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Leaf bird

Creating the New Folklore of the Flatlands..

About Me

Leaf Bird is one half of the poetic-rock ensemble Fingers and Toes. He sings songs of love, loss, longing, corporate takeover, geological shifts and road-tripping. The new band, Leaf Birds will debut @ the empty bottle on December 2nd. Till then, he is working on a cycle of songs for an upcoming release, booking tours for Fingers and Toes, and polishing up their first full length release.whateverlife.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/16/2005
Band Members: BANDS THAT LEAFBIRD IS IN
The Leaves:
It's a jazz-folk-electronic force to be reckoned with.
Tyler Beach (me) (Guitar)
Charles Gorczynski (Alto sax + electronics),
Charles Rumback (Drums + electronics)
Daniel Thatcher (Acoustic Bass)
'live at the ice factory' is now out on Fresh Produce Records
Fingers and Toes is Leafbird and Niobo Fingers and Toes

Influences: as of late, joanna newsom, ali farka toure, the (small) faces, joan baez, traffic, bonnie prince billy, tortoise, akron family, mark dresser, the lucky 7's, the books, prefuse 73, and all these beautiful musicians and friends around these parts.
Sounds Like: slow rolling blue and green heart explosion. beautiful death by blunt love to the head. the midwest. the blue skied day you got out of prison.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

who cares how long you sink, michael zerang and the lives of other people

its been a crazy weekend, it began with a night of improvised music @ the ice factory. michael zerang and nate mcbride closed the evening with a set of volatile and beautiful improvised music. Volat...
Posted by Leaf bird on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:46:00 PST

Animal People

this is what i do to distract myself from reality. 'animal people' is a short pieced composed entirely of my voice mail from the last few weeks. listen, you might just recognize yourself. amazingl...
Posted by Leaf bird on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:41:00 PST

Goodbye Iowa

I haven't put anything new up in so long! I have some aversion to letting everyone hear my works in progress, but I decided to get over it for this one. This song will be on my record, but most like...
Posted by Leaf bird on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:46:00 PST

Link to more free music!

Hey, just wanted to let everyone know that I'm putting up some recordings on my idisk because MySpace has a limited size for mp3 uploads, and a lot of my things are longer. check 'em out, for now I'm...
Posted by Leaf bird on Fri, 20 Jan 2006 10:19:00 PST