Tom Carter

☰︎

tomcarterguitar.bandcamp charalambides.bandcamp freemusicarchive

Main image

Charalambides Friday Group The Abrasion Ensemble Primordial Undermind Spiderwebs Zaika Kyrgyz Badgerlore Mudsuckers Turnstone Sarin Smoke Savage Sons Of Wallonie Eleven Twenty-Nine Tom Carter & Robert Horton Sky City Morning Scales The Mountain

ex The Mike Gunn

American guitarist and experimental musician, based in Houston, Texas. Born in Salisbury, Maryland.
Co-founder of experimental / psychedelic acid folk band Charalambides.

ALBUMS

Tom Carter, Pat Murano

Songs Of Éliphas Lévi Zahed

2025, LP, Ltd, Num, Daksina

Phantom Malle: Live at Spectacle Theater

2023, Cass, Temple Glance Recordings

Susan Alcorn, Tom Carter

2020, LP, Ltd, Drawing Room Records

Cameron* / Carter* / Håker-Flaten*

Avant-garde Jazz/Psychedelic Rock

Shots From A Room

Tom Carter, Pat Murano

2019, LP, Ltd, Daksina,

Ambient/Experimental

Tom Carter and Eric Arn

Pohyb-zvuk-prostor Žive v Opave

2018, Cass, Album, Ltd, Liv, Sloow Tapes

Aaron Gonzalez*, Sarah Ruth*, Tom Carter

2018, Lathe, 10", EP, Ltd, Independent Woman Records

Tom Carter & Michael Morley

2018, 2xFile, FLAC, Album, Not On Label (Tom Carter Self-Released)

Tom Carter & Loren Connors*

2016, LP, Album, Family Vineyard,

Long Time Underground

2015, 2xLP, Album, Ltd, Three Lobed Recordings, Divide By Zero

Tom Carter, Pat Murano

Jackie-O Motherfucker* / Tom Carter & Helena Espvall

House Of Rain / Electrogesis

2014, LP, Ltd, Pome Pome Tones, Ruralfaune

Tom Carter & Pat Murano

Four Infernal Rivers

2014, 2xLP, MIE Music

Gate (3) / Tom Carter

2013, 7", Ltd, Ran, Carbon Records

Tetuzi Akiyama, Tom Carter, Christian Kiefer

The Darkened Mirror

Free Improvisation/Experimental

Highs In The Low Twenties

2012, CDr, Ltd, Num, Blackest Rainbow

Tom Carter And Pat Murano

Tom Carter And Pat Murano

2012, LP, Ltd, Kelippah, Kelippah

Pat Murano & Tom Carter

2012, File, FLAC, Album, Natch,

2011, Cass, Ltd, Root Strata

Dora Bleu* & Tom Carter & Sam Shalabi

Circle Of Crosses

2011, LP, Ltd, Tequila Sunrise Records, Fire Museum Records

Starving Weirdos with Tom Carter & Shawn McMillen

Live At The Accident

2010, LP, Ltd, Blackest Rainbow

Carter* / Clixby* / Yeh*

2010, Cass, Album, C30, Neon Blossom Records

MV/EE* / Tom Carter / J Mascis

2009, CDr, Album, Heroin Stash

The Dance From Which All Dances Come

Shepherd At Lexington

2008, CDr, Album, Ltd, Digitalis Recordings,

Folk Rock/Experimental/Ambient

Skyline Grinder

2008, CD, Album, Ltd, Three Lobed Recordings

Tom Carter and Christian Kiefer

From The Great American Songbook

2008, CD, Album, Preservation,

Shots At Infinity 1

2008, CD, Album, Important Records (2),

Abstract/Drone/Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

After Lunch Only Devils

2008, CDr, Ltd, Wholly Other

Shots At Infinity 2

Barn Owl / Tom Carter

Barn Owl / Tom Carter

Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer

A Rather Solemn Promise

2007, CD, Album, Ltd, The Great Pop Supplement

Whispers Toward Infinity

Tom Carter & Vanessa Arn

What Is Here For?

2007, Vinyl Brown,

Abstract/Experimental

Phantom Lung / Temescal Blues

2006, 7", S/Sided, Single, Ltd, Anthem Records,

2006, CDr, Album, Ltd, Wholly Other

Tom Carter + Inca Ore

2006, CDr, Album, Ltd, Wholly Other

Tom Carter And Vanessa Arn / The Moglass

Snake-Tongued Swallow-Tailed

2004, CD, Album, Nexsound,

Abstract/Post Rock/Avantgarde/Experimental/Ambient

Tom Carter & Shawn McMillen

2004, CDr, Carbon Records,

Leftfield/Avantgarde

Scorces / Tom Carter

Beats For The Beast

2004, CD, Album, Free Porcupine Society,

Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

Bardo Pond + Tom Carter

Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde/Experimental

2003, LP, Eclipse Records (3),

Experimental/Avantgarde

Pip Proud And Tom Carter

2002, CD, Emperor Jones

Tom Carter / Shawn David Mcmillen*

Legless Mother And The Spotted Lamb Vs. The Great American Cocksucker Bird

1999, Cass, Album, Ltd, Blackest Rainbow

A Vintage Burden

2006, CD, Album, Kranky

Primordial Undermind

Beings Of Game P-U

2001, CD, Album, Camera Obscura (2)

We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits

2007, CD, Album, Xeric,

Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

The Friday Group*

Crystal Eunuch Reversal

2005, CDr, Album, Ltd, Wholly Other, Twilight Flight Sound

Tryptaphonic Mind Explosion

2002, CD, Comp, Mandragora Records

The Light In The Fog

2001, CDr, Twilight Flight Sound

Christina Carter

Tom And Christina Carter

2018, 2xLP, Album, Drawing Room Records

2018, Cass, Album, Ltd, Drawing Room Records

Tom Carter & Robert Horton

Lonesome Bootleg

2017, LP, Album, Ltd, Drawing Room Records

In Between the Known and the Unknown

2016, CD, Album, Chiastic Society, Wholly Other, Coincident Sound (2),

Eleven Twenty-Nine

A Tithe To Hell

2014, LP, Album, Drawing Room Records

2012, LP, Ltd, Wholly Other, Chiastic Society

Tom Carter & Robert Horton

2012, CDr, Album, Ltd, Blackest Rainbow

Eleven Twenty-Nine

In The Sunlight / Anchors Away

2012, 7", Single, Drawing Room Records

2012, LP, Album, Mie Music

Eleven Twenty-Nine

Eleven Twenty-Nine

Three-Lane Blacktop

2010, LP, Album, Two-Lane Blacktop

Tom Carter & Robert Horton

2009, Cass, Ltd, C40, Sloow Tapes

Live At The Mink

2008, Cass, Ltd, Yod Tapes

Live At The Church Of The Friendly Ghost

2008, CDr, Yod Tapes

Live At Eat Records

Electricity Ghost

2007, CD, Album, Ltd, Wholly Other

2007, CD, Album, Ltd, Three Lobed Recordings

It Chars Our Lips Yet Still We Drink

2007, LP, S/Sided, Ltd, Cle, Wholly Other

2007, CDr, Mini, Ltd, Wholly Other,

Psychedelic Rock/Folk/Experimental

2007, CD, Album, Important Records (2)

Tom Carter & Robert Horton

Monsters Of Felt

2007, CD, Album, Preservation

Emerald Message

2007, CDr, Album, Ltd, Num, Wholly Other

Strangle The Wretched Heavens

Folk Rock/Experimental

Dead / Live (West Coast Live V.II)

2006, CDr, Album, Ltd, Num, Wholly Other

2006, CDr, Album, Ltd, Collective Jyrk

2006, CD, Album, Digitalis Recordings

2006, CD, Album, Important Records (2)

Tom Carter & Robert Horton

Steeljaguar For Rocket

2006, CD, Album, Digitalis Recordings

Folk Rock/Experimental

Live / Dead (West Coast Live Volume 1)

2005, CDr, Album, Ltd, Num, Wholly Other,

Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde/Ethereal

Tom Carter, Robert Horton*

2005, CD, Album, Important Records (2)

2005, LP, Album, Ltd, Eclipse Records (3),

2005, CDr, Wholly Other, Twilight Flight Sound

Stories For Owls

Folk Rock/Experimental

Acoustic/Drone/Avantgarde/Experimental

2003, 2xLP, Album, Eclipse Records (3)

2002, CDr, Wholly Other

2002, CDr, Wholly Other

Spring Leaves Fall

2002, 7", Ltd, Time-Lag Records

2002, CDr, Ltd, Crucial Blast

Experimental/Minimal/Ambient

The Work Of Glaciers

2001, CDr, Ltd, Num, Sound-O-Mat,

Folk Rock/Drone/Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde

2001, CDr, Album, Ltd, Carbon Records

2000, CDr, Album, Wholly Other,

Folk Rock/Drone/Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde

2000, CDr, Album, Wholly Other,

Folk Rock/Drone/Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde

2000, CDr, Wholly Other,

Folk Rock/Drone/Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde

The Abrasion Ensemble

Music For The Same 500 People

Internal Eternal

1999, CD, Album, Wholly Other

1998, CD, Siltbreeze

A Dream About Jim

1997, 10", MiniAlbum, Ltd, Num, September Gurls

1997, CD, Album, Wholly Other

1995, 2xLP, Siltbreeze

1995, 7", Ltd, Playtime Records

Coduh A Collection Of Live & Studio Tracks

1995, CD, Album, Ltd, Num, Worship Guitars Records,

Psychedelic Rock

Historic 6th Ward

Psychedelic Rock

1992, LP, Album, Double Naught,

Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

Durban Poison / Hemp For Victory

1992, CD, Comp, Double Naught,

Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

Hemp For Victory

1991, LP, Album, Anomie Records,

Psychedelic Rock

APPEARANCES +

Long Time On The Road

2020, 7xFile, WAV, Not On Label (Tom Carter Self-Released)

2015-12-05, Trans-Pecos, Queens, NY USA

2015, 3xFile, FLAC, NYC Taper

The Whole Voyald

2009, File, MP3, 128, ISSUE Project Room

Live At WFMU On Dan Bodah's Show On 5/11/2003

2008, 4xFile, MP3, 256, WFMU

2025, Cass, Ltd, Sinthome,

Free Improvisation/Ambient/Art Rock/Drone/Experimental

The Wizards Hour

2023, CD, Album, Corwood Industries,

Free Improvisation/Avantgarde

The Hatch Expansion

2023, 2xLP, Gat, Sonic Transmissions Records, Astral Spirits,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation

What Is To Come

2022, File, WAV, Album, Not On Label (Charalambides Self-released),

Experimental/Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock

2022, 4xFile, WAV, Album, Not On Label (Charalambides Self-released)

2010-2022 10 years without killing each other

2022, CD, Album, RM, STP Records,

San Francisco Saturday

2020, 2xCD, Album, Corwood Industries

The Girl Behind The Forest

2020, CDr, Album, Ltd, Pit Sounds,

Experimental/Ambient/Post Rock/Space Rock

Experimental/Ambient/Art Rock/Krautrock/Post Rock

Austin Sunday 2007

2019, CD, Album, Corwood Industries

Ivan The Tolerable & The Elastic Band

Ivan The Tolerable & The Elastic Band

A Real New England Fuck Up

2017, LP, Album, Palilalia Records

King Champion Sounds

To Awake In That Heaven Of Freedom

Post-Punk/Experimental/Free Improvisation

Five Guitars For Tony Conrad

Five Guitars For Tony Conrad

Christian Kiefer

What You Have Come For Is Death: Music For The Animals, A Novel By Christian Kiefer

2013, 99xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Deserted Village,

Art Rock/Avantgarde/Experimental/Folk/Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock

Live In Hasselt, 2005

2013, DVDr, Mini, Num, Nothing Out There

2012, CD, Album, Andromeda (2)

Benefit For The Recovery In Japan

2011, 64xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Antiopic,

Leftfield/Musique Concrète/Abstract/Lo-Fi/Drone/Noise/Ambient/Modern Classical/Shoegaze/Experimental

Eleven Twenty-Nine

Live At WFMU On The Long Rally With Scott McDowell On August 19, 2011

2011, 2xFile, MP3, 256, Not On Label (Eleven Twenty-Nine Self-released),

Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

Eleven Twenty-Nine

Live At Bar Matchless 12/6/10

2011, File, MP3, Mono, 144, Not On Label (Eleven Twenty-Nine Self-released),

Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

Marcia Bassett / Margarida Garcia

2010, LP, Ltd, Num, Headlights,

Ensemble Economique

Abstract/Drone/Prog Rock/Experimental

Common Eider, King Eider

Abstract/Drone/Ethereal

2009, CDr, Ltd, Anti-Guru

Spectra - Guitar In The 21st Century

2009, CD, Comp, Quiet Design,

Experimental/Minimal

Zaika Live At WFMU On Dan Bodah's Show On 8/17/2008

2009, File, MP3, 192, WFMU

The Undetermined Dyad

2008, LP, Ltd, Volcanic Tongue

I Turn Into You

2008, 2xLP, Album, Not Not Fun Records,

Birchville Cat Motel, Charalambides, Tarentel

2008, 3xDVDr, Mini, Ltd, Nothing Out There,

Folk Rock/Post Rock/Noise/Doom Metal/Experimental

J. Matthew Gerken, Christian Kiefer & Jefferson Pitcher

Of Great And Mortal Men: 43 Songs For 43 U.S. Presidencies

2008, 3xCD, Album, Standard Recording Company,

Indie Rock/Experimental/Acoustic/Folk

Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

2007, CD, Comp, Ltd, Kning Disk

The Great Koonaklaster Speaks: A John Fahey Celebration

2007, CD, Album, Comp, Table Of The Elements, Table Of The Elements

Wailing Bones Volume Fourteen

2007, CDr, Ltd, Foxglove

2007, Box, Ltd + 4x7", Ltd + CD, Album, Ltd, The Great Pop Supplement,

Folk Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Experimental/Indie Rock

Eastern Fox Squirrels

Eastern Fox Squirrels

2006, CD, Last Visible Dog

Friday Group Universal Illumination Orchestra

2006, Cass, S/Sided, Album, Ltd, C30, Sloow Tapes

Spiderwebs / Mike Tamburo And Matthew McDowell* / Keenan Lawler

Strands Formerly Braided

2006, CD, Music Fellowship

Cosmology Of Eye

Folk Rock/Acoustic/Experimental/Psychedelic Rock

Dark Skies At Noon

2005, CD, Album, Elevator Bath,

Oil Leaks And Cicadas

Experimental/Field Recording/Ambient

Christina Carter

2003, LP, Eclipse Records (3)

The Invisible Pyramid

2003, 2xCD, Comp, Last Visible Dog,

Abstract/Drone/Psychedelic Rock/Experimental/Free Improvisation/Folk/Lo-Fi

Wild Yams Up Granma's Butt

2003, CD, Album, Crunchy Food,

Noise/Abstract/Avantgarde/Experimental/Field Recording

2003, CDr, Sidewalk Strobelight

Susan Alcorn, Eugene Chadbourne

An Afternoon In Austin..or Country Music For Harmolodic Souls

Free Improvisation/Country

2001, CD, Wholly Other,

Drone/Minimal/Free Improvisation

A Yellow Flower

2001, CD, Album, Emperor Jones,

Free Improvisation/Instrumental

Harmony Of The Spheres

1996, 3x Vinyl, Box Set,

Drone/Experimental/Psychedelic Rock/Space Rock

Succour (The Terrascope Benefit Album)

Alternative Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Experimental

Assassins Of Silence (Hundred-Watt Violence)

Space Rock/Punk

The Mike Gunn / Smile 69

Clueless / Alisa

1993, 7", Double Naught

The Suzanne Langille Songbook

2025, 2xCD, Comp, Jew, Family Vineyard, Feeding Tube Records

Psi-Solation - A Global Compilation Of Music Made In Lockdown

2020, 119xFile, FLAC, Comp, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon,

Three Lobed Recordings At 20: An Overview

2020, 34xFile, FLAC, Three Lobed Recordings,

2020, Cass, Comp, hidden depth

Audion 57 (multimedia)

2020, 15xFile, FLAC, pdf, Audion Publications,

Prog Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Krautrock/Berlin-School/Ambient/Fusion

The Hired Hands: A Tribute To Bruce Langhorne

2017, 2xCD, Album, Scissor Tail,

2014, Cass, Comp, Mystra Records

Total Eclipse - Live On CKUT 90.3FM

2014, 2xCass, Comp, Ltd, Num, Not On Label,

Experimental/Punk/Folk/Free Jazz

Total Eclipse - Live On CKUT 90.3FM

2014, 2xCD, Not On Label,

Experimental/Punk/Folk/Free Jazz

2013, Cass, Mystra Records

The Enormous Space

2013, 12xFile, MP3, 320, Soundeyet,

Experimental/Ambient/Drone/Noise

14 Tracks: Midnight Nomads

2012, 14xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Boomkat,

Lunar Jams For Tom Carter

2012, 2xCass, Bla, Feathered Coyote Records

Clandestine Cassette Series # Four

2012, Cass, Comp, C90, Northern Spy,

The Finest Tree I Ever Did See

2012, 15x File 320 kbps,

Clandestine Series Cassette # One

2011, Cass, Comp, Northern Spy,

Drone/Noise/Experimental

MonotypeRec. Sampler 01

2010, CD, Smplr, Monotype Records

2009, 3xCass, Comp, Ltd + Box, Winebox Press

Oscillation III

2008, 10xCD + Box, Ltd, Three Lobed Recordings,

Post Rock/Psychedelic Rock/Avantgarde/Indie Rock/Experimental

2007, 3xCDr, Album, Comp, Ltd, Ruralfaune, La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Goin' Down Slow - Music For Acoustic Guitar

2006, CDr, Harha-Askel,

Experimental/Acoustic/Avantgarde

Nexsound Sampler #2

2005, CDr, Comp, Nexsound,

Noise/Abstract/Glitch/IDM/Ambient/Experimental

2005, 10xCDr + DVDr + Box, Carbon Records,

Abstract/Noise/Avantgarde/Experimental/Ambient

Rural Psychogeography

2004, CD, Comp, Nexsound,

Abstract/Experimental/Ambient/Field Recording

2004, 2xCD, Comp, Kranky,

Abstract/Drone/Post Rock/Folk Rock/Experimental/Ambient

Nexsound Sampler #1

2004, CDr, Comp, Smplr, Nexsound,

Noise/Abstract/Glitch/IDM/Ambient/Experimental

Spring 2004 Promotional Sampler

2004, CD, Smplr, Kranky,

Dub/Post Rock/Ambient

Wailing Bones Volume One

2004, CDr, Ltd, Foxglove

The Vegetable Man Project Vol. 1

2002, CD, Comp, Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati,

Alternative Rock/Krautrock/Abstract/Avantgarde/Breakbeat/Electro/Minimal/Classic Rock/Experimental/Jazz-Rock/Lo-Fi