Abstractions, the / Ars Vivende
Album: Ars Vivende   Collection:General
Artist:Abstractions, the   Added:Nov 2003
Label:Edgetone Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2004-03-22 Pull Date: 2004-05-24 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Apr 11 Apr 4 Mar 28
Airplays: 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. May 27, 2009: Brownian Motion
Rain of Bullets
3. Apr 02, 2004: Memory Select
Your Eyes Taste Like Steel
2. Apr 07, 2004: Brownian Motion
Your Eyes Taste Like Steel
4. Mar 24, 2004: Stirling's Approximation
But not for Me

Album Review
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Reviewed 2004-02-04
Really disturbing, frequently difficult to listen to. A combo of anarchic jazz and creepy noise. Male vocals alternate between dead and psychotic. The understated rumblings of some tracks are at times more unsettling than the twisted chaos of others. The fact that these guys are local makes me want to buy stronger locks for my door. Lyrics are clean, although the music will still traumatize small children.

Try:
4. Jazz like 100 cars crashing into splinters all at once, plus muffled tortured screams (there is a LOT of screaming on this album).
5. Grinding, repetitive noise like the heartbeat of a psychopath. The screaming gives way near the end to gross retching sounds.
8. Sadistic carnival organ grinder meets opera singer deranged by syphilis. Together they torture Bat Boy with electric bone saws. It continues long after the voices go quiet.
10. Unintentionally funny post-apocalyptic spoken word poem.
12. Female vocals intoned over strange swooping string and guitar.
17. Gershwin lyrics dully muttered over a funereal, plodding march. Zombie jazz.
21. Dreamy, trippy, gently rhythmic; a peaceful riposte to the stomach-turning excitement that characterizes the album.

- riana 2/4/04

Track Listing
1. The Bitter Undiscovered Alie   12. Demon Down
2. The Tower   13. Rain of Bullets
3. Cultivate the Voices in the   14. That Hideous Beauty
4. Your Eyes Taste Like Steel   15. Armageddon Under Glass
5. Lurch   16. Psychotronix Melodramatix
6. The Thread   17. But not for Me
7. Amerika not Beautiful   18. Universal Flaw
8. A Furiously Fatal Future   19. No More Loans
9. Companion on a Journey Throu   20. Peeling Back the Layers of a
10. After the War   21. Flow Between My Past and My
11. Caress of the Claw   22. Heart of Midnight