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Beautiful Bird

About Me

Beautiful Bird was formed in 2003 by Noah Thomas (Giant Sand, Bernadette Seacrest and Her Yes Men, Libre de Grasa, Fashionistas) and Kelly Michaelis combining an interest in vocal ensembles and improvised music. We perform in the Tucson AZ area in collaboration with Vicki Brown (myspace.com/vickibrown), struggling with texture, three voices and and the strangely organic uncontrollable nature of feedback, distorted resonances, and hissscrunch. We offer the EP 'Memory' for free download at stigaemusic.com.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/07/2006
Band Website: www.beautiful-bird.com
Band Members: Noah Thomas: Trumpet, Theremin, Keyboards, Roland SP-404, Pedals; Kelly Michaelis: Voice, Film: Vicki Brown: Violin, Viola, Pedals
Influences: heart textures/ acknowledgment of spiritual indebtedness/( to many but particularly) Louis Armstrong. Our greatest influence/ our life(love) experience/ the birth of our sons/ our parents/ friends and their insights/ compassion and creative action/ kung fu(practice)/ new discoveries in science and poetics/ and the abundance of nature/Remembering Jason Eric Brown (1972-2006). Live life to the fullest with heartfelt sincerity.
Sounds Like: Someone forgot to turn the vacuum cleaner off. Quit hitting snooze on the alarm clock, and could you please tune that radio to a real station?Or:"...the song "Generation of the Fallen" begins with gentle droplets of a beat and a sample that sounds like, for lack of a better description, distorted waves of gentle scraping. Stark, Satie-like piano chords and languorous lines of trumpet seem to float into hearing range. And then, as if appearing out of the mists of a dream, emerge Michaelis' rich, jazz-inflected vocals:"To the generation of the fallen / where are you to guide us? / You who have seen the end of the movement / I ask 'Can there be an end to causes?'"Tucson Weekly
Record Label: Stigae Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

migration, relocation, a return

We've moved to the ocean, better for the boys. Tour stops are encouraged here, send us a line. Miss you Tucson and all your sun baked and monsoon drenched glory.  
Posted by on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:08:00 GMT

Machtdose Podcast

Hear us on the latest podcast from machtdose out of Frankfurt, Germany, paired with some great artists at http://machtdose.de/podcast-april-2009. Thanks machtdose!
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:20:00 GMT

Stigae Music

The album 'Memory' will be available as an EP download through Stigae Music, Berlin. Thanks to Georg Hekt at Stigae for taking us on board, we are exited to join their list of experimental music an...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:10:00 GMT

Japan 8mm

We have put a rough mix of a track recorded last November (2007) up, as requested. It is a distillation of a mood/tone that we felt when watching a 8mm movie we found at a local swap meet entitled "J...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 10:15:00 GMT

new song/meditation

We have put up a new track entitled "For Abby (Recovery)" as a sonic meditation for the recovery of a friend through illness. Please take a listen and meditate on healing. Ganesh is the image, for s...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 01:07:00 GMT

update on music and life

It has been a busy time for us, and we probably wont be gigging until latter in the summer, check our calendar or website for details. Beautiful Bird has been tending to the nest, our second son was...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 20:54:00 GMT

EP song titles and credits

A three song EP/demo is now available for those of you disenchanted with the MP3 format. Thanks to Davey for lending a hand and an alto sax with the prayer tones in the prelude to Remembrance. This ...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:24:00 GMT