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The Boy and the Audience

by Bird Radio

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The Boy and the Audience 03:18
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2.
Tie String 04:16
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3.
Devil at the Door 04:15
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4.
London the Forest 05:22
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5.
Lamb in my Giant Hand 06:19
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6.
Aeolian Flute 03:54
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7.
Black Car 05:11
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8.
Word Migration 05:38
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9.
Who Killed Cock Robin? 04:56
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10.
Time to Go (feat. Othon) 06:15
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Bird Radio's debut solo album - original songs performed with voice, flute loops and a red suitcase bass drum. Watch the film trilogy directed by Chiara Ambrosio here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbGpAHpoEvs.

Louder Sound says...

'Technology can be a very sexy thing, and so can talent, and when a musician possesses both the result is instant prog-gasm. Enter Bird Radio, aka Mikey Kirkpatrick. The concept of the 'one man band' has recently been rescued from tambourine-kneed oddbods by uber-loopers like Matt Stevens, and Bird Radio contorts it into startling, dulcimer-pummelling shapes here.

The title track signals the conceit: baritone-voiced a capella folk morphs into Summerisle dance swirls, with sackbuts and everything. Bird Radio exists to wrong foot the punter. Nursery rhyme Who Killed Cock Robin? offers breathy Tull-tinged flute along with electronic loops, it’s like some steam-punk production line being used as the backing beat for the Pied Piper.

But Kirkpatrick is no mere purveyor of gimmicks. He creates alternative worlds, part seedy backstreet menace, part post-modern irony, part medieval Europe. London The Forest is hypnotic, playing off flute riffs that strike like vipers against laconic vocals and Lamb In My Giant Hand sounds like a 14th century farandole reworked by a mad scientist.

This album is a revelation. It makes the listener feel like they’ve been let in on a dangerous secret'.

‘Bird Radio (aka Mikey Kirkpatrick) has the energy of Bob Log III and Son of Dave, along with the sheer inventiveness of Thomas Truax.’ - Bearded Magazine

‘A mix of old testament preacher and Captain Beefheart…’ – jazzman dot com

‘… future medieval, as if J.G. Ballard had written The Wicker Man.’- Steve Chandra Savale, Asian Dub Foundation

‘…a flute-toting, bass drum-beating sensation…’ – Rick Pearson, Evening Standard

credits

released October 7, 2013

All songs written and performed by Bird Radio except for Track 9.
Piano on Track 10 arranged and performed by Othon.
All lyrics by Bird Radio except for Track 9 (Trad. British nursery Rhyme).
Produced, recorded and mixed by Bird Radio and Rick Campion at City University Studios, London.
Mastered by Jon Astley (Close to the Edge Mastering)
Artwork by Chiara Ambrosio.

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Bird Radio London, UK

Singer, songwriter, flautist and performer creating solo stage shows and collaborations with musicians, poets, theatre productions and filmmakers.

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