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BIRD NAMES IS POISED
Bird Names is GETTING BUSY in our fair and new Athens, GA home. Our near future will feature:
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* FREQUENT TOURING: We will tour Florida and the east coast THIS OCTOBER. Please write us at BIRDNAMESatGMAIL and we will play for and/or with you.
* AN AMAZING NEW ALBUM: we furiously recorded a new full-length which sounds like a whole little world. it's coming out when we find a label: soon.
* COOL COLLABORATION: with talented video artists, visual artists, and ringer musicians. Hit us up if you want to do something together.
* DANCING & FUN |
Join us, friend, in a sugarysweet place in the future.
SOME RECENT PRESS:
Chicagoist: BNs is Flying the Coop
Huffington Post review of Silent Barn show
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"Bird Names Sings the Browns"
available now on vinyl for $12
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"Recession Vacation" Cassette-only EP -- $7
featuring "If I Had a Carriage" and "Recession Vacation"
SOME OLD INTENTIONS
look there -- your BIRD NAMES rattling their chains, motioning crudely to make speech! this year (which starts today) will be a huge one for your humble band
* LATE-SUMMER EAST COAST TOUR -- we're superpsyched to be headed back on the road in the U.S. after our longest touring hiatus ever. we're stripped down to two-pieces (dave and phelan), raw like a leg of lamb, full of spirit, smoke and dreams. come out and make peace.
* AN ALBUM TO MELT THE WORLD -- in our touring hiatus we've made an album that can melt the world. this one is different and the best. you may as well throw out all your bird names albums right now to give this one the right portion of space on your shelf. much more news on this in the coming months.
* WE'RE MOVING TO GEORGIA -- they say the zephyr is the mildest and most propitious of winds, and it guides us east with carpetbags bulging and jacksonian jingoism spilling out of our mouths. we're moving to athens, ga. it should be easy to maintain an economically marginal existence there, weather the bad months, see neat wilderness, and play shows regularly along the coast.
right on. remember-- we're always open to collaboration-- video artists especially should hit us up and we'll do something cool. happiness and love on you.
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Really Coastal has just put out FOR THE LOVE OF ROD, an album written as a letter to and about former Illinois state governor Rod Blagojevich. Composed and mailed in three days (I had wanted Rod to conceivably listen to this album within the week it was made) in 2005, it's goofy, prescient, obnoxious, and only about Rod. The album that made him an icon. Limited to 100 cassettes.
A 2008 Chicago Reader story about the reemergence of this album
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Bird Names is abuzz: sleuthing rib-tickling licks for A NEW ALBUM, consulting the astrolabe of forthcoming TOURS, & resolving a new line-up. After long years, Colin and Al are off on paths of instropection and different music. Bird Names lumbers on-- presently we're recording an album written over the past year. Watch for us on the east coast this summer, and beyond.
DOWNLOAD some new rough cuts from the summer on on music page.
DEAR EUROPE: THANK YOU
Dear Europe,
You are a delightful treat. You met Bird Names with the softest hands, the cleanest beds, the most delicious foods, the finest ears. You showed us incredible kindness, patience, and beauty. You thickened our bones with your cream sauces and novel candies. You are the old world that made us younger. We will not forget you.
Phelan posted a billion pics on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BirdNames
Thank you! All our love and happy wishes to you! If we are lucky, we will meet you again further down the road.
Yours humbly forever,
Bird Names
HEY FRIEND LET'S COLLABORATE
Bird Names has been a way for us to create meaningful work in our lives. If you would like to make something beautiful with us or can aid us, please get in touch! Like:
* VIDEO & MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS. If you are a video artist or filmmaker looking for a musical score by Bird Names, please be in touch. We would probably love to work with you.
* MUSICAL RESIDENCIES. If you have space in your home or studio where we can live and record for cheap/free (especially someplace warm!), we are very interested.
* RECORD LABELS. If you have interest in putting out our new record we would like to speak with you.
* INCOME / MONEY. We don't have too many prospects for earning money these days. If you know of painless schemes to make a buck or if you are a wealthy patron looking to bankroll a band, please holler.
BIRDNAMES AT GMAIL
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