10 Recommended Rotations From Birdman Sound's Front Desk

 

Beauty Hunters - Animal Magnetism (The Weird Beard)

https://weirdbeardrecs.bandcamp.com/album/animal-magmatism

Deep kosmische electronic vibes like a darker early Kraftwerk!  Guy Maddison from Mudhoney's side project!

Nolla - S/T  (Spiral Void)

https://soundcloud.com/user-11689681-910278943

Trio from Finland (ex Seremonia) who play a driving brand of motorik krautrock and hard psych space jams!

PAX - "May God & Your Will..."  (Munster Records)

https://youtu.be/Za7LIiglS_Q

1972 Peruvian proto-metal sonic hard psych rock MONSTER !  💣💖

Plankton Wat - "Future Times"  (Thrill Jockey)

https://planktonwat.bandcamp.com/album/future-times

Dewey Mahood from West Coast US psych gods Eternal Tapestry.  His new album is awesome !  All instrumental electric deep woods, cosmic, improvised psych !  

USA Mexico - "Del Rio"  (Riot Season)

https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/del-rio

Austin, TX noise rock/psych from Shit & Shine, Butthole Surfers dudes!  3rd powerful outing and smokin' tough! 👽

Terry Gross - "Soft Opening"  (Thrill Jockey)

https://youtu.be/2PBIjG-cBKA

Driving motorik psch rock lead by the ferocious guitar of Phil Manley of TRANS AM !!!  

Ambrose Slade - Ballzy  (Audio Clarity)

https://youtu.be/yWewf3aOdG0

Pre - SLADE !!  from 1969 UK, nice repro of rare debut...awesome psych, hardrock indicating what would soon come from this legendary, long running band !  ✌❤

Barry Walker Jr. - "Shoulda Zenith"  (Holy Mountain)

https://holymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shoulda-zenith

Cosmic country with deep, dense ambient desert drones and tones. Pedal steel jamz that transport you to an outer realm planet that re-arranges your grey matter...cowboy hats are not safe in outer space!👽 

People - Ceremony-Buddha Meets Rock (Life Goes On)

https://youtu.be/2eV1DroU2Ms

Fantastic Japanese psych rock from 1971 with godlike guitarist Kimio Mizutani !  Ltd. much anticipated repress 2021.  ❤👽💣

Fire! - "Defeat"  (Rune Grammofon)

https://youtu.be/7yxft76bzo8

7th LP for this awesome Norwegian free jazz/psych power trio...always on their mark and this MONSTER is their new 2021 LP...The unmistakable sax work from the prolific and godlike Mats Gustafsson❤❤👽

Birdman Sound Mobile Pop Up Saturday April 10th !

 

Wow ! The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol -"Unsemble" Reviewed...

From Isolation records UK... Reviews January - March 2021

https://www.isolationrecords.co.uk/2021%20reviews1.html

"Music of the Pandemic. It's going to go down in history as a particular genre and a bloody fascinating one at that. It was so interesting last year to see how the albums being released reflected the times: many of them were downbeat, doomy and pessimistic; some were wildly escapist and fantastic; a few bands even carried on as if nothing was happening. TBWNIAS's Unsemble will undoubtedly come to be considered as one of the more esoteric offerings from the crisis; a collection of sounds that reflect beautifully the destruction wrought on society by the COVID plague, emerging as disjointed and harrowing as would any album recorded in six different locations by different members of the band as they went into hiding between March and April 2020. The first four tracks here (all are titled 'Unsemble') stem from a seven minute drum onslaught recorded by John Westhaver on an Android phone to which each member of the band added their own contributions with whatever recording equipment they could lay their hands on. The resultant 'Unsemble I' was then remixed by guitarist Bill Guerrero into 'Unsemble II', 'Unsemble III' and 'Unsemble IV'. The initial recording and the drum track were then sent to Christopher Laramee (Wasted Cathedral) to be used as a basis for an original piece of work for collaboration, and from this emerged 'Unsemble V'. The result is an intriguing collision of ideas in sound. The opening salvo of 'Unsemble I' is smothered freeform jazz, desperately attempting to emerge into the light and pretty much failing. It's a bloody marvellous eight minutes for those of us who like some disconnection and deconstruction in our listening, and the other four tracks are as gloriously incoherent. 'Unsemble II' is disassembled rock, interpersed with random dialogue that gives it a human face despite all of the voices being overwhelmed by waves of crushing sound. The guitars that howl at the end are particularly effective. 'Unsemble III' beats away blankly until it knocks itself unconcious, while 'Unsemble IV' grinds, rattles and mourns whilst it hammers at your brain. 'Unsemble V' is particularly disturbing as dystopian commentaries are overlaid on music that is twisted into random waves of threatening sound. This is great work. You won't find a better half an hour that serves as a dairy for the year of lockdown. After appearing as a cassette last year on Misophonia, a vinyl version has now been produced by Cardinal Fuzz in a limited run of just 150 in a heavy matt card sleeve. Move heaven and earth to get hold of one."

A Baker's Dozen...Highly Recommended LPs: 1st Quarter 2021

Nashville Ambient Ensemble "Cerulean" LP (Centripetal Force Records)

https://www.audiofemme.com/nashville-ambient-ensemble-cerulean/?fbclid=IwAR3tyWNtaTszFRttofj1ZXJZvgtcetUQLwwUbstWjQntQwQ-8_iAcGV-jzU

https://nashvilleambientensemble.bandcamp.com/album/cerulean

Gerycz / Powers / Rolin "Beacon" LP (Centripetal Force / Cardinal Fuzz)

https://gprbeacon.bandcamp.com/album/beacon

Smote "Bodkin"  (The Weird Beard)

https://smote.bandcamp.com/album/bodkin

Tren Go! Sound System "Assessment" (Dirty Filthy)

https://trengosoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/assessment

Sky Furrows  "S/T"  (self released)

https://skyfurrows.bandcamp.com/album/sky-furrows

Dreamweapon "Rites Of Lunacy" (Cardinal Fuzz / Little Cloud)

https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/dreamweapon-rites-of-lunacy

Sex Tide "Ohio"  (Feeding Tube)

https://sextide.bandcamp.com/album/ohio-2

Jac Berrocal / David Fenech / Vincent Epplay "Exterior Lux" (Akuphone)

https://akuphone.bandcamp.com/album/exterior-lux

The Mirrors "Lost 3rd Album" (Cardinal Fuzz / Feeding Tube)

https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/the-mirrors-the-lost-3rd-album

Mainliner "Dual Myths"  (Riot Season)

https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dual-myths

Andromelos2 "Electric Reincarnation"  (Bam Balam)

https://youtu.be/0QOL7Hw1m9Y

Richard "Heldon" Pinhas "Quentin Compson"  (Bam Balam)

https://youtu.be/j7hfJkWwHcU

Ambassador Hazy "Glacial Erratics"  (self released)

https://ambassadorhazy.bandcamp.com/releases

Easter Weekend Pop Up !

 

Tons of new arrivals...fully curated for over 3 decades...no dull moments! 👽

Incoming LP from The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol

Next week we receive the much anticipated vinyl version of the TBWNIS -"Unsemble" LP which was originally released in spring of 2020 on cassette by UK label Misophonia Records.  The vinyl pressing of 150 copies on Cardinal Fuzz Records UK, sold out on pre-order from source in less than 24 hours !!💕  The LP version was mastered by Chris Hardman and features different cover art by Brett Savage!  Birdman Sound will have 20 copies available for sale and this LP will not be repressed!  Check it out at the link below...TBWNIS as you've never heard them before...👽

https://thebandwhosenameisasymbol.bandcamp.com/album/unsemble

Record Pop Up...Saturday, March 20th...

 

Record Pop Up Saturday March 13th...

 

Deep Shit @ Birdman Sound

Loads of awesome slabs arriving all the time in the shop....

Matthew Young - Recurring Dreams  LP

https://youtu.be/MH7nKiQuwcc

Pauline Anna Strom - Angel Tears In Sunlight  LP

https://youtu.be/ZhdcCN5m3Lg

Don Cherry - Where Is Brooklyn?  LP

https://youtu.be/zCnpjoFfufA

Howard Riley - Flight  LP

https://youtu.be/BPK0OVks5-U

Herbie Hancock & Carlos Santana - Live Under Sky 1981 LP

https://youtu.be/TiO7K2icJVc

Gil-Scott Heron & Brian Jackson - Anthology: Messages  LP

https://youtu.be/bujlRZNPh_E

Anguish - S/T  LP

https://gutfeelingisanguish.bandcamp.com/track/vibrations

Richard Pinhas and Stephen O'Malley - Quentin Compson  LP

https://youtu.be/j7hfJkWwHcU

Spiral Wave Nomads - First Encounters  LP

https://twinlakesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/evidence-of-new-gravitation

Spectres - It's Never Going To Happen And this Is Why  LP

https://youtu.be/rteqRFI7mc8

Birdman Sound Multi Vendor Indoor Pop Up February 27th, 2021

These are great fun and feature 4 vendors...sadly missing in our landscape due to state of emergency lock down measures for the last 2 months, you don't wanna miss this one !  More killer wax, new and used than one can rationally handle !  10 am - 4 pm , Saturday, February 27th, 2021 @ 591 Bank Street, back alley entrance off Pretoria.  Wear a mask...physical distancing and room capacity regulations in effect. 👽