Michael Heumann's 2003 album The Island of Sleeping Chickens is now available at eMusic, Amazon.com, and iTunes. Here's the new liner note blurb:

Imagine that chickens are not the small, utterly common, utterly mundane creatures we all know and eat. Imagine instead that they are creatures living alone, on their own island, far away from all us humans. Now imagine that California-based electronic artist Michael Heumann has visited this island (don't worry, he was invited) and taken some field recordings of their natural habitat. Imagine that!

Copyright © 2006 Haunted Ink Records

Download entire album in AAC format (playable on iTunes; zip file: 48 MB)

Here it is--the best of Aboo, completely free of charge. Enjoy!

Track Listing

1. Galaxy Being (from Me)
2. Dysfixion (from Pocket Monkey)
3. Bmoon (from Me)
4. Bamako (from Pocket Monkey)
5. I’m Scared (from Me)
6. Felt Tip Bong (from Pocket Monkey)
7. Sound+Weight+Smell (from AC)
8. Evil Bacon (from Me)
9. bd55 (from AC)
10. Soylent Green (from Otto Dix EP)
11. Earwig (from AC)
12. Test of Patience (from Pocket Monkey)
13. Contact (from Me)
14. Far5t (from AC)
15. Totoro (from Me)

Copyright © 2000 Haunted Ink Records

AC is a 24-track, 48 minute long CD inspired by a work-in-progress novel I've been working on for a few years. The novel deals with a future, post-ecological disaster world where most people live underground, in mountains. In order to stay sane, various devices have been invented to simulate the sounds, smells, and tastes of the (now dead) natural world. Hence, everyone lives in pitch-dark caves, but no one cares because AC (sort of a transformed notion of air conditioning, where it doesn't simply cool the air but conditions it to suit a person's particular taste) and earwigs (inplants that reprogram sensory information to emulate anything one can desire) act as perfectly acceptable substitutes.

That's the novel's main idea, at any rate. Unfortunately, since I've been writing so many other things for so many other places, I haven't had much of a chance to work on this novel. Hence, right now, this CD is about as close as I'll get to exploring some of the ideas I put together for this novel. The track "Sound+Weight+Smell" is available free to download and enjoy.

Track Listing

1. Sound+Weight+Smell (download mp3)
2. Ant
3. Isaac.v2
4. Boyd.v1
5. The Infinitely Small
6. Courage, Audacity, Revolt
7. Signal
8. Isaac.v1
9. Boyd.v1a
10. Eternal, Omnipresent Speed
11. AC.v1
12. The Life of a Motor
13. We Intend
14. Lodge.v1a
15. Boyd.v2
16. Raspberry
17. Lodge.v1
18. Isaac.v1a
19. Boyd.v3
20. Plug-in
21. Earwig
22. bd55
23. Titanic
24. AC.v1a

This album is currently out of print

Copyright © 1999 Haunted Ink Records

One day I met a box, and the box talked to me. It told me to push buttons, but when I did nothing happened. "Push another button and it'll all make sense," it said. So I pushed another button and the box disappeared. I was all alone in a field of radishes. It was sunny and warm. I was wearing a Butthole Surfers t-shirt. I didn't know what to do, so I waited. Eventually a bunny hopped up to me and said, "You're too late. The box is finished." When the bunny left, I started walking back the way I came. I never heard from the box again.

Track Listing

1. Galaxy Being (download mp3)
2. Bmoon
3. Mutter
4. Bubble
5. I’m Scared
6. Feast of Evil
7. Hatch Me
8. Evil Bacon
9. Pig Bob
10. Singularity
11. Contact
12. Basic Electricity
13. Totoro
14. Ylem

Me is available at Bent Crayon