Baroo & Himalaya Albums Both Named “Best of 2019” by The Wire, Pitchfork, Artforum, Bandcamp

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Both Carl Stone album releases from 2019 found their ways onto a number of Best of the Year lists, from Artforum to The Wire.

THE WIRE:
Himalaya: Best of 2019 14/100
“The world’s pop music has become putty in Stone’s hands. Each piece could, in theory, keep reassembling its particles infinitely”

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/431

THE WIRE:
Baroo: Best of 2019 27/100
“Like a vivd and recurrent memory of somewhere you have never been, or an everday experience suddenly made inexplicable and strange”

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/431

ARTFORUM:
Himalaya: Best Music of 2019 5/10

How much music do you really need? Stone’s work suggests that sometimes a second is enough. As he shows on Himalaya, real-time manipulation of tiny samples can yield extraordinary results, ranging from shattered-beat mosaics to oceanic stillness.

https://www.artforum.com/print/201910

BANDCAMP
Baroo & Himalaya: Best Experimental Albums of 2019
The two albums released by Carl Stone in 2019 bubble with ideas and careen with dizzying juxtapositions. He has an uncanny knack for cutting up songs and samples in ways that retain structure and melody yet still sound deconstructed and disorienting, as if the floor beneath them is bending and warping and could collapse at any time. Baroo and Himalaya both engage with pop music by rearranging its DNA, constructing a new kind of catchiness through circular edits. He can build arcs that rise and fall, and ride loops that hypnotize as they expand. The process is brainy, but both albums are also full of glee, as fun to listen to as they are to contemplate.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-experimental/the-best-experimental-albums-of-2019

PITCHFORK:
Baroo: Best Experimental Albums of 2019
“Like a vivd and recurrent memory of somewhere you have never been, or an everday experience suddenly made inexplicable and strange”

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-experimental-albums-2019/

These titles available through UNSEEN WORLDS as well as on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and finer music stores.

January 16 19h00 Ho Chi Minh City VN MoT+++ Saigon

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Thursday January 16 2020 19h00
Carl’s Ho Chi Minh City debut!
The venue is MoT+++s an independent, artist-run space in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. it collaborates with artists to create an experimental environment that encourages artists to push the boundaries of their practice. Joining for the evening will be Lý Trang the experimental pop/electronic composer and producer based in Hanoi as well as cross genre multi-instrumental musician and sound artist Scobi Wan.

Artists:

100,000 dong

MoT+++ Saigon
1057 Đường Bình Quới, Phường 28, Bình Thạnh, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam

http://motplus.xyz/
https://www.facebook.com/events/581786735990014/

January 26 open 18h00 start 19h00 Tokyo Koto-ku KS Loft House

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Sunday January 26 2020 open 18h00 start 19h00
Winter Party -Carl Stone, Yasumune Morishige, Akaihirume

A private house next to a temple and cemetery in the Kiyosumi area of Tokyo becomes the venue for a special installation/performance by Carl Stone (electronics) Akaihirume (voice) and Morishige Yasumune (cello). Multiple rooms in the uniquely designed house, plus adjacent areas surrounding, serve as the stage. The three artists find a way for a unique interaction.

*please contact akaihirume@gmail.com
「subject: JAN26」for location details.

Artists:

“Nagesen” (free donation)

KS Loft House
Access details will be provided upon registration

akaihirume@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/504268720423173/

February 9 7:30 PM San Diego CA White Box Live Arts

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Sunday February 9 2020 7:30 PM
Carl returns to San Diego after a 7 year hiatus to perform a solo concert at White Box Live Arts, located inside Liberty Station. This event is part of the Fresh Sound series, produced and hosted by Bonnie Wright. The mission of the Fresh Sound series is to bring a wide range of new music and stellar musicians to San Diego that wouldn’t normally find themselves in the area. Fresh Sound began presenting concerts in 1997 “and will continue ad infinitum.”

$20/$10 students at the door

White Box Live Arts
2590 Truxtun Rd #205, San Diego, CA 92106
619-987-6214
bonniebwright@gmail.com
http://www.freshsoundmusic.com/upcoming-shows.html
http://www.freshsoundmusic.com/020920.html

February 20 8 PM Seattle WA Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center

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Thursday February 20 2020 8 PM
Carl returns to the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center after a twelve year hiatus, this time for a shared evening with sound artist, producer, guitarist, composer Robert Millis.

Artists:

$5-15 at the door

Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N Seattle, WA 98103

https://www.waywardmusic.org/?p=4920
https://www.facebook.com/events/614797512603812/

February 21 6:30 PM Portland OR Leaven Community Center

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Friday February 21 2020 6:30 PM
Carl returns to Portland after a hiatus of twenty-eight years! Many thanks to Ryan Carlile and Spencer Doran for arranging, It should be a fun show. Carl shares the bill with Takako Minakawa from Japan and Francisco Botello from US/Mexico. Visable Cloaks will be DJ-ing and the whole event will be in 4-channel quadraphonic sound. Set times are 7:00/8:00/9:00

Artists:

$10

Leaven Community Center
5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland, OR 97211,
(503) 287-7553 (Leaven Community)
spencer@visiblecloaks.com

February 22 7PM Bellingham WA AltLib -The Alternative Library

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Saturday February 22 2020 7PM
Carl’s Bellingham debut! The venue is Bellingham’s Alternative Library, which offers a curated public book collection and is host to a wide array of events, including concerts, film screenings, workshops, and readings. Music by Hortus Curo, Nice Train Sounds, Steve Sehman. Lights throughout the night from Yarn Thorsau.

Artists:

$6-10 sliding scale

AltLib -The Alternative Library
1309 Billy Frank Jr. St, Bellingham, WA 98225

info@altlib.org
http://altlib.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/609008576501728/