pink Canoes, Usurper, Harshcore, Fully Dilated, Wasteland Jazz Unit, Fish & Sheep, Valerio Cosi, Howlin' Magic, Pet Coffins, Family Battle Snake, Pax Titania, Skozey Fetisch, Arachnid Arcade, Josh Lay, Mike Shiflet, Craniopagus, Sons of Bronson, Demonologists, Women in Tragedy, Sorc'henn, Eastern Seaboard, VxPxC, Saints, Lanterns, Nonhorse, Gullwing, Panicsville
Ghost Moth
Sealand Fortress
House of Alchemy (2007)
"A rally cry of twisted horns, mangled junk-tronics and guitar peals through the air. A declaration of intent to march for the freedom of Sealand! Improv titan Daniel Carter blows loud and hard with two mysterious NY noise peddlers and rolls broken marbles down your spine. Just when you think it's time to start head-banging, it's over. So, you hit play again and wait for that urge to surge, let it wash over you. Whole brains can be lost in this record. Stick your lunch in a burlap sack and come join the majesty." CD-R edition of 123. Available Now at HOUSE OF ALCHEMY
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Ghost Moth / Fossils - split
Industrial Society and Its Future b/w Symbols of Decay
Pendu Sound (2007)
"These two bands are perfectly juxtaposed for a split, complimenting each other in their unique ways. Both create atmospheric spontaneous primitivist jamms from junk and homemade equipment. Ghost Moth is a trio that features multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, a long time veteran of NYC's avant-garde. They open their side with a with a clarinet-led ecstatic ripper before collaging into a hissy live damaged flute jammy and lastly groping a clanging broken-scaper laced with late-night trumpet. Fossils begin their side with random scrapes and bluesey reverberations before heading into abstract scuzz and ghostly haunts. Must pick up a copy. They'll be going fast!" Cassette/Edition 75 Available Now!
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Ghost Moth
Asteroid Pelt
Pendu Sound / T.B.T.D. Tapes (2006)
go to FUSETRON for last remaining copies.
"the rough and rugged trio, daniel carter, mialessot, and old ghost. space fuzz, cosmic sleaze, day dreamy, night terror, bracing blasts of damaged synths and blown out guitarnoise, a swirling roiling cloud of grind and rrrrooooaaar all piled atop a squirming and skronking tangle of free jazz sax, bleating and moaning and screeching. (D) all of the above." - Edition of 36 in handpainted/collaged thick cardboard envelopes.
SOLD OUT!
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Ghost Moth
Ghost Moth Live!
Pendu Sound / T.B.T.D. Tapes (2006)
go to FUSETRON or VOLCANIC TONGUE for last remaining copies.
"Hand-numbered edition of 36 in hand-painted/collaged thick cardboard envelopes presenting another of saxophonist Daniel Carter's (Test et al) off-the-radar primitive No Wave/free jazz hook-ups. Here Carter is joined by Mialessot and Old Ghost on Industrial grade electronics and feral scree, though the emotional range of the sonics runs from melancholy last-trumpeter style bugle blues through sandpaper conveyor belts of tectonic huzz." - Volcanic Tongue review
"primitive carpet burn jazz trio. horns of screeching melody, through lo-fi huz recorded in the borough of manhattan. something like a warped and belt sanded copy of the "coltrane live at the village vanguard again" lp, played at 18rpm." - Edition of 36 in handpainted/collaged thick cardboard envelopes.
SOLD OUT!
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Mialessot w/ Daniel Carter & Old Ghost
Featured on GETTING RID OF THE GLUE compilation
Pendu Sound (2006)
featuring: Dirty Churches | Spin-17 | K.P. | BIG A little a | Fessenden | Eager Meek | Mialessot w/ Daniel Carter & Old Ghost | Maria Chavez | Talibam! | Excepter
REVIEW from Thurston Moore and Byron Coley in Bull Tongue 27
"a great track from free jazz pioneer Daniel Carter where he’s blowing classic outside toneskree with noise knobbers Old Ghost and something called Mialessot. Carter is amazing. He has been on the boards with his horn since the early loft days of late ‘60s into ‘70s NYC, a poet – recently published Work In Process (Pitchfork Press) – a high-minded thinker, theorist and he has a history of playing in and out of all kinds of contemporary marginalia from no wave dementia alongside The Contortions to jamming with first gen hardcore bands. His solo, duo, etc. work is consistently astounding particularly his membership in the long running 4tet Test with Sabir Mateen, Matt Heyner and Tom Bruno, considered by many the premier free jazz group of the last ten years. Daniel has been laying it down with Old Ghost and Mialessot for a little while now, they have a previous CDR What If? (Pendu Sound). And there’s what is seemingly a related cassette release by K.P./Daniel Carter/Demian Richardson on the St Cono Strada label outta Brooklyn. With the current interest in reeds in free noise, particularly the embouchure munch of Heath Moerland (Sick Llama) and John Olson (Wolf Eyes, Dead Machines) and certainly Paul Flaherty, Carter is in a welcome stream of NOW. As he has been always." - from Arthur Magazine's Bull Tongue by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley.
REVIEW from Aquarius Records
''.....Up next is Mialessot, featuring NYC saxophonist Daniel Carter and analog noisemaker Old Ghost. Imagine a free jazz / Japanoise mashup and you'd have a pretty good idea of what these guys are all about. A bracing blast of damaged synths and blown out guitarnoise, a swirling roiling cloud of grind and rrrrooooaaar all piled atop a squirming and skronking tangle of free jazz sax, bleating and moaning and screeching. Pretty far out.''
Bull Tongue 26 / The Top 80 of 2006
70 - ''Good, non-standard BKLN comp album w/ a few 'known' names ( Excepter , Daniel Carter ) and a very nice handle on how to sniff between the cracks. This packs a variety of 'free rock' approaches into 12 inches of space that are tasty and surprisingly coherent.'' - Byron Coley, Thurston Moore Available Now!
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Mialessot w/ Daniel Carter and Old Ghost
What If?
Pendu Sound / T.B.T.D. Tapes (2006) Review from WIRE Magazine (The Wire 276 February 2007):
''Interesting live trio date with guitarist Mialessot, knob twister Old Ghost and the great alto of Daniel Carter. Danny is a bit buried under layers of noise, but you can hear his horn poking through in spots and his placement inside the context of this lo-fi huzz extravaganza is really quite bracing.'' 3''cdr/Edition 78 Available Now!
Greetings and warm wishes.
PAS will be playing live at Otto's Shrunken Head this Friday October 3rd at 8pm. Please come and show your support. Also playing are Neud Photo, Bulldozer, and Bitter Grace.
Be well and best wishes.
Robert and PAS
CIAN NUGENT 'Childhood, Christian Lies & Slaughter' CD Cian Nugent is a 19 year old guitar player from Dublin who combines squicky pre-war blues, Appalachian string band music, and the Takoma school into a deeply personal style. This cd documents a great live set, produced by Jozef Van Wissem.
Cut Hands records CH041 enfer boréal | eldorado cd-r Creepy ambient electronics by this relatively new project helmed by Frenchman Maxime Primault. A total trip that lingers somewhere between soothing meditation and psychedelic nightmare. Waves of drone that wrap around your head like a thick blanket while the psychedelic undertones take you to a place where those ugly ass nightmares are born.
