abstracts and extracts

This remarkable album is described by its creator as ‘the culmination of a slightly obsessive idea I had about sound’. Built around heavily distorted piano, backed with bass, drums and touches of guitar and sitar, its six tracks are frequently dreamy and hypnotic (reflecting Carter’s belief that ‘repetitive music radiates an unusual ethereal depth’), but can also be unnervingly intense. Recorded in Bristol in 1978-79, it was pressed in a tiny run aimed at generating major label interest; when that failed to materialise, Carter left music behind. This is its long-overdue first reissue, and comes with background notes and images.

TRACK LISTING:

• Abstracts Of Violence
• Tsa; The Hunting Cry Of The Stars
• Abyss
• Prayer To Saint Peter
• All This Sky & All This Sea
• Jimmy’s Burning