WE'VE EMIGRATED! THE STORK FLEW SOUTH AND WEST AND NOW RESIDES ATOP A CHIMNEY IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. HER NEST IS FILLING WITH NEW SONGS, SOON TO BE COMING YOUR WAY.
BRAND NEW POSTINGS! Hear two tracks never before made available on MySpace. First is RISE OF THE STACHYBOTRYS, a dense, six-minute stroll through a bacteria-laden field of thick, opaque sheets of distorted keyboard and guitar, courtesy of Georgeanne Laidlaw's first solo EP, 2002's THE ELOPEMENT LADDER, a record that Gerard Sirius of La Discorde Mensuel claims “Is where Miss Laidlaw finally obliges us by peering over the wall of her own inscrutability.†Second is JAZZ SCARECROW, a brief but exuberant exercise in horn and key-based cacophony from The Pregnancy Stork's self-titled 2007 album, a slice of sound offering a tempo forceful enough to move small objects measurable distances. ALSO NOW PLAYING ARE: STARPOWDER, a reverberating sonic mantra from the 2005 release SPACESHIP ELLEVEN, The Pregnancy Stork's second album, a conceptual fifteen-song arc inspired by the noted children's book of the same name, written by Mary Wilson Harver, the creator of “The Little Wooden Darlingsâ€. Second is INTO THE CELESTIAL AVIARY, a sweeping tapestry of droning and chirping, also from SPACESHIP ELLEVEN. Lastly comes HONG KONG DRIVING SCHOOL, a cacophonic backseat ride from The Pregnancy Stork's 2002 debut, MY MOTHER WILL NEVER DIE.
"The Pregnancy Stork's third LP is a promethean surge forward...a soaring and searing fever dream birthed from a dark, tumescent imagination" - CHARTBUSTER MAGAZINE
THE PREGNANCY STORK • AVLRC LP-045 • RELEASED ON 6/23/07 ON BUNDLE OF JOY RECORDS (AN IMPRINT OF A VERY LIMITED RECORDING COMPANY INC.)
TRACK LISTING: 1. What Egg said to Sperm (The Walls are Thin) • 2. March of the Rugby Mums • 3. Tread Gently (The Acorn Girl) • 4. Miserable Metal Horses • 5. Sleepy Car Crash • 6. Animals & Oranges • 7. Jazz Scarecrow • The Stork will Carry Me to my Grave
"What egg said to sperm, was heard by all, for the walls are thin, ushering in the Spring"
A SHORT INTERVIEW WITH GEORGEANNE LAIDLAW
(The following appears on the blog ON ONE LEG, a Dutch fan site.)
On One Leg: We love Animals & Oranges. What does this mean?
Laidlaw: Oranges have pips, so do zebras.
OOL: Zebras have pips? How is this possible?
Laidlaw: Pips are what? Seeds, the vessel of future generations. We all have pips.
OOL: No, Georgeanne, you have eggs.
Laidlaw: Just try biting into me, sister, you'll find a pip or two.
ANOTHER SHORT INTERVIEW WITH GEORGEANNE LAIDLAW
(The following originally appeared in the March/April issue of Lost & Sound.)
L&S: Could you illuminate what The Stork Will Carry Me to My Grave means? It seems something of a signature song for you guys.
Laidlaw: Well, our titles are always open to interpretation, as is our music. Essentially, it’s a rumination on the nature of eternity/finality, the idea that we are born through death and die by birth.
L&S: Do I sense a Buddhist philosophy here?
Laidlaw: You're asking me to tell you what you sense?
