Influences include but are not limited to: The Beatles, The Kinks, Blondie, Joni Mitchell, PJ Harvey, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, Patti Smith, Bela Bartok, Eric Satie, XTC, Badfinger, David Bowie, The Minutemen, Charles Mingus, Artie Shaw, Patsy Cline, Kate Bush, The Pretenders, Suzanne Vega, The Residents, Laurie Anderson, Captain Beefhart, Devo, Bjork, The Raincoats, Serge Prokofiev, The Who, The Mommyheads, Billy Dechand, Matthew Schickele, Soothing Sounds For Baby, The Malarkies, Beekeeper, Klezmer Music, Irish Folk Music... Etcetera....
Abigail Grush is a Portland-based songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who has been playing in the Pacific Northwest since 1992 solo and with her own groups (PeaSoup and The Phantom Beat), and has also performed and recorded with many other Seattle and Portland-area musicians including Aiko Shimada, This Busy Monster, Harvey Danger, Swing Country USA, Canoolfe, Obeskupla, Kaitlyn Ni Donovan, Moe!Kestra, Gin and Tillyanna, and many more.
Her unique musical style has been compared to Frank Zappa, Laurie Anderson, PJ Harvey, Kurt Weil, Captain Beefheart, and "Carl Stalling as a producer and arranger for female singer songwriter rock." Her influences also range from the Kinks to Talking Heads to The Residents to Satie, Bartok, and Irish folk music.
She currently has one full-length CD out on Seattle's Barsuk Records ("Abigail Grush - The Phantom Beat") which showcases her original songwriting style, vocal harmonies, and diverse instrumentation and features a variety of guest musicians.
The new CD "Through Being Mean" is currently available as a free internet download at www.abigailgrush.com and the actual cd will be released sometime this year.
Hey! Thanks for the add!We're offering a FREE (yeah...you can't beat free in a shit economy) download of our track "Gone to Pieces" to people who sign up for our mailing list. Americana-UK Magazine called Mod Amish's G.T.P. "a melodic fizz of guitars knitting a skull cap of bliss...direct visceral rock of the Ramones with some Replacements scruffiness thrown in." Cheers!
it was so great to have you there!! and thank you so much. i didn't get you your cds!! i hope you didn't buy them--i can drop something off at tradeup... xoxr
thank you. for making music fun again. music is the only thing that kept me going there for awhile. so i appreciate it greatly. plus: accordians are like the ultimate instrument!!!! i actually got to play one for the first time this weekend and it was heavy!!! and i sucked at it...thoroughly...hahahaha!!! thank you and much love
Why, you're Abigail Grush, aren't you? You ARE! I'm so glad. The world is suddenly OK again because I remembered you're in it. (Kidding, I don't ever forget.)
Hey there missy! I just got a sweet old Elvis mic from your store! woohoo! Hope you're well. Maybe I'll see you soon? cheers-a-roo! (yes, Im sorry, that is as cool as my "comments" get.)
