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Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast

Duo of Shawn McMillen and Heather Murray, originally from Galveston, TX where their sole CD was recorded. In 1996, relocated to Austin where they continued to record for the next two years. Played one live show in 1996 at Mary Jane's in Houston. Currently inactive, although many unreleased recordings exist. Shawn performs with Iron Kite and has also played & recorded with the Abrasion Ensemble. Heather has performed in the University of Texas Gamelan and Andean ensembles, recorded and performed with Christina Carter in Scorces, and performed live with Charalambides on their 2000 west coast tour.

Discography

Shawn McMillen:

CD-ROM (Beta-Lactam Ring Records , 1999)

Paul's car

Artificial Subterranne

Artificial Subterranne is one of several pseudonyms for Paul Guilford, a New Zealand visual artist and musician who lived in Houston from the late eighties until 1997. Although his talents as both a soundman and a bassist were well known to many of the musicians who inhabited Lexington Street (a local landmark known for communal living and substandard housing), it wasn't until Guilford's collaboration with Dave Dove that his unique improvisatory vision began to manifest itself. The duo refined their non-idiomatic skills for several years, performing in a variety of contexts, including weekly performances with Charalambides at Harvey's Club Deluxe that continued sporadically from summer 1994 until the club's closing a year later. In addition to his performances with Dove, Guilford engineered and recorded many local and travelling performers, and his recordings appear on CDs by Philip Gayle, Charalambides, and AMM.

Guilford currently works on solo and group projects in New Zealand in addition to ongoing sound engineering work.

Selected Discography

With Audible Thre (as p. h. l'cst): With Dave Dove:

Dave Dove





Charalambides

Charalambides Charalambides is a trio of Texas creative musicians performing extended guitar and voice compositions and improvisations. Their music moves between poles of tonality and atonality, utilizing volume, space, silence, folk and psychedelia, and the scrape and hiss of steel on steel. Initially conceived as a recording project, the group has steadily evolved toward music of a more public nature.

Formed in Houston in 1991 (and relocated to Austin in 1997), Charalambides has evolved through various configurations based on the core duo of Tom & Christina Carter. From 1993 to 1996 they performed and recorded with guitarist Jason Bill (currently with Arizona duo Migrantes), and since 2000 the lineup has included steel guitarist Heather Murray (formerly of Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast).

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Christina Carter: Tom Carter:

Scorces

Scorces is the duo of Heather (Ash Castles) and Christina (Charalambides), and originated in a 1996 recording project that culminated in their debut CD. They have since played several Texas performances and have recorded extensively for future projects.

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