"Sky" by Bird By Snow (LP+CD) 2006

1. White Sky 2. Black Elk in the Mountains 3. Plato's Cave 4. (___ __________ ____ ____) 5. The Sound and the River Within the Sound 6. Sasquatch Says: the Old World Whispers 7. Green I's 8. (_____ _____ ______) 9. I am not the Moon and Neither is the Moon 10. Animals Calling

To you, children of the Zeitgeist, we give “Sky,” offered in the same generous spirit as this bountiful world itself. Ten songs of reggae-infused, psychedelic, folk music. Existentialism you can dance to! Open-hearted sound-fields, vast and colored with tiny blue-grass orchestras, authentic Dub banjo, black cloud back-beats, and (if you can believe it) California Soukous guitar! Open eyes wide, and take in “Sky,” bird by snow’s outrageously lush follow-up LP. Cloudy or clear, day or night, let us be absorbed in the one-always-giving moment, and know the sky not as vacuous hole, but as container (whole).

Limited to 300, on beautiful tranparent-blue vinyl. Hand silk-screened gold covers, with a lovely hand-made booklet too. Notes on the cover, the conche shell is an ancient symbol of fertility, generousity and music AND listening in the shamanic Oceanic cultures (because it forms a horn, but is also shaped like the inner ear). So the call for generousty is blown, and blown generously, thus the wind fills both musician and listener (in the image, and hopefully in real life). A pine-tree mohawk is sprouting from the boys head, this should be self-explanitory.

{recorded at home on 8-track cassette tape, mastered by George Horn... who mastered "Zuma" by Neil Young and Crazy Hourse}

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"...more real desolate charm than ever before, this is a record of great intrinsic worth, and manages to do something new and consistent within a genre largely held together by image and one-trick skills. Incredible and very worthwhile." - Dave Mozurak, Dusted Magazine

"...creating an ache in the heart, proving once again the emotional quality of this album, brimming with gently persuasive songs that will remain with you long after the needle has lifted." - Simon Lewis, Terrascope

"Gentle and true pop here, not to be missed, but almost feels like an animal in danger of extinction. Enjoy the blend of banjo, melodica, autoharp before they pave an overpass across it all. Hell, the two truest “songs” on here are actually open-mic hikes. Tromping through the underbrush, the other lyrical flora bloom fine besides them. There’s even some low-voltage electricity accompanying the two man blended band here." - KFJC Los Altos Public Radio