- Grupo: Abilene
- Sello: Slowdime Records (Ya no existe).
- Distribuición en España: BCore solía tener discos de Slowdime
- Título: s/t
- Fecha de edición: 2000
- Formato: CD
- Tiempo total: 36 minutos
Compré este disco en una cubeta de todo a un dólar en el año 2001 en Nueva York, en Kim's Video de St. Mark's Place, en el East Village (tienda que, por cierto, está a punto de cerrar). Me sonaba el sello y, por un dólar, el riesgo era mínimo. Como suele ocurrir, cuanto menos esperas de un disco, más capacidad tiene para sorprenderte. A mí me recuerda a los primeros de Karate, pero sin ese toque de AOR que siempre han tenido los de Boston.
Abilene
Presumably named for the central Texas town, Abilene is a newish Chicago trio with a rich, deep sound. Their songs focus on the fluid, dynamic interplay between guitar and bass. The bass provides a comfortable, sidling groove for the guitar(s) to dance around; sometimes it's a slow waltz, sometimes an amphetamine-fueled breakdance, but regardless of the mood, that assured bass groove keeps things smooth. Busy, syncopated percussion makes these songs intensely rhythmic. Occasionally singer (and guitarist) Alex Dunham adds bleak, muttering vocals, but the words are spread sparsely throughout Abilene's songs, as the band members are more interested in their instruments' quiet synergy. Every so often, Abilene builds to a rough, angular crescendo that seems to release a bit of the boxed-up electricity of their moody pieces, but for the most part their songs are all about low-tempo restraint that places equal focus on each instrument.
The members of this trio are all accomplished musicians, as a look at their respective resumes will indicate: Dunham formerly served in little-known post-punk greats Regulatorwatts and Hoover. Bassist Craig Ackerman was in Lustre King and drummer Scott Anderson was in Chisel Drill Hammer. The trio came together late in the '90s and issued its first self-titled EP in mid 2000.
Hablando de Slowdime...
Slowdime Records was a record label started in 1996 by Juan Luis Carrera and Amanda MacKaye. The label was originally started, according to a label bio, “with the intent to document the new inclinations and innovations that began to surface within the Washington D.C. independent music scene”, but it eventually came to release records from bands based in cities all over the world.
Within a short time, Amanda MacKaye became less involved and John Wall, who was playing in Kerosene 454 at the time, started running the label with Juan.
A number of the label’s releases were “split” releases with another D.C.-centric label, Dischord Records. Slowdime’s releases were catalogued with the initials “SD” and a number. There were 35 Slowdime releases in all, on LP, CD, 12” single, and 7” single formats.
The label’s final release was the album “Music Out of Music” by Bologna, Italy’s Three Second Kiss.
The label’s owners were musicians themselves: Carrera served as the bassist for D.C. punks The Warmers, John Wall played bass in Kerosene 454 and Canyon, and Amanda MacKaye was a member of the Routineers.
Carrera now serves as the manager for a number of internationally touring acts, including Modest Mouse and Bright Eyes.
Slowdime Discography:
SD1) Metamatics - s/t LP
SD2) Regulator Watts "New Lo Moline" 7" co-released with Dischord Records (107.5)
SD3) Kerosene 454 "Came By To Kill Me" co-released with Dischord Records (111.5)
SD4) Regulator Watts "Mercury" EP co-released with Dischord (113.5)
SD5) All Scars – S/T
SD6) Regulator Watts – “The Aesthetics of No Drag”
SD7) Meltdown – Senior Year Was the Best 7”
SD9) Hoover – s/t 5 song e.p.
SD10) Regulator Watts – “The Mercury”
SD11) Kerosene 454 – “At Zero”
SD12) The Boom – “Movin’ Out”
SD13) The Sorts – “More There”
SD14) The Farewell Bend – s/t 7”
SD15) The Most Secret Method – “Get Lovely”
SD16) Make Up/Crainium split 7”
SD17) The Crainium – “A New Music for a New Kitchen”
SD18) The Farewell Bend – “In Passing”
SD19) The Boom – “Any Day of the Night”
SD20) Make Up "Every Baby Cries The Same 7""
SD21) Golden – “Super Golden Original Movement”
SD22) Victory at Sea – “The Dark is Just the Night”
SD23) Three Second Kiss – “Focal Point”
SD24) Crom Tech – s/t
SD25) All Scars – “Introduction to Humanity”
SD26) Golden – “Golden and the Rhythm Beat Jazz”
SD27) The Sorts – “Contemporary Music”
SD28) Golden – “Summer”
SD29) Bluetip – “Hot Fast Union” e.p.
SD30) Him "Our Point of Departure"
SD31) Canyon – s/t
SD32) Abilene – s/t
SD33) Pines of Nowhere – s/t
SD34) Victory at Sea – “Carousel”
SD35) Three Second Kiss – “Music Out of Music”
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