Bird Names
BIRD NAMES: an abstract pop group born in mid-2000s Chicago, noted for a large catalog of critically-acclaimed low-fi albums and a DIY ethic. The group is David Lineal and Phelan LaVelle, who presently live in Athens, Georgia.
Bird Names believes that music is a magic power — an empathic force of intuition that lets people become more human personally and builds positive community socially. For an alienated and amoral society living on the dessicated leavings of the old natural world, the magic spells of music suggest a path to the Revolution of the Unconsious necessary for our common redemption.
Since 2004 Bird Names has released five full-length albums, and six shorter albums. The band’s fifth album, Metabolism: a Salute to the Energy of the Sun, (Northern Spy 2011), is their most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
Bird Names likes to collaborate with intrinsically-motivated bands, film-makers and artists, and routinely tours the American experimental music circuit. Please contact the band at BIRDNAMES (at) GMAIL about playing a show in your town.
Please visit the Bird Names website — http://www.BirdNamesMusic.com
PRESS
“They bang and clatter and hoot and howl, like Beefheart and Can and Os Mutantes shot through cannons into cockfighting matches. It’s bizarre and uproarious, disorienting and just plain out there. But my god, is it fantastic. ” — Treble
“The best chamber kitchen-folk psychedelic unit I’ve heard in some time, to say the least. Instant weirdo classic, every song’s a winner.” — Ear Conditioned Nightmare
“One of the most well-crafted, unique, and far-out pop albums in recent years. ” — Tiny Mix Tapes
“The almost vaudeville-ian tangents are something I haven’t heard in a while, & the whole jerry-rigged fidelity & general shambolic nature reminds be a bit ofstefan “pumice” neville’s work.” – Mimaroglu
“Best of 2009″ — Impose Magazine
DISCOGRAPHY
- Sings The Browns (2009) [Upset The Rhyme]
TOUR
VIDEO
FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM ON NORTHEN-SPY:
Bird Names- Phantoms and Fortune from Edgar Jorge Baralt on Vimeo.
Bird Names from BUOY GALLERY on Vimeo.
Nature’s Over by Bird Names from Alee Peoples on Vimeo.