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BIRD SHOW BAND

by Bird Show Band

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Quintet One 09:09
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Little Song 02:02
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Quartet 02:56
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4.
BSB Synthesizer Solo 02:36
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Quintet Two 08:05
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Quintet Three 05:55
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Quintet Four 05:34
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Rather than the concentrated and almost hermetic appeal of the first three Bird Show full-lengths (2005’s Green Inferno, 2006’s Lightning Ghost and 2008’s s/t [all released on Kranky]), Vida has broadened and transformed his highly personal musical vocabulary into a more conceptually rigorous artistic practice. The initial tracks were laid down in the summer of 2008 just prior to Vida’s relocation to Brooklyn after more than a decade in Chicago, where he played in a wide range of projects, including Pillow, DRMWPN, and, most notably, the minimalist quartet, Town and Country.

Vida’s most musical turn emphasizes Bird Show Band’s new collaborative spirit and stands as the culmination of his Chicago-based work, featuring a who’s who of that city’s improvisational luminaries, including Josh Abrams, Jim Baker, Dan Bitney and John Herndon. The latter two players have performed in groups like Tortoise, Isotope 217, Five Style, while the two former musicians have played with, among others, Jeb Bishop, Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark, and Jim O’Rourke, releasing albums on Delmark Records, Okkadisk, HatOlogy & BOXmedia. The improvisatory feel of the Bird Show Band sessions function as Vida’s paean to the Windy City. Rather than another Bird Show release featuring guest accompaniment on select tracks, Vida conceived of these recordings as a foray into session playing, tracking the entire album over just two days. While Herndon and Bitney’s percussion invokes German psych, progressive rock, and jazz idioms, Vida’s synth-based experiments, here accompanied by Jim Baker’s ARP 2600, provide the first indication of his recent musical preoccupations, an interest that relies heavily on the Moog and his own fluid, lyrical melodic lines. If you have had the luck of catching Bird Show or Ben Vida perform live over the last few years, you have witnessed the centrality he now gives to the Moog and one-touch patchwork, experimental forays that point to Europe and the mid-century avant-garde, especially the Cologne-based innovations of Stockhausen and his many students during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Regardless of this description, Bird Show Band is more than a mere intellectual exercise and the sessions balance brain with musical brawn in ways that Vida has yet to achieve on his previous outings.

Bird Show Band adds to Vida’s already critically-acclaimed body of work, releases that utilize both mainstream and underground channels, having issued records on independent mainstays like Thrill Jockey, Drag City, and Kranky, as well as emerging outlets like Barge. Over the last few years, Vida has been performing live under his own name, and as a member of Soft Circle. He also plays in Singer—a rock band that began in Chicago and reworks the aesthetics of glam and No-wave—a project that includes Rob AA Lowe, Adam Vida and Todd Rittman (who has subsequently left the band). More recently, Vida has collaborated with visual artists Siebren Versteeg and Deborah Johnson and has been experimenting with both modern composition and opera. These projects continue an artistic practice Vida developed over the last decade, when he began collaborating with contemporary avant-gardists like Keith Fullerton Whitman, Greg Davis, and Michael Zerang.

credits

released January 26, 2010

BIRD SHOW BAND

Ben Visa: Moog Voyager
Josh Abrams: Acoustic Bass
John Herndon: Drums
Dan Bitney: Drums
Jim Baker: ARP 2600

Tracked in Chicago, IL 2008 by Blue Hawaii

Edited and Mixed in Brooklyn, NY 2009 by Ben Vida

Side 1
Track 1: Quintet One (BV, JA, JB, DB JH)
Track 2: Little Song
Track 3: Quartet (BV, JA, DB, JH)
Track 4: BSB Synthesizer Solo (BV)

Side 2
Track 1: Quintet Two (BV, JA, JB, DB JH)
Track 1: Quintet Three (BV, JA, JB, DB JH)
Track 1: Quintet Four (BV, JA, JB, DB JH)

Design by Meredyth Sparks
Based on Ariel Peeri's cover art for Robert Ashley's "Private Parts"

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