L'Etoile de Mer, by Christina Carter

L'Etoile de Mer

by Christina Carter

supported by

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

Black vinyl LP, cut at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin, pressed at United, heavy cardstock cover silkscreened by VG Kids

Includes unlimited streaming of L'Etoile de Mer via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 3 days

Purchasable with gift card

$16 USD or more

1.	First Performance 11:27	buy track
2.	Second Performance 11:22	buy track
3.	(untitled) 02:58	buy track
4.	(untitled) 03:59	buy track
5.	(untitled) 01:32	buy track
6.	(untitled) 03:43	buy track
7.	(untitled) 01:30	buy track
8.	(untitled) 03:01	buy track
9.	(untitled) 02:00	buy track

about

Stark and intimate even within a discography not lacking in stark intimacy, L'etoile de Mer was Christina Carter's first recorded foray outside of her work with Tom Carter as part of the legendary Charalambides. Recorded in 2000 and originally released as a limited cassette on the notorious Freedom From label, L'etoile de Mer presents the two core elements of Christina's sound as atomized statements: unaccompanied electric guitar on side A, unaccompanied vocals on side B. These atomized statements are pared down further still – single notes and unmoored vocal phrases hanging lonely in the jet black vinyl darkness. L'etoile de Mer's solo guitar side presents two takes of a live score to Man Ray's dreamlike 1928 surrealist film of the same name. Unlike the film, the music here is severely in focus: carefully placed single notes hang in a space made so tense by expectation that the air feels like glass under pressure. Buckling under the weight of their own naked intensity and the films obscure ritual logic both takes end with a sudden descent into a seasick pitch-shifted blur... The B side presents seven etude-like 'songs' recorded in an Austin hallway. Inspired by solo saxophone exercises Christina listens “to the sound of the voice to find my voice more clearly as entirely my own”. Unlike her later solo vocal works on Many Breaths Press (Masque Femine, A Blossom Fell, I Am All The Same Song), these pieces are meditations on sound rather than words. Tongue and throat animate the air, unconstrained by lyrical concerns, vocal shapes are carved, probed, turned over, discarded... Like all Christina's work these solo vocal meditations hold up a mirror to problematic dualities: self/other, conscious/unconscious, freedom/control....

Mastered by Sean McCann. Cut at Dubplates and Mastering Berlin. Heavy card stock silkscreened covers. Edition of 300.

PHYSICAL COPIES AVAILABLE FROM: WWW.EMERALDCOCOON.COM

credits

released February 11, 2015

Side 1:

Music to the film by Man Ray

Recorded live 12/9/00 by Shaun Kelly At Aurora Picture Show Houston, TX for Unconcerned But Not Indifferent: Dada Film

Side 2:

Recorded 5/23/00 in the hallway Austin, TX.

license

about

Emerald Cocoon

Limited vinyl from the empty quarter. Free psych. Spiritual punk. Free jazz undertones. Heavy baritones. Limited microtones.

emeraldcocoon.limitedrun.com

contact / help

Contact Emerald Cocoon

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like L'Etoile de Mer, you may also like:

Character Study
by Christina Carter

supported by 5 fans who also own “L'Etoile de Mer”
go to album
I Abused Animal
by Heather Leigh

supported by 4 fans who also own “L'Etoile de Mer”

What a Voice!! What extreme and wonderful sounds!! I was fortunate enough to be at a gig heather leigh/peter brötzmann once (Wels 2016) and was blown away. So thank you Heather Leigh! guska2
go to album
What Is to Come
by Charalambides

supported by 4 fans who also own “L'Etoile de Mer”

Been following them for 25 years or so. Seen them play in my town of birth The Hague. Bought the CD then, bought the FLAC now. They are still on the edge. Robert Bloemkolk
go to album
Cresta
by John Escreet/Pera Krstajic/Anthony Fung

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 25, 2022
go to album
Boulder blues
by staraya derevnya

Marvelous experimental music from this Tel Aviv musician that fuses outré noise with almost folk-like arrangements. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 13, 2022
go to album
No Base Trio
by No Base Trio

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jul 14, 2020
go to album
Roach
by Sunburned Hand of the Man

supported by 4 fans who also own “L'Etoile de Mer”

As the font suggests, this is kind of all balls-out rock-hard album but in a deliriously scuzzed out, off-kilter way. One audience member sounds furious at the end, accusing them of trying to get a reaction - fucking hippy should be grateful for experiencing this up close! Was Ist Das?
go to album