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MP3 Birdbrain - I Fly

Avant-pop/jazz.

10 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Weird Jazz, POP: Quirky



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I Fly is the debut EP of Brooklyn''s avant-pop quintet Birdbrain. I Fly features the catchy compositions and inspired tunes of Yvette Perez. Doe-eyed chanteuse Yvette warbles infectious melodies backed by minimalist brass and reed arrangements. Birdbrain’s songs include strange tales of plants, factories and freeways (“Heat,” “Confection of Sound”), accounts of sea life (“Sea Cow”) and an ode to an Iranian living in the Paris airport (“Mehran”). Yvette also performs solo, playing keyboards and singing about housework and nature. In Birdbrain, she enlists the finest horn players in New York City. Trombonist Peter Zummo has played with everyone from dance music innovator Arthur Russell to Teo Macero and composer “Blue” Gene Tyranny, while sax men Tim Noe and Don Trubey have played with reeds great Daniel Carter in the North Brooklyn Sound Collective and are former members of the Bloomington, Indiana’s legendary Dancing Cigarettes. Inspired by The Incredible String Band, car horns, Yoko Ono and birdsong, Birdbrain resonates and dissonates an ecstatic racket. Birdbrain resides between pop and jazz and someplace not yet mapped…

“Avant-lovely” – A.D. Amorosi, Philadelphia City Paper

..it’s never dull, a perfect blend of the avant-garde and the accessible.”
– Marc Medwin, Dusted Magazine

“Squeaky and gratifyingly miniscule – song-lengthed micro-prog quartet Birdbrain feature Dagmar Krause-type banter warbled atop two saxists from the Brooklyn Sound Collective and a trombonist who used to help out Arthur Russell.”
– Chuck Eddy, Village Voice


Excerpt from CD review in January 2005 issue of The Wire magazine – by Dave Mandl

“Everybody likes a bit of tension now and then, and “I Fly,” the debut release from New York quartet Birdbrain, provides plenty. Consisting of just two saxophones, trombone and vocals, the group’s music features spirited horn battles and a singer who treats the notes of the standard diatonic scale as if they were merely rough guides to be tweaked as needed.
Obvious reference points for “I Fly” are The World Saxophone Quartet or Rova Saxophone Quartet, though Birdbrain are less selfconsciously avant garde – more poppy, in https://www.tradebit.com ten songs here are short and savoury rather than sweet. They’re epigrammatic mini-stories, like the haiku-ish “Sea Cow”: “Sea Cow/Swims in our tow/Sea cow/kinda like you now/ Oh, manatee in tow/Ahoy ahoy/ Sea cow.” Perez’s breathless punk jazz vocalising, half spoken/half sung, owes much to No Wave….
With no rhythm section as such, Birdbrain’s three horn players (Don Trubey on alto, Tim Noe on tenor and downtown avant garde music legend Peter Zummo on trombone) fill multiple roles. Most tracks feature pulsing pedal bass figures on alto sax, laying a foundation for rhythmically complex call and response duels between tenor and trombone…In it’s less restrained moments, the horn section almost evokes the crazed French jazz rock outfit Etron Fou Leloublan. At its punkiest, it comes close to the naïve, atonal wailing of Lora Logic.”

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