Saturday 3 May 2008

Charalambides

Charalambides   
Artist: Charalambides

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   



Discography:


Likeness   
 Likeness

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 9


A Vintage Burden   
 A Vintage Burden

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 6


Our Bed Is Green (cd2)   
 Our Bed Is Green (cd2)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 14


Our Bed Is Green (cd1)   
 Our Bed Is Green (cd1)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


Joy Shapes   
 Joy Shapes

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5


LIVE in Paris   
 LIVE in Paris

   Year:    
Tracks: 1


Electricity Ghost   
 Electricity Ghost

   Year:    
Tracks: 5




Possessed of i of the coolest names around -- actually a Hellene last name -- Texas' Charalambides made a number through and through the '90s and beyond for their many recordings exploring a haunting, psychedelic-informed brand of exploratory galvanising guitar instrumentals. Husband-and-wife team Uncle Tom and Christina James Earl Carter Jr. -- the former a old geezer of the Microphone Gunn -- to start with formed Charalambides in pre-marriage years with a quaker, Kyle Silfer, in 1991 in Samuel Houston. Initial recordings at home base for complacency lED to both local gigs and a series of recordings; Silfer presently left wing the mathematical grouping, but the Carters continued on, qualification their number one john Major splash with 1993's Union on Siltbreeze Records. Jason Placard joined the stria after Union and participated with the group live and on record through 1996, after which the Carters erstwhile once again did things on their own. In that yr, Charalambides reached a birthday suit story of celebrity by coming into courtroom aboard every bit god Almighty bands as Bardo Pond and Flight Saucer Attack on the frightfully Concord of the Circles box countersink. Numerous recordings and the occasional live appearances followed in hereafter eld, former players at times joining the Carters, only fundamentally revolving around the magnetic core group duet, domain Health Constitution had relocated to Capital of Texas. 2000 and after brought a new flood of material, including a compartmentalisation of new compiling appearances and the excellent House and Sticks collections, followed the next yr by a limp recording, Water, and a lathe-cut LP, Branches. Being as It Is appeared in 2002 on Crucial Blast, spell 2003's Unidentified Spin, 2004's Joy Shapes, and 2006's Time of origin Core completely came out on Kranky Records.