Carya Amara

Cumbria Remixed

caryaamara — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:09:23 +0000

“Cumbria Remixed was an exciting sound project using digital technologies to investigate and remix the soundscape of Cumbria. It created a lively dialogue between old and new, young and old through field recordings of Cumbrian environments, and local people’s tales, tunes, stories and songs”.

As previously mentioned, Carya Amara’s contribution, The Sound Around Me, was a remix of some sentence fragments uttered by Cumbrian musician and organiser of the project, Shaun Blezard. This track and 21 others have now been collected into a release which you can download for free from the Internet Archive.

Download Cumbria Remixed in MP3 format or see the download page for other formats.

60×60 Dance in St Louis, Missouri

caryaamara — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:45:03 +0000

On the 2nd of this month Vox Novus staged 60×60 Dance in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Thanks to them for including ‘Breakthrough’ by Carya Amara and to choreographer Rachel Brady.

More about the event can be found at the Vox Novus site.

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The Late Carya Amara – cover art

caryaamara — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:20:43 +0000

Here’s some more cover art for the CDR edition of The Late Carya Amara. A couple of short reviews have also arrived…

In addition to the CDR release, The Late Carya Amara can be downloaded for free in a variety of formats, including high-quality MP3 and lossless FLAC.

“Full of lovely synths, electronics, pulses and drones” – Test Transmission

“It’s a damn haunting radiophonic nightmare! With beats!” – Iceland Bob

New album: The Late Carya Amara

caryaamara — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:39:30 +0000

It’s been a decade since Carya Amara started Earthrid with the visceral electronic album Vestigial Digital. It was followed by two retrospectives of music dating back as far as 1980, Extinction Frequency and Tales of the Unattractive. Since then there have been collaborative projects (released on Earthrid) and related musical ventures but no solo Carya Amara… but now here at last is The Late Carya Amara.

Anyone (and there were quite a few) who was perplexed by the diverse approaches of previous releases is unlikely to find this one any easier to decode – but the receptive listener, maybe armed with a good pair headphones, will find this to be an immersive (if sometimes chilly) experience. Released in summer in the UK, the album’s snowy themes are definitely unseasonal… but did you really want to wait any longer for The Late Carya Amara?

Download The Late Carya Amara now for free or add the CD-R to your collection.

New track in 60×60 International Mix

caryaamara — Mon, 09 May 2011 22:52:15 +0000

‘Breakthrough’, a short track by Carya Amara has been selected for inclusion in the Vox Novus 60×60 International Mix for 2011. The organisers write:-

On May 21st the 60×60 International mix will debut in New York with a 60×60 Dance performance at Dance Parade; there will also be a follow up performance at the Galapagos Art Space in July 29th. The 60×60 International mix will also be presented in another 60×60 Dance performance in St Louis on October 2nd. I hope to plan many more performances as well.

Events will no doubt be listed on the Vox Novus site.

A Cumbrian Remixed

caryaamara — Sat, 07 May 2011 15:08:55 +0000

Cumbria Remixed is a sound project in which various artists “use digital technologies to investigate and remix the soundscape of Cumbria” in North-West England. Carya Amara has just contributed a track, based on mixing up a few brief utterances by Cumbria Remixed organiser and prominent feature of the local soundscape Shaun Blezard.

Listen to Carya Amara’s ‘The Sound Around Me’ at the Cumbria Remixed site along with the work of 21 other contributors.

New track on ‘The Sun Will Rise’

caryaamara — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:21:01 +0000

The Sun Will Rise is an MP3 album compiled by Inter-Netlabel in support of charities operating in Japan, in response to the recent disasters there. It includes a new track by Carya Amara, ‘Elements Unbalanced’.

The compilation can be downloaded for free:-

Download part 1
Download part 2

- and you can donate to your choice of charity at globalgiving.org.

A faint pulse

caryaamara — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:54:45 +0000

It’s been many years since the last Carya Amara release but new recordings have been made and there should be news in the near future. In the meantime, related, collaborative projects can be heard as some of the releases on Earthrid.

MP3s of locked grooves

caryaamara — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:29:13 +0000

Continuo’s Weblog has just posted a carefully prepared rip of the locked groove compilation that was released by Clan Analogue in 2001. The tracks on this vinyl release looped endlessly whereas the MP3s are, of course, of finite duration. The compilation didn’t have a clear title as such but is known as 101 Lock Grooves or Calg101 (the catalogue number).

The tracks by Carya Amara are:-

Eternal Recurrence
Synth Seizure
Locks Groove
The Ring Modulator Cycle

This is the new home of Carya Amara

caryaamara — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:01:14 +0000

caryaamara.wordpress.com is the new Web home of Carya Amara.