Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:53:00 -0500 
         From: "Gil Gershman (GuerillaG/TooKranky)"
         (TooKrnky@AOL.COM) 
         Subject: Re: windy and carl


     ah... windy and carl.
     What a glorious band! :)

     discog -
      "watersong/dragonfly" 7" (blueflea?) <-- I'd give the right hemisphere of my
     brain for this!
      "instrumentals" 7" (burnthair 01)
      "emerald/fragments of time and space" 7" (enraptured uk 4501) <--300
     repressed
      "left without air" 7"/split with Fuxa ("dreamlanding") (blueflea
     04/mindexpansion 003)
      "portal" (blueflea - self released tape)
      "portal" CD (badabing! 004) - includes 3 tracks not on tape

     Carl tells me that there's a new LP (ltd. to 600 - purple vinyl)/CD coming
     out in early April, probably on Ba-da-Bing! - called "Drawing of Sound".
     They've been touring a little more, playing shows with Archers of Loaf(?!) at
     a sushi bar (the Archers called them a "killer ambient band!") and a making a
     few radio appearances. They plan to head East in a few months.

     I'd me more than delighted to supply more W&C information - just e-mail me.

     ...fans should try to find the Once Dreamt "Drifting" 12"(blueflea 005) -
     it's Windy, Carl, Randall (from Fuxa), and a friend. Four long, resplendent,
     and luscious pieces of proto-ambient tranquility. It's basically a precursor
     to Windy & Carl - before Fuxa (Randall and Ryan Anderson - who came from the
     brilliant Asha Vida) split off.

     Fuxa are a peculiar band. They can be as breathlessly beautiful as W&C at
     their finest (see "photon" from the essential "Free Your Soul" 7") - or
     MOOGed out, admittedly pointless, sample-crazy weirdness ("some soviet
     station" from "Mind Expansion, Vol. 1" 7"). They've also been known to make
     Amon Duul II-esque percussive ambient-jazz (the title track of "Free Your
     Soul") or shamelessly emulate the Spacemen3-axis of bands. See if you can
     track down the rare "100 white envelopes/tokearian parade" 7" for a taste of
     all four facets. If they would only ditch their overemphasis of the (ahem)
     bong culture, they'd be a world-class project.

     For more W&C-ish bliss, check out The Marilyn Decade(freek uk). I don't know
     much about this duo, but they craft sublime and dreamy music that sometimes
     strays a bit into 'Zep territory. Still excellent, though. Very 'pastoral',
     for lack of a better word.


     Anyone know if there has been/will be an Ectogram full-length?

     rave of the day: Ken Ishii - Jelly Tones; and the Wagon Christ remix of
     "Extra"


     Now fill your day with a little Windy and a little Carl

     Gil