New Christmas email single out next week

The December 2009 installment in the Cut And Paste Records Email Singles Club will be my version of Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) b/w Joy To The World. The mp3s will be emailed to club members next week. If you're not a member and want one just email me at cutandpasterecords@yahoo.com and let me know, and I'll send you one. And for those of you that signed up this year thanks for doing so (I hope you liked at least some of the mp3s I sent you! :)) and I hope everyone has a Happy Christmas!

Ray

I'll be playing The International Pop Overthrow festival in Cleveland this weekend...

I will be playing a half hour solo set as part of the International Pop Overthrow festival this year. This will be the first year the festival will be in Cleveland, and I will be opening the second evening which is being held at the Beachland Ballroom in Lakewood, OH. I will be playing from 8:00-8:30 pm, and I will be assisted by my friend Doug Wofsey on electric guitar.

For more information go to the IPO's web site: www.internationalpopoverthrow.com, and click on "Cleveland schedule".

Also appearing that night will be Paranoid Lovesick, the awesome Rainy Day Saints, and four other bands. A splendid time is guarenteed for all. Hope to see you there!

EP price reduction

All EPs in my catalog are now $3.00 each postage paid, instead of $5.00. Just doing my bit to help the economy... :)

Visit the Living Archive Of Underground Music

My friend Don Campau has published an amazing web page on the history of 1980s-1990s cassette culture underground music. This is a great place to find out what it was all about, how it started, who the key figures were, etc. The underground music scene is as big as ever and continues to thrive in the age of cd-rs, mp3s, wave files, etc. but this is where it all started. Check it out:

http://www.doncampau.com/livingarchive.htm

Thanks Don for your incredible hard work.

Ray

BIG MISTAKE out right now

Ray Carmen and R. Stevie Moore

Big Mistake

CAP-47

1. Ray Carmen Old School Old Fool version (5:14)

2. R. Stevie Moore Conscientious Objector version (5:11)

3. RC instrumental track (2:45)

4. RSM instrumental mix one (5:11)

5. RSM instrumental mix two (5:02)

6. RSM backwards guitars mix (5:07)

7. RSM extended mix (10:04)

Ray Carmen - vocals (high), acoustic guitars, shaker, whirltube

R. Stevie Moore - vocals (low), electric guitars, bass, drum machine, keys, loops

Rediscovered RSM session mixes from April 2004, combined with original RC instrumental track, and official RC and RSM released versions. For completists, really, but alot of fun to listen to RSM's different instrumental mixes, and how the song evolved.

$5.00 postage paid from Cut And Paste.

New ep SORRY I'M LATE is out now

RAY CARMEN

SORRY I'M LATE ep

Track listing:

1. The Porpoise Song (chamber music mix) (Gerry Goffin-Carole King) 2:59

2. Bach Is Dead (The Residents) 1:11

3. Christmastime Is Here Again (The Beatles) 0:47

4. Listen, The Snow Is Falling (Yoko Ono) 2:45

5. Fly (2009 version) (Nick Drake) 3:24

6. Suzy-Hang-Around (Bjorn Ulvaeus-Benny Andersson) 3:18

7. The Porpoise Song (Gerry Goffin-Carole King) 4:19

Instruments and off-key vocals by Ray.

Keys and orchestral arrangements on tracks 1, 5, 6 and 7 by Ken Clinger.

Now available for $5 ppd from Cut And Paste 2996 Upham Dr Akron OH 44319.

Ray Carmen videos now on You Tube

In the mid to late 1990s I made videos for Monster, You Ought To Be In Pictures, and Race Against Time, as well as several other songs. They were available as part of a now deleted video collection called Picture Start. Ken Clinger has posted them on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/user/sallymaehogsby. You can also view them in all their murky home-made glory at the official Ray Carmen YouTube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/cutandpaste, and on MySpace at: www.myspace.com/raycarmen.