Bio

Abe's Logic is the musical extension of Abe Vandenberg's multiple musical personalities. From a sort of surfer grunge alternative, to ska, to jazz, to flat out rock, Abe writes and plays with energy and vibrancy providing an enjoyable and thought provoking experience for fans of various musical genres.

Abe Vandenberg is a multi-instrumentalist, signer/songwriter with an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from West Virginia University. Living in Hawaii, he has produced two solo "Abe’s Logic" albums (including the 2010 album "Wars Ragin") and two collaborative "Nomadic Profusion" albums. 

In 2007, Vandenberg teamed up with Christopher Candito to produce the original score for the BBC documentary "Message in the Waves" (that also featured the music of Jack Johnson, Matt Costa, The Beautiful Girls, and Xavier Rudd) bringing the globally interconnected plastic debris epidemic plaguing Earth’s ocean to a world-wide audience in a creative and inspiring film that has inspired action for change.

Back in 1997, Abe Joined a band and dropped out of college to tour the Colorado Rockies playing rock, blues, jam-funk in various venues from underground bars to ski parking lots. It was on the road traveling in a 13 passenger van with sketchy brakes on the icy and windy Colorado mountain roads that he realized he did not wish to follow a path making a living playing in a neverending line of clubs while living on the edge financially. After returning to college to finish, Abe moved to Maui to focus on developing his style by producing original music while working in the Hawaiian outdoors in conservation. "I did not want to play a lot of covers, especially as background music, so I got jobs that kept me outside and focused instead on creating my own music. It just made sense to me because then I didn't have to rely on covers to sustain myself financially while developing my own creative process and style as a songwriter."

As a Producer, Abe has a dynamic creative process that adapts to the musical circumstances. With multiple instruments in his arsenal, Abe can use different sounds and techniques to discover arrangments that he finds emotionally exciting as a listener and performer. In his studio he begins by incorporating melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and lyrical ideas while continually adding textures with drums, guitars, keyboards, bass, sax and his own distinct voice. Focusing on the feel and emotion, he lets the music flow and develop until he is satisfied with each song.

Not an album to be handled lightly, the 2010 release "Wars Ragin" is poignant, conscious, realistic understanding of the times that speaks out with lyrics that are not so much critical of the times we live in, but regretfully reflective, that what this planet and this culture needs in such wasteful times are cheerful reminders that encourage happiness and responsibility in all our lifestyles, instead of hammering us with guilt and hopelessness. 

"Wars Ragin" is an appropriate title for this album, as the first time listener is assaulted with a myriad of different music styles.  Indeed, this is not an album to be judged by the first listening. It requires your attention like a great series of abstract art that piece by piece may seem soutrageous, yet put all together they blend into an original understanding of new creative frontiers, through the mish-mashing of multiple styles into pastiche.

photo: Steve Perotti