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Album Review

The Abstractions present a form of noise jazz coupled with narrative recitations, voice and vocal outbursts, and electrified intensity of gigantic proportions. These California improvisers and deviators from the norm take the mind on a psychedelic trip on Ars Vivende where reality is utterly buried within the surrealistic scene painted by these anti-war rule-breakers. There is turmoil boiling on most cuts, particularly when Jesse Quattro initiates his shouting matches overflowing with verbal abusiveness and agonized cries of despondency.

Ernesto Diaz-Infante, ...

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Album Review

The Abstractions: Sonic Conspiracy

Read "Sonic Conspiracy" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
March 3, 2003

The Abstractions set up house on Sonic Conspiracy in the first 36 seconds. The roar, like an avalanche, heralds the coming; but in all the sound and fury there is an underlying attractiveness as they harness tumult in all of its atonality.

What emerges over the course of this album is the meld and merge of instruments and of voice given vent to in intense roil, and in somber expression. Agitation does not shift gear into overdrive, ...