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

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...

Less Paul, More Merry! - free Christmas ep

If you'd like a free 4-song Christmas ep, send me an email at cutandpasterecords at yahoo dot com, and I'll send you a zip file of four holiday classics, plus a cover to download. It's called
Less Paul, More Merry!, and is a selection of songs I've sent to folks via email over the last couple of years:

1. Christmas Time Is Here Again
2. Listen, The Snow Is Falling
3. Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
4. Joy To The World

Hope everyone has a great holiday.

Ray

And the reviews are in for NBT-4-CNP and Test Transmission!

Beverly Paterson wrote wonderful reviews for both NBT-4-CNP by The Next Big Thing, and for my 8-song sampler Test Transmission (I handed this out at the IPO last November) for the June issue of the Lance Monthly, posted on the online web site of Lance Records. Go to:
http://www.lancerecords.com/news2.htm#q2 and scroll down. Thank you, Ms. Paterson!!

Ray

New Cut And Paste Records Podcast #11 now online

Episode #11 of Ray's Record Room is now online at: http://cap_records.podomatic.com!

For this particular podcast I decided to do something a little different. This is a 50 minute podcast of audio oddities: excerpts from pirate radio station broadcasts, time and frequency broadcasts, tv and radio continuity announcements, numbers stations, home-made records, phone phreak recordings, things taped off of shortwave radio,etc. No music this time, but I will be back late summer-early fall 2010 with some great new underground pop music from unsigned artists all over the world. Hope you enjoy the podcast. Thanks!

Shut Yer Piehole! - new album out now

Out right this danged minute:

SHUT YER PIEHOLE! - an album of instrumental mixes by Ray Carmen.

Tracks:

1. Listen, The Snow Is Falling (Ono) 2:49

2. Grace (Carmen) 4:30

3. Bach Is Dead (Residents) 1:12

4. Fly (2009) (Drake) 3:24

5. Angst (Carmen) 2:58

6. My Own Company (Carmen) 4:08

7. No Matter (Carmen-Clinger) 2:27

8. Little Clockwork Man (Carmen-Clinger) 3:12

9. Traces (Carmen-Clinger) 3:20

10. Trial By Fire (Carmen-Campau) 3:27

11. Gather (Carmen-Clinger) 3:20

12. Porpoise Song (Goffin-King) 4:23

CAP-48. C and P 2010 Ray Carmen/Cut And Paste Records.

All instruments played by Ray Carmen, and recorded at batteries not included.

Ken Clinger played keys on tracks 4, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12.

All selections previously unreleased, except track 1, which was previously released

on the 2008 Ray Carmen Christmas Record, and track 5 which was released as part

of the 2009 Cut And Paste Email Singles Club. All songs copyright the respective

writers. Available for $5.00 ppd from Cut And Paste, or for trade for your own

original music.

Antenna Farm online ep

A free online ep called Antenna Farm is now avilable for download from Soundclick at:

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=106034

It's a six track collection of previously released material incoporating shortwave radio

in one form or another, spanning the years 1996-2008:

The tracks are:

Monster

Driving

Hanoi Hanna

Voice Of Free China

In The Last Days

Nothing More To Say (1:30 am)

Tracks 2 through 5 are experimental in nature, whereas tracks 1 and 6 are more or less songs. The last track doesn't incorporate any shortwave sounds in it, but it seemed like a fitting way to end the ep. Anyway, if you like this sort of thing you can download it for free. If you'd like a copy of the credits, email me at cutandpasterecords at yahoo dot com, and I'll send you a cover to print out.

Hope you'll enjoy it!

Ray

New video on YouTube

I've posted a short video on the Cut And Paste video channel! Music is by myself and

K.D. Schmitz. (NOTE: the sound is kinda loud. Sorry 'bout that...).

http://www.youtube.com/user/cutandpaste

New Cut And Paste Records podcast now online

That's right, folks---after over a year's absence (I have no excuse) The Cut And Paste Records Podcast is back. Episode #10 of Ray's Record Room features new music by Wes Johnson, Myke Weiskopf, Sonny Sixkiller, Micky Saunders, Sputnik, Robin O'Brien, Bobby Vacant & The Weary, Don Campau, Ken Clinger, R. Stevie Moore, and MJB. Check it out: http://cap_records.podomatic.com.

Ray

Check out the awesome Next BigThing video from IPO!

Gary Pig Gold just sent me this incredible video of his band The Next Big Thing performing the Everly Brothers' classic Bye Bye Love at the International Pop Overthrow Festival, November 6, 2009. Thanks Gary!!! (I wish I had been there!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik_5HxeMs0

And if you haven't heard their incredible debut NBT-4-CNP, send $5.00 pronto to Cut And Paste Records 2996Upham Dr Akron OH 44319. Make checks or money orders payable to Ray Carmen.

Happy Krimble!

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... :)