With Portland sextet Abronia, you sort of have to listen past the spectacle. Forget about the overtly Jodorowsky-Morricone vibes, the tenor sax and the pedal steel guitar, the contralto vocals, the gigantic bass drum, the legend of co-founder Eric Crespo's desert vision. What's really going on here?
I connected a lot with his music and I had no idea that years later we would be collaborating! It was a total surprise that we started chatting on the internet about collaborating! We bounced ideas back and forth, all starting with a series of guitar solo stuff that Bill sent me.
It's purely a creative space. There are no deadlines. There are no have-to's. It's just something I do for me. When you design a recording studio, the first thing you want to do is treat the room to make sure the sound is good, so you're getting an accurate depiction of the music as it was played or recorded.
Ringing in the news is his new single " Traffic Lights," which was co-written with Thom Yorke and Josh Johnson, and gets an animated video by Nespy5euro. Check it out below. "Something about it reminded me of Atoms for Peace, so I sent it to Thom," Flea said in a statement, adding that the Radiohead frontman is "just the warmest, free flowing, jamming motherfucker."