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The first lullaby towards the album, "Future Memory, for Odette".  To be released in 2015 through Wild Silence (wild-silence.com).  A dedication album to a new born daughter...a mix of her parents' recorded and shared sounds, memories, hopes, and dreams towards a future with her. Sounds of her womb-scape, birth, and first year...music in collaboration with friends and family across oceans and land...an album of lullabies for Odette.

Birds Of Maio (with Rui Costa)

A soundscape I worked on for a piece I performed in. I used Free At Last and Bird Gehrl by Antony and the Johnsons (no copyright infringement intended) and an interview I did with a lovely old lady.  

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Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic began in 1980 as a side project by half of Boston's famed rock band, Mission Of Burma: Roger Miller and Martin Swope. Miller and Swope joined forces with Rick Scott and Erik Lindgren. Perhaps because of their tie to the ever-popular Burma or perhaps because of their sheer excellence Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic earned international recognition for their innovative sound. The New York Times called them "the world's hardest rocking chamber music quartet." Their unlikely mix of rock, punk, classical, minimalism, and free-form sound appealed to a broad range of musical tastes. As Roger remembers in the liner notes, "If I had to say what I thought was most unique about the band, it was that we actually played rock clubs and basically pulled off this rather unorthodox thing. Well sure, we pissed off some rockers (“Just look at ’em up there, shuffling their papers!”), but that wasn't really our concern. If this odd quartet wasn’t about as different as you could get and still play those venues, well at least we put up a pretty good fight." Rick Scott comments, "We were always the square peg in a world of round holes. Our instruments weren't bass, guitar, and drums, but guitar, three keyboards, and drum machine (with turntable, water can, washboard, and clarinet thrown in for good measure!). We played in rock clubs, but read from sheet music. We shared the stage with three-chord rockers, but played music from Brian Eno and Igor Stravinsky, and covered the theme from 'Rocky and Bullwinkle'. It boggles the mind how we got away with it." 

For the first time ever, all of the band's 3 recordings for Ace of Hearts (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Magnetic Flip and Beat of the Mesozoic) are reissued in their entirety and in the order in which they were originally heard when they were first issued. In the the words of Erik Lindgren, the remastering done here, "sonically makes the 'Sonic Geology' package irrelevant." The package comes with a 20 page booklet of notes and photos and there is a huge wealth of totally cool CDRom material - 175 photos, art files, set-lists, dioramas, letters, documents and more. Additionally, there are two studio tracks and seven live tracks, none of which have ever been heard before, for over 45' of bonus material. 

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is ‘Thank You,’ that would suffice.” So yeah, thank you. Because who could resist the stately and surprisingly plump pieces on this comprehensive Ace of Hearts anthology with superadded bonus outtakes and live tracks? Only a person with a heart of stone. From the 1983 self-titled EP, opener “Sound Valentine” and “Orange Ocean” are the stand-outs. Proceeding to 1984’s Magnetic Flip we venture into more rugged territory; for some of us, the majestic opening track, “Shiny Golden Snakes,” and the tumultuous “Terry Riley’s House” must surely have been turbulent highlights from that lost year of dread, with “International Tours” and “Bridge Underwater” their psychopomp antitheses.The 1986 release Beat of the Mesozoic features more of the band’s playful yet consistently stirring and ambitious classical pieces, notably the opener “Lost in the B-Zone,” the luminescent “Waterwheel,” and the elegaic “Scenes From a...”. The seven live tracks, retroactively titled Between the Fires, reveal a band ably positioned to perform live some of their most rigorous and intellectually challenging compositions, notably “Carbon 14” and the astonishing, otherworldly climax to “Lqabblil Insanya.” – The Noise

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, "Ptoccata" from 'Dawn of the Cycads' (Cuneiform Records)

Birdsong

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Bjarno - Birds & Drones [Snippet]

Merci à Mikael Cointepas d'avoir accepté de chanter cette chanson de l'hiver que j'ai écrite il y a un petit bout de temps et d'y avoir apporté sa merveilleuse patte.
Mikael: Voix, guitare.
Fanny: pianet T, choeur.

(photo Nicolas Dartiailh)

"Feather"- Mikael C: voix-guitare/ Fanny R: texte,pianet- choeur.

Credits: Maalem Mahmoud Guinia &amp; Floating Points

Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points - Mimoun Marhaba (Herr Vogel Edit)

Luke Temple - "The Birds of Late December" from 'A Hand Through the Cellar Door' out November 11, 2016 on Secretly Canadian

Pre-Order 'A Hand Through the Cellar Door:' http://smarturl.it/luketemple 

Luke Temple - The Birds of Late December

Track i produced as part of the Origami EP.

Origami EP

Bird Strike

Conferance Of The Birds

The White-bearded manakin (Manacus Manacus) is a small bird with a fascinating breeding display at communal leks. In an attempt to attract females, each male leaps between sticks and the ground, all the while singing,  whirring of the wings and making very loud wing snaps. Because of these snaps, this bird is called nutcracker in french. 

Recorded at Savane Roche Gabaret in French Guiana

Picture by Antoine Baglan

Manakin parade

Fábio Caramuru - Uguisu

prod by: https://soundcloud.com/aspisking

LYRICS:
i just wanna get away from here 
i don't even know why i'm still here 
i wish i could run away from here
i don't even feel like being here
i can't even find a reason to stay
i just now i need to fade away 
i don't wanna see your fucking face
i don't wanna feel that fucking pain
just go away 
let me decay x3
the sting that's between us
i hate what i dreamed of 
it lost all its reasons 
it's left with no meaning 
to you 
to me
equally
that's the reality 
of you and me 
i hate what i see 
in front of me 
i hate what i see
in front of me

i wish i were a bird (prod. asp)

FANTAST REMIXES PT. 1 - OUT NOW:  http://smarturl.it/fantastremixes1

Following his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, Eagles & Butterflies flips masked man, Claptone’s Birdsong into a pulsating sunrise gem. Featuring Zola Blood, the pseudo-natural feel of the original record is elevated to new heights at the hands of the Art Imitating life boss.
  
Only recently pulled from the private archives of Dixon and Ame, and  premiered by Pete Tong only a handful of days ago, the latest Eagles & Butterflies offering is now yours to enjoy.

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Claptone is a unique proposition in modern music. Painted as a mythical character shrouded in mystery, Claptone has become one of the biggest names in electronic music whilst himself remaining in the shadows. He has however constantly sought to deepen his own distinctive world, creating a rich tapestry, which tells the Claptone story.

In his second artist album ‘Fantast’, the Claptone universe is at its deepest and most vivid. He is the master of his domain and in his most artful offering yet, the assured 13 tracks of 'Fantast' come together to create an album full of varied colours and atmospheric textures.

In music Claptone seeks not to create a world of secrecy, but one of great depth and intrigue. An enigma with a tireless desire for creativity and thirst for new music, Claptone has brought together a diverse group of collaborators such as Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, Blaenavon, Tender, Jones, Zola Blood, Austra’s Katie Stelmanis, The Boxer Rebellion’s Nathan Nicholson, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Joan As Police Woman and Matt Simons.

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