>Umin - Umbr
Finally! Some new releases at ABR! Umin's Umbr will be out in August and will be available digitally worldwide. Umin creates some of the most complex dissonant melodic randomness out of a ukulele that anyone has ever heard. It's some of our favorite music ever! Listen to it!
>Set In Sand - RETURN!
Set In Sand's new album "Return" is coming soon, and will be available on CD from Symbolic Interaction (Japan). We'll post the details when we get them. The album is an 11 track gem made mostly from sampling a music box. Listen to it!
>DoF - Suddenly Shifting Against The Sky - OUT NOW!
The new full length from DoF is OUT NOW and can be purchased through the website or from P*DIS Records (Japan). The album is a wonderful return to DoF's original more instrumental feel, while keeping up the experimental evolution. Listen to it!
>New Structures
The Building being Unfurbished at the moment, is looking toward a lovely present in the not too distant future, Umin will be rereleasing the revised Umbr on limited handmade CDRs, and digital download formats. Umin tends to layer the ukelele in ways that create weird skittering environments with all kinds of little fragments of melody and dissonance dancing around the perimeter and showing off in the center of the circle. It's really exciting to help share this will all of you, it's truly great learning music.
Crillix will be turning up a precious gem soonish this year. Many of you may not know of his music from the compilations, if you have heard it and love it, then you're in for a treat... Well i suppose either way we're all in for a treat, because this music catches dreams from every climate of the soundscape and releases them into your auric field, tickling under the surface and telling stories of many realms histories and present.
>Rebuilding
Hi again to you, kind listener, maker of the music space. Finally some more music to share with you. Set In Sand has decided NOW to make more available all the old SELF RELEASED materials most of us missed, to get a feel for the whole experience. The first is a short collection of tracks called "How Come Everything Is More Than One Thing 2" from sometime prior to NOW. Leap over to the SIS site to check it out.
>2010, Year of the Building
What does it really mean that it's 2010 other than no one can really say it's the new millenium for another 900 years, and most of us can wait for that. And furthermore, somewhat of a disclaimer for anyone concerned with how abandonbuilding operates. We work on a 50/50 potential basis, that is, there's a 50/50 chance something we plan ain't gonna happen. That in No mind...
DoF - Suddenly Shifting Against The Sky, a brand new full length, shall be released by the kind people of P*DIS records in japan, who've helped us thusfar share our sounds with the other side of the world, from the very beginning, to whom we owe great thanks in the form of more good music. This DoF album confirms the love one has for it's balance, even with expectations one won't go astray. Thank you Brian.
Lots of great stuff happening all over the world, we'll wait and clue you in as the fun experiences the moment. Blessings, Tidings.
>XMAS songs from DoF
When the season gets Xmas the Xmas gets seasoned, have a few delightful scrumdittliumptious Xmas spirited songs and hymnals from the assisted ether that emits sounds in the form of music as DoF XMAS SONGS FOR FAMILY GET TOGETHERS AND WARM FIRES
>DoF REVIEW
There is a nice DoF - Rid The Tree Of Its Rain review up at Textura!
>ABR011 Set In Sand - Mid Summer At The Winters
In August we'll be releasing a new album from Set In Sand called Mid Summer At The Winters... It's a full length album of new tracks, all taken from a single days recording out on a friends farm, with all the insects and wildlife punching in, and then edited at home mostly in kentucky, some in colorado. we'll post some listenables soon.
>ABR012 DoF - Rid The Tree Of Its Rain CDEP
July will bring with it a new release from DoF, Rid The Tree Of It's Rain... The EP is a really swell refresher course on what good music feels like. The 7 new songs travel mostly through vibrant instrumentations, and dabble in peaceful vocals, sharing space to become a near perfect summer segment. And just a heads up, later this year we'll be dropping his new full length, Suddenly Shifting Against The Sky. Word!
>From Unity To Segmentation
Phylum Sinter's ...From Unity To Segmentation... EP is now available from N5MD/Enpeg . There are an array of new songs, plus remixed versions from friends including Set In Sand, and Hecq.
>Before We Melt - IVDT
Illmatik Vibes Delete Thought just thawed out a new compilation, which captures falling snowflakes as a collection of songs by some fairly unique music makers. Voyage over and listen to the physical changes. Before We Melt
>Umin - Umbr (Dog Eared Records)
If you're into hearing things as they happen, including cut and blended ukulele, please download and give a listen in to, Umbr, the new album from Umin.
>Color Cassette - Fable Cinder
Color Cassette's Forever Sparrow, is out on Autres Directions In Music, it's rather lovely, you can listen to some songs here
or check out a video here... CC-Fable Cinder
>SIS REST NOW
> Set In Sand - Remembering Everything Seams Together, is available in advance as mp3's, if you preorder the cd or make a donation.
>ABRACSGROWSSIDEWAYS
> Hello, join us here at the new AbandonBuilding / ACrawlsPace. We?ve thrown a little paint there and here and built some weird sculptures from broken appliances and sawdust, then invited a lot of new music to fill up these refurbished rooms.
> Firstly relating with the current resonant climate of this domain, we?re going to be doing a lot of limited releases, and when we do they will come out on a leg of this building called ACrawlsPace. The ACrawlsPace catalog should be introducing a lot of vibrant new musical projects to the already endless ocean of sounds, as well as sharing more quaint collections from our favorites. (the stuff that changes us in ways that feels like growth) Another quite interesting aspect of ACrawlsPace is in the packaging, which should stray away from the standards previously explored on earth up to this point in time.
> And there?s a slew of Set in Sand goodies on the way. First is a short instrumental piece of experimental ambient works called Remembering Everything Seams Together, released in a canvas package with random stitches sewn into it. The music is far removed from the SIS we?ve loved for so long, and the soothing thing is, we love it just the same.
> SIS REST will be followed then by a more theatrical vocal oriented full length, Doubtfull Glass Of Water. DGOW explores the world of a shadow attempting to quench his thirst in reaching for a drink of water on the table, half empty, and half full. Its hand passes through in January 09.
> Sometime in the midst of all of this keep your ears peeled for SIS remixes, covers, and originals among collections on,,,
IVDT for a compilation called ?Before We Melt?,,,
Symbolic Interaction, a remix for Oba Masahiro,,,
Xynthetic, a remix on Phylum Sinter's From Unity To Segmentation / There's a Place about the experience,,,
and ACrawlsPace, VA ? A Monster Hatches An Egg.
> Color Cassette (offthesky/set in sand) has just released an energetic double 3? cd on Mobeer, a limited subcompartment of Europes Moteer. They will also be offering up a collection of slower more relaxed vocal material later this year from Autres Directions, called Forever Sparrow.
> And finally but not lastly, the shoots and giggles real life serious voiceable trio of Flowtation Addvice shares their sounds with the world in a collection of 8 stories called ?Terrain Clouds.? Something to do with a cloud of brain compartments in the head of a goat. TC will be Co-released with Japanese label Hue sometime in the beginning of 2009.
> Well that?s it for this season, many a decent listen to you all.
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