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That's right, SOUTH BRONX meets EAST BERLIN, that's my story, that's where it is, Puerto Rican kid from the South Bronx comes to live in Berlin. The old hunger for music and for doing something with it. Okay, yeah, some OTHER people might say "South Bronx meets East Berlin," but screw that, run away, BECAUSE it is not THIS Puerto Rican dude and if you want SOUTH BRONX in your EAST BERLIN than this is the place right here.

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Myspace Comments, Hi5 & Friendster graphics: CoolMyspaceComments.comJULY, JULY, height of summer dept., but ALL IT DOES IS RAIN!! Beautiful sunny days that suddenly turn dark and big clouds come and strong winds blow and before you know it RAIN is pouring down in buckets and the sun is still shining...in Puerto Rico they say when it rains and shines a witch is getting married...lotsa witches here in Berlin...but I was in NEW YORK for two weeks and the same weather followed us there!! Beautiful hot sunny days that suddenly turned dark and big clouds came and...lotsa witches in new york...I like witches...here I am writing about JULY just a few days before it's over...typical abraham...About 17 new tracks. There's 10 on "A Solemn Retreat", the new demo CD, some rockers yeah, including the longer version of "Strut" and an electric "Bassinet", but there are also some instrumentals and dubs, as I've been fiddling with the dials. Sometime in May I began experimenting with the synthesizer and with sounds, something more rhythmic. I guess I landed in a place where I didn't, or couldn't, do the verse-chorus-verse bit so openly, couldn't, or didn't want to, sit and write lyrics and all this. I guess I'm saying I couldn't bother with words. I started to create spaces of sound, let the sounds say it instead of so many words. Working with keyboards is a new thing for me. I'm not surprised most of it heads in the DUB direction, though some tunes begin that way and then dissolve, breakdown into something else, something almost industrial in places, still seeking out the noise blast. My old friend Louis Ramos from LAST DAYS IN THE BUNKER dreamed up the idea of us doing a double-CD together. He heard some of the tracks and fell in love with them and he started sending me songs he was recording. All at once a double-CD took shape, a real cool collaboration that really shmooshes our music together. I really like the results, love his songs, love our songs together!! The demo CD is called "Killer Pill", 18 tracks. Louis will be posting some of his songs on his MYSPACE so go there and check them out!ROPE BURNS demo CDs are always available.FINALLY: Thanks for all the people writing in asking for music. Your packages are in the mail!! And YOU: if you like it, it's free, just ask and drop me an address.

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Member Since: 25/01/2007
Band Website: http://www.soundclick.com/ropeburns
Band Members: NOT ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ the salsa music guy but ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ the writer of three books called THE BOY WITHOUT A FLAG(Milkweed Editions), SPIDERTOWN(Penguin Books) & THE BUDDHA BOOK(Picador Press)check out THE ABRAHAM PAGE at http://www.myspace.com/rodto (it's a black shimmer Marilyn month)My new novel is called SOUTH BY SOUTH BRONX and is published by AKASHIC BOOKS. This is also the ABRAHAM RODRIGUEZ who was founder of a HARDCORE PUNK band called URGENT FURY for ten years(1982-1992) To all of you who have contacted me about URGENT FURY: Thanks so much for reaching out and making me feel GREAT. To know that this band affected(and still affects)people is the grandest sensation there is. THE URGENT FURY WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING!!! It's also a Myspace page. Just click the UF in my top friends or go to www.myspace.com/urgentfury616. I'm working right now on putting out a CD this year of URGENT FURY. From time to time, watch here and at www.soundclick.com/ropeburns for FURY songs from the 10" that I've digitized for download. (Still perfecting it, but for now these do pretty good until I get the CD put out.) The CD will have a variety of live tracks and rarities. If you are interested in this kinda thing, please find a way to let me know as it pays to see that there are people out there that want it...
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