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Birdengine "Birdengine EP" Benbecula Records, 2005 (ben030) 12" VINYL ONLY 5060110360222 Release date: 14 November 2005 ORDER NOW!! Birdengine This EP is now ready for shipping and comes as a superb loud cut heavy vinyl platter in a lush Benbecula sleeve. Benbecula gives you release after release of cutting edge modern music and this heavyweight is no exception. Please note that this will not be commercially available on any other format. Birdengine is the name Mr Lawry Joseph Tilbury chooses to make music with. He hails from the Dorset countryside and began making music as a child. Venturing at night into the fields and forests surrounding his childhood home, with a broken nylon guitar, a record player and a couple of carefully scratched and doctored records, performing his ramshackle and melancholy sound for only himself, the woodland creatures and the moon. He has since fled the countryside and moved to a nearby city but has managed to hold on to the eerie and pastoral sound that infiltrates his music. Recording only on a 4-track tape recorder and using a whole range of dictaphones, home-made tape loops and music boxes, he harbours a deep loathing for computers and digital equipment opting instead for the humble hiss of a tape cassette. Based in Brighton and somewhat of a recluse, birdengine's live shows are rare and vary greatly, from purely electronic sets using toy keyboards with dying batteries and a tape recorder to sets with just nylon guitar, vocals and a cello. His body of work ranges from soft and slow waltzes to thick electronic dirges all retaining that distinctive weird, sad and isolated birdengine sound. |
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Video Download the superb promotional video designed by Adam and Shelley at Sherbet. Feel free to distribute! Save our bandwidth!!! Quicktime MOV (13mb) Real Media (6mb) www.sherbet.co.uk The Birdengine Video has been widely acclaimed by the likes of the BBC and the film making press such as MVWire and Televisual magazine. Check back to this page regularly for updates on full cinema screenings at showcases and arts event across the globe. Reviews "This ep sounds like the culmination of Coil and My Bloody Valentine collaborating via some third unknown supernatural force." Warp The English Channel must generate a mighty fog, because Lowry Joseph Tilbury’s been lost in it for years. Luckily he brought along a dusty four-track, some lost children, a nylon guitar, and an analogue synth or two (maybe he pulled a red wagon behind?). This 12” EP—served up on the heaviest vinyl I’ve held betwixt me fingers—starts off as unassuming folktronica, nice but not drop-your-jaw-and-slap-your-cheek, before diving headlong into psych stew experiments, circus noise tape collage, and keyboard drone dirge. Largely beatless, this EP certainly doesn’t step on Dan Snaith’s or Keiran Hebdan’s toes, eschewing the entirety of folktronica clichés. Still the tag feels proper in part, for the sweetheart-done-gone melodies and dusty bucolia suffusing the tracks. Acid folk is a more useful referent: Comus deconstructed and tied back together with bent circuits. Making this, dare I say, the first relevant work of…freak-folktronica. Bryan Berge, Stylus "The return of the excellent Benbecula label from Scotland and perhaps their wierdest fare yet. Five tracks that move between noise, ponderous lofi melodic composition and wierd stuff played backwards. Very nice indeed." Phonica "... creaky compositions realized with decrepit instrumentation and steeped in scratchy hiss and rust, not so much from some other universe but from some other era ... Headache (Days 3, 7 and 9)” perhaps best exemplifies his sound, with melismatic acoustic whorls coalescing into wavering melancholia. The dirge-like “She Needs More Memory” veers closest to a traditional electronic style with a weave of high-pitched melodies and guttural tones underlaid by curdling beats ... " Ron Schepper, Textura "Birdengine has a natural talent for story telling and those stories do not fail to penetrate those who pay attention. The haunting melodies make his songs sound like beautiful, clock-work fairytales. They are morbidly fascinating and like a dark, dark secret you weren't supposed to know." Glasswerk "This journey through birdengine's cassette is like a little story. 'faster little man' introduces birdengine to the world by sounding like a dulcimer being played rapidly in a sunny copse while the birds in the nearby aviary sing loudly. 'fire in the aviary' drags itself along on all fours and dissolves into mournful fuzz. The dirge continues with a bouzouki on top and we're at a Greek funeral. Soft and sad and affecting" Careless Talk Costs Lives "This is my favourite Benbecula release so far" Frog Pocket |
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