Early Work in Ugly Buildings

from A Curve in Z Flat by Abel Ashes

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The various musical elements that make up this release go back as far as 1992 to a stupid poem/song I wrote called Man-made Humans and Hybrid Potatoes, which was my reaction to being told by a girl I had a couple of dates with that my music was too serious.

Man-made Humans and Hybrid Potatoes may have been a silly song but its music made quite a unique instrumental which I performed with and without the lyrics for many years to come and a line from the lyric wound up becoming the title of my first album Eat Plastic.

The first time I ever recorded in a professional studio was a session in 1994 (I think) in which, among other things, I recorded a delay effected acoustic guitar and percussion (the body of the guitar, its external magnetic pickup, and a small chime) version of the MMH&HP instrumental with a bit of a mistake, leaving out a short passage somehow.

I was never able to replicate this exact performance or its very special mood and since it is my first studio recording I decided to re-title the track "Early Work in Ugly Buildings", an apt description of my life as well as my music.

Other than some EQ and compression, only the intro and outro have been modified from the original rough mix on cassette I have carried around all of these years.

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from A Curve in Z Flat, released June 9, 2020
Composed, arranged, produced and performed by Abel Ashes.

Abel Ashes: guitar and percussion

Recorded on multi-track digital ADAT and rough mixed to cassette by Jeff Cloud at Cloud 9 Recording Studio in San Diego in 1994 or 1995.

Edited and mastered by Abel Ashes on a laptop in Tunis in 2019.

Special thanks to Fayd Ogolon.

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Abel Ashes San Diego, California

Born in a cult in El Paso, hitchhiked cross country as a baby, grew up with mom in the shadow of the atomic bomb in New Mexico, vacations in San Diego with dad, played open mics with a fucked up old Stella, experimental music shows, protests, and dead-end jobs galore, some time in LA and SF, 7 years in Kentucky, now in Tunisia with my wife who was paralyzed in car crash & doing my no budget music. ... more

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