These Many Breaths albums are not listed in the order in which they were released, and are all unavailable. Please visit discogs.com, Wholly Other and kranky for more complete Christina Carter (and/or Charalambides etc.) discographies. And please visit Eclipse, Fusetron, Time-Lag, Volcanic Tongue, and Yod who carry Many Breaths titles when available.
Lace Heart CDR
Songs springing from the well of late '50s rock and roll, rhythm and blues and italian-americana. Shot through with the alone and the bare and the crowded. The alone notes of electric guitar and echoed voice from memories of a white fake fur rug and silver sherry goblets and twice a week masses.
Two Nights Film CDR
Two songs, "Love Is Attatched To Pain" & "The Lights Went Out Last Night", sweeping everything into one dark night. Two nights become one. Long form songs - each 20 minutes plus. Reminding of forays into boathouse piano playing and vocalizing a la the Bastard Wing LP, albeit using plucked string electric guitar instead of piano and word-full instead of word-less vocals. With "The Lights Went Out..." being a full fledged story song. Definitely a black & white film. In stark packaging (the better to sweep everything away) with a special, personal book-page totem (marking the number of the edition).
I Am All The Same Song CDR
Vocal multi-tracking to the sound of the rain in which raindrops are given both female and male identities.
A Blossom Fell CDR
'Sibling' to the Masque Femine CDR. The microphone is the screen, and the voice is the face. Culmination of the exploration of cinematic acting exclusively through the aural capture point. Once again, lyrics by others transmuted through instantaneous, spontaneous melody. The combination of word and melody into multiple implications and meanings. Short in duration but experientially lengthy. Meant to be savored. Eat this flower slow. As always, hand painted/written covers. Edition of 122.
Pearl Month: Live in Finland CDR
Live recording of what was first thought to be a disasterous show in Helsinki due to the entire forgetting of adequate tonal tuning methods. Later thought to be a performance of interesting dynamic variations of Charalambides songs, among others. No doubt influenced by the life-size Greco-Roman plaster statues decorating the venue; which no doubt in turn influenced the audience to be more interested in drinking the nektar of the gods, than listening to any of the music. The other performers that night (not documented on this cd) were Black Forest/Black Sea and Fursaxa.
Veronika CS
Released in an edition of two. Real time recordings for each cassette; in other words each performance was recorded live onto a hand held tape recorder. Two different side long songs, improvised the first time then loosely recreated for the second cassette. Accompanied by a hand colored book. One of the songs based on a story of death in the city. The other song based on a dream of life in the country.
Masque Femine CDR
A concept album. Interpretations of seventeen jazz and show tune 'standards', mostly solo voice. Recorded in two late night sessions, impromptu melodies were created for classic lyrics, all telling the story of 'the end of a love affair'. Four of the songs feature multi-tracked resonator guitar accompaniment.
Vert CDR
In WPRB studio recording of the last performance of, in hindsight, the wildly scattered Christina Carter w/ Gown two month long tour of the lesser continental United States. Two electric guitars, two vocals, two mindsets, blending temporarily into one strange territory.
Message Volume One: Live Toronto DC CDR
First in a three part series of solo live CDRs. A message of the way things were and will never quite be again. Two classic live sets embodying the threads of thought present from the beginning - from the time of Living Contact forward. Externality, internality, restraint, reaching, sharpness, transparency, darkness, fullness, liquidity. The different shapes of the rooms and different shapes of the people heard. Toronto: a large space with the electric guitar and vocals lingering in the air. A more public and introverted performance. DC: a small crowded place with music forced against the walls. A more private and extroverted performance. Songs from Human As Guitar and Lace Heart. Also a version of the Charalambides song "Magnolia" and two rare songs, "Veronika" which appeared only on a Many Breaths book/cassette release (edition of 2), and "Stranger", not recorded/performed before or since. Hand made covers include a miniature version of the Forever 21 installation: a page of life - one page of a diary - painstakingly cut into many tiny pieces. Edition of 87.
The Light Is Out CDR
An exorcism. Recorded almost totally in bed, with the lights out - literally; except the parts that were recorded on piano - and the recordings of shuffled dance steps, bare feet to wooden floor. Mostly single-track unaccompanied vocalizations.
Human As Guitar CDR
First forays into song for the sake of song (yet abstracted) territory. Based on translucent acoustic guitar improvisations recorded in an old paint brush factory building in Florence, Massachusetts.
