PROVOCATIVE REPERCUSSIONS out now

A brand-new best-of called Provocative Repercussions is out now. 

Featuring fourteen tracks recorded over the past ten years or so, Provocative Repercussions is a best-of culled from songs recorded solo, in collaboration with other artists, and with Kinski Spiral.  It was pressed and shrink wrapped by Kunaki.com, and the awesome cover and label art was done by my good friend Jeanne Snodgrass.  I think this is a really nice collection of songs, and a good place to start for anyone (meaning almost everyone on the planet) who isn't familiar with what I do.  And it's available for $5.00 ppd.

Tracks:

Obsession (4:02)
Bach Is Dead (1:13)
Listen, The Snow Is Falling  (2:43)
Mr. Mystery (MJB radio edit) (3:35)
Big Mistake (5:15)
Homina Homina (1:48)
Let's Get Married (2:27)
Trial By Fire (3:19)
Leaving Well Enough Alone (5:32)
The Porpoise Song (4:21)
Over The Hill (5:36)
Grace (4:22)
Gather (3:45)
Monster (4:20)

Musicians: Ray Carmen, Ken Clinger, Don Campau, Michael J. Bowman, R. Stevie Moore,

Bob Ethington, Joe LaRose, Nona Ethington, and Erin Carracher.  Produced by Ray Carmen.
CAP-49.

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