Why Are You Here?, by Ariel Abrahams

Why Are You Here?

by Ariel Abrahams

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1.	Evolution 2009 03:27	info	buy track
2.	Boston Dino 2015 01:17	info	buy track
3.	It's A Relic 2010/2020 01:45	info	buy track
4.	Come Out and Play 2009/2020 04:16	info	buy track

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Why Are You Here?
2020

Tracks collected and compiled by Ariel Abrahams during the first month of COVID-19.

Mastered by Richard Aufrichtig.
Cover art by Yair Oelbaum

Published by King of Truth Records

A note from Ariel:
Sometimes things happen to you, and sometimes you make things happen: two distinct kinds of vibrations. The tracks on Why Are You Here? involve both. Each track has an element of sound that found me, as well as sounds that I made to accompany them. The wild and the cultivated, together in one vessel.

Track one: Tim Leary’s anxious and instructive Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out found me one summer. I fell so in love with his take on unending evolution that it became a mantra I felt imperative to set to music.

Track 2: My brother rented a studio for us to make music in one afternoon. We used to play music every day, but had not played together for years. This short loop is a boiled down essence of the sound we make together. The loop is lifted from hours of recording.

Track 3: Upon purchasing a very special tape recorder (with the function to slow down and speed up recording) my mother shared her opinion on my new device. During the first weeks of quarantine during COVID-19, with time to listen to these decade old recordings, it felt right to set her prophetic monologue to music.

A note: Yair Oelbaum, photographer of the EP cover, purchased the same tape recorder on the same day.

Track 4: When you grow up with the Bible and want to shake it off, you might find yourself doing strange things. One evening some friends and I built a baby Moses and sent him out on the inlet near my childhood home. It was cold and the sky was bright with moonlight. We were giddy. Cut together with sounds of George Bush Sr, the opening bass notes to Steve Miller’s “Joker” and original noise.

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released July 31, 2020

22% of all proceeds from digital sales of this release will be donated to The Loveland Foundation. The Loveland Foundation was established in 2018 by Rachel Cargle in response to her widely successful birthday wish fundraiser, Therapy for Black Women and Girls. Her enthusiastic social media community raised over $250,000, which made it possible for Black women and girls nationally to receive therapy support. Black women and girls deserve access to healing, and that healing will impact generations.

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Ariel Abrahams Brooklyn, New York

Ariel Abrahams writes poetry in email, inky pen drawings, .zip files, audio, sleepovers, long walks, and Shabbat dinners.

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