After working on this thing for God knows how long, I have finally molded (or pounded) this into a shape where I can listen to it without my wince muscles getting a workout (much). Old School Old Fool is a 14-song release featuring new tracks as well as re-recordings and re-workings of tracks I did with R. Stevie Moore, Don Campau and Ken Clinger.
It's the usual pretentious crap you've come to expect from me...ambient sound collages run head-first into gooey psychedelic bubblegum pop, tribal rhythms bump into electronic folk music, children's songs trip over autumnal ballads, and ghostly acoustic pieces stumble over guitar-based power-pop. It's kinda like a typical kindergarten recess period.
Miraculously, no one was hurt.
There's a few bum notes here and there (some critics might refer to that as carelessness,I refer to it as "charm"), and as usual it was recorded on 4-track cassette (see, I really am old school...) so fidelity is pretty much a moot point, but I still think it's rather enjoyable. It doesn't rock exactly, but it sure snaps, crackles and pops.
The songs are:
1. Zero Zero Zulu (Carmen) - 2:54
2. Gather (Clinger-Carmen) - 3:47
3. Little Angel (Carmen-Campau) - 3:17
4. I Told Her Everything (Carmen) - 3:33
5. Ideals (Carmen-Campau) - 3:52
6. Grown Man Cry (Carmen-Campau) - 2:44
7. Spinning In My Grave (Carmen-Campau) - 2:58
8. No Matter (Carmen-Clinger) - 2:21
9. Little Clockwork Man (Carmen-Clinger) - 3:10
10. Lost A Friend (Carmen) - 2:18
11. Leaves Of Absence (Carmen-Clinger) - 3:03
12. Slow Chimes (Carmen) - 1:35
13. Trial By Fire (Carmen-Campau) - 3:18
14. Big Mistake (Carmen-Moore) - 5:12
And it's available for a measly $5 postage paid from me at: Cut And Paste Records, POB 152, Green, OH 44232 USA. Please make checks or money orders payable to Ray Carmen, not Cut And Paste Records. Overseas orders please add one dollar.
I will be posting the first Cut And Paste Records podcast soon, which will feature the new album in its' entirety. In the meantime, lyrics and liner notes can be found here: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/cutandpasterecs/cp02osof.html
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In other news, I recently provided Beach Boys-ish backup vocals for an incredible song on KS in-studio member Joe LaRose's upcoming solo disc. I will have copies available for a sale at my site when it's ready to go.
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Coming up in the not-so-near future:
Remixed and remastered versions of Duet Yourself and Naive Assumptions.
A Cut And Paste Records 20 year retrospective (which probably won't happen until next year...).
A re-edit and re-issue of the Picture Start video from several years ago.
The Cut And Paste Records podcast.
More on-line liner notes.
More releases.
More...
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Ray Carmen
Grand Poobah/Cut And Paste Records
http://members.aol.com/cutandpasterecs/cp.html
www.raycarmen.com
Email: cutandpasterecords@yahoo.com.
