Wednesday, September 19, 2007

DUET YOURSELF remaster now available

The next reissue is my 1990 album DUET YOURSELF, which has been remastered and includes one extra track. DUET contains eleven originals and two cover tunes (Sweet Young Thing and You Just May Be The One, both Monkees tunes). This was my first album-length cassette (all my previous cassettes were eps), and was originally released by the Ooh Ooh Music cassette label in North Canton, OH, which was run by my friends Mike Gonzalez and Julia Devine. The original cover art was horrible (lifted from a magazine ad for a books on tape company). The new cover art features a picture taken by my friend Mike Crooker (of the GGE Records label, who released my early eps) during a photo session for my NOTHING PERSONAL cd, which Crooker also produced, and was being recorded for the Emigre label in Sacramento, CA at the time.
The music, as usual, runs the gamut from power pop to bubblegum, from avant-garde blues to autumnal ballads, from fake industrial noise to fake film music.

This one continues to be a favorite 27 years later...

The track listing is as follows:

1. Passive/Aggressive - 4:11
2. Brand New Boyfriend - 3:37
3. The Weight - 3:24
4. You Just May Be The One - 1:59
5. Why - 4:58
6. Sweet Young Thing - 2:43
7. Love The Hard Way - 3:01
8. Beckoning - 2:44
9. Ode To Jandek - 3:14
10. Summer's Day - 2:37
11. The Fall - 3:07
12. I Know A Secret - 3:23
13. Fast Asleep - 2:07

All songs were written by me and published by Radio Friendly BMI, except
track 4, which was written by Mike Nesmith, and track 6 which was written
by Mike Nesmith, Gerry Goffin and Carol King, and were published by
Screen Gems-EMI Music. All instruments and vocals by moi, and was
recorded at home on an old Fostex four-track cassette deck, with no
mixing board, in 19889-1990. I'm surprised it sounds as good as it does.
Thanks to Mike Crooker, and Rudy at Emigre, as a few key tracks from this
cassette were re-recorded for NOTHING PERSONAL.

It's available for $5.00 postage paid. Send a check or money order payable
to Ray Carmen and send to: Cut And Paste Records, POB 152, Green, OH,
44232, USA. Cash will be sent at your own risk. And please don't make checks
or money orders payable to Cut And Paste Records, since it will only get me
funny looks at the bank, and I'll have to send it back.
More info, including online liner notes, will be posted soon.
Coming soon will be the remixed/remastered version of 1993's BUBBLEGUM BUDDHA.