Al Karpenter & CIA Debutante - S/t

A collaboration between the Spanish Cabalists, Al Karpenter & French Rosicruanists, CIA Debutante, was not specifically foretold in the Fama Fraternitatis, but read between the lines, friend. That is where the truth lurks. The bilious Marxist splatter of the former, coursing alongside the dystopian surrealism of the latter, is a nefarious seance gambit born in the ether. Many voices are heard-fractious, cryptic, suffused, fading one into the other, the results often as hazy as the most bewitching pastis. Don't look now, but all the tables are levitating. Is that a spirit trumpet in the distance? Am I hearing the channeled moans of a ghost, or did someone miss last call (so eerily similar in their discontent)?

The plachette is moving so fast across the ouija board, it's making a blabber-mouth out of my fingers. I had no idea anyone spilled this much verbiage in the afterlife. The crackle & whoosh of electronics fill the air. A cape is not required, but considering these Mandrake-like shenanigans, it couldn’t hurt. But then I am the one being charmed. Al Karpenter/CIA Debutante are the beguilers. Trance-medium discourse never sounded so preposterously spot on. File alongside fabled, like minded alliances such as; Ash Ra Temple & Timothy Leary, Seven Up, Brigitte & The Hansen Experience, Frau Hansen am Bass, The Shadow Ring, Lighthouse.

Al Karpenter (Barakaldo) is an outsider among the underdogs and an ingenious dilettante who likes to challenge the course of history. His live performances are as rare as they are unpredictable. Listening to his album Musik from a Private Hell (Bruit Direct Disques), we are immediately caught by his disembodied singing with positive nihilism. It's the end of the world but the best is yet to come.

His music has been also been released by ever/never (NYC), Bruit Direct Disques (Paris), Munster Records (Madrid) and Crystal Mine (Burgos) and has been described as post-industrial weirdness, deconstructed Fushitsusha or as the perfect soundtrack for our grim times.

Since 2022 year Al Karpenter is performing as a band with improvisers Marta Sainz (bass and vocals), Enrique Zaccagnini (percussion, electronics and vocals) and Mattin of the groups Billy Bao and Regler (double bass, drums, computer and vocals). File under non-musique, No more heroes anymore.