Djam Karat (was just for fun)

[Captain Cloud]

> Can anyone point me to a Djam Karat Home page or give me some album
credits.
> The tenuous link (not the friend I had hoped) is a Gayle Ellet.

Gayle Ellet is indeed one of the four members of Djam Karet.  And, he is
an excellent guitarist!  This band has produced some of my favorite rock
all-instrumental albums, specifically "Burning the Hard City" as the best.

Djam Karet have put out a pretty large collection of music, including 8 CDs,
some comp appearances, several rare tapes, and even a live video.  They
also just played a mini-tour of 3 or 4 dates last fall (1998), which
provided
some live tapes for the trading circles.  They are based in California.

Be aware also that they dabbled with ambient (not to my taste) on a couple
of full albums, but their specialty is an intense electric fusion.

The relevent URL, as was posted earlier by Kevin (I think), is
http://www.djamkaret.com.  I can also provide a snail mail addr
for Henry J. Osborne, the member of the band who handles direct
sales and fan mailouts.

Gayle also put out a solo album credited to Gardner & Gayle, called
"Music for Televisions".  Gardner refers to Gardner Graber, an unknown
to me.  Apparently this album collects music written for two television
shows on SURFER and POWDER.  An occasionally interesting item for
the DK completist only.

If anyone has any further interest in this band, they are free to contact
me and I'll tell them what I can...

>
> Mikey
>
> PS If this is indeed the same band I have a very rare thing indeed.  The
> first Happy Cancer official Studio Demo tape, as well as a live concert I
> think.  Hmmm.

Hey Mike, if you want to set up a trade, then I'd appreciate it.  I have so
far
been fortunate enough to track down most of the released items from this
band, but that just makes me hunger for more!  ;^)


Captain Cloud
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http://www.hawklord.com/tapes