Abrada Improv Adventure
5.6.14 by Mike Haley

Years ago on the old Troniks message board some shmohawk posted a personal fear of theirs about noise turning into jazz. Specifically that all of the endless collaborations and improvisation were somehow a bad (or new?) thing. I don’t really remember why they were concerned that the noise world would do something similar to one of the greatest musical genres ever, nor do I care. In the eight or so years since I’m sure they have moved on to dozens and dozens of unworthy gripes while chiller crews have been experimenting, creating, and generally having a blast.

Case in point: Abrada.

On Thursday, the 10th of April, Francesco “Hobo” de Gallo and Piotr Kurek got together for a jam sesh before a gig later that night at Peut-etre Vintage in Montreal. The two had never played with each other before, but would be under the Abrada moniker. The pre-jam yielded a 25 minute compelling, tactual landscape of sound zones. Zones that ended up on this self titled cassette, the first born on Piotr Kurek’s Family Adventure label, released today in an edition of 100 copies. de Gallo’s sax squeals wail and swirl in loops through a stream of organ drum presets gingerly processed by Kurek. They spend time navigating through cosmic rhythms and puddles of crackle and confusion while that forgotten Troniks board member is all like “the cables for cell phone chargers aren’t long enough!”

The tapes come in gorgeous custom stamped Ocards with a minimal design. To order a copy get in touch with Kurek by email: patrapapapak at gmail com.