Birdsong
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Birdsong
Labelink: http://www.birdsong.co.il/
Music-Style: indie-ambient, guitars, piano, dirty loud instrumental rock, cello, slow-down guitar improvisation, harmonium, toys, breaky hopping beats, electro jazz fusion, Lo-Fi rock, small musical paintings, grrrl, plastic clarinet, tiny creatures, noisy acoustic-experiments, lo-fi blues, Lo-Fi, Psychedelic, weird, Acid Jazz, Trip-Hop, Minimalism, Post-Rock, Children's, Pop Experimental
About:
Birdsong (net-label) was founded by a couple of israeli musicians who make music that wasn't created for record stores.
Artists:
Broken Music Box, cHelek, Cherly KaCherly, Eli Las, the lonesome executive, Tiny Creatures, Yonatan Levital, Panic Ensemble, Roy Chicky Arad, The Unnecessary Revolution, Her Highness, Uncle Owen Aunt Beru, ArtiK, Isuzu Kochiwa, Beatmapper, Dudu Geva, SxFxTxC, AP:MP, Carlos Labbé
Releases:
Five days at the attic, guitars, piano, a drum set, sampler, some power tools, 4track tape recorder, and two inspired guys with a deadline are the ingredients of this interesting EP called cHELEK. The music of cHELEK is dirty loud instrumental rock, influenced by all kinds of shit from all around.
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the lonesome executive's fantastic tape recorder
the lonesome executive records his music into a small dictation recorder , he sings sweet mellow songs with his guitar only to then fast forward them so they sound like a crazed animated chipmunk on ritalin. this album is a story about a kid that wakes up in the morning and decides that he is no longer a child.
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Broken Music Box - featuring HER HIGHNESS
cutting and pasting on her computer , her highness
is like a 3 year old circus girl singing her songs
to make all the kids laugh...
she makes happy pop songs with samples she recorded using a cello , harmonium , a plastic clarinet and other toys.
sometimes she even sprinkles tiny bits of midi on the top.
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from his apartment in south tel aviv Cherly KaCherly makes colourful electronic music with his trustee computer , breaky hopping beats with the mixture of various loops ,samples and guitar work create this electro jazz fusioned EP.
Eli Las - a planet full of motels
Eli las is angry, direct, and cynical with guitars and drum machines. Recorded at home with a four tracker and went through a computer for some sound processing . Rough singing, spreaded playing, different tunes... Eli las makes a very "Eli lassic" Lo-Fi rock, sounds basically like himself, and there's something very beautiful and special in these songs that he's singing here. A good and uncompromising album.
English/Hebrew
Yonatan Levital - ...and monkey
1998-2001 were intensive years in the attic. A lot of music was created using anything that could produce sounds that could produce interest. This inspiration-full period of time left it's mark in the shape of a lot of material recorded using my devoted four tracker. Now, a few years later, some of this material found it's way to become one piece of an instrumental album, which is that. the monkey is not singing. Actually nobody sings this time. It's all just a bunch of insrumental emotions. A collection of small musical paintings. Perhaps i spoke too much about an album that was just trying to escape words?
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Twenty-six adjectives describing tiny creatures: Delicate, bizarre, cute, vulnerable, tough, ingenious, whimsical, mechanical, spontaneous, quick, primal, weird, hungry, careful, scaly, dangerous, soothing, confusing, grim, inventive, fascinating, efficient, gentle, harsh, strange, smart. Listening to Tiny Creatures is like listening to an intelligent ant colony expatiate upon predicate calculus, Harlequin romances, sour gum balls, the infield fly rule, Ikea furniture, Debussy, and Encyclopedia Brown books. courtesy of www.imaginaryalbums.com
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"hey you, come here" is a collection out of the variety of documented music which was found inside the beautiful but threatening to burst head of Ofir Klemperer. six songs in hebrew and one instrumental piece, were chosen to create this album which Ofir claims to be an introduction album. The Tunes are complex and unusual, arrangments are colorful , variety of sounds and textures. Some times the touch is electronic, sometimes acoustic and sometimes something else, and always typical to ofir with his nasal singing and the weariless piano. All songs recorded at ofir's house using a Korg d-16. Ofir plays: yamaha s8 synthisizer, melodica, guitar, and drums.
Hebrew
Assuann is a blend of experimental and middle eastern music, of electronic and trash metal, avant-garde and acoustic rock. Each track here has its own unique texture and story, yet they all tell even a greater tale as an album. Assuann is Coma's (Shai Yechezkely) third album, originally all three were released on fact records .
The Unnecessary Revolution exists for no purpose in its different forms and with changing band members ever since 1991. loyal to the bizzare system that was forced upon them ever since they came up with their name, the unnecessary revolution never missed a chance to fail in their well tought, acquired skills. their music falls into the mello-dyslectic genre, a mutation of french chansons, psychedelia and avantgarde jazz music that was left in the sun to sour. "1st of 3" was recorded together with its two step brothers on 2002, while its editing and mixing went on until mid 2005.
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Major Keez joind by Her Highness - in the Neither Land e.p.
Her Highness's 2nd album (following the fantastic "Broken Music Box featuring her highness" ). A conceptual piece made only out of the sound of major keez (her toy keyboard friend ) and her vocals. A mellower and less colorful approach to sound design followed by extreme attention to melodic hooks and harmonic vocals.
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Ariel Caine - Ariel caine e.p.
Ariel Caine's (a.k.a. Neokoln ) eponymous EP is his second release. The album shifts from the dense, heavy, 80's oriented sound that featured heavily on the Neokoln album towards more minimal, but still electronic, instrumentations. This lends the songs a slightly more analog sound and gives the album an overall different feel. The album was originally released by fact records in 2001
Hebrew
Roy Chicky Arad - Yedidim Tovim
A collection of raw sketches found on Roy Chicky Arad's computer. As opposed to his previous net-releases which are more electronic based, this album contains tracks done with guitars, keyboard and other acoustic instruments that were recorded onto his computer.
Hebrew
The Unnecessary Revolution - 2nd of 3
The combination between the Unnecessary Revolution and Brassens created a compound which isn't necessarily connected to its two ingredients. Brassens (1921-1981) created witty, scorching texts on the verge of anarchism that leaned on sugary melodies, while the Unnecessary Revolution within the gap of two generations away, created fidgety music which ignores the narrative structures. The co-operation continued it's way to israel and transformed the lyrics into hebrew, making them more and more distant from their original source. The jamming and the fading memory, remolded the music again and again to its current shape which is "2nd of 3"
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The Panic Ensemble - Live at Clipa Theatre
A live show by The Panic Ensemble (Roy Yarkoni and the Nighthawks) at Clipa Theatre. an experimental approach to pieces which could be defined as classic, contemporary and even folk. The electronic elements and female vocals woven together with classical instruments such as a viola, accordion and tabla, form together imaginary structures in space, giving the album its unique ambient texture.
Roy Yarkoni is the co founder of the bands Ahvak and Thin Lips and amongst his many collaborations you can find artists such as Jewlia Eisenberg (Charming Hostess), Avi Belleli and Maya Dunietz.
Musicians: Yael Kraus - vocals, Roy Yarkoni - sampler and piano, Galia Hay - viola, Ishay sommer - bass, Erez Kariel - guitar, Boris Martzinovsky - accordion, Dirk Kunesch - trumpet, Yatsiv Caspi - percussion.
English
Isuzu Kochiwa - Disassembling the Molecules
Hails from Osaka, Japan. Isuzu Kochiwa (founder of japanese post noise group "Amok") brings us this album of short experimental pieces, a homage to 18 different painters which all tracks are named after. Isuzu uses his computer, voice, samples and different acoustic elements. creating microsounds, layered scapes and total psychedelia. its nice listening to how some of your favorite painters sound like inside Kochiwa's brain.
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Our first hi-fi release contains six remixes of tracks by three different birdsong artists (Her Highness, tiny creatures and the lonesome executive). Beatmapper, a well known HI-FI fascist,remolded these songs into clean Hi-Fi dancefloor hits. these 6 sterilized decendants often leave little resemblance of their slacker parents.
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Dudu Geva - Tumba Zombie + Streets Of Tomorrow
This collective of lunatics (named after the great israeli cartoonist) comes to us all the way from the land of baguettes and cheap red wine. this short two track album spans no more than 3 minutes. The music is a combination of psychedelic mayhem, progressive chord structures and cats in heat being tortured. This is just an introduction to this great band, so be sure to check out more of them.
English/French
Uncle Owen Aunt Beru - Spaces in time
Uncle Owen Aunt Beru are actually one person named Jessica. She makes music like journal entries, capturing her ideas and impressions of earth and other planets onto her multi-track recorder. In her spaceship's luggage compartment one can find different specimens of an earthly nature and frozen experiences collected in her travels. Uncle owen Aunt Beru's album is a careless experiment with simple melodies, crude sounds, Jessica's voice and the captain's log.
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SxFxTxC (Shmen For The Children) are a four-piece hardcore punk group from Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel. The band started playing together in the summer of 2004 when they were all staying in Berlin. SxFxTxC are here to save the world and bring destruction all at once. This release is a collaboration between Birdsong and High Fiber. May god have mercy on our souls.
Eng/jap/heb
Air Plane Mashed Potatoes is a mish mash of hard and broken electronic beats, arabic pop and braindance all soaked in punk attitude. The live electronic sounds were produced with the use of two samplers, guitars, turntable, radio, microphone, sticks and endless showoffs.
Produced by Digital_Me
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FuN - Measured by the Inch E.P + Thurston Moore
Fun was formed in 2002 by Shay Yehezkelli (Coma) and Hovav Oppenheim as a free spirited side project that got out of control with the independent release of their E.P Measured By The Inch. The E.P was quickly reissued by Fact Records and made it into a bullet-proof radio playlist. Soon the duo became a band with the help of Ariel Caine (Neokoln), Ariel Kleiner (The Rubberband Project), Yonatan Naim and Avishay Londner (Lebanon). At the same year they released the "Thurston Moore" single that became their biggest hit and features a remix to The Black Dude From Faithless (Muhamad Ali) and a Stooges No Fun cover as bonus tracks. Sadly, these two releases are the shortlived band's full discography.
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Carlos Labbé - Doce canciones para Eleodora
Doce canciones para Eleodora was recorded by Carlos Labbé in the winter of 2003 in order to cheer up his then girlfriend now wife and music collaborator. He recorded the music onto his old PC using his walkman headphones as a microphone, his grandmother's mini classic guitar, a Yamaha PSR-100 electronic keyboard, a now untraceable drum machine software, a children's recorder and a traditional Chilean instrument that resembles a jaw harp called trompe.
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The Homunculus, Latin for “little man”, is a truly tiny creature that lives in the brain and controls it from the inside. Some claim he is responsible for all non-basic functions of man; perhaps the enjoyment of music, or perhaps its creation. “Tiny Creatures” return less tiny this time around. They’ve beefed up their sound and lost the tendency to scatter. Still, they won’t have a moment’s rest. From beatbox layers recorded live into a delay pedal to stinging guitars to a harmonium competing with crappy, lo-fi keyboards and vocals that conjure images of the Red Army choir, “Homunculus” rides the fine line between eclectic and cohesive and falls square in the middle.
This is the second release for “Tiny Creatures” to come out on Birdsong.
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Not much is known about Artik. This may be due to security classification issues or maybe it's just low usage of words. What we do know is that: 1. Artik is Artur Antonian 2. The person known as Artur Antonian is a Ukrainian now living in Poland for reasons that are unclear, confidential or unimportant. 3. Artur Antonian is a violinist though Artik is not. 4. Artik and the person known as Artik are the same person. Artur claims that Artik didn't use a violin or any other acoustic instrument for his first album "Shaman Tones". He claims it was strictly made on a computer, Though the untrained ear will notice, the indistinct sounds of Bagpipes, distorted strings, fragile things being crashed and tormented babies. An internal C.I.A report claimed that "Shaman Tones" is an actual fever attack recording using a highly sophisticated K.G.B equipment. "Weapons of mass destruction" and "massive obsessive electronics" were the only words published to the public. "Red classification" listening only
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Uncle Owen Aunt Beru - Earth is the Right Place for Love
Earth is the right place for Love is Uncle Owen Aunt Beru's new album title as well as the opening and closing track. It's only when we start peeling off the top onion skin that we find the more complex world of earthlings and Jessica among them. It seems our planet is a place for love, war, religion and all those other big things we deal with, but mostly it's a place of small things. Small moments under the sun. Small thoughts that exist only between words and small creatures on this clockwork planet trying to find out the meaning of it all.
This is Jessica Calleiro's 2nd album as Uncle Owen Aunt Beru following Spaces In Time
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Senza Valore - Attack/Decay E.P
"Senza Valore" is a project by multi-instrumentalist Joseph Campbell, or, as he defines it, "man who can play many instruments poorly". "Attack/Decay E.P.", we assume, refers to the starting point, where the sound is at its peak and the part where the sound dies out until it becomes a recurring echo of itself. This leaves the meaty middle without any attention. This is partly true of the "Attack/Decay E.P.", which opens with the sounds of children playing and ends with an ambient breath so fragile, it might not be more than a fleeting thought passing through the microphone. The middle that should have been neglected is actually as meaty, creative and melodic as a middle should be.
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Cherly KaCherly - Drop a 4 note Soundtrack
"Drop - a 4 note soundtrack" Could have been a soundtrack to an animation movie by Nir Matarasso, instead it's a soundtrack to a film that is only partially revealed inside "Drop". An animation about the making of animation. The album tells a story about a relationship that takes place underwater in 15 scenes. (which can be partly seen inside the prolonged cd cover ). The album's main theme moves up and down a 4 note scale, a limit which is taken in order to capture the main character's obsession and create an underwater feel. In spite of the album's limit and maybe due to it, the album manages to transport the listener through a variety of worlds. From floating guitar sounds to wooden percussion and from aggressive wind instruments to apocalyptic ambient.
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Supertalented - Weight Watchers
Noa is supertalented, but she's not alone in that. She says "All the amazing guitar solos are played by johannes. He also bought me my guitar and was the inspiration to most of the songs" and " kristoffer plays on 'Brazil', 'Atomer' and 'You're wrong'. He is also supertalented and lives in Oslo. we live in london." It seems the world is packed with supertalented people, but only a few of them teamed up to be Supertalented - the band. Noa says that "people who like supertalented are super". People who like Supertalented and saw them live said " Supertalented's song melodies were all fantastic" and "I really liked the laid back, almost classical style, but the main point of this band is not their tunes, great as these may have been. The major attraction lies in their very silly lyrics. All the songs are short, and sometimes the weirdness and sometimes just the simplicity of the words make you smile." We say "Supertalented are super Lo-Fi for Superpeople."
English
Dudu Geva have mastered the ZCHATZTZ$AA! for a while now. Some times they mix it with a little AOAOZZZT? and MOUGHT*ZT just to emphasize the great sound of an unavoidable upcoming RRRRR! or WHAUIII#! . Their last and most complete release so far is a two sided ZCHATZTZ$AA! adventure. some may claim its a homage for the lost 20th century format known as the "Record" or Long Player (LP). These ancient vinyl plates had no option of rewinding or forwarding tracks, so when the younger CD format (known today as The High Priced Frisbee or HPF) popped up it changed the way people experience albums forever. That is until now. So please don't forward, rewind or stop this two tracked album in the middle, and let this retro feature weld Dudu Geva's AOAOZZZT?, MOUGHT*ZT, RRRRR! and WHAUIII#! into a big perfect ZCHATZTZ$AA! while your brain melts down through your ears.
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Kauders - Brian invited June...
kauders is an Austrian guitarist and music-maker who plays in bands like the striggles (experimental blues), code inconnu (noise rock), automassage (ambient rock) or duo adé (conceptual music, impro). In his solo works he allows himself to do all the things he can't do, or better he doesn't dare to do in his band projects, which means sometimes being shamelessly lofty and sometimes leaving the path of good taste. His new album „Brian invited June...“ is based on sequencer-tracks that were originally very close to the aesthetics of dance music, but then treated by effects, pitched and filtered, overlayed with vocals, guitars and field recordings and sometimes put into a song structure. The audible result is a very personal and ambivalent commentary or maybe even anti- pole to pattern structured party and easy listening music. Though this all sounds pretty conceptual, kauders doesn't intend to produce some kind of intellectual meta-music, if you dig inside you might find a foolishly romantic core, always aiming for some beauty besides of spotlessness.
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Digital_Me - The Accordion E.P.
A picture of young mother Librowski playing the accordion led Digital_Me (Shay Librowski; musician and offspring) to a successful treasure hunt in his parents' attic. The collective association of the accordion as an old-time instrument and the aversion from bellows and squeezeboxes inherent to the electronic musician were quickly replaced by curiosity and inquisitiveness. The first discovery was that the accordion sounds much better when one does not know how to play it, which led as a direct conclusion to pairing the archaic accordion with the best effects rolling around the room at the time. The result, as with many cases of incest, was abstract, rhythmic and bore no necessary resemblance to the parents. Digital_Me is a prolific and active musician with an abundance of mini-albums and a newly released debut album behind him. Amongst others, he has produced AP:MP, released on BirdSong label as well.
