In a previous life, Eddie Corman and Jules Marcon toured with various Japanese noise and psych-rock bands. As the duo Eddie Marcon they have been working on the exact opposite since 2001. Their music is so fleeting and fragile that the term acid folk sounds like an aggressive insult. Carpet of Fallen Leaves compiles rare songs from the duo’s twenty-year history, previously only available on CD-Rs or private pressings. The album brings the good news of Eddie Marcon to the world, so that their labelmates The Notwist are not the only fans in the western hemisphere.
Organ, vibraphone, flute, pedal steel guitar and Eddie Corman’s voice form a ghostly minimal folk on the edge of silence. This certainly reveals a kinship with the music of their Japanese colleague Ai Aso. But when the hauntological-psychedelic aspects dominate, Grouper or Clinic Stars may also come to mind – or Stereolab, should the power fail in their studio. Carpet of Fallen Leaves sounds like what blows through the open window on the very last day of summer.
