AUGUST is gone, here's SEPTEMBER! Fall weather already rearing its chilly head here in Berlin. 7 NEW tracks up for you this month, from the split CD with LAST DAYS IN THE BUNKER: "Killer Pill". This is the first time I've made music like this, so rhythmic and keyboard based(and I even use the synthesizer, YIKES!). Every song took me to a different place, and I'm pretty glad I went there, in every case. I don't know what to call it. It's not techno or dance music, I don't think, it's somewhat dubby tho many times the dub acts as an intro that soon falls apart, becomes something else, maybe more vicious like in "My Fear". These are mostly instrumentals except for "Killer Pill", "Grip", a basic acoustic number, and "Lump Of Coal", which has a backwards backing track..."Fall Into the Hole" has my little son Ernst Wilhelm doing vocals, check them out!! The song is a basic noise-fest for me based around a loopy riff and lots of feedback, until the end where a song appears. This happens often with these songs. Hope many of you can stick around for those sudden bits at the end that develop from solid repetition, because I think it's damn worth it for that sudden "trip to somewhere else"...guaranteed. I guess it's a time of few words, this batch of songs covers a rough period of transition. The thought of writing words was totally OUT. And the songs work for me because of that very inarticulateness, their ability to project my feelings with sounds, an audio landscape of sorts..



"Strut"is still up, in new longer version. Yeah it describes the streets but also that special feeling that I get from people in East Berlin, a certain indefinable "something" that the westies just don't have. LONG LIVE PRENZLAUERBERG!!!



ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ is the founding member of URGENT FURY, a New York City Hardcore Punk band(1982-1992). In ten years, the band played out with groups like A.P.P.L.E., MARGINAL MAN, US CHAOS, FALSE PROPHETS, VIRUS and others in the old New York scene. Put out a couple of demo tapes, a split single and a 10" album. There is an URGENT FURY webpage:
www.myspace.com/urgentfury616. He is also the author of 4 books, including his latest novel, SOUTH BY SOUTH BRONX from Akashic Books.