ABACUS

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Alex — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:41:11 +0000

Our album has been reviewed by the folks at Something Else.

Songs are performed like algebra, setting up complex equations and solving for “x.”

. . . a record full of unexpected turns that never veers off course.

There’s more to the review here.

SNEEKPEEKSNEAKPEAKSPEAKNEEK

Alex — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:00:59 +0000

(by Alex)

We received the first round of mastered tracks from Jen Munson yesterday and I have to say that they sound pretty damn good.

In fact, I’m so excited about them, I’ve put the whole album up here on the site for you to stream. Listen while you have the chance because I’m going to take most of it down at midnight. You have 12 hours to make your ears bleed so get to it!

Let me also add that 1.11.7 (part VI) was arranged by our engineer, Trevor Williams.

UPDATE: It’s midnight and time to take down the album. Don’t worry, we’ll leave 4 of the tracks so you can get your Abacus fix in the days ahead. We all hope you enjoyed the music.

SSUCCESSSUCCESSSUCCESS

Alex — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:59:16 +0000

(by Alex)

Thanks to everyone who braved the elements on Saturday to see the Smoothe Moose Fractured Films evening and our Fuctaclause event at the Tea Lounge. Despite some slight technical difficulties (video being cropped and no audio output), I have to say that the evening was a roaring success based on my friend Paul’s statement to me after our performance.

“Alex,” Paul said, “you’ve officially ruined my Christmas. And I mean that in a good way.” Well, if that isn’t evidence enough of a royal FU to Santa, I don’t know what is.

I believe that the evening was well documented, both sonically and visually, so we’ll hopefully have something to show you some time soon. We’re also working on getting some online versions of the pieces performed so don’t touch that dial.

HOHOHOHOHOHOHO

Alex — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:36:44 +0000

You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I’m telling you why. FUCTACLAUSE is coming to town.

Each member of Abacus has written a piece to accompany a different classic film from the Santa-slasher genre. We will be preforming them on Saturday, December 19, 2009 at the Tea Lounge in Park Slope, Brooklyn as part of the Fractured Films event hosted by Smoothe the Moose.

The schedule for the night is as follows:

8:00pm – Suite Unraveling + short films by Czech stop-motion animation director Jiri Barta
9:00pm – Sauce performs to Katsuhio Otomo’s Steamboy
10:00pm – Big Words + Bullitt (feat. Steve McQueen)
11:00pm – ABACUS + Santa

The Tea Lounge is located at
837 Union Street
between 7th and 6th Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
(map)

Be nice this year and come on by. Santa’s watching.

IIIlllIIIlllIII

Alex — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:05:15 +0000

Our man in the booth, Trevor Williams, sent around some recent mixes the other day. We’ve put 4 of the 10 tracks up here on the homepage. Enjoy and thanks to Trevor for all his great work.

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Alex — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:57:48 +0000

We’ve just recently finished tracking our first album. We’re hoping to release it in December on vinyl with an mp3 download. There are three sneak peaks right over there on the left side of the home page. Stay tuned suckas!

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Alex — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:43:42 +0000

These photos were taken by Alex at our video shoot out in the Far Rockaways. That’s right, we’re going all MTV here with a music video for the *hit single* Ryhthmic Equation. Thanks to Ian Roberts for filming us. We’ll get that up here soon.

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Alex — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:37:43 +0000

Here’s a video of us playing Etude 2 (The Beast) at Barbès on December 3, 2008.