April 26 20h00 Dublin IE The Sound House

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Sunday April 26 2020 20h00
Carl’s Dublin debut! Opening the evening will be Jane Deasy, a composer and performer working across various forms including theatre, installation and radio. She composes both electronic and electroacoustic music exploring the boundaries between music and theatre. Hosted by Enthusiastic Eunuch Promotions and The Sound House

Artists:

EUR 15.00

Buy Tickets Online

The Sound House
1st Floor, 28 Eden Quay, North City, Dublin, D01 DE44

https://billetto.ie/e/carl-stone-with-special-guest-jane-deasy-tickets-411720/
https://www.facebook.com/events/530053431193671/

Full Review of HIMALAYA in The Wire’s December 2019 Issue

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Carl Stone made the wise decision to split his latest creations over several releases.

Carl Stone Himalaya Unseen Worlds CD/DL/2xLP

 

It takes 35 minutes to reach the summit of Carl Stone’s new Himalaya. To arrive there, you ascend through manically cut up and overlaid Afrobeats, funk and hiphop grooves together with a tasty disco riff that reassembles the very molecules of your being. Then, having hit the apex, Stone throws you into idyllic freefall for the next half hour, into a balmy environment of slow moving and ethereal tones, music that is as voluminous and prayer-like as the opening part is compacted and hedonistic.

The relationship between Himalaya and Stone’s release from earlier this year, Baroo, mirrors that between Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way – the later album building on the textural and harmonic palette of all that went before, while clawing open fresh expressive possibilities. The opening piece “Han Yan” tells you what to expect as high-speed Afrobeats hallucinate on their own existence. Musically, two things are happening. Stone has the beats on intense fast-forward, while little microedits snip out crucial supporting notes in the harmony, which spins the music relentlessly forwards – it has no brakes.

A strutting rock beat kick-starts “Bia Bia” before it lurches towards ebullient chaos, with broken-up trumpet fanfares randomly puncturing the texture like Lester Bowie is wandering in and out of earshot. “Kikanbou” is grounded by a mesmeric disco beat that keeps rolling for 17 minutes, a motor around which auxiliary beats circle. Around the six minute mark, and for no other reason than he can, Stone suddenly turns everything upside down and inside out, and upside out and downside up, leaving beats coiling in other directions and soaring upwards. The world’s pop music has become putty in Stone’s hands. Each piece could, in theory, keep reassembling its particles infinitely. But Stone applies his composerly voice with a noticeably light touch, making conscious decisions about his material without ever suffocating its freedom.

Had he signed off after “Kikanbou” Himalaya would still have been exceptional, but the final glide through spacious textures and rarefied tunings – leading towards intonations from the Japanese vocalist Akaihirume – reconnects your soul with the stuff of sound itself as you ruminate on an epic journey, both exhilarating and affecting.

Philip Clark

The Wire December 2019

The Wire’s review of Himalaya, my latest release

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Happy to report, The Wire’s review of Himalaya, my latest release, is pretty much a rave.


Excerpt: It takes 35 minutes to reach the summit of Carl Stone’s new Himalaya. To arrive there, you ascend through manically cut up and overlaid Afrobeats, funk and hiphop grooves together with a tasty disco riff that reassembles the very molecules of your being. Then, having hit the apex, Stone throws you into idyllic freefall for the next half hour, into a balmy environment of slow moving and ethereal tones, music that is as voluminous and prayer-like as the opening part is compacted and hedonistic.
The relationship between Himalaya and Stone’s release from earlier this year, Baroo, mirrors that between Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way – the later album building on the textural and harmonic palette of all that went before, while clawing open fresh expressive possibilities.

You can read the entire review here, or of course in The Wire’s December 2019 issue.

BANDCAMP:

https://unseenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/himalaya

https://unseenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/baroo

APPLE MUSIC

https://music.apple.com/us/album/himalaya/1473870763

https://music.apple.com/us/album/baroo/1452006426

Two Releases Now Out on Unseen Worlds

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Two albums just released on CD. HIMALAYA, the newest of them (featuring title track with @akaihirume), is now out on CD and DIGITAL formats. BAROO joins the physical realm today on CD, as well. Both HIMALAYA and BAROO have delicious vinyl platters forthcoming. Please enjoy this first course… artwork by Sam Lubicz

“Stone makes music that can hit your ear holes like a DMT flash.”
– Richard Gehr, Relix

“Stone is still ahead of the game when it comes to his knack for discovering a world of music in a grain of sound.” – Julian Cowley, The Wire

“It’s another hall of mirrors but this time, its every surface is in a packed lysergic night club. Strings stretched, fragments jackhammer, and thick synthetic arcs swarm….Stone is on fire here” – John J Nicol, Obladada

https://unseenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/himalaya
https://unseenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/baroo

October 20 open 17h00 start 19h00 Yokohama JP CAVE横浜

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Sunday October 20 2019 open 17h00 start 19h00
Carl and Akaihirume appear as part of an event headlined by an improvo of modular synth / percussion and electric guitar by Danish musician Anders Bach and Kyoto guitarist Kouta Yamauchi.

Artists:

  • Anders Bach (DK) + 山内弘太
  • 夏の大△ +？？？
  • ensui
  • Carl Stone and Akihirume
  • [カールストーンと赤い日ル女]
  • 未同定

adv. 2500 yen + 1drink
door. 3000 yen + 1drink

CAVE横浜
Kanagawa ken Yokohama Naka-ku Isezaki-Cho 1-3-1

Yokohama JP

the.cave.event1020@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/cave.curry.sound/
https://www.facebook.com/events/546447462953263/

November 2 open 19h00 start 19h00 Tokyo Ochiai Soup

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Saturday November 2 2019 open 19h00 start 19h30
Test Tone Presents: Signals Down

Carl Stone + Ikeda Yoko
Gregor Vidic + Cal Lyall + Nicolas Field
Yagi Michiyo + Yoshida Tatsuya
DJ beermike (SuperDeluxe)

Artists:

2000 yen (includes 1 drink)

Soup
3-9-10 Mikasa BLD BF1 Kamiochiai Shinjuku-ku Tokyo
東京都新宿区落合3-9-10　三笠ビルBF1
Map (English) at here
Map (Japanese) at here
http://ochiaisoup.web.fc2.com/schedulethis.html
http://ochiaisoup.com

November 3 tba Tokyo Shibuya JP EdgeOf Live at ther BBC Proms Japan

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Sunday November 3 2019 tba
The BBC comes to Japan for the Proms, and Carl Stone + Akaihirume (赤い日ル女) join the fun – You can attend! Come to the amazing project space EDGEof, in Shibuya.
Also sharing the evening: SUGAI KEN, Masanori Oishi and more. The event starts with a panel discussion at 18h30, with live music starting at 20h00. This evening will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast at a later date.

Artists:

3000 yen

Buy Tickets Online

EdgeOf
Tokyo Shibuya-ku Shibuya Jinnan 1-11-13
〒150-0041 東京都渋谷区神南1-11-3
Map (English) at here
http://mixcloud.com/newratio
https://edgeof.co/about/

November 17 open 14:00 start 15:00 BUoY Ftarri Festival 2019

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Sunday November 17 2019 open 14:00 start 15:00
Carl performs with Akaihirume (赤い日ル女) on the 4th and final day of the 2019 FTARRI FESTIVAL. The third and forth comcerts take place in the cool venue known as BuOY,

General – 5,500 yen in advance, 6,000 yen at the door
Student – 4,500 yen in advance, 5,000 yen at the door
General and Student tickets include 1 beverage each day.
2-day pass (advance purchase only):
General – 10,000 yen / Student – 8,000 yen

BUoY
49-11 Senju Naka-cho Adachi-ku Tokyo
東京都足立区千住仲町 49 -11
Map (Japanese) at here
info@ftarri.com
http://www.ftarri.com/festival/2019/index-e.html
http://ftarri.com/suidobashi/index-e.html
https://www.facebook.com/Ftarri-Festival-108252680570264/

November 22 open 19h30 start 20h00 Bar Isshee

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Friday November 22 2019 open 19h30 start 20h00
Elliot Sharp and Carl Stone reunite in Tokyo after performances in New York, Berlin, and Los Angeles.

Reservations required: please email barisshee@keh.biglobe.ne.jp

Artists:

3,200JPY + drink

Bar Isshee
3-36-11 Sendagi Bunkyo-ku Tokyo – Century 21 Bldg B1
東京都 文京区 千駄木3-36-11 千駄木センチュリー21 B1F
Map (English) at here
Map (Japanese) at here
barisshee@keh.biglobe.ne.jp
http://www.bloc.jp/barisshee/

December 1 Open 15h30 Start 16h00 Yokosuka City JP Kasuya Forest Museum of Contemporary Art

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Sunday December 1 2019 Open 15h30 Start 16h00
Carl joins Aki Takahashi’s piano recital at Kasuya Contemporary Art Musem for a performance of his piece FELIX, for piano and electronics. Also on the program, music by Schubert, Liszt, Yuasa, and Tchaikovsky.

Artists:

6000 yen (5000 yen for museum members)

Kasuya Forest Museum of Contemporary Art
7-12-13, Hirasaku
Yokosuka-city Kanagawa 238-0032
〒238-0032 神奈川県横須賀市平作7-12-13046-852-3030
Map (English) at here
Map (Japanese) at here
info@museum-haus-kasuya.com
http://www.museum-haus-kasuya.com/

December 6 19h30 Tokyo Shimo-Kitazawa Japan Apollo Live At The Apollo!

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Friday December 6 2019 19h30
Carl joins up for a first time meeting with guitarist Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple) and New Mexico based virtuoso percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (a rare performance in his home country). You will want to be there for this unique combination.

Artists:

¥2000 advance, ¥2500 same day, 1 drink minimum

Apollo
EIKO Bldg. B1, Kitazawa 2-9-22 Setagaya-ku Tokyo
東京都世田谷区北沢2-9-22 EIKOビルB1
Map (Japanese) at here
https://ameblo.jp/430416apollo/
https://www.facebook.com/events/438765326759192/

December 8 open 19h00 Start 19h30 Tokyo Okubo JP Hikari no Uma

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Sunday December 8 2019 open 19h00 Start 19h30
Carl joins with guitarist Makoto Kawabata (川端一) and percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (中谷達也). A follow up show to the trio’s premiere performance two days earlier, so if you miss the former you can catch the latter. Also on the evening’s bill, MANDOG + Mitsuru Tabata!

Artists:

2800 yen

Hikari no Uma
Hyakunincho 1-23-17 B1 Ohkubo Shinjuku-ku Tokyo
169-0073 東京都新宿区百人町1-23-17-B1
https://hikarinouma.blogspot.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/2455873474659762/

October 6 open 19:30 start 20:00 Tokyo Bunkyo-ku ftarri

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Sunday October 6 2019 open 19:30 start 20:00
Ken IKEDA+Tim OLIVE+Carl STONE. First meeting of these three electronic musicians, each with their unique style, in what will certainly be an evening of sonic revelation and wonder. Tickets ¥2000 in advance, ¥2500 at the door. Open at 19h30, start at 20h00. Folks can email info@ftarri.com to reserve or with further questions.

Artists:

  • Tim OLIVE
  • Ken IKEDA [池田 謙]
  • Carl STONE [カールストーン]

Advance: ¥2000 Same Day: ¥2500

ftarri
Okuno Bldg B1F 1-4-11 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo
Tokyo Bunkyo-ku

Map (Japanese) at here
info@ftarri.com
http://www.ftarri.com/suidobashi/index-e.html
http://www.ftarri.com/suidobashi/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/514361409329751/

September 6 11AM New York – or your local time streaming on the internet WFMU

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Friday September 6 2019 11AM New York – or your local time
Carl and Akihirume perform live on the third and final hour of Radio Ravioli with Olivia on WFMU. 11AM Eastern, 8AM PDT, 5PM in London, 3AM Saturday in Tokyo.

Artists:

  • Carl Stone
  • Akaihirume

WFMU
91.1 and 91.9 fm in New Jersey and New York City, and at 90.1 and 91.9 fm in the Hudson Valley
streaming on the internet

https://wfmu.org/

June 19 6PM the world KALW-fm

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<strong>Sunday June 19 2022 6PM</strong>

Carl will be a guest of KALW’s fine music program REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE, hosted by Sarah Cahill. He’ll talk and play selections from his new album just now released on Unseen Worlds, and he will also give a preview of his upcoming appearance at Garden of Memory at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland on June 21.

KALW-fm

WEB: <a HREF=”https://www.kalw.org/show/revolutions-per-minute” target=”_blank”> https://www.kalw.org/show/revolutions-per-minute</a>

WEB: <a HREF=”https://www.kalw.org/” target=”_blank”>https://www.kalw.org/</a>

TOUCHING EXTREMES Reviews Baroo in their May Edition

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CARL STONE – Baroo

BY MASSIMO RICCI MAY 24, 2019

The last few years have given us a chance to gather a sizable chunk of Carl Stone’s older material. A pair of archival releases on this very label reminded us of the reasons for our immediate falling in love with Mom’s way back in 1992. Now it’s time to celebrate, and perhaps dance to the tune of a completely new record.
Well, not exactly. Baroo’s tracklist comprises two opuses from 2011, the remaining ones having been composed in 2018. It doesn’t matter anyway; Stone’s researching between the cracks of an intercontinental aesthetic consciousness yields laudable results whatever the age of his sounds. If anything, we could jokingly describe this item as a rhythmically charged “mutant pop” album; however, its interlocking patterns and splintered harmonic elements betray compositional subtleties that might be missed by the casual listener’s (lack of) focus. And yet, the composer himself states his hope for the audience to have fun with this music. Mission accomplished, needless to say: the title track – an entrancing salsa kaleidoscope that would stimulate Steve Reich’s jealousy – is alone worth the price of admission.
Still, this writer’s favorite is the subsequent “Xé May”. It is entirely performed on the Electron Octatrack, a small-sized sampling device that can do miracles in the right hands. A persistent “panther walk” bass vamp is a hook for the mind to coordinate its components; from there on, everything but the proverbial kitchen sink is thrown in by Stone. Pseudo-industrial lo-fi-ness, synthetic substrata, looped-and-bent voices halfway through a misshapen invocation and a muezzin’s Japanese mistress trapped inside a washing machine. These apparently absurd cohabitations, plus the substances distilled from their gradual modification, trigger sensational repercussions.
Baroo is a sunray piercing the black clouds and the cold fog to warm human plants whose flourishing is delayed. When you’re down and troubled – but don’t need a helping hand – it will work wonders, improving the mood much better than any antidepressant. Keep it close.

https://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2019/05/24/carl-stone-baroo/

August 10 16h00 Moscow Russia Mutabor Field Festival

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Saturday August 10 2019 16h00
Carl’s Russia debut! He’ll come to Moscow for his first time performance, going to the Field Festival as a headliner, along with a wild and eclectic lineup of artists from Europe, the UK, USA, Java and more.

Artists:

  • Carl Stone
  • Senyawa
  • Kemialliset Ystävät
  • Carla Dal Forno
  • SHXCXCHCXSH
  • Powell & Russell Haswell
  • Not Waving
  • NHK,
  • Kate NV
  • Vladimir Martynov
  • Moa Pillar
  • Ishome
  • The Wire Soundsystem
  • Graham Dunning
  • X.Y.R.
  • Foresteppe
  • Kymatic
  • Bad Zu
  • and more

1500-2500 RUB

Mutabor
Sharikopodshipnikovskaya st., 13, Moscow, 115088
Moscow Russia
+7 926 389 52 85, +7 926 235 85 30
am@fields.agency
https://www.facebook.com/events/2321291901531623/
https://fieldsmutabor.ticketscloud.org/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2321291901531623/

September 7 Open 7:00PM start 7:30 Brooklyn NY Murmrr Ballroom

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Saturday September 7 2019 Open 7:00PM start 7:30
Carl returns to Murmrr at the Union Temple in Brooklyn, this time with singer Akaihirume from Japan, in celebration of the concurrent release on the Unseen Worlds label – “Himalaya”
Also on the bill: Matmos, as well as Alex Zhang Hungtai and Pierre Guerineau.

Artists:

  • Matmos
  • Carl Stone with Akaihirume,
  • Alex Zhang Hungtai and Pierre Guerineau

$25

Buy Tickets Online

Murmrr Ballroom
17 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Brooklyn NY

http://murmrr.com