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Origamibiro – Shakkei Remixed CD (May 21st)

Origamibiro’s Shakkei is making people smile all over the world, they’re welcomed by the intriguing techniques the band uses to create / perform their music and video plethora. We’re thankful to have brought Shakkei up into new forms with help from a ton of Dope musicians from planet Earth. Remixing songs from the original album are nun other than, Umin, Calika, Melodium, Upward Arrows, The Remote Viewer, K-Conjog, Last Man On Mars, Proem, offthesky, Set In Sand, Low In The Sky, Ghost and Tape, Plaid, Phylum Sinter, Leafcutter John, aus, and ISAN. RAD!

Check out Origamibiro in UK, for the following dates:

20th April 2012, 9pm, With Special Guest, Envelope The Space
Nottingham Contemporary

24th April 2012, 7:30pm
Cargo London

28th April, 2012
Sensoria Festival
www.sensoria.org.uk

6th May 2012, Simple Things Festival, With Squarepusher LIVE, Caribou DJ Set,
Death in Vegas LIVE, Hudson Mohawke LIVE AV Show
Bristol, Various Venues

K-Conjog – Set Your Spirit Freak (Available NOW)

Fabrizio’s work as K-Conjog is a better listen than it is described, but we can say it’s the perfect new addition to the Abandon Building Family, and you’re going to love it. The album “Set Your Spirit Freak” is a combination of layered guitars and keyboards with real time drumming and programming, sometimes surrounded by the sounds of Nature. It’s heavy, and playful, and inspiring, and most of all beautiful. Here try a song.

Quad Time – Vimeo Awards

Origamibiro and The Joy Of Box’s musical film “Quad Time” has been selected for the Vimeo Movie Awards short list, along with 11 other magical pieces chosen for the “Captured” category. Now until April 30 they’re taking votes for your favorite video in each category. The Awards will happen on June 7th. Here’s a link. Check it out!

and here is the video

Quad Time from The Joy of Box on Vimeo.

ACrawlsPace’s – A Monster Hatches An EGG (April 3rd)

acRAwlsPace Music a new Abandon Building offshoot is finally here with it’s first release in the form of a 111 minute compilation…. “A Monster Hatches An Egg.” The album is available for FREE to anyone who signs up to the mailing list. Just send an email through the site, or to contact(at)abandonbuilding(dot)com with the subject line ILUVABR to receive your download link. (if you’re already on the list, we’ll be sending out an email with the link) The comp features 37 tracks from too many artists to name, but including K-Conjog, Calika, Umin, Origamibiro, Color Cassette, The Doldrums, Set In Sand, Alfred Brown, DoF, Crillix, Phylum Sinter, Wolke, Atone, and Ghost And Tape.

ICE DISCO by Low In The Sky

Specimens

Origamibiro’s new performance video for the unreleased track “Specimens” by thejoyofbox

Miaou – Lost Souls (feat Radical Face)

Sheveks Masada

Anyone ever hear Sheveks Masada? Smaze from Beneath Autumn Sky (Hefty Records) and Conrad Newholmes (Couchblip) other side project… In celebration of our 8th birthday, here’s our first release… Sheveks Masada – Hip Hop For Dishwashers Scumballs And Upstarts… We love you…

2012

Here we are. We are there Yet? with more to come. 2012 hears the release of Origamibiro’s Shakkei Remixes, with tracks from Umin, SIS, Melodium, Low In The Sky and more…, a new Melodium full length, K-Conjog’s “Set Your Spirit Freak”, SIS’s album’s TBA, and a bunch more.

ACrawlsPace

Whelp, abandonbuilding’s turning 8 this year, and in celebration, everything is going to happen, and it means everything. For starters, ACrawlsPace, an under the ground offspring of ABR, is in full effect as a new digital label, with releases from Set In Sand, Post Falls, Still Current, Soil And Water, Crillix, Wolke, DoF, and a compilation to kick it off on April 1st.

ACrawlsPace.com

The releases on the label will be package free, and nearing each year we’ll put together the collected tunes in a limited physical form of sorts, PROBABLY A SCULPTURE…

Assimilation

too bad screens aren’t shaped more like a door, or that they have a shape at all. anyways, this thing is really cool, it’s peter luckner’s moving painting “assimilation” and it’s journeying along with umin’s song 00 05. we love it.

heck, you may even really like his little film boat, you should probably stop by his page and take a look. WORD~

Origami Biro – Quad Time (FREE SINGLE)

In celebration of music as a collection of tones, and Shakkei, the upcoming Origami Biro album, we’re (ABR and Denizen Recordings (UK)) going to give you the song Quad Time (as seen below) and remixes by Leafcutter John, Juxtaphona, Joseph Minadeo of Low In The Sky, and Soil And Water.

Quad Time from The Joy of Box on Vimeo.

Origami Biro – Shakkei CD NOV 11

Origami Biro’s Shakkei will be released on CD in November. It’s a….. well here’s a teaser.

Low In The Sky – A Shared Rainbow CD

OUT NOW!

WOW is the color of the shape of the sound of the feelings that correspond with a listen to the new LITS album, A Shared Rainbow, try out Tiny Van Pirates, and we’ll add some of it to the player in a few.

Umin – Umbr CD – OUT NOW

Umin’s Umbr is out and about on CD. Kevin Poole 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! And if that weren’t enough, when he get’s together with Nic Power’s throwing voices, the Umin morphs into something almost new altogether. There’s one example of this on Umbr, think you can hear it down there on the player to the right Col (Picture Of Everything You Lost). Also try some of it out on his soundcloud.

Melodium – Coloribus CD – OUT NOW!

Coloribus is out and available all over the world! enjoy!
here’s some nice reviews….
textura
autres directions
cokemachineglow
norman records
psychfolk
discoclub65

The music likes to make things happen if you let it.

Like this.

A reincarnation of your old sculptures mixed with some of your new photographs, channelled through countless listens to Melodium’s COLORIBUS …

“Hey June”

In April we’ll begin putting out some new CD’s. The first one will be a new album from Melodium, titled Coloribus, carrying 20 new inspiring songs. We’ve had a lot of fun playing this around the building. It’s a good one to listen to while doing and/or not doing. We’ll be sharing an MP3 or two in a month or so, so check back.

Here’s an MP3 download of “Hey June” the first song from Melodium’s Coloribus CD…

Melodium’s – Sarah

video by Melodium, song from Petit Jama and Coloribus!

MPR (Most Probable Reality)

We here at abandon building make attempts at exploring the intention of being soft believers in the great nothing, and spend a little X amount of time doing. It’s fun, anyone will do it, and more and more beings happen upon these intuitions with the passing of each illusive moment. We’re happy to share this stuff with you, and even happier that you’re happy we’re happy you’re happy, because it shows and shines and shone on signs who read into the nature of being, and contribute to the one love bath.

SIS

The new album RETURN is out and making sounds in places, check out some of them reviews out there at The Silent Ballet, Textura, and Igloo Magazine. grab a copy at Darla or N5MD. Word!

Symbolic Interaction’s The Silence Was Warm Vol 3 compilation, has just been released and is available all over. The comp is 2 discs worth of eclectic sounds from a lot of different bands including Set In Sand, Umin, Flotel, Maps And Diagrams, and Melodium.

2011, Year of the Building

That in No mind…

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 CD. 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.

Set In Sand – RETURN!

Set In Sand’s new album “Return” is out on November 22, 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!

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.

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.

>SIS REST NOW

>          Set In Sand – Remembering Everything Seams Together, is available in advance as mp3′s, if you preorder the cd.

>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 some 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,,,

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 – 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.

Color Cassette

Autres Directions

or check out a video here… CC-Fable Cinder

>          Color Cassette (offthesky/set in sand) has just released an energetic double 3″ cd on Mobeer, a limited subcompartment of 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 2012.

>          Well that’s it for this season, many a decent listen to you all.

…and remember…

“BY GOLLY, WE REALLY DO CARE!”

Just toss an email at contactabandonbuilding.com with ILUVABR as the subject..

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