Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: Birdsongs Message-ID: <8612181807.AA05979@dukecdu> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 13:07:35 EST Article-I.D.: dukecdu.8612181807.AA05979 Posted: Thu Dec 18 13:07:35 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Dec-86 14:35:34 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: Ed SimpsonI was so excited about Birdsongs I figured I had to write a review, especially since other people on mod.music.gaffa expressed an interest in Birdsongs. I played Beat of the Mesozioc for my brother and his comment was that this is the direciton progressive music should be going in. I was also impressed with their stage presence. They are definitely serious about what they're doing and could easily appear self-indulgent (sorry, this is word used too often in reviews of progressive music) but they don't. They sort of treat a gig as a practice, kidding around with each other and the audience, and their stage presence is very relaxed. I was thinking Beat of the Mesozoic, Part I would make a great video - especially with the visual movement going on during the percussion section. Perhaps a video by Zbigniew Brezinski (sp?) - I like what he did with Art of Noise and Dave Brubeck's "Take Five". Happy bird watching, Ed