Putojefe Records

23/12/2023

Thanks Pitchfork for the great review of Dorothy Carter's 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒆 and voting it "Best New Reissue" today!

22/12/2023

Dorothy Carter and Bob Rutman at the legendary Ex'n'Pop in Berlin on the evening of their “The Art of the Dulcimer & Bow Chime” performance on September 2nd, 1994. Photo Pico Risto

19/12/2023

BIS AUFS MESSER Recordstore in Berlin-Friedrichshain now stocks US Steel Cello Ensemble ‎– Noise In The Library LP w poster & insert, plus they’ve just restocked Dorothy Carter – Waillee Waillee LP after their 1st batch sold out in less than a week! The shop is on Marchlewski Strasse 107, 10243 Berlin, very close to Warschauer Straße train station, and they also sell online on https://bisaufsmesser.com/pages/search-results-page?q=putojefe

17/12/2023

Gail Faith Edwards is a Maine-based herbalist who toured with Bob Rutman's Central Maine Power Music Company (CMPMC) during the 1970s, prior to the foundation of his famous U.S. Steel Cello Ensemble in 1975.

Gail also collaborated in the recording of Dorothy Carter’s Waillee Waillee (1978) and has contributed moving liner notes to the 12-page booklet included in the recently released reissue of the album on Palto Flats (US) and Putojefe Records (EU).

Images courtesy of Ben Levine.

14/12/2023

Dorothy Carter – Waillee Waillee LP, a joint release between Palto Flats & Putojefe Records, voted “Reissue Of The Year 2023” on The Quietus !

It’s a real pity or, at least, somewhat unfair that most real geniuses attain glory after leaving this planet, but since I do know their spirits are still around: CONGRATULATIONS, DOROTHY!! CONGRATULATIONS, BOB!!

I cannot exactly remember when that was, although once we had become friends, Bob started talking to us about a fantastic musician and close friend of his called Dorothy Carter and her album Waillee Waillee – because he was a truly modest person, he didn’t even mention that he had played in the record.

What I can remember now is that in April-May 2018, i.e. when the reissue of US Steel Cello Ensemble's Noise In The Library had just come out, my girlfriend and I went to Hackbarth's to hang out with Bob because he had called us to meet him there and, immediately after arriving, I told him that I had just received by mail a 2nd hand copy of Waillee Waillee that I had bought on the Internet for 60 bucks plus international shipping and that I couldn’t even believe how brilliant the album was! Bob didn’t say anything, but I could see a couple of tears running down his cheeks. I’m almost sure that was the only time I saw Bob “crying”. Despite his tough guy façade, he was a very emotional person and, after some years, I realised that he did admire Dorothy, probably more than anyone else in the world.

11/12/2023

BIS AUFS MESSER Recordstore in Friedrichshain now stocks Dorothy Carter – Waillee Waillee LP, where Bob is a guest musician, and Wheezing Maniac – Shade Through The Night Door LP. The shop is located on Marchlewski Strasse 107, 10243 Berlin, very close to Warschauer Straße train station.

06/12/2023

“One of the standout archival editions of 2023, a first time reissue of an obscure 1978 LP from master dulcimerist and avant-folk innovator Dorothy Carter, providing a missing link between Celtic an Appalachian folk traditions, the melted vocals of Karen Dalton, and into the kind of spiralling zither you’d find on records by Laraaji or Michael O’Shea. Just stunning.”
—Boomkat

04/12/2023

Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten and multimedia artist Danielle de Picciotto are hackedepicciotto. On their upcoming winter 2023-24 tour, which hopscotches between Central Europe, Italy and the U.K. over the next four months, they will present their latest album Keepsakes on UK label Mute. The first song on this record, “Troubadour”, is dedicated to their friend Dorothy Carter.

Not only have they both contributed liner notes to the LP/CD reissue of Dorothy’s Waillee Waillee, but they also helped her while living in Berlin in the nineties.

Mr Hacke introduced her to Berlin's underground music scene starting at the legendary Ex’n Pop.

Danielle details her time with Dorothy in a chapter of her book The Beauty of Transgression: A Berlin Memoir, which I absolutely recommend.

01/12/2023

Your pre-orders of Dorothy Carter's 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 LP are ready to ship!

27/11/2023

Many thanks to The Quietus for choosing Dorothy Carter's Waillee Waillee as reissue of the week a few days before its release on Dec 1st! You can pre-order your copy of the LP via Putojefe Records (EU), Plato Flats (US) or Norman Records (UK).

23/11/2023

In the mid seventies, a few years prior to the recording of her first two albums, i.e. Troubadour (1976) and Waillee Waillee (1978), adventurous Dorothy Carter moved to New York with her two children and became a full-time busker. According to Bob Rutman, she drew huge crowds and made very good money with her music. He also used to say that “she was the greatest musician overlooked” and that her music was “miles ahead” of his.

16/11/2023

Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten is one of the musicians who have contributed liner notes to the booklet included in the upcoming LP/CD reissue of Dorothy Carter’s Waillee Waillee on Putojefe Records (EU) / Palto Flats (US). Mr Hacke was Dorothy’s friend and mentor in Berlin after Bob Rutman, founder of US Steel Cello Ensemble, told her to come here in the early 1990s. Photo: Pico Risto

11/11/2023

Thanks Vic for playing Dorothy Carter’s “Along The River” and “Waillee, Waillee” at WBFY Belfast Community Radio in Belfast, Maine during his program String Band Lunch. As some of you may know, Dorothy lived in West Athens, Maine until 1974. In the early 1970s, she was a member of the Central Maine Power Music Company with Constance Demby and Bob Rutman, prior to the foundation of the US Steel Cello Ensemble in 1975.

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09/11/2023

Even if I moved to Berlin in 2010, the label as such has been active here since 2013, so it’s been 10 years so far and now Putojefe Records has 10 releases since its inception in Madrid in 2001. Many thanks to those who've supported us one way or another! 🙏

06/11/2023

Thanks Nausika for the in-depth review of Dorothy Carter's Waillee Waillee in The Sound Projector.

The LP/CD can be pre-ordered via Putojefe Records (EU) or via Palto Flats (US) and will start shipping on Dec 1st, 2023.

29/10/2023 nausika Waillee Waillee: a wondrous work of spaced-out psychedelic folk and neo-mediaeval experimentation Dorothy Carter, Waillee Waillee, United States, Palto Flats, PF012 CD / vinyl LP (December 2023 reissue) / Germany, Putojefe Records, PJ008 CD / vinyl LP (December 2023 reissue) For t...

19/10/2023

“Tree of Life” is the closing track of Dorothy Carter's 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 LP/CD which features Bob Rutman on the steel cello.

The album can be pre-ordered via Putojefe Records in the EU or via Palto Flats in the US and will start shipping on the 1st of December, 2023.

Pre-order your copy of Dorothy Carter's 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 LP/CD reissue out Dec 1st, 2023 at: putojefe.com/product-tag/dorothy-carter The first ever reissue of Dorothy Carter's 1978 folk/

17/10/2023

Dorothy Carter performs “Along the River” at Green St Grill in Cambridge, MA. Shot by Thomas Newell in 1989. Pre-order 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 LP/CD via Putojefe Records (EU) or Palto Flats (US).

09/10/2023

Putojefe Records and Palto Flats are excited to announce the first ever reissue of American composer and multi-instrumentalist, Dorothy Carter. Originally released in 1978, 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 remains an unheralded folk/psych/drone masterpiece.

Dorothy Carter was many things: a virtuoso player, storyteller, historian of Celtic and Appalachian folk music, lifelong busker, avant-garde musician, and itinerant troubadour, laying a framework for music that existed both within and outside of standard folk idioms – never better represented than on this album.

Underscored by Bob Rutman's cavernous bowing of the steel cello, the richness of 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘦’s sound produces an album unlike any other in her discography. In particular, its two side-ending pieces, “Summer Rhapsody” and “Tree of Life,” glide with the shimmering filigree of hammered dulcimer and Dorothy Carter’s ephemeral voice floating over Rutman’s droning buzz of the steel cello. The elements of these two tracks suggest something akin to a transcendental Appalachian raga or whirling cosmic folk music.

She counted musical colleagues as diverse as Constance Demby, Einstürzende Neubauten and Laraaji, as well as her lifelong artistic partner and friend Bob Rutman, whose imprint is felt throughout the grooves of this record.

The master tapes for this recording were discovered in Rutman’s Berlin studio many, many years later.

EU pre-orders: https://putojefe.com/product-tag/dorothy-carter/

US pre-orders: https://paltoflats.com/release/dorothy-carter-waillee-waillee/

21/09/2023

“Society's Dropout” by Sub Society is included in their No Legs To Stand On cassette. Get yr copy at putojefe dot com

14/09/2023

Matt Hensley et al. skating in Vista to Sub Society's “A Lot Less” is one of the most celebrated skate video sections of all time. Do you agree?

09/09/2023

SUB SOCIETY – No Legs To Stand On CS reissue now available at Putojefe Records. US residents order thru Skaterock Records for a more reasonable shipping rate.

05/09/2023

Wheezing Maniac LP on clear vinyl available in our online store. Black vinyl available in the US via Skaterock Records.

21/08/2023

Sub Society – No Legs To Stand On reissue w extra tracks available soon on putojefe.com

18/08/2023

Who can remember Sub Society?

18/07/2023

Emissions Record Shop now carries the Wheezing Maniac LP in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 https://recordshopemissions.com/products/wheezing_maniac_-_shade_through_the_night_door_lp_2300518

17/07/2023

17 July, 1994. Today is the 29th anniversary of Freak Show’s Fu***rs Of Defeat, the band’s 1st 7” which contains 7 songs, plus a cover of Minor Threat's “Seeing Red”.

All tracks were engineered by Expo, lead guitarist of the band Perdidos Sin Control, in the basement of El Tejar school in Fuengirola. Everything was recorded basically in one take to one track stereo, i.e. with no overdubs whatsoever.

The title “Fu***rs Of Defeat” was taken from a Madrid band formed by skateboarders Jaime Hayon, Jorge “Franklin” Puig, John and Wata. They definitely were our earliest major influence together with Black Flag and Minor Threat.

I had the EPs cut and pressed in the Czech Republic and the covers & inserts printed at a small printing house near El Tejar; prior to that, in order to have the jackets done, I had to order a custom die cutter at an industrial estate in the outskirts of Málaga. I cannot remember who gave me a ride to that place, I think it took us a while to find it.

Because we had included a Minor Threat cover, I sent a copy of the 7” to the Dischord office and shortly after Ian MacKaye sent me a postcard to thank me and added “it will go into my collection”.

The record is now out of print.

Tracklist:00:00 Prejudice Free01:50 Think Reasonably03:07 Pain03:42 Handled World04:38 Fight For Your Ideals05:37 Struggle06:52 Hard Times08:21 Seeing Red (w...

07/07/2023

Rainer Krispel has included WHEEZING MANIAC's Shade Through The Night Door LP next to the UK SUBS in the “Playlists” section of OxFanzine, one of the best punk rock magazines in Europe! 🛹🎸

01/07/2023

WHEEZING MANIAC's Shade Through The Night Door LP is available now at Torn Light in Cincinnati, OH 🇺🇸 https://www.tornlightrecords.com/shop/wheezing-maniac-shade-through-the-night-door-pre-order/

14/06/2023

Thanks to Trust Fanzine for the review of the Wheezing Maniac LP in the new June/July 2023 issue! The 'zine is available at most newsstands in Germany and via trust-zine.de 🔥🛹

05/06/2023

“THE NEW REBORN” is Daniel Ferrero's new skateboarding video which was filmed in four cities in three countries during eight months and is streaming now on YouTube. Hit the link and enjoy! 🔥🛹

Three countries, four cities, eight months of filming and a torn ligament – mix it with an ever-growing fe**sh for virgin crusty terrain and you get Daniel F...

15/05/2023

Happy Birthday, Bob! ❤️

13/05/2023

Now available at Amoeba Hollywood 6200 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028. Monday - Thursday open 11am - 8pm | Friday - Sunday open 11am - 9pm.
[Vinyl available in-store only.]

10/05/2023

WHEEZING MANIAC's Shade Through The Night Door LP is now available at all three stores of Reckless Records in Chicago 🇺🇸 https://www.reckless.com/index.php?keywords=Wheezing+Maniac&format=LP&cond=N&store=&is_search=true&srch=Search

04/05/2023

Last 10 days of the current exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart where you can see and hear Bob Rutman's works created w US STEEL CELLO ENSEMBLE. Noise In The Library LP is available at Walther König bookstore for purchase, as well as 𝘈𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘴 w an in-depth article about Bob written by Marialuisa Bonometti.

The exhibition follows the history of vinyl in art into the present day, featuring some 700 records and sound installations from 70 years.

01/05/2023

Wheezing Maniac LP back in stock at Skaterock Records in the US 🇺🇸

13/04/2023

WHEEZING MANIAC's Shade Through The Night Door LP is available now at Digelius Music Hämeentie 48 in Helsinki 🇫🇮

11/04/2023

WHEEZING MANIAC LP back in stock at Skaterock Records in the USA. Order from them for a domestic shipping rate and faster shipping. 🔥🛹

Back in stock! 💥🛹🎸

"Wheezing Maniac was a mysterious, short-lived band with enigmatic lyrics that was active in Southern California in the late eighties.

Due to their off-kilter originality, high energy, and thanks to the help of Larry Harmon of Genetic Disorder zine, two of their tracks, namely “Dollar on a Platter” and “Don’t Come Close,” found their way onto the seminal classic skateboarding video H-Street’s Hokus Pokus.

Describing the video as a game changer would not be an overstatement, since it turned out to be one of the most influential skate films of all time. A generation of skaters raised on watching that film and since 1990 embraced the songs as part of their unique culture, though over the years the music has begun to be found by other music fans who value art created with a distinct and personal vision."

Shade Through the Night Door LP on Putojefe Records contains all 17 original songs the band ever recorded, enhanced by an impeccable remastering job which has given these tunes an invigorated new spirit. “It really doesn’t matter” if you’ve heard of them or not, the world needs this record.

LP features two-sided fold-out insert with lyrics, pictures and liner notes.

Limited to 200 copies pressed on BLACK VINYL. (Import)