GAJOOB Archive #5449 via Ken Clinger
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VELVETA HEARTBREAK – DONT FORGET THE CHEESE: MJB ’89-92 $5.00
Michael J. Bowman is back with a brand-new best-of compilation! These 16 awe-inspiring tracks were recorded at home, and originally released on cassettes. Velveta Heartbreak is his new moniker, but he’s still MJB to us here at Cut And Paste!!
CAP-31 RAY CARMEN – NAÏVE ASSUMPTIONS $5.00
Here are Ray’s very first four-track recordings, circa 1988-89, but remastered. These 13 tracks run the gamut from bubblegum and power pop, to country rock, demented 30’s swing, cutesy folk instrumentals, and faux paux arena-rock ballads, all bathed in a heaping helping of warm analogue hiss. Very twee, lightweight, rather naïve (hence the title)…. and well, kind of embarrassing. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
CAP-32 RAY CARMEN – DUET YOURSELF $5.00
Ray’s first full-length cassette from 1990 gets reissued with a restored track listing. Includes Brand New Boyfriend, The Fall, the bizarre Ode To Jandek, and two Mike Nesmith covers. After 18 years, this one still seems to be a favorite with some folks. 13 songs.
CAP-33 RAY CARMEN – BUBBLEGUM BUDDHA $5.00
This album is really weird (despite the title), encompassing bubblegum pop, country, surf instrumentals, hard rock parodies, Vini Reilly-esqe guitar pieces, and much more, not to mention one of Ray’s best songs, Out Of Your Hair. 15 songs.
CAP-34 KEN CLINGER & RAY CARMEN – HOPES AND FEARS $5.00
Ken Clinger wrote and played the music, while Ray wrote and sang the lyrics. Includes the Motown-flavored I Know You Know, One More Day (described by a friend of Ray’s as “the saddest love song ever written*), and covers of songs by Nick Drake and…The Banana Splits. 12 songs.
CAP-35 RAY CARMEN – AFTER WORK AND ON WEEKENDS: TWENTY YEARS OF HOME RECORDING, 1986-
2006 $5.00
A new best-of picking up (and expanding upon) where OBSCURITY KNOCKS left off. Includes recent collaborations with Don Campau and R. Stevie Moore. If you’ve never heard anything by Ray before, this would be a good place to start. 18 songs.
CAP-36 RAY CARMEN – BIRTHDAY EP $5.00
Two tracks from Ray’s upcoming experimental/instrumental/ambient release, ULTRA SOUND. Grace is a shoegazing selection, while Driving is the soundtrack to a late-night trip through a foreign city-scape. Also includes an early instrumental mix of Grace.
PODCASTS
These are car copies of The Cut And Paste Records Podcast (available online at cap_records.podomatic.com, and also at www.radiofreecanton.net). I play music by underground artists as well as make pathetic attempts at DJing. Each podcast is approx. an hour long, and are available for $2.00 each. Podcasts 2 through 8 are now available (podcast 1 was an edited online sneak preview of my OLD SCHOOL OLD FOOL cd – Ray).
PODCAST 2 – The Inay, Joan Marie Polo, R. Stevie Moore, Don Campu, John T. Baker, MJB, Ken Clinger, Dino Dimuro, Rob Christensen and Kinski Spiral.
PODCAST 3 – Daniel Johnston, Don Campau, Steve Fisk, James St. Vrrain, Martin Newell, Plastic Eye Miracle, Ice Cream Blisters, Max & Mel, Shonen Knife, Beat Happening, The Dave, X-Cetra and Thirty Two Ways.
PODCAST 4 – Hal McGee, DJ Zombo, Belinda Subraman & Ken Clinger, Shannon Kringen, The Conet Project, Steve Fisk, Silverstream, One Of One, Eric Wallack & Don Campau, Klaus Flouride, Big City Orchestra, Tom Furgas, R. Stevie Moore and BB2X4.
PODCAST 5 – My Dad Is Dead, Kinski Spiral, Pere Ubu, Witch Hazel, Whiskey Drifters, Racehl Sweet, Full Wave Rectifier, King Dapper Combo, Chris Butler, Tracey Thomas, Chi-Pig, Tin Huey, Mortimer Post, Twist-Offs, Surfaholics, Missle Toe.
PODCAST 6 – Bill Jones Show, Screaming Popeyes, Cleaners From Venus, Wes Turner, Kitchen Cynics, X-Ray Pop, Nutley Brass, Mickey Saunders & Dan Susnara, The Dave, •alkali, Silly Pillows, Ian C. Stewart, Lord Litter, Anton Balsam, Algebra Suicide, Magik Plastique.
PODCAST 7 – Magik Plastique, Alan Grandy, The Inay, tofu, Don Campau, Silverstream, Raymond Scott Woolson, The Conet Project, Hal McGee.
PODCAST 8 – Kitchen Cynics, Ice Cream Blisters, Rob Christensen, LMNOP, Lawrence Salvatore, Bill Jones Show, MJB, CD Truth, House Of Sectionals, Duff Davis & The Book Club, Bryan Baker, Rich Arithmetic, Squires Of The Subterrain, Breetles.
CATALOG
CAP-1 RAY CARMEN – OBSCURITY KNOCKS
(Home Recordings 1987-1997) $5.00
Neophytes, start here… This is a collection of home recordings from various scattered cassette releases over a ten year period. Features songs from DUET YOURSELF/NAIVE ASSUMPTIONS, BUBBLEGUM BUDDHA and TOO OLD FOR ANGST.
Be the first on your block to own this fine piece of work. Hell, be the ONLY one. Whatever. 18 songs.
CAP-3 RAY CARMEN – HANGER 18 $5.00
Thirteen murky soundtracks to various daydreams and nightmares, using tape edits and primitive sampling as “vocals”.
Not a new idea to be sure, but it’s fun, and kinda goofy in places. Oh, the humanity!
CAP-6 RAY CARMEN – TOO OLD FOR ANGST $5.00
TOO OLD has a folky/progressive sound. Includes the NOVEMBER ep, which is almost all acoustic. Highly recommended, if we do say so ourselves. 😉 Includes the My Bloody Valentine-meets-Nick Drake epic Monster, 16 songs.
CAP-7 KINSKI SPIRAL – HYMNS AND FRAGMENTS $5.00
HYMNS is Kinski Spiral’s debut album. A beautiful, adventurous pop record, it encompasses psychedelic power-pop, baroque-flavored ballads, sixties girl-group vocals, home made avant-garde sound bites, cosmic bubble-gum, weird rock-n-roll instrumentals, and much more. 13 songs for music geeks of all ages.
CAP-8 VARIOUS ARTISTS – ‘TILL NEXT: THE KEN CLINGER TRIBUTE ALBUM $5.00
Compiled by long-time fan and collaborator Ray Carmen, this tribute album features songs written by (or inspired by) Ken Clinger. Ken’s songs get the royal treatment from thirteen different artists, including MJB, K. D. Schmitz, Don Campau, Dino Dimuro, Ray Carmen, John Lisiecki, Jack Jordan, and several others, plus a tribute by the world’s first Ken Clinger cover band. 13 tracks.
CAP-9 KINSKI SPIRAL – SILVER SCREAM EP $5.00
This three song ep features Don’t Know, a haunting acoustic ballad from the band’s acoustic album SILENT STARS, plus a non-album track, My Own Company. The centerpiece, however, is the 14 minute-plus ambient epic, Elizabeth Disappears, from KONTAKTE. This piece sounds like it could be the soundtrack to an unmade Coen Brothers southern backwater swamp murder mystery. (Formerly known as Elizabeth Disappears)
CAP-12 RAY CARMEN AND KEN CLINGER – SNOW DAYEP $5.00
Three Christmas songs and two songs that sound like they should be Christmas songs. Starts off with the pop classic Jingle Bell Rock, continues with Clinger’s lead vocal on the wonderful Let It Snow, and concludes with remixes of two tracks from HOPES AND FEARS. 5 songs.
CAP-13 RAY CARMEN – CORRECT ME IF I’M WRONG $5.00
Kayla. 12 songs.
CAP-14 KINSKI SPIRAL – KONTAKTE $5.00
KONTAKTE is part Kraftwerk-inspired rhythmic exercises, part goofy tape edits recalling the late-80s cassette releases of Steve Fisk. Tic, the album’s opener, boasts a minimalist drum track, and morse code. How Are You G.I. Joe? features samples of Hanoi Hanna, the infamous Vietnamese radio broadcaster during the Vietnam War. The masterpiece, of course, is the last track, Elizabeth Disappears, the should-be-a-soundtrack collaboration with Ken Clinger. 8 songs.
CAP-17 RAY CARMEN – POP VICTROLA $5.00
Nine acoustic demos overdubbed on a dual cassette deck (in mono) in late 1986. It sounds like it was mastered off the
(with a hint of Violent Femmes and the Velvet Underground) this would be right up your alley.
CAP-18 KEN CLINGER – TIME TRAVEL AND ASSOCIATION $5.00
TIME TRAVEL goes through a decade of songs in 40 minutes. Includes Radio, the theme song written and recorded for Don Campau’s “No Pigeonholes” radio show. ASSOCIATION is a collection of songs sung by Ken that were created in associations with Tom Furgas, Lawrence Salvatore, Arnold Mathes, Dan Susnara, Dan Fioretti, and Ray Carmen. 16 songs.
CAP-19 RAY CARMEN – PLEASE STAND BY… $5.00
Thirteen assorted stray and unreleased tracks collected onto one disc. Includes Carmen’s version of Don Campau’s Pure Love, along with Thrush (an instrumental collaboration with MJB), the infamous Ode To Jandek, and various other oddities.
Somethings old, new, borrowed and blue.
ECD-008 RAY CARMEN – NOTHING PERSONAL (original migré release)
CAP-20 RAY CARMEN – NOTHING PERSONAL (revisited) $5.00
First issued by the Emigre label in 1991, NOTHING PERSONAL was Carmen’s first CD release. It also represented his first foray into a real studio, instead of recording at home. The reissue contains two bonus tracks and a couple of substitutions, including two alternate mixes of Beckoning, and a 16-track demo of Me And My Big Mouth. Get both of these for the price of one. 12 songs (original)/15 songs (reissue).
CAP-21 RAY CARMEN AND KEN CLINGER – SOUTHBOUND TO ROSWELL $5.00
This time Ken Clinger writes words to exisiting Ray Carmen instrumentals (and a few new ones), and the results are 11 very cool tunes! Ken’s lighthearted, surreal and playful lyrics perfectly match Ray’s eclectic instrumental tracks. There’s some great pop tunes (Down The Rabbit Hole, Anything Anytime Anywhere), a bizarre country tune about an alien girlfriend (the great title track), a song for kids (Little Clockwork Man), and even a lesson in Esperanto (Kafeja Muziko) that William
CAP-22 KINSKI SPIRAL – SILENT STARS $5.00
SILENT STARS finds the band with a new third member in the studio (Joe LaRose, engineering, mixing and additional instruments) and a new approach. They’ve stripped things down, revealing touches of Dylan-esque folk (Beautiful Eyes), Velvet Underground pop filtered through the Monkees (Lost A Friend), creepy lounge-jazz (Where Did My Dreams Go?), country (/ Saw It In A Dream), and Indian Raga-rock (Masculine Feminine). The band thinks this is their best one yet, and we agree. 9 songs.
CAP-23 DON CAMPAU AND RAY CARMEN – ALL OF IT $5.00
A six song ep featuring three songs each from Ray and Don, where one provides the music and the other provides the lyrics and vocals. Ray’s power-pop sensibilities and Don’s incredible guitar playing make this a perfect match on songs like Alone On The Bus, Little Angel, and the title track. This is a joint release with Don’s Lonely Whistle Music label, and it’s fun!
CAP-25 RAY CARMEN – I Told Her Everything b/w Big Mistake CD-single $2.00
Two brand-new tunes from Ray’s forthcoming long player OLD SCHOOL, OLD FOOL. The A-side ballad is typical solo, while the double A-side is a killer collaboration with underground legend R. Stevie Moore!
CAP-26 JAMES ST. VRRAIN – TWEENERS $5.00
Vrrain is not only a great pop songwriter, he’s also got a great voice, and the jangliest guitar sound in the pop music underground. A “tweener” is a baseball term referring to a ball hit between two outfielders, but in our book, these ten tunes are all home runs–and they’re leftovers, for cryin’ out loud! Now available on CD-R!
10 songs.
CAP-27 DON CAMPAU – OUTTAKES AND RARE TRACKS $5.00
Don Campau has been writing and recording underground music since the early seventies. His Lonely Whistie Music label features tons of tapes not only from Don himself, but from home tapers all over the world. It would be WELL worth your effort to check it out. Here’s 12 tunes from the godfather of home taping. Now available on CD-R!
CAP- 28 RICH ARITHMETIC – NOTES FROM THE HELIUM AUXILIARY $5.00
For years Optional Art’s Rich Arithmetic has used his home 4-track recordings to work out arrangements, demo songs for other musicians, and record incidental sounds for his own records. NOTES offers a cheap way of checking out what goes on in Rich’s mind before you shell out the bread for his full-length CD, SLEEP IN A WIGWAM (Optional Art, 1994). Now available on CD-R! 9 songs.
CAP-29 KINSKI SPIRAL – KINSKI KOVERS EP $2.00
KINSKI KOVERS is an ep of three cover tunes, featuring KS’s take on Martin Newell’s Let’s Get Married, an acoustic version of Hendrix’s Purple Haze, and a very bizarre rendition of Devo’s The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize. It’s an ep, but since it’s so short, we’re selling it as a single, so don’t miss out on the fun!
CAP-30 RAY CARMEN – OLD SCHOOL, OLD FOOL $5.00
Ray’s brand new album contains 14 new (and re-worked) tracks recorded at home. Ambient instrumentals run headfirst into gooey psychedelic pop, flaminco guitars siam into tribal rhythms, children’s songs trip over power-pop tunes, and atmospheric sound bites stumble over electronic folk music. Miraculously, no one was hurt. It doesn’t rock, exactly, but it sure snaps, crackles, and pops.
VINYL
GGEP-9002 RAY CARMEN – RADIO FRIENDLY 7″ EP $2.00
Four songs from NOTHING PERSONAL, pressed onto one of those round plastic things with grooves in it. Released in 1990 on the now-defunct GGE Records label out of Kent, OH, and already it’s an antique. Comes in red, black or green vinyl.
Very limited amount left. If you don’t have a turntable you can always use it for a frisbee…or for target practice.
CASSETTES
SHANE FAUBERT/THE GHOST ROCKETS – A PIG POP SAMPLER
C-60 $2.00
A split project courtesy of Gary Pig Gold. Faubert writes and sings perfect three-minute pop gems with a heavy Everly/Hollies influence, while the Rockets play great pop-rock, sounding like a cross between REM and Gram Parsons Both of these artists have released dozens of CDs and cassettes to ecstatic acclaim. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. 19 songs.
R. STEVIE MOORE – THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO R. STEVIE MOORE
C-60 $2.00
R. Stevie Moore is a legendary figure in the world of underground pop. His cassette club boasts over 200 (!) cassette albums. He has released around two dozen LPs and CDs on various labels to ecstatic critical acclaim. All of it is a dairy of a musical genius at work (and play). An hour’s worth of music from the master. 21 songs.
KLAUS FLOURIDE – BODY PARTS C-30 $2.00
Dead Kennedys bassist Klaus Flouride issued this fan-club only cassette back in 1988 to promote his BECAUSE I SAY SO LP.
For six bucks you were sent this cassette, a questionnaire to fill out and send back…oh, and a package of condiments. This cassette features unreleased tracks from the album sessions (some of which Klaus recorded at home), plus some instrumental remixes, and an interview with Klaus which took place in a noisy café. Ambient spoken word? Condiments not included. 7 tracks.
ORDERING INSTRUCTIONS
Ok, kids, here’s the deal. The price for each item given after the title is POSTAGE PAID. All you have to do is write out on a piece of paper what you want, add up the total, and send it in with a check or money order payable to RAY CARMEN, not Cut And Paste Records. If you make it out to Cut And Paste Records, I have to send it back. recommended, but if you do send it, cover it well. I can’t be held responsible for money lost in the mail. Overseas orders please add one dollar to your total. Most orders are sent out within two weeks, although overseas orders can take a little longer. Any questions, just email me at: cutandpasterecords@yahoo.com
NOTE: With the exception of the Émigré release of NOTHING PERSONAL, all CD releases sold through Cut And Paste are CD-Rs (consumer recordable CDs), Some have labels, some don’t. Most CD-R manufacturers suggest you don’t attach labels, in case the CD-Rs don’t play properly. On the other hand, most radio stations and record stores— the ones that will accept CD-Rs-won’t accept them without labels. I’m as confused as you are. If you have problems playing what you ordered, send it back and I’ll replace it free of charge. Audio cassettes (which no one ever orders anymore) are duplicated on high-bais tapes.
Ray
