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The seeds of Abunai! germinated with a series of jam sessions between bassist Dan Parmenter, guitarist Brendan Quinn, and drummer Joe Turner. Dan and Joe had been with psych-popsters Cinnamon (not the Euro band), while Brendan had been in several punk bands (most notably Tripwire), and was ready to explore new sonic horizons. A few weeks later the group was completed by the addition of Brendan’s recently-unearthed college friend Kris Thompson (who’d been with Nisi Period , Jasmine Love Bomb , and The Prefab Messiahs ) on organ, synth, and theremin.
The group found some deep common ground in a flowing and dynamic modal improv style, and began grafting that onto unsuspecting pop structures and skeletons of traditional folk songs as well.
1997’s Universal Mind Decoder and 1999’s The Mystic River Sound (both on Camera Obscura ) caused enthusiasm throughout the music underground worldwide. Besides airplay on the BBC’s John Peel show , reviews and articles have appeared in Ptolemaic Terrascope , MAGNET, Rolling Stone, The Wire, Alternative Press, and Popwatch, to name a few.
Abunai!’s last full-length album Round-Wound was released at Terrastock 4 in Seattle in November 2000. Condensed from several years’ worth of improvs recorded in their rehearsal studio, it offers a sprawling vista of what they’re capable of when they stretch out -- and only hinted at on the two albums thus far.

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Member Since: 4/18/2005
Band Website: abunai.com
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band members:
Dan Parmenter , Brendan Quinn , Kris Thompson , Joe Turner

Influences: Spacemen 3, Hawkwind, UK trad folk & 60s folk-rock, Amon Düül II, Fairport Convention, The Byrds, Can, Funkadelic, Syd Barrett, Galaxie 500, good skunk
Sounds Like:

Pangolin, The Spacious Mind, SubArachnoid Space , Magic Hour, Rain Parade, Jasmine Love Bomb , Mogwai, Spiritualized
Record Label: Camera Obscura
Type of Label: Indie

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photos and audio from Terrastock 6

pictures of Abunai!'s one-off reunion set for the T6 launch partyNed Raggett's Terrastock 6 photosaudio of all of the Terrastock 6 setsenjoy, friends!...
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Acid Mothers, Kinski, Bardo Pond, Circle, Fuzzhead, Abunai!, Vocokesh...

...are among the 22 contributors to a new heavy space/psych comp, 'Hall Of Mirrors', out now on the Emperor Jones label. The collection was compiled by Mason Jones (no relation) of Charnel Music and o...
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