MIE Music To Unleash Sarin Smoke Album For Tom Carter

Sarin Smoke

This September, MIE in partnership with Rarely Unable PR prepare to unleash the latest LP by Sarin Smoke entitled Vent, which follows the 2007 3Lobed recording of Smokescreen which was recorded when both Tom Carter and Pete Swanson were still living in California.

After performing at a concert in Oakland, 2010 and feeling proud of their musical output, Tom and Pete decided to collaborate with one another again. The resulting record amalgamates Tom’s recent self-oscillating, power starved shredding psychedelia, with Pete’s self proclaimed “more neanderthal attempts at VU/Roy Montgomery inspired simple melodicism”.  Ultimately, the album is an unusual haze of oscillator sweeps, dying batteries, ripping solos and clean(ish) two chord backbones forming a very unique angle on the possibilities that the “psychedelic rock” format could aspire towards.

Tom Carter was recently on a tour with Charlambides where he developed a very serious case of Pneumonia.  At this point, he’s still in Europe receiving treatment.  He unfortunately will have medical bills, no job to come home to and will require ongoing treatment once he’s well enough to return to the US.  His prognosis is fortunately, very positive health-wise, but he will need financial support throughout what remains of his recovery.

Pete Swanson released the following statement in relation to the release of the new Sarin Smoke LP.  MIE Music and I have agreed to donate all profits from this new album to The Robert Thomas Carter Irrevocable Trust, as well as release a very limited version of the album with hand-done covers by Ilyas Ahmed that will also include an exclusive cassette of music from Sarin Smoke.  This set will be priced at a premium with the intention of encouraging people with more resources to consider supporting Tom.

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Source: Rarely Unable