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Live Members Wanted
Been rehearsing a lot, switching off instruments with my friend Ryan Perez. We've got a long way to go but I'd love to start doing shows this fall/winter. It's not very practical trying to pull that off with just the two of us though, so we're looking for more bandmembers. Guitarists, Keyboardists, and Drummers are particularly needed, and people who can switch off instruments. Should be interesting. Practice will be bi-weekly, based in Castro Valley, California, though that might change in the future.
I made some flyers and will be posting them around the bay. If you want any flyers, or know any people/places I should contact, please let me know. Thanks!
- J
[updated 08.04.10]
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The Waiting Wall
abrasions - The Waiting Wall from J Ericson on Vimeo.
Recorded totally DIY in an abandoned house over an intense week. Special thanks to Jacob Helton of Nazarene Media for recording and helping me edit, and Andrew Becker for providing some props and the HD camera. Share with your friends!
It's also available on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D02ilnlDlwQ
- J
[updated 06.13.10]
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The Waiting Wall Photos
Posted some pictures from The Waiting Wall recordings in the image section. All photos by Jacob Helton of Nazarene Media.
- J
[updated 06.13.10]
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"The Waiting Wall" to be released on June 13th
Finally finished "The Waiting Wall" music video. Scheduled for release on Vimeo and Youtube on June 13th. Stay tuned! :)
- J
[updated 06.09.10]
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Music Video
Been hard at work all week, setting up and recording the first abrasions music video with my friend Jake Helton of Nazarene Media. There's an abandoned house not far from where I live which we've been using as our set, and it looks surrealistically awesome so far. Still in the process of recording, but I hope to have it out within the next couple weeks.
- J
[updated 04.18.10]
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Mirror
God, the months have flown by. Not much has been going on here, has it. I'm preparing for a special project this weekend. Does anyone have a full length mirror handy that they'd be willing to give up? It's okay if it's cracked or whatever, in fact it's all the better.
- J
[updated 04.07.10]
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Nearly Lovers Back In Stock
Remember Nearly Lovers? I've had a box of these CD singles sitting in my room haunting me for years now. At the recommendation of a friend I put them back up in the webstore.
[03.28.10]
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Memorial Reviews
It's been about 4 months since Memorial's release, how's it been holding up for you so far? It's been a slow couple of weeks lately, but I know people are listening out there. I mailed it off a bunch of copies to a few professional reviewers and record labels, but I don't think they're willing to take a completely obscure solo artist with no background seriously. So it'd be really helpful if people would blog about it, write reviews on iTunes, etc.. Not only that, but I'd really just like to know what people think of it so far, other than "It's cool that it exists."
In the meantime I'm looking for a small label to distribute my album, and practicing for live performances by myself. It's still only available in like 3 record stores, and no one really knows about it. I think I've made the best, most honest album I could, and now's the time to just get it noticed. I'm determined to make this something real.
- J
[03.23.10]
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Shirts on Sale Now!
I finally picked up the new abrasions shirts today, and they look great! :)
I'm so happy with how they came out! They're available for $15 at the new abrasions physical merch store, which is now active here: store.abrasivemusik.net. I'm using CCNow to transfer orders, so you can buy it with a credit card or paypal, or send money directly to my mailbox. Now'd be a good time to buy the Memorial CD there too, if you were planning on it, since I can combine the package. :) Any orders from here on out also will come with two sets of free stickers.
- J
[03.02.10]
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Flyer
[right click to download hi-rez flyer file.]
New Memorial flyer, made to promote it at the ABC Music store in Castro Valley, where it's also being sold. Really happy with how it came out, so I'm posting these everywhere now. You can download a high rez tif file of it to print out and pass around in the support section. :)
Anyway, the shirts are done being pressed, but I'm getting my (five!?) wisdom teeth pulled tomorrow and will be out of commission for the next few days. When I get back I'll put the shirts on sale in a new digital store, and rearrange this site a bit.
- J
[02.25.10]
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My Bloody Valentine's Day
In a rather spur of the moment idea, I hosted a sort of Anti-Valentine's Day party at my house on the 14th, which included a very special live performance by my friend's band Limnus. We took all the furniture out of my living room, set up the drumset and everything. Amazingly, the cops weren't called on us, and Limnus put on a hell of a show. It was completely crazy, but a great successful night nonetheless. A lot of people had a good time and felt a lot better than if they just stayed around at home. Some problems arose, but overall I think it was a very positive experience, and a good precedent for if I want to do some abrasions live shows in the near future. My house makes a strangely good venue it seems, something I'm definitely going to keep in mind.
- J
[02.23.10]
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Shirt
Shirt concept, using art from the "Some Days" pages of the Memorial lyric booklet. What do you think?
Pressing the shirts myself has proven too inaccurate and tedius, so I'm going to have them pressed at WeNeedMerch in Walnut Creek. Unfortunately due to them being super busy the shirts won't be available til early March, but they should come out looking really good. Once they're available I'll be redoing the abrasions store to be more based around physical merch, and have the digital store be a seperate entity. :)
Any other abrasions merch you'd like to see? Drop me a line via my email , or comment me on my Facebook or Myspace.
[02.11.10]
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Photoshoot 02.10.10
Had another photoshoot with my friend Jake Helton today, for those of you who've been dying to see more pictures of me brooding in forests. :P Check 'em out in the Image section.
- J
[updated 02.10.10]
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