Search - Tom Carter, Robert Horton :: Lunar Eclipse

Lunar Eclipse was culled from over 30 hours of recordings taking place, inadvertently, on the lunar eclipse/winter solstice of 2004. Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Robert Horton sound as if they are channeling the natural power of these significant calendar days into the music. They both noticed something special was happening during the initial recording session, when they looked at a clock and realized that they?d been playing for over five hours. Throughout the album, Carter slowly plays louder and more powerfully than usual over drone-master Horton?s organic electronic chimes, drones, jangles, dangles and splendor. The result is a vast, expansive sound cavern full of hidden melody, slow drones, textured tribal gong and hidden mystic rhythm. Track one is a slow drone metal-meets-Neil Young psychedelic freakout, with vocals that sound as if they were recorded inside of a deep cave. On other tracks, Horton?s homemade instruments fuse with Carter?s twisted lap steel shimmering. And, on the last track, Carter and Horton weld a Harry Partch web of rhythm until it implodes in metal drone fragments of screeching fury. Lunar Eclipse demands to be listened to in its entirety as one whole experience. It has an undeniable power, much like the natural events that subconsciously inspired the recordings.