11.11.01: Caural Newsletter #1
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:: Initial Experiments in 3-D (toshoklabs) reviews on
www.toshoklabs.com, and all proceeds going towards disaster relief
:: Paint EP (Chocolate Industries) out November 27- purchase in
advance on Amazon.com and CDnow.com
:: Stars On My Ceiling LP (Chocolate Industries) getting mastered,
tentative spring release date
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Hello everyone, and welcome to newsletter #1!
- Zachary Mastoon (aka Caural)’s debut album, Initial Experiments In
3-D (toshoklabs) has been receiving great feedback! Some reviews have
been added to the toshoklabs website (www.toshoklabs.com) and you can
listen to Real Audio of all the tracks while you read. Toshoklabs’
label head Nate Harrison is donating all profits from the release, as
well as the rest of the toshoklabs catalog, to disaster relief. There
are still some copies available, but they probably won’t be around for
too long, so don’t sleep! 
(You can order copies from
www.forcedexposure.com, www.othermusic.com, and www.bentcrayon.com).
Another reason to visit the toshoklabs web site is to check out Nate’s
mini-site of the 9/11 tragedy. Living 2 blocks away from where the
World Trade Center once stood, he has quite a story:
www.toshoklabs.com/WTC
- Caural’s Paint EP, his first release for Chicago’s Chocolate
Industries, will be out November 27th on both CD and vinyl formats-
the first 500 copies of the 12 inch were pressed on clear vinyl. You
can order copies in advance from www.amazon.com and www.cdnow.com.
Paint’s cover art was done by Kid Acne and you can read about him in
this month’s issue of XLR8R magazine: www.xlr8r.com
- Stars On My Ceiling, Caural’s second album, is currently getting
mastered and you can expect a release date around the end of March.
Art direction and design for this album are being handled by ESPO- aka
Stephen Powers. If you haven’t seen this guy’s work, check out his
book, “The Art of Getting Over” (St. Martin’s Press). It is a great
collection- in traditional black-book style- of graffiti’s history
complete with flicks and sketches by some incredible artists:
SANE/SMITH, REVS, REAS, BLADE, CEX, TYKE, TWIST, GHOST, COPE, NOAH,
etc. You can find it on www.amazon.com and www.turntablelab.com among
other sites, as well as in your local bookstore.
There’s a lot more to come in 2002… Thanks for reading and, most of
all, happy listening!