a r t i s t : Bird Costumes & Tunnels
t i t l e : 3 Inch Split Series: January
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : DNT
c a t : DNT025
s o u r c e : CDR
g e n r e : Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Jun/2007
t r a c k s : 03
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 25,8 MB
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January: Tunnels/Bird Costumes
"The pairing of Bird Costumes and Tunnels has proven quite
apt: sharing a common backyard in sunny Portland, Oregon, the
two artists also share a similar ominous, human-absent
approach to composition - though from opposite sides of the
spectrum, with Bird Costumes taking a more mechanical approach
to compliment TunnelsÆ more textural drones. Stepping up for
tracks one and two, Bird Costumes (Daniel Osborne) begins his
half of the split with metered strafes of what sound like
strings played beyond the fret-board or from within a piano;
sparks of high-vibration which evoke the New antics Cowell or
Partch. Natural-harmonic tones emerge from behind these pulses
of sound, gaining in volume with each release until they fill
both channels with a torrent of skillfully layered distortion.
Track two is another exercise in guitar virtuosity, this time
over a canvas of hand-muted guitar, with noodles and slides
layered vertically in various states of distortion. At five
and three minutes, these two tracks work well on their own as
sketches, but could do equally well as seeds for larger
movements. Tunnels (Nicholas Samuel Bindeman) takes to task
the last track: at 10 1/2 minutes, the untitled piece (all
three tracks are suitably untitled) oscillates quickly in a
cresting mid-range helicopter drone, behind which tonal drones
glint and shift with a rare narrative quality found only in
the works of masters like Stars of the Lid. All three tracks
are brilliant, well-executed, and far larger than this tiny
disc would elude." (review by Animal Psi)
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01-Bird Costumes - Untitled [05:18]
02-Bird Costumes - Untitled [03:15]
03-Tunnels - Untitled [10:26]
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18:59 min