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Windy & Carl

Real Name:Windy Weber & Carl Hultgren
Profile:Since the early '90s, Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren have been conducting musical experiments in their Dearborn, Michigan home studio that sound something like the members of a celestial orchestra quietly and slowly tuning their instruments. Or perhaps like the sound you hear while floating in an isolation tank. Well, their compositions evoke a vast number of images and ideas, but all pertain to the other side of consciousness, the faraway places the mind can take you. Their droning, gentle pieces wash over you like cool water that insulates you from the outside world. Minimalism is the order of the day -- this is a duo, after all -- as Windy and Carl create their vast, spacious, otherworldly arias with but a guitar, a bass, a bit of keyboard, and a ton of dreamy effects. Occasionally Windy sings, an ethereal murmur of a voice that transforms the droning ambience into something resembling a heavenly lullaby. Worshippers at the altar of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless are exhorted to enter this duo's temple.
URLs:http://www.brainwashed.com/wc/
http://www.myspace.com/windyandcarl
http://www.epitonic.com/artists/windycarl.html
Members:Carl Hultgren, Windy Weber
In Groups:Once Dreamt
Name Variations: All | Windy & Carl | Windy + Carl | Windy And Carl
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Releases:
Watersong / Dragonfly (7")   Blue Flea 1993
Instrumentals EP (7", Ltd, EP, Red)   Burnt Hair 1994
Self-Titled (Cass)   Blue Flea 1994
Dreamlanding / Left Without Air (7")   Mind Expansion, Blue Flea 1995
Emerald ◄ (2 versions)   Enraptured 1995
Merry Christmas (Cass)   Blue Flea 1995
Portal (CD, Album)   Ba Da Bing! 1995
Drawing of Sound ◄ (2 versions)   Icon ... 1996
Green / Jim Laffin (7", Ltd)   Burnt Hair 1996
Radio Performance (Cass)   Blue Flea 1996
A Dream Of Blue (EP) ◄ (2 versions)   Ochre Records 1997
Antarctica (The Bliss Out, Vol. 2) ◄ (2 versions)   Darla Records 1997
I Have Known Love / Crazy In The Sun (Single) ◄ (2 versions)   Rocket Girl 1997
Depths (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Kranky 1998
Split CD (CD, Maxi)   Blue Flea 1998
Antarctica / Soul Vine (12")   Earworm 2000
Consciousness (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Kranky 2001
Split Tour CD (CD, Album, Ltd)   Music Fellowship 2001
Windy & Carl & The Lothars (CD)   Blue Flea, Wobbly Music 2001
Introspection (3xCD)   Blue Flea 2002
Split X-Mas 7" + Bonus CD-rom (7", Ltd, EP, Tra + CDr, CD-ROM, Ltd)   Top Quality Rock & Roll 2002
Dedications To Flea (CDr, EP, Ltd)   Brainwashed Recordings 2005
M + M = ♥ / In This World (7", Single, Ltd)   Top Quality Rock & Roll 2005
The Dream House / Dedications To Flea (CD, EP + CD, EP, RE)   Kranky 2005
Akimatsuri (CD, Album, Ltd)   Blue Flea 2006
Monolith: Earth (LP, Pic, S/Sided + CD)   Music Fellowship 2008
Songs For The Broken Hearted (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Kranky 2008
Instrumentals For The Broken Hearted (LP, Ltd)   Blue Flea 2009
Gulliver Whiskey 20 (7", Single, Ltd)   Jonathon Whiskey  
Remixes:
Mixed Signals ◄ (2 versions) Opiate (Windy & Carl R... Tiger Style ... 2002
Appears On:
Disco Sucks (CD) Beyond Asleep Ché Trading 1996
Rebound EP Volume Two (7") Ballast Rebound Magazine 1997
The Money Shot! (CD, Album, Ltd, Comp) Fuzzy Chunklet Magazine 1997
After The Flood 2 (2xCD, Album) So Near, So Far æ 1998
Brain In The Wire - Disc A (CD, Comp) Trembling Wire Magazine, Brainwashed Recordings 2000
Brain In The Wire (3xCD, Comp, Ltd) Trembling Brainwashed Recordings 2002
Documenta.II (CD, Comp) You Agenda 2002
Tracks Appear On:
Electronic Evocations A Tribute To The Silver Apples (10", MiniAlbum) Program Enraptured 1995
Angelfood Electronics Volume Two (LP) Marble Dream Kakemix Records 1996
Disco Sucks ◄ (2 versions) Beyond Asleep Ché Trading 1996
Electronic Evocations A Tribute To The Silver Apples (CD, Album) Program Enraptured 1996
Go Sonic EP (7") Clouds Within You Go Sonic 1996
Mind Expansion - Volume 1 (7") Smeared Mind Expansion 1996
Monsters, Robots & Bug Men - A User's Guide To The Rock Hinterland (2xCD) Preparation Virgin 1996
Angelfood Electronics Volumes 1 And 2 (CD, Comp) Marble Dream Kakemix Records 1997
Little Darla Has A Treat For You (Vol. 6) (CD) Antarctica (Edit) Darla Records 1997
Rebound EP Volume Two (7") Ballast Rebound Magazine 1997
Sunday Sept. 14th. '97 (CD) Underground Enraptured 1997
Terrastock All Access (CD, Comp, Ltd) Awhile Ptolemaic Terrascope 1997
The Money Shot! (CD, Album, Ltd, Comp) Fuzzy Chunklet Magazine 1997
#3 (CD, Comp) Your Hands, Your Fate Badaboom Gramophone 1998
Clairecords Presents: Solutions & Remedies (CD) Warm Like December Clairecords 1998
Kompilation (CD) Undercurrent Southern Records 1998
Day Dreaming Bedroom Ambience 2 ◄ (2 versions) Mechanism Enraptured 1999
Six Hours One Week (CD, Album, Ltd) Live At Go Sound Six Hours One Week 1999
Through The Square Window (CD, Album) A Dream Of Blue (Edit) Blue Flea 1999
Brain In The Wire - Disc A (CD, Comp) Trembling Wire Magazine, Brainwashed Recordings 2000
Transmissions 002 (CD) Untitled Transmissions 2000
A Rocket Girl Compilation (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Crazy In The Sun Rocket Girl 2001
Brain In The Wire (3xCD, Comp, Ltd) Trembling Brainwashed Recordings 2002
Documenta II (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) You Agenda 2002
The Patty Duke Fanzine #5 (2x7") The End Of The World Top Quality Rock & Roll, Patty Duke Fanzine 2003
Brainwaves (3xCD, Ltd, Comp) Seiche Brainwashed Recordings 2006
Mitten [State] Transmissions (4xCD + DVDr + Box) Myths Of The Near Future Top Quality Rock & Roll 2006
The Eye Volume 12 (DVDr) November 26th, 2005 Brainwashed Recordings 2006
Top Quality Rock & Roll 2006 Sampler (CD, Comp, Enh, Promo) Snowing Top Quality Rock & Roll 2006
Peace (For Mom) (2xCD, Comp, Car) I Have Been Waiting To... Brainwashed Recordings 2008
Unofficial Releases:
Dreamlanding / Left Without Air (7", Ltd, MP, Whi) Left Without Air Mind Expansion, Blue Flea 1995
User Reviews:
Alastis, Dec 14, 2004

As it turns out, few people on Discogs ever heard of W Which, to me, is quite sad.
They are, what i would call "The Wire" band. It means that if you love to read magazine called "The Wire" (or visiting their website often), you already know who they are. W are producing music since the early 90s, but yet to achieve any sort of success outside of indie/avantgarde circle. Their music is mostly about guitar drones (+ female vocals, appearing in some songs), but not in the vein of, say, Maeror Tri or Final, with more warmth/emotion and less emphasis on abstraction. They are not strictly shoegaze band, but if youre into Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine, you have to listen to any of their CDs.

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