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Monte Carlo

by Abraxas

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    + DEBUT ALBUM FROM CAROLINA FARUOLO (EX-LOS BITCHOS) & DANNY LEE BLACKWELL (NIGHT BEATS)

    + SUICIDE SQUEEZE MAIL-ORDER EXCLUSIVE LIMITED TO 300 COPIES ON CHERRY MINT

    + FIRST 300 VINYL CUSTOMERS RECEIVE A FOLDED 11 x 17 POSTER

    + LP INCLUDES OBI STRIP & DL CARD

    + INCLUDES IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD OF FULL ALBUM

    Includes unlimited streaming of Monte Carlo via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Test pressing version of Abraxas' Monte Carlo LP. Extremely rare collectible - only 10 in the world!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Monte Carlo via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    + DEBUT ALBUM FROM CAROLINA FARUOLO (EX-LOS BITCHOS) & DANNY LEE BLACKWELL (NIGHT BEATS)

    + CD HOUSED IN A CD WALLET

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  • Limited Edition LP Alien Moss Vinyl
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    **PRE-ORDER WILL SHIP ON OR AROUND OCTOBER 21, 2022**

    + DEBUT ALBUM FROM CAROLINA FARUOLO (EX-LOS BITCHOS) & DANNY LEE BLACKWELL (NIGHT BEATS)

    + ABRAXAS EXCLUSIVE LIMITED TO 100 COPIES ON ALIEN MOSS

    + LP INCLUDES OBI STRIP & DL CARD

    + INCLUDES IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD OF "SUNRISE STATE (OF MIND)"

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1.
Spirit, floating over me Rain cloud up above my head Seeking shelter from the night Feel my blood Drench the ground In your arms Dry my tears When you left I was a shell Rolling through the sand I need shelter Dry my tears The shadow strikes again You know I, Can’t escape this life I live Seven rooms and seven floors You turn your cheek to me And I’ll always be the one behind Maybe five, maybe six Dry my tears Though these tears, falling like the sudden rain The sleet and snow corrupts The sun will arise and the stars blind us by the neon swords The angel spreads its wings And dances upon, the hall erupts In pageant tribe In finding something there
2.
Mañana 03:38
Early, early in the morning Gunshot echoes are beyond her Blissful, cursin at the sink Seein, I pray Freefall falling from the top of the mountain Climbin in and out of the cradle Swingin on the branch in the distance Panther, lurkin in the night Of the jungle Teach me how to hunt For the fortune Buried in the hull of a shipwreck All my life I've been waiting For this time To come, go I see Torture in the west Now moving Moving to the beat of the dead man Teach him what you can while i'm drifting Why wait why wait for tomorrow Rollin Rollin like a stone off the cliffside Cover me in flames, as I unwind Breathin, breathe in the smoke of the ember Burnin like a coal It's a foresight seein what aint there well i got that All my life I've been waiting For the time To come I need someone just to move me Closer, closer the edge of the Circle Circling the village, I find We talk, we can talk for hours Till they, till they come looking For us, buried under starlight, in love I see over the horizon New life Newer then my old wrist Watch me Try to touch the sun, we’re melting All my life I've been waiting For this time To come All my life I've been waiting For this time To come and go
3.
Sultan 03:25
And I feel Summer winds are blowing Dark hair And I wait Waiting for the time to come around, another round We won't feel the same twice again, I get up, my way again lo’ Alive The pure The sun The moon The rage The fear The flower The fear And I feel First time felt like never With sunshine And I wait Waiting that tonight we found our winter day They’re bruisin us We’re falling down the well Of our own demise Around The sun The moon The fear The rage The fear The flower The fear
4.
Monte Carlo 03:44
You needed prove for our love again The falling leaves on the ground Be brave my love All the time Whisper words On your mind You wear your crown Of thorns you bare Leave with someone Someones there Loco holly, my advice Steal your wisdom Don't tell me twice Tell me twice Tell me twice Oyo como pluma Search the woods for our love again Turn the stones, over twice I seek the one who brings the rain Teach the river not to dilate For my life
5.
La Estampida 02:33
6.
Hourglass 02:20
Keeps this message in your mind Keep the light on all the time Introduce an old excuse you wander through the day Arguments And punishments Their rushes from the stay Speculate a dying age Bring feathers for the crown Gravity it multiplies you’re cheering from the crowd Take a page right from the past ‘Lest we repeats it too fast Excavate the deals you made they spin the plates below Round the curb, you never heard, explore the things you know Infinite and all that is comes crashing from above Tarred nation, past mistakes, bring in nuclear love
7.
Prismatic 04:05
It's right in front of your face It's the same mistake You made again It's the big fat grin on the face of the one Who escaped, you from your sins I don't mind what i said I the letter that I wrote Well I’ll ball it up and throw it on the ground It's the same motherfucker who takes your smiles And use them for his grin I don't mind I don't mind Off to nowhere fast I wasn’t born no seventh son On the stone age where I begin It's the curse of the one Who takes his soul on the road And life begins Lean into the earth Off to nowhere fast Nowhere fast Now it starts the saddest part That made a frog a prince Leave a gorgeous corpse For them who taunt, the night We’ll leave our sins Take me back Take me to the water And I will live again I don't mind I don’t mind What the neon sign says I don't mind (repeat)
8.
Yes 03:59
9.
Golden 03:10
It takes your mind to another place Your sky’s an orange peel and world’s grey There's something to figure out, before you go It’s raining an acid fall, in the mall Take these single sermons Throw them from your mind You stare and wait for the train that never comes Your country is fallin down Easy to remember You've been fooled before Never again It's the silly game Forcin Forcin you to act this way It's the bruise that you came upon It's the purple tidal wave of love and doubt That you need to live Swimming around in this circular room Their corners screaming out Here and every mistake Callin out your name Gloria In the early mornin Its gloria In this golden age It's the truth you give It's nothing more Then all the things you think about One day at a time
10.
Fuji 03:11
Vamos a bailar, esta noche Siente el ritmo del mar Déjate llevar, esta noche Hasta que salga el sol
11.
Shapeshifter 03:34
We can shake whenever we want Find a home to haunt In our neighborhood We can slip past rusted gates Past the blue duct tape Around the city asleep Its an old drum beating Keeps itself repeating Made a child, born of clay It's The old jukebox as it breathes in the air, sold redemption states We can shapeshift under the moon Watch the stars that bloom Count the dust today It's a new expression of how you treat your love How the taste, here to stay Shapeshift, little shapeshifter Faces melt into the sun Now my mind is overrun What i see, ain't always what it is Pick my mind up off the ground We can shapeshift Wherever we want Find a home to a haunt in this neighborhood We can slip past rusted gates, found some new duct tape Round the city asleep Sold redemption, climb the highest mountain Love is fortune Bleeds on the bed Can't find a reason to stay Or the words i say, move again
12.
Took a little second for a raincheck To clear your mind Take another time for a misstep A second time Pretty soon you're thinking like a glacier You’re losin ice Buried there deeper than a mistake Just free your mind See these walls They’re falling down Night take hold Ancient sound No place I’d rather be Next to you, in ecstasy One more step into the light Buried under colors bright The walls came crumblin Dust filled the air Returned back, forward And it bent beneath the earth Covered Evil-lution (chant) Take another dosage of your pink pills Before you sleep Slip into the rhythm of the old ways Your brothers keep, in Lucid as a jester in a raincoat Sleep you’ll go Flames are rising higher on the far side You better run Runaway Run away Runaway

about

Carolina Faruolo (ex-Los Bitchos) and Danny Lee Blackwell (Night Beats) had been friends and mutual admirers of each other’s musical projects for years, though with Faruolo residing in the UK and Blackwell residing in Texas, their interactions were limited. Yet as was so often the case for many of us during the shelter-in-place stretches of 2020, geographic proximity wound up being a non-issue as our socializations became almost exclusively online endeavors. In this era of isolation and uncertainty, Faruolo and Blackwell invented their own private escape to Latin rhythms, colorful vistas, and smoky revelries under the project name of Abraxas. Combining their shared love of Wendy Renee, Los Destellos, doo-wop and R&B, they crafted their debut album Monte Carlo by bouncing ideas across the Atlantic.

“Planet Abraxas is a world filled with jungles, mist-covered rivers, panthers lurking in the night, desolate shopping malls, Neolithic citadels and sand-worn walls,” Blackwell says of the muse behind Monte Carlo. “The nights are usually dense with fog and the air is filled with the sounds of cicadas and faraway drumming.” This visual manifestation of their sound stands in stark contrast to the environment in which the songs were written. “I remember the feeling I got the first time Danny added vocals to one of my tracks,” Faruolo recalls. “I was sitting on my sofa in rainy Manchester in the middle of winter. I pressed play and the song just made my heart jump. It instantly felt special and, more importantly, it felt like a perfect portrait of both of us.”

Uruguayan-born Faruolo grew up with the tropical beats of cumbia and the psychedelic flavor of classic chicha artists, and it became her mission to infuse those sunny influences in her work as a UK musician. Blackwell’s work under the Night Beats handle involves the fusion of outlaw soul and R&B with a resourceful DIY spirit. Despite the apparent contrast in their styles, the two musicians bonded over their reverence for Selena and Sade, exemplars of the humid pulse and sultry spirit of their respective approaches. As Abraxas, their distinctive musical perspectives created a sound that encompassed the tropicalia of Os Mutantes, the scrappy songwriting of Cleaners From Venus, and the trippy production of Lee “Scratch” Perry, though the duo is quick to assert that they were finding their own distinctive voices rather than adhering to pre-existing stylistic codes and constraints. And indeed, Monte Carlo feels rooted in tradition but blossoms into its own unique timbres and vibrations.

Monte Carlo opens with “Sunrise State (of Mind),” where a hypnotic cumbia beat serves as the bedrock for cosmic guitar leads, hazy choral melodies, and Blackwell’s seductive vocals. From there, the album continues its steady Latin pulse on “Mañana,” a perfect soundtrack to feverish nights in dancehalls, sipping on caipirinhas and sharing cigarettes with strangers on the dancefloor. Across its twelve tracks, Monte Carlo unfurls a myriad of exotic influences, from the Eastern melodies and guitar trills on “Sultan,” through the dub-inflected stomp and scorching fuzz of “La Estampida,” and on to the Anatolian psych-funk of album closer “Göbekli Tepe.”

Blackwell recorded his contributions with the assistance of engineer Chris Maciel at his studio the 22nd Dimension in Pomona, California and Faruolo recorded her parts in Manchester, England at Brunswick Mill. While Abraxas conceived their material in bedrooms and studios six timezones apart, the music on Monte Carlo sounds like a live band in the throes of an ecstatic performance. And Abraxas plans to make the live incarnation of the band a reality when conditions allow for it. Until then, listeners can bask in the invented world of Abraxas and all its exotic and enticing splendor across the twelve tracks of Monte Carlo. Suicide Squeeze Records is proud to present Monte Carlo to the world.

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released October 28, 2022

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Abraxas is a cross-Atlantic collaboration between Uruguayan musician and former Los Bitchos member Carolina Faruolo and Night Beats frontman Danny Lee Blackwell. Their debut album ‘Monte Carlo’ is a perfectly crafted escape hatch from reality (inspired by the lockdown), influenced by classic R&B, doo wop and Latin rhythms.. ... more

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