charles atlas

Charles Atlas is an instrumental duo (often expanding into a trio or quartet) who utilize

effected guitar, piano, synthesizer, melodica, trumpet, drum loops, samples, and other

instrumentation to paint expansive musical pastures on the crowded walls of the urban

centers they and their audiences call home. In this sense Charles Atlas is akin to a large,

green city park, the difference being that whereas the land for, say, Central Park was set

aside long ago, Charles Atlas must forge the aural and (via synaesthesia if not musical

anesthesia) visual space it seeks to fill. The two-dimensional surface upon which CA paints

its murals, the tympanic membrane of the human ear, is in fact quite small; whats more, as a

membrane, it has no depth. Without this third dimension, how can the musician hope to

create full-bodied works? Only when the fourth dimension of time is borrowed does the

picture come into relief; both depth and extension are now possible. Charles Atlas makes

ample use of this dimension, with shuffle-slow pacing and lengthy looped pieces whose

repeating musical phrases establish the gridlines of the new space while intersecting

improvised figures move through it, encounter each other, negotiate, linger, engage,

separate, or expire. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



Up in the Air (Soundtrack - Rhino Records) ///



Charles Atlas / Textile Ranch Split CDEP (Static Caravan) ///



Audraglint Silverware Compilation (exclusive track - Audraglint Records) ///



Fabricate: Remixes of the Album 'Worsted Weight' (Audraglint Records) ///



To The Dust: From Man You Came And To Man You Shall Return (Ochre) ///



The Deadest Bar / Stone(d) in Brackish Pool 12" vinyl (Audraglint Records) ///



Felt Cover (Static Caravan) ///



Charles Atlas/Alan Sparhawk split 7" (Star Star Stereo) Out of Print ///



Play The Spaces (Star Star Stereo) Out of Print ///



Two More Hours (Star Star Stereo). Out of Print



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