aboombong 2024: new release in the works - anideic

There will be a new aboombong release this year. Album is almost done. Working title is anideic and it will include collaboration with Dynamo Stairs and Erosions multi-instrumentalist, David Liso. Check out his latest below. 

     

Putting the links for other music available here below, for your convenience. 

You can, of course, browse through the pages for artists. 

aboombong: apophenia

aboombong: asynartetic

aboombong: AGNOSIS
ABOOMBONG: articulations

ABOOMBONG: Aprhonesis
ABOOMBONG: adumbral

ABOOMBONG: anaphora

ABOOMBONG: atrophic

ABOOMBONG: admixture

ABOOMBONG: amnemonic
ABOOMBONG: asynchronic
ABOOMBONG: aboombong

Boom Dispenser: A Chronic Groove Feeder

Boom Dispenser: Boom Dispenser

dustdevil & crow: accidental music

dustdevil & crow : .​.​.​and chuang tzu dreamed that he was me
dustdevil & crow: while speaking softly you can hear the insects sing
ABOOMBONG (w/ dustdevil & crow): Taking Blue Mountain by Stages

AZWARM: shelter
AZWARM: a morning's work

¡para!helion: Midaq Alley
¡para!helion: 3 Miles From Mecca
¡para!helion: >3
¡para!helion: When Technology Fails
¡para!helion: Harpers Bizarre Film Festival
Icastico: The-ambient-Sundae bar
Icastico: Étude for Six Mirrored Hands

Blotter: Once and Again - Minus Four - in Stereono
Blotter: Sludge the Butcher
Blotter: Songs for Mommy
DJJ: Throw it out there, not away

Psychic Enemies Network: Valis (with bonus tracks)
Psychic Enemies Network: P.E.N. (with bonus tracks)

Waltz Bop Shop: All My Idears are Flawed in Sum Way + Quartet

Waltz Bop Shop: Name Dropping at Angela's and Melting
Waltz Bop Shop: All my idears are played live today
Waltz Bop Shop: A whisper in the airwaves

The Jonny Cats: Last- Ode to Sergio
The Johnny Cats: Burns Rubber 7"
Swayback: Outer Space Tonight

Anxiety of Silence: Rip It up! + live tracks
Anxiety of Silence: live and Raw in the Pit also (some cleaned-up live tracks)

Thorn: solace of noise 

Choke: Choke (e.p.)
Choke: Hard to Swallow
Choke: Gauze/Total Reverence
[redacted]: left blank
Super Naam: two rough cuts

aboombong - apophenia (2022)

A new album for 2022. 

This one collects recordings from the last 7 or so years 

and weaves them together for your cortical pattern recognition system. 

Percussion & noise for fighting off the corrosion. 

artist: aboombong

album: apophenia

release: 2022

style: noise, field recordings, beats

players: me -drumkit, darbuka, dumbek, double sanza, tongue drum, field drum, tenor pan, guitar, piano, sequencer, treatments, feedback, field recording

2020 suggestions from here at Pen & Mallet

 

Some folks are putting together their end of the year lists. Lots to talk about as usual. I am sure a ton of great records will come out before the end of the year, but I thought I would help out the compilers with some titles that may not have gotten noticed. Since the latest aboombong album, asynartetic was the only official release from me this year, I guess it gets the local call. Some others to pay attention to this year include a string of releases from Sister Black Lagoon who are selling their whole discography for a tune. Also worth your notice are the releases from Hive Mind Records this year - including Jaipongan Music of West Java and "Aicha" from Maalem Mahmoud Gania. Another one to check out is Rabbit Hole Variations from Greg Nieuwsma of Sawak. And I would be remiss not to mention the work from Pen & Mallet regulars Dynamo Stairs album Nickel Chrome, or Kanawha's best yet. 

aboombong - asynartetic

My latest release is out on time for the latest Bandcamp Friday (starting 12am PDT on 8/7/2020). For 24 hours Bandcamp waives their fees to help out artists. I will be using that as a way to raise money to help the victims of the recent blast in Beirut. All proceeds raised this month from any aboombong purchase will go to http://redcross.org.lb who provides frontline relief to victims.

Most (not all, but most) aboombong songs involve improvisation at some level. I frequently use improvisations as source material and then editing and post-production manipulations to combine them into something coherent. On this album the improvisations themselves, the performances, are the focus. Taking cues from jazz - where the interplay between musicians is the substance of the performance -these songs were constructed "live" - with each performance played in direct response to the tracks laid down previously. Treatments and manipulations were applied (essentially) live as well (play, treat, playback while improvising the next track) for the most part. Enjoy and spread the word so I can raise some money for those in need. Thanks.

artist: aboombong

album: asynartetic

release: 2020

style: jazz, ambient, piano

players: me - piano, trap set, double sanza, wooden-headed dumbek, taganing, elephant bell, temple bell.

artwork/photography: me

Design consultation: Random

Old music and new

Dave from Choke (and Dynamo Stairs, and splayfeet) posts a newly uncovered Choke rehearsal tape. 

Also, out for #BandcampFriday (approaching 24 hours). aboombong will be donating all proceeds to http://redcross.org.lb to help victims of the #BeirutBlast: improvisations for piano and other percussion - ambient free jazz? https://aboombong.bandcamp.com 

Details soon. 

aboombong - AGNOSIS (2019)

artist: aboombong

album: AGNOSIS

release: 2019

style: 4th World Post-punk Goth, Kosmische Musik, ambient piano, liturgy

players: me - drum kit, percussion, piano, sequencer, treatments; Lana Van Boven -  vocals on track 1 & 3 (www.lanavanboven.com); David Liso - vocals on track 1 (dynamostairs.bandcamp.com); Brian Shaw - flugalhorn and recording engineer on track 3 (www.lsu.edu/cmda/music/people/faculty/shaw.php)

artwork/photography: me

Side One: 

Side Two

After nearly a decade of going it alone, this is the second release completed in collaboration with musical friends in so many years. Lana came to me with the desire to do some singing outside of her usual frame, and things snowballed from there - with contributions from David and Brian bringing it all together. As always, available via bandcamp pay what you like. 

10 years of aboombong

Ten years ago I decided to see if I could put together a full album of music all by myself - something I had never done despite years of collaborating with others. The result was the first aboombong release - named via onomatopoeia from opening of the first song I put together for the release, "Three Days 'til Sunrise." Not sure I thought this would result in 12 releases over the next decade. Anyway, here is the first one again.

   

Artist: aboombong
Album: aboombong
Style: ambientrance dub soundscapes
Release: June, 2009
Players: all me* - electronics, tapes, percussion
Available in a variety of formats from http://aboombong.bandcamp.com/ (set your own price)

Tracklist:
1. a
2. ab
3. abo
4. aboo
5. aboom
6. aboomb
7. aboombo
8. aboombon
9. aboombong
10. 3 Days 'til Sunrise (aboombong mix)
11. gnobmooba
12. birds

*aboom contains samples from Waltz Bop Shop and gnobmooba contains samples from ¡para!helion. Narrative in 3 Days 'til Sunrise recorded off of public radio in the late 1990's.

Forsaken Forest - Anna Beata Baranska

Ran across this film by Anna Beata Baranska (Poland) using a song of mine from almost a decade ago. Reminds me of the reason I release everything with a creative commons license. Apparently this won the 2019 Golden Leaf for Best Animated Short at  The Hazel Eye Film Festival. 

Articulations: Poems, Polemics, & Pop Songs

aboombong presents the words and voice of artist and poet Raul Dorn floating on a jumble of post-punk, art rock, and ambient soundscapes.  

It is available from bandcamp, pay what you will. Proceeds will go to support arts education in Las Cruces, NM, so, really, pay what you can. Enjoy. Spread the word. 

Artist:aboombong presents
Album: articulations: poems, polemics, & pop songs
Style: Post punk, No Wave, Basement Tapes, 
Release: 2018
Me - music, guitar, drum kit, percussion, piano
Raul Dorn - words, singing, chattering 

aphronesis: improvisations and interludes; music for repaired piano - aboombong (2016)

artist: aboombong
album: aphronesis: improvisations and interludes; music for repaired piano
release date: June 2016
style: ambient, new age, musique concrète
player: aboombong, piano, treatments
equipment: restored 1906 Hobart M. Cable Piano (upright), surface pro, audacity

An album of contemplative music for unreasonable times.

noisy bees

This one features Random, age 5, on piano and hot wheels. I did effects, images, editing. Prequel to the next album

K10 - aboombong (video)

More video for aboombong.

K11 - aboombong

Another in the underwater ambient video series. 

k11- adumbral: études dans le contrôle imprécis

K4 - from adumbral: études dans le contrôle imprécis

Another in the underwater ambient video series. 

k4 - adumbral: études dans le contrôle imprécis

noon

noon from the album amnemonic...music and images by aboombong

Forsaken

from the album asynchronic...music and images by aboombong

I Gaze

Artist: aboombong
Album: admixture
Style: shoegaze
Release: 2012/2014
Players: aboombong, percussion; Dynamo Stairs, bass and guitars; Lana Van Boven, vocals; Wharf99, field recording; madrotter, samples.
Available in a variety of formats from http://aboombong.bandcamp.com/track/i-gaze-admix-one-suisse-miss

admixture, a two-track, interactive e.p. from aboombong. Back in 2012 I sent solicitations for additional elements for each track to my musician friends: not remixs, admixs. The additional elements here trickled in over the last two years. Additions are still welcome for both tracks. Send 'em if you've got 'em.

(dis)PERSE Dispatch

A mix featuring Hyaena Fierling, a:urban, Oystein Jorgensen, Ihana, The Grief, Lambchop, Patscan, Giles Giles & Fripp, Isnaj Dui, Jorge Reyes & Suso Saiz, Krause/Goyette, Their Teeth To Points, aboombong, Henry Cow, Laurie Anderson, Lalezar Ensemble, Luqus & R.I.T, Ohm:, The Ordinaires, Her Space Holiday and Bernadette Erikka. Nice to be included with such stellar acts.

aboombong borealis

Just ran across this. My favorite creative commons use of this song yet.
Nordlicht in Bøstad, Lofoten from Orlando Gabaglio on Vimeo.
Music: Drag along behind by aboombong (aboombong.bandcamp.com/)

The latest aboombong:

anathema by dustdevil & crow

bendle has posted a nice video for anathema...from the album while speaking softly you can hear the insects sing