WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?! reissue out now

My first demo tape, What The Hell Is That?!, was recorded entirely on a Technics dual cassette deck in 1986, overdubbing back and forth between tapes until I had completed 11 tracks.  The album is in mono and full of hiss.  MUCH of this make me cringe, to be honest, and when I first put it out on cdr I deliberately left off two tracks.  Well, being the dummy I am, I put them back on and have reissued it again, so here it is.  Keep in mind, some of this is pretty damned lame, but there is a certain charm to some of the songs, most of which I went on to re-record on 4-track cassette (at home of course) and/or in an 8-track reel-to-reel studio for my Nothing Personal cd (Emigre, 1991).

WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!

Track listing:

Dream Girl 2:45
Me And My Big Mouth 2:44
Cafe Music 2:04
I'll Get You For That 2:59
Gone For Good 3:14
It Must Be Hard 2:07
One Without The Other 2:27
Take It Like A Man 3:44
The Late Show 3:16
Save My Soul 1:56
Merry Go Round 1:45

All songs written by Ray Carmen, published by Radio Friendly BMI.
$5.00 ppd, or in trade for your own original music.

 

New cdr UNPOPULAR MECHANICS out now

UNPOPULAR MECHANICS
Cover tunes and collaborations, part three.

Track listing:
Phone Call (Clinger-Carmen) 0:56
Circle Sky (Nesmith) 2:53
Mr. Mystery (MJB-Carmen) 4:16
How Do You Work This Thing?
  (Ethington-Carmen) 1:06
Trial By Fire (live) (Campau-Carmen) 3:16
Swamp Thing (Ethington-Carmen) 1:07
The Mighty Quinn (MC remix) (Dylan) 3:14
Screamin' Jesus Hawkins (Crooker-Carmen) 5:39
Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas
  (Danoff-Danoff) 2:34
Messages (Clinger-Carmen) 6:36
Peek-A-Boo (Stephenson-Carter) 2:43
Joy To The World (Watts-Mason) 1:00

Instruments and voices by Ray Carmen, with guest appearances by:
MJB, Ken Clinger, Don Campau, Doug Wofsey, Grace Carmen, Mike Crooker,
and Bob Ethington. 
C and P 2011 Ray Carmen/Cut And Paste Records.
Stereo.  CAP-51.
$5.00 ppd, or for trade of your own original music.

New Cut And Paste Records web site

I have a new Ray Carmen/Cut And Paste Records web site at: www.raycarmenmusic.blogspot.com, which obviously links to here, since this will still be the news page (for the three of you that actually read it from time to time LOL). The old web page at Angelfire is no longer valid, so ignore the link to it at the right (until I get that fixed, anyway). Thanks!

"Circle Sky" cover version now online at Soundcloud

In honor of The Monkees' Head box set released by Rhino Handmade, I recorded my own sloppy cover version of Mike Nesmith's Circle Sky:

www.soundcloud.com/pixilvsn

Can you dig it?

Ray

Vimeo

Oops, I meant to mention this in my previous entry...I am now on Vimeo at: http://www.vimeo.com/user5812561. Only one video there for now, but I will add more soon. I know, you just can't wait, can you? :)

Ray

I'm now on Soundcloud

That's right, folks, I am now on Soundcloud:
www.soundcloud.com/pixilvsn

Hope to see yas there--stop by and say hello!

Ray

Coming soon: PROVOCATIVE REPERCUSSIONS

Coming soon will be a professionally pressed 14-track best-of called PROVOCATIVE REPERCUSSIONS. It will be comprised of recent (ie. the last ten years or so) solo material, collaborations, and a few choice tracks from Kinski Spiral, the now-defunct six-year recording project of Ray Carmen, Bob Ethington, and Joe LaRose. It should be out by late February 2011.

New track posted on MySpace, and Hal McGee's International Email Audio Art Project

Messages, a new six-and-a-half minute ambient track created with Ken Clinger (and featuring phone calls from my daughter), has been posted on MySpace: www.myspace.com/raycarmen (yes, I still use MySpace, despite the fact that it is getting harder and harder for me to use and edit it...). A less-than-a-minute long edit of the track, called Phone Call, is track 13 on Hal McGee's International Email Audio Art Project, Volume 5 at: http://www.archive.org/details/InternationalEmailAudioArtProjectVolume5. Messages is from the forthcoming (Spring 2011, if I'm lucky) album, All Thumbs...