The Emancipation Pt. 1 is Released!!
The Emancapation Pt.1 is Released!!
Hello Folks!
We here at Aabaraki HQ are delighted to to say our new album “The Emancapation Pt.1″ is available for your listeining pleasure!! It can be found on such fine retailers as Itunes,Spotify and Bandcamp. We are very proud of this album and hope it heats up your summer nicely. If you like it tell a friend,and hopefully they’ll tell a friend and so on and so forth…Also for some more eye and ear candy here is a musc video of our single off the record “Danceshee”..enjoy!!
Keep checking back as we get the summer rolling with shows,tours and other hot treats.
Aabaraki EP Release Concert. FRIDAY APRIL 6. ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL. 1030pm.
stutter-funkers,
its been another month of sundays. adventures have come and gone. timezones have been crossed, daylights have been saved, and — most importantly — soulful music has been laid down from New York City to Austin, TX to St. Barths and back. we never stop doing what we were sent here to do.
even as the live show has been taking on more power and immensity, so too have we been putting the very final touches on the much-talked-of, oft-promised, and now finally-near-finished Aabaraki/Converse Rubber Tracks EP. as you may recall, last summer we laid down the tracks for a record at Converse’s beautiful new studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Finally, after much debate, and editing, and over-dubbing (and under-dubbing), and consultation, and so forth: we have something that is a finished piece of work. We have The Emancipation: Part One.
and this coming Friday (April 6th) we’ll be playing a release party for the EP at Rockwood Music Hall. 1030pm with the wonderful Adeline Michele opening up for us. All-in-all, this is going to be a crazy night to remember in New York City. We do hope you can share it with us.
sincerely,
the band
…props to Jamie Falkowski of KeapHope for this great new logo!
Give thanks, spread love, & support live music
friends, dissidents, and music-luminaries –
it is November. at long last, this year is winding down. With only some sixty days left in it, we turn our minds ever towards that shimmering ghost of a horizon that is the coming year — and we wonder.
its been a hell of a year for us here at Aabaraki HQ and we are so damned excited to get things popping for next year. Don’t get us wrong: there’s still plenty popping off in 2011. We’ve got a gig at Rockwood Music Hall on the night before Thanksgiving (with mister Shawn Pelton sitting in on drums) and we have one or two dates in December already lined up (possible a NYE hit as well?!) and we’re coming to the final weeks of work on the Converse RubberTracks EP we recorded earlier this year. So, yes, plenty is still going down this year.
but as we look to next year, we’re starting to plan BIGGER things down the line. sadly, in order to make those bigger plans a reality, we need a little scratch in the bank. And that’s where you come in, dear reader. perhaps you’ve heard of Kickstarter?! the website where independent little “companies” can raise money from individual investors in order to make a small budgetary goal come to fruition?! well, whether you have or you haven’t, we are pleased to present the Aabaraki Kickstarter Page!
so come one, come all — see our crazy video. look at our awesome gifts. pick out a pledge level: and then pledge!
we know some of you out there are the crunchy types who donate to NPR and PBS and local radio stations (and, indeed, we have some folks like that in the band). you KNOW the awesome feeling you get when you pledge a little something and get that PBS Totebag or the NPR coffee mug. you feel: good! and when you feel good, it creates a cycle of goodness: you do good, you see goodness, and you feel good once more. how many guilt free pleasures are there like this in the world?!
so, why not help us help you help yourself?! give a little something to your friendly future-soulist. and in due course, it will pay dividends — of mind & spirit, but also sweet, sweet jamz…
and everybody has a weakness for the sweetness of a sweet jam.
(seriously, we can’t do this with you, dear reader. give a little, if you can. or, if not, pass it on. let people know there’s a great band out here asking for some financial help so that they can kickstart a little music movement from a tiny germ to a full-blown outbreak.)
Aabaraki: Back In The Saddle
its been a while. we know. first — to make up for the musical vacuum we’ve left — there is this:
while we were sitting around twiddling our thumbs last month, we were kind of blown away thinking about how far this whole band-music-movement has come since we started way back in ’09. thanks to the help of a few particular people behind the scenes, and a couple of great NYC venues, and the amazing support of the few, but hardy, fans we’ve managed to gather beneath the futureSoul flag. and it was for you all that we went into the studio last week (with akie jetlagged beyond belief, brian sporting a chronic cough, aaron falling down sleepy, and ari smushed between two other engagements) and recorded this Alanis Morissette song that we only played during once before (during our Rockwood Residency in April).
the above is footage from the session, but you can own the MP3 for the low, low price of Free.99 by clicking right here. we hope it suffices for the time being while we continue to work on the new EP from the Converse Rubber Tracks sessions.
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in the meantime: we’ve started playing again. this month boasts gigs in Boston and Pittsburgh as well as in the Brooklyn and Manahattan. We’re playing every single little chance we get. the first gig coming up is in the County-of-Kings at a spot called Spike Hill (184 Bedford Ave in Williamsburg). We’ll be sharing the night with some fantastic artists and friends. Adam Shenk (8pm) will be there, and so too Xenia Rubinos (10pm). And yours truly will be on at 11pm, to round out the night.
you can buy tickets today and save yourself a couple of bucks (is $7 at the door the day-of).
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finally, looking at the year ahead and expenses likely to leave us gasping for breath, we’ve launched a Kickstarter to raise some money for touring and the new EP and all that stuff. if you have a chance, please check out our video. and donate whatever you can — every little bit helps. there will be more begging and pleading as the days wind on, so look out for shenanigans to raise interest and awareness of our brokeness!
that’s all for now. we’ll leave you with the Kickstarter video: a kind of unfinished cadence… meaning there is more yet to come.
the August Aabaraki!
While the world seems to be spinning out of control, we’re still working on bringing you all the freshest music we can. Toward that end, we are releasing some footage from the show we did last month at 92YTriBeca (with Emily King). Our new take on the classic Bob Dylan song Don’t Think Twice.
Enjoy!
…if you want to come check us out live this month we’ve got two gigs happening. This coming Thursday (8/11) at Cameo in Brooklyn as part of a night of music and fashion. We’re on at 930pm. The following week, we return to Rockwood Music Hall on Thursday 8/18 at 11PM to play a full-on, all stops out, no-holds-barred show.
reduction.stutter.funk marches on.
Tonight. At 92YTriBeCa. With Emily King
Oh my friends.
Saints, Sinners, and Sweet Children of Original Darkness!
I do hope you’ve kept your calendars clear for tonight. because this is the night for which we have been waiting quite sometime. At last — at very long last — Aabaraki is going to have the pleasure of sharing a discrete bill with none other than the immaculate Emily King. We’re so glad we released a record this year because we’re in good company with people like Emily — who’s EP came out last week — and its an honor to be asked to open for her Record Release Party.
If you haven’t gotten tickets yet… there’s still time. Go here, order your tickets, run home after work to get some dancing shoes, and come get some tonight.
You will feel good all over.
- the one and only: Emily King
Record Release Party Announced
Aabaraki has booked its Record Release Party at their favorite venue and homebase… Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2! The date has been set for June 23 at 9:30PM. Write that date in y’alls calendar because you don’t want to miss it.
New Website
The Brooklyn band Aabaraki announces a new website!
