| "SONGBREAD/ANOTHER
OCEAN" by BIRD BY SNOW (LP+CDR)
A
new calf sparkles in the field at dawn with after-birth upon her.
Standing strong and brave with wobbly legs in a precarious world.
With totally fearless surrender she steps forward, still wet from
the inner universe of the before birth being. With the same naked
abandon we offer this 3rd long-player by Bird By Snow.
Ten free-pop-mantras, ancient-babies of modern song.
The
most fertile Bird By Snow record (so far) each side of
this album has its own name, in order to give the tunes more mind-space
to flourish and expand… Side A is “Songbread”
and side B is “Another Ocean.” In
this record-world we find BBS harvesting perspectives
in an old-growth forest of ontology & swimming joyfully in
wide-wonder-waters of multi-instrumentalism. Cellos, drones,
pianos, field-recordings, tape-collage & all manner of drumming,
strumming & singing confer and conspire here. Many of
these songs have been two years in the making, grown and regrown
on musical tours through the generous world. Songs with fresh-washed
faces, and crow’s feet in the corners of their eyes.
“Songbread/Another
Ocean” is also some of Gnome Life’s
most beautiful and ambitious packaging! The cover is a color lithograph
poster, and the LP also includes a deluxe handmade booklet of
literature, lyrics, ideas, and points of entry. AND a second semi-transparant
poster of poetry called: "SLOW POEMS" by Fletcher
Tucker (a.k.a. Bird By Snow). This edition is limited
to 550 copies, and is on completely clear vinyl, and comes with
a CD!
{recorded
at home on 8-track cassette tape, mastered by John Golden.}
|
"Bird
By Snow walks the tightrope between several worlds; the natural
and the manmade constructs, the eternal and the temporal, the
spirit and the flesh. His songs spilling out like wood smoke hanging
low over a cool morning meadow. Weather, wind, fire, water and
air, acoustic instruments and nuanced amplification illuminating
the inter-connections. Exploring personal and universal identities
with an understated, yet sometimes quite grand grace and organically
natural ease, almost like these songs sound like they just happened
rather than being crafted and created. This beautiful ten song
set is a perfect compliment to his first two albums, and continues
and expands upon his northwestern vision quest." - George
Parsons, (editor) Dream Magazine |
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