Metalux (Load Records, Hanson, 5rc, Veglia) is MV Carbon and Jenny Graf. Carbon and Graf have worked together for many years as Metalux and also were the duo guitarists in the Chicago no wave band Bride of No No (Atavistic). They both relocated from Chicago to the east coast 5 years ago. Carbon (New York City) and Graf (Baltimore, MD). Their new residences have left them in close proximity; allowing them to sustain Metalux. They have toured internationally as Metalux, and have improvised with musicians such as Evan Parker, Culver (Skullflower), John Edwards, Spencer Yeh, John Wiese and many more. Their newest work is 1002 Cool Nights on cassette.
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Over the past couple of years, Carbon has been doing a lot of solo sound work using cello, tape machines, and various electronics. She has a solo LP expected out on the Ecstatic Peace label very soon. She has extensively collaborated with the artists Tony Conrad, Luke Calzonetti (Bad Faces is MV Carbon and Luke Calzonetti , cd release on Fi and Fear), Carlos Giffoni (Jackal Blade is MV Carbon and Carlos Giffoni , cd to be released on NO-Fi in the winter), and Aki Onda. Carbon is also an active painter with recent exhibitions in New York City. On October 2nd she will be performing solo in Gothenburg, Sweden in a program titled The Drone People.
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Jenny Graf along with Chiara Giovando have recently completed Proud Flesh, an experimental Western film with original soundtrack that features an older female gunslinger. Her solo projects include performances as J. Graf, The Guitars Project (a collaborative project with women with Alzheimer's Disease) and The Stone Carving Oraclestra, a project in which psychic readings are offered in the form of phoneme incantations and the transference of sound into stone. Her work has been performed and screened throughout Europe and North America.
Jenny Graf