Carpet Musics: Weekday CD
Audio Dregs
ADR44 - 2002 01 15
The Oregon label has proved unable to put a foot wrong when it comes
to sleepy electronica since its inception in 1997, with label managers
Eric Mast and Eric Diaz effectively summarising the blueprint for the
Dregs audio experimentation through this collaborative action, three
years in the making. Two rather different musical personalities are
at work here, with ones predilection with synthetic motion at odds with
the others concern with the organicism of electronic music with Hotel,
tucked away at the of the tracklisting, best capturing the idiosyncratic
nature of the album. The track opens with fragmented bleeps which spike
at the presence of an acoustic guitar loop, these elements not amounting
to much on their own but the introduction of a lazy brushed snare, together
with malfunctioning synth frequencies and a gentle hum of bassline takes
the track to the stars themselves. A wonderful introduction to a splendid
record label, or a magnificent addition to a seasoned ambient collection.
[kingsley marshall] allmusic.com
Carpet Musics, "Weekday", Audio Dregs, 2001
[loop] Chile
Carpet Musics is project that takes five years whose people
in charge are Eric Diaz and Eric Mast, that began touching together
by a common interest in with music ambient, but with the idea to add
the melódic element and rupturistas concepts to him. "Weekday"
contains smooth rythmical pulsations, permanent melódicas notes,
timbres everywhere, agreed of guitar, analogical and digital electronics
and microscopic sounds. In sum, a harmonic disc of principle to aim.
[Guillermo Escudero]
CARPET MUSICS: Weekday
Daily Synthetic Carpets
[musicboom] Italy
The Carpet Musics is better how much can capitarvi than to listen nowadays
in the field of the ambient analogic-synthetic. Been born from ideologies
contrasting to the inside of the pair of Portland, approximately compositivi
methods and sonorous sources to use, "Weekday" proposes a
rare equilibrium between eterea suspension digita them and incursions
of used traditional instruments in soft ritmica function. The sonorous
carpets created from the two Erics (one of which, Eric Mast, others
are not that the founder of the Audio label Dregs for which exits the
album in issue) at times remembers the first jobs of Eno , at times
the sonorità more melliflue than house I dominate ( Fridge and
Four Tet in head). The order word is: serenity, one be of fluctuating
and suadente torpore al same time. Phone Lines distills electronic drops
and concentriche micromelodie in which to rock to the infinite; Air
, as the title same it suggests, is impalpabile substance soft covered
from breezes of disturbed frequencies, while the successive Afternoon
extension the uselessness of a ossessiva dependency from the digital
rimescolamento recreating them atmospheres equally being involved by
means of loops of instruments to rope. The entire album is an uninterrupted
pearl cascade acclimatizes them that they are insinuated in the interstices
of the daily paper, in the common objects that they encircle to us,
in the semplicità of tenuous and transitory perfect feelings
because. "Weekday", fruit of three years of rifinitura, is
the ulterior new evidence that, although odierne the technological resources
to disposition, to times a simple analogic sintetizzatore, delicate,
brilliant arpeggio and some other synthetic sagacity is the better instruments
for who has the creativity and the ability to take advantage of them
to the maximum levels (the little keyboard notes, the chitarristico
counterpoint, imperceptible inging drones of the splendid Hotel appears
illuminant with regard to).
Fairies papers false in order to have it. [Mauro Carassai]
*translation via google
THE GRACE PERIOD: Dynasty
CARPET MUSICS: Weekday
[XLR8R magazine #57] US
The Grace Period and Carpet Musics are two groups on Portland's Audio
Dregs label run by Eric Mast, half of Carpet Musics who also records
as e*rock. Previously established handmade EPs and singles, the two
are just now releasing legitimate full lengths. Part indie rockers,
part ambient composers, the Grace Period and Carpet Musics attractively
bookend the sample based spectrum. Both utilizing simple yet effective
loop-based production, where the Grace Period features live get-the-lead-out
drumming, Carpet Musics forgoes percusion. Comparisons from airport
Eno to subdued Oval are not unwarrented for Carpet Musics, while the
Grace Period has a much more cluttered presence, like a warmly bundled
one-man marching band clattering in from the cold. If examining the
groups' ingredients in a kitchen, Carpet Musics' weightless melodies
are slowly spiralling drizzled reductions, while Grace Period concoctions
are buzzing, bubbling gumbos. The Grace Period and Carpet Musics are
diametric narcotics for lazy daze and heady nights. [Tony Ware]
CARPET MUSICS: Weekday
[fader magazine] Japan
A new release from Audio Dregs is by two Erics from L.A. (they are
on the [For Friends] compilation, too), Carpet Musics. You need to check
it out. This album was made imagining the soundtrack for a videogame
in which you look for real happiness.You will be melted by deep and
soft rhythm and gentle and spiral keyboard sounds. It is not pushy,
but natural minimal sound. You can be comforted and sleep. Both albums
are KOTATSU for you. (Kotatsu is Japanese table and futon set. The table
has stove inside. -sookmi) The kitty makes it perfect. (kitty is supposed
to love kotatsu.-sookmi)
*translation via sookmi
Carpet Musics-Weekday
[Kathodik] Italy
featured: 'album of the month' !!
The Carpet Musics is better how much can capitarvi than to listen nowadays
in the field of the ambient analogic-synthetic. Been born from ideologies
contrasting to the inside of the pair of Portland approximately compositivi
methods and sonorous sources to use, "Weekday" proposes a
rare equilibrium between eterea suspension digita them and incursions
of used traditional instruments in soft ritmica function. The sonorous
carpets created from the two Erics (one of which, Eric Mast, others
are not that the founder of the Audio label Dregs for which exits the
album in issue) at times remembers the first jobs of Eno , at times
the sonorità more melliflue than house I dominate ( Fridge and
Four Tet in head). The order word is: serenity, one be of fluctuating
and suadente torpore al same time. Phone Lines distills electronic drops
and concentriche micromelodie in which to rock itself to the infinite;
Air , as the title same it suggests, is impalpabile substance soft covered
from breezes of disturbed frequencies, while the successive Afternoon
extension the uselessness of a ossessiva dependency from the digital
rimescolamento recreating them atmospheres equally being involved by
means of loops of instruments to rope. The entire album is an uninterrupted
pearl cascade acclimatizes them that they are insinuated in the interstices
of the daily paper, in the common objects that they encircle to us,
in the semplicità of tenuous and transitory perfect feelings
because. "Weekday", fruit of three years of rifinitura, is
the ulterior new evidence that, although odierne the technological resources
to disposition, to times a simple analogic sintetizzatore, delicate,
brilliant arpeggio and some other synthetic sagacity is the better instruments
for who has the creativity and the ability to take advantage of them
to the maximum levels (the little keyboard notes, the chitarristico
counterpoint, imperceptible inging drones of the splendid Hotel is illuminant
with regard to).
Fairies papers false in order to have it. [ Mauro Carassai] *****
*translation via google
carpet musics/weekday
[Autres
Directions] France
(rough translation from French)
the carpets has from now on their music and oddly, their small music
not feel contained, quite the contrary, it is free and air. Between
the concrete music, the ambient one (Eno) and the easy electronica,
the duet of Portland cement rested by Eric Diaz and Eric Mast (content
of the house Audio Dregs) composed Weekday, first album dedicated to
endormissement. Their pieces miss generally the rates/rhythms; sometimes
the tempo seems to come from a clock element, of a kind of alarm clock
(Phone Lines). Repetitive melodies, as escaped from musical boxes, are
written on major notes with the contours filtered and saturated which
sometimes chip our ears (Dawn), on a note of guitar (Noon) or a little
more (Afternoon, splendid Hotel), and around gimmicks not very current
which sound like water drops fleeing in the sink of the kitchen or like
sudden degasifications (Sleeping (One Trains)), and which gives to the
unit a mood naturalist. Only a few pieces with the pop sensitivity are
offered instantaneously (Air first of all, then Fashion Magazine and
Car which return to Solvent). However, it is more often in Microstoria
than one thinks. Even if the second part of the disc is darker, Weekday
is a small voyage favourable at rest. It is a music astonishing, intuitive,
amusing and amused, which fascine in the work authorized on the analogical
treatment of its components. To Portland cement, carpets fly.
[par stéphane] *translation via google
Carpet Musics - Weekday
[ De:Bug magazine/Germany]
This label from Portland develops ever more, to an extremely deepened-out
sound, plucky, playful melodies and clearer production, which Carpet
Music represent with their almost picture book-like CD. The very calm
pieces turn in slow- motion, wonderful snapshots of impressionistic
Glueckseeligkeit, yet gentle sounds in the middle such as Tupfer into
the Gloechenbestimmten Tracks occasionally go to the boundary of experimental
sound, however on the whole, the tracks make for a complete, harmonious
item. Electro-acoustic music with a little Clubflair, it adds a little
clicks and concrete, and is not dissimilar from some dream. Very, very
beautiful.
[bleed *****]
Original review in German: Das Label aus Portland entwickelt
sich immer mehr zu einem extrem deepen Sound aus plinkernd verspielten
Melodien und resoluter Reduktion, den Carpet Music fast bilderbuchartig
auf ihrer CD vertreten. Die sehr ruhigen Stücke der CD drehen sich in
kleinen Bewegungen wundervolle Schnappschüsse impressionistischer Glückseeligkeit,
holen sanfte Sounds wie Tupfer mitten in die Glöchenbestimmten Tracks,
gehen gelegentlich an die Grenze zu experimentellem Sounddesing, finden
aber auf dem Boden immer wieder dieses dichte harmonische Element, daß
die Tracks ganz und gar nett macht. Elektroakustische Musik die, zieht
man ein klein wenig Clubflair ab und addiert ein wenig clickernd konkretes
hinzu, manchen Traumreleases nicht unœhnlich ist. Sehr sehr schön.
[bleed *****]
Carpet Musics - Weekday
[BMP/USA]
Exploring the distant horizons of computer based programming, the duo
of Eric Mast, producer e*rock, and Eric Diaz, collectively known as
Carpet Musics, deliver one very mellow and expressionistic look into
the stillness of everyday life. This ambient collection of musicscapes
is definitely more suited for a Tuesday afternoon than a Friday night.
At its core, „Weekday‰ is really just mood music for the quiet
moments that tie together each day. Ample use of MIDI squencing and
repetitive chord structures leave the listener with fourteen rather
bare tracks, which really beg to be taken back to studio and remixed.
Yet, overall the album plays like a soft and sweet lullaby. Each track
represents either an inatimate objects: phones lines, car, hotel; or
a general moment in time: dawn, afternoon, sundown. There can be little
doubt as to the duo‚s ability for selecting well timed samples,
and creating a minimally, but well produced selection of tracks. In
the end, it seems as if the two Eric‚s find a great deal of joy
in simplicity, though others may find their disc a little sparse. (Lou
Auguste)
CARPET MUSICS "Weekday" CD
[Other Music/NYC]
Lots of music is now referred to as bedroom electronics, but this one
seems like the bedroom's not the origin, but the intended venue. Before
you get all salacious on me, think sleep, not sex. Carpet Musics is
Eric Mast (aka E*Rock) and Eric Diaz, and "Weekday" is an electronic
duet, a set of themed tracks (each represents a set of objects, a concept,
a time period) for an ordinary day. Somehow they also channel the kind
of exhaustion that's almost pleasant, sparkly, when you get so tired
you're starry-eyed and tingly: the lazy nervous system. This does have
a kinship and obvious starting point in Raymond Scott's "Soothing Sounds
for Baby" records, yet takes that into fizzy, fuzzy academic zone a
la the Germans Sack & Blumm or Microstoria. The feel this gives your
ears is like when your limbs fall asleep and you're still awake: not
the numb stage, nor the painful one, but that one around the edges where
parts of your body enter or return from another zone. Oh, and it's kinda
funky too. [RE]
Carpet Musics: Weekday
[Willamette Week/ PDX]
This local duo's album evokes the sleepy feel of a rain-washed afternoon,
when everything seems to slip into a pleasantly narcotized half-coma
under gray skies. The 14 instrumentals trace quotidian rituals and ephemera,
from "Dawn" to "Sundown," with muted meditations on "Phone Lines," "Bathrobe"
and "Fashion Magazine" scattered between. Rather than lapsing into the
mundane, however, Eric Diaz and Eric Mast invest these understated,
mostly electronic essays with quiet patience, the Zen opposite of boredom.
[Zach Dundas]
Carpet Musics/ The Grace Period CDRs
[ SPACE AGE BACHELOR #12]
Carpet Musics - s/t (Audio Dregs); The Grace Period - Bekampa Tramset
(Audio Dregs) This years winner of the best American Microstoria imitation
goes to Portland, Oregon’s Carpet Musics. The group designed the
music for sleeping, and from all indications of the budget here, they
probably are sleeping on the carpet. I just hope it’s soft. But
in all seriousness, I’m quite charmed by this duo’s disc.
It could do without some of the squiggly, wiggly cheap synth noises
that lie on top of some of the mixes, but otherwise the late-at-night-all-alone-with-my-electronics
vibe comes across great. I always find it fascinating how in the field
of electronic music it’s possible for people with very limited
means -- at the most, some scissors, an old synth, a dictaphone and
a 4-track -- can just about replicate the sounds of the best, most technologically
advanced electronic music around. The Grace Period, also on the Audio
Dregs label (run by Carpet Musics’ Eric Mast). Likewise, this is
highly endearing. I really like the attitude at work here. The liner
notes break down the 20 songs into four sections, marked by the methods
and place they were recorded (including the cheezy production equipment
that you find at every college radio station). You get the impression
that you shouldn’t invite this guy over to your place, cause he’ll
probably want to use your computer the whole night. Audio Dregs owner
Eric Mast writes a charming article about cassettes as an underrated
medium in his fanzine, Thumb, which was sent along with the CDs. It
preaches the same lesson that you might learn from dub -- get it out
as cheaply and quickly as possible, and then forget about it. And just
like that, unfortunately, this (and this) might very well be forgotten.
(Donald Anderson)
CARPET MUSICS: s/t CDR
[FREQUENCY #3]
Audio Dregs is a Portland label that began releaseing electronic tape
experiments and has, more recently broadened it's range. Carpet Musics
is an older project belonging to the owner of the label, an employee
of Portland's Ozone records (a fine store indeed). Made with the intention
of providing the listener with music to sleep to, this disk is created
with a n array of analog synthesizers and is jam packed with drones
of all shapes, sizes and textures and random bubbling noises. Carpet
Musics is full of curious sonic ideas and orchestrated patterns. It
is a slow journey into the ambient word creatd by Eno in the 70's, and
quite reminiscent of the experimental music made today by avant acts
such as Oval and Microstoria, but with less complicated ideas and sounds.
Without a doubt, this music does meet its purpose. (Jeremy D. Rotsztain)
CARPET MUSICS : s/t CDR
[E.X.P. #B]
Carpet Musics is sleepytim analog ambience. Composed with sounds that
shift between happy and warm to eerie and dark, it is a soothing analog
backdrop accompanied by overlays of bleeps and bangs. Great for people
who want to get away from beat oriented music. No drums, no rhythms,
and if there is a time signature I sure as hell couldn't tell you what
it is. This is open minded music for people who have an appetite for
sounds that wander away from the norm. Defiantely high on my list for
late night listening. (Alecks)
