C. Lavender

Heathen Harvest Review of MMATS

2011-11-15T22:20:00.000-08:00

Written by: Joseph Gates

"“Meet Me At The Station” shows a creative and individualistic noise artist with an ear for atmospheric textures and a creative approach to relating organic and man-made sonic textures. Although there is much on this cassette sonically that would place it within the “harsh noise” genre, the overall effect is quite hypnotic and soothing.

Rating: 5/5"

Full review can be read here

New release - Meet Me At The Station

2011-08-10T16:44:00.001-07:00

First full length solo release in over a year - "Meet Me At The Station" is done and will be available for tour.
Crystal blue C-15 cassettes in slim boxes.
$6 includes shipping and brings it to your front door.

Sweltering Weakend Northeast Tour

2011-07-15T08:03:00.000-07:00

First full solo tour is set & ready to go. Please note that the dates are all on the weekend and not straight through (weekend really starts on Thursday night - right?). Fliers and more info soon.

AUGUST
Thursday the 11th - Portland, ME @ Strange Maine
Friday the 12th - Providence, RI @ Paragon
Saturday the 13th - Off
Sunday the 14th - Far Rockaway, NY @ The Red Light District
Thursday the 18th - Baltimore, MD @ Emerald City (Annex)
Friday the 19th - Philly, PA @ Dream Castle
Saturday the 20th - Off
Sunday the 21st - New Haven, CT @ Popey's Garage
Thursday the 25th - Northampton, MA @ Elevens
Friday the 26th - Sunday the 28th - Voice of the Valley fest, WV
SEPTEMBER
Friday the 2nd - Boston, MA @ Starlab

New Release on 905 tapes

2011-01-22T09:10:00.000-08:00

I'm featured on the new release from 905 tapes called Brains on Backwash III: Backwash to the Future! c-100 compilation. Also features such great artists as: 2673, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Opponents and much more. Can be ordered from 905 tapes here. Should have artist copies for shows soon.

photo courtesy mike haley

Official Website

2011-01-22T09:05:00.001-08:00

So I've been pretty slow to update this as I've been working on an "official" website. It's about 85% done at this point and can be seen here: www.clavender.net
All my audio related info is up, but I'm still updating my visual art section. Info on how to purchase releases will still be up on here for the meantime.

Featured in Kim Gordon's Noise Paintings

2010-06-13T13:54:00.001-07:00

I got into a deep hole in the internet and stumbled upon this article and was very confused until I found this article .
I had no idea Kim Gordon had featured me in her noise paintings collection and felt like an even bigger dope for spacing on seeing the exhibit at all. A major honor, whether she's heard me or not and just thought "man, that sounds gross, I gotta paint that!"

[Click picture for larger version - is yr tape in there?]

C. Lavender - "Body Heat"

2010-06-11T14:44:00.000-07:00

First C. Lavender tape is done.
C-14 in fur lined metal tins w/special surprises
Limited edition of 30

$7 in person
$8.50 via mail

BOB/PIP SPLIT STILL AVAILABLE!

2009-11-11T19:34:00.000-08:00

You know this incites you! Get in contact!
Last Paid in Puke release!

Review 1 HERE

"While Paid In Puke artiste C. Lavender sure knows her way around formless, sampled guitar freakout, the noise generated on her side of the tape is more joyful than scabby.
PIP’s two songs, “anything can become art” and “Case in Point,” use snippets of childish random quotes that slither in and out of a guitar-based din that occasionally display fragments of riffs and chords. Lavender makes this by-now routine structure seem fresh and oddly defiant. The freedom created is noted by both artist and listener."

Review 2 HERE

"P.I.P. starts off her side with a short sound collage. Sampling what I am guessing by the quality and beeps is an old record that came with a book, like those Disney or DC Comic read-along jams you had has a kid, she loops the quote "anything can become art" (the title of the track) with miscellaneous fragments of sentences. Case In Point, the other track, and what I'm assuming is her response to the previous statement, opens with a low rumble and a handful of tones going up in scale that lead into a feedback ruckus that sounds like C. Lavender (that is her name by the way) is going at a guitar like she is ripping weeds out of the ground. Or maybe she is using a weed whacker on the strings, either way the clamor is raw and grating. Every so often the babel allows strummed notes to peek out, but that is rare and just adds to the absolute mess. To over analyze Paid In Puke's side would be stupid. This is noise with no docket or road map."

SPLIT WITH BUCKETS OF BILE

2009-08-21T21:22:00.000-07:00

SPLIT WITH BUCKETS OF BILE PUT OUT BY SPEED TAPES
C20 EDITION OF 100
$5 in person $6 via us postal service
brutal cover art can be seen here!!!!!!!

Excellent Description

2009-02-28T14:45:00.001-08:00

From New York Noise VJ MC Steinberg

HERE

"Paid in Puke sounds like the name of your little brother’s imaginary rock band, but it is actually the project of a lady named C. Lavender, who makes cassette tapes full of all sorts of nightmarish sounds. Paid in Puke loops sped-up drums, sexy samples and other sorts of weird noises to make the perfect soundtrack to a jog through an upside down Times Square, while on PCP."

Paid in Puke - Das Unheimliche

2008-10-11T19:04:00.000-07:00

Das Unheimliche.
C-18
Has elements of demo tape, but far gloomier/doomier and less likely to be played at an awkward dance party.
Hand-made cloth pouch, hand designed inserts on a lovely gold cassette w/secret trinket!

GGG-GONE!

Spleencoffin Presentz: Ladyz in Noyz

2008-09-06T20:28:00.000-07:00

An eclectic mix of 36 womenz from across the globe making awkward sounds that induce their period. It happens to me all the time. Bad-ass ladyz featured: Abiku, Arachnid Arcade, Beeping Sleauty, Blue Shift, Bonnie Mercer (Grey Daturas), Child Bride, Chic Nerve, Ecomorti, Froghat and Sofaqueen, HNY (Social Junk), Hobbyknife, Great Room, Sun Shine Sanitorium, Hot Lava, Katherine (Rosemary Krust), Adrien Barbobot (Kristin Calvarese), Mayan Bounty , Leah Peah (Head Molt), Marissa Magic, Marlo Eggplant (Hazardous Guadalupe, Brain Mucus), Mother Orchid, BCO Women's Auxiliary (Ninah Pixie, Women Take Back the Noise), Olivia Z , Noveller, Paid in Puke, Paper Rockets, Suzie Zuzek, Roaring Aurora, Rusalka, Rosemary Krust, Scout, Sharkiface, Spawning vats, Stone pillow, The Vivian Girls Experience, U.S. Girls, and C.C. Wang with USSA Pleasuredome.

2 PRESSED CDS -
1 BURNED

Two copies left

$15 includes shipping

I also accept cash-bling, just get in contact first.

The Nyah Nyah Nyah Demo

2008-09-06T20:16:00.000-07:00

My first tape - The Nyah Nyah Nyah Demo
C-20
Hand-crafted cloth pouches
recorded all when I could still claim teenager status.

GGG-GOOOONE!

REVIEW HERE

"Seeming to come from the mind of 13 year old boy, Paid In Puke is actually one New Jersey lady C. Lavender. Fitting in well with the Radio Shock lo-fi beats theory of diy, and harkening back to that brief moment when Cobra Killers' were the breath of fresh air over at Digital Hardcore and Kathleen Hannah's solo album promised something much rougher and punk than Le Tigre ended up being. The assemblage of the beats is equal parts keys, drummachines, erotic samples, and who knows what without feeling overly-collage based. Short and sweet also plays as a strength to this little party in a cloth pouch that appears for a distorted, digitally crunched moment and then is gone. Only complaint is that side B begins about 1 min in. May home dubbing humble us forever."