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The High Desert Sessions

by Abronia

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Weirdo Shrine Abronia is a band that connects the ancient human art of music making to the present times of global interaction and influencing. With The High Desert Sessions they present us a fascinating story of exploration. We can only dream what the next step will be for them… Favorite track: Moving Furniture.
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Thrushes 02:32
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Winged Seeds 02:24
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Rolling Mass 02:43
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Liar 02:52
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Artemisia 02:02
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Hot Spirits 03:04

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Edition of 150 Cassettes via Feeding Tube Records and 80 CD-r's via Cardinal Fuzz.

SIDE A:
Moving Furniture
Thrushes
No Time for a Fire
Rough Eyed J.E.R.K.S.

SIDE B:
Open the Door for Water
Winged Seeds
Rolling Mass
Target Practice
Barely a Season
Liar
Artemisia
Hot Spirits

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released June 30, 2023

Recorded onto cassette 8 track in Central Oregon by Abronia. Mixed and Mastered at Torch Toucher by Eric Crespo.

From Byron Coley:
After recording three studio albums (two of which — 2019’s The Whole of Each Eye FTR498 and 2022’s Map of Dawn FTR669 — we were honored to co-release with Cardinal Fuzz), this amazing Portland OR sextet decided to try something different. An experiment. They packed a vanload of gear and headed out to a rural house in Central Oregon with an 8 track recorder. Besides their standard array of axes, they also brought various “little instruments” as well as acoustic strings and percussives of various stripes, then spent three full days jamming from very early to very late.

There was a lot improvisation, instrument swapping and musical hijinkery quite different from their standard approach. This resulted in a dozen tapes filled with all sorts of ideas and sounds, and the band started fiddling with them as soon as they got home. The High Desert Sessions is the result.

The music is arranged into two side-long suites, which ramble around some very weird stylistic junctures, ranging from dusty slide guitar segments to loud roars of rock aktion, dissonant blares of jazzoid skronk and dreamy smears of shimmering sunshine avant-pop. There are also a few winks of the massive drum/guitar dualism for which Abronia is known. But most of this tape explores previously unvisited sonic regions.

The High Desert Sessions’s first side offers a relatively unhurried flow, the flip has more squirrely segmentation, but it’s all cool as hell. And heard as a whole, it may augur some new points-of-interest that Abronia might be visiting in the future. Or not. Because that is the nature of experimentation. But it’s very hep to have this aural peek into their ongoing process. Especially because it all sounds great.

Can’t wait for the next album!

-Byron Coley, 2023

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Abronia Portland, Oregon

abroniapdx@gmail.com
Euro/UK booking: elborracho.bookings@gmail.com

A six piece based in Portland, Oregon USA–two guitars, pedal steel, tenor saxophone, bass, and a big drum.

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