Birdengine - The Black Dictaphone EP

1. Monster in the Town
2. I, Dancing Bear
3. Mannequin
4. She's Been Living in the Corn
5. Barnaby
6. Le Goon
7. And Accidents Fell From the Sky

Under this cover, which is undoubtedly think of Fleet Foxes is earth a lonely artist who came from the deep countryside of Dorset in south-west England, and author of brilliant EP since 2005. I do not know much about him except that he now resides in Brighton and has released his first records (oriented and ambient folktronica) in Benbecula, the label and Ocher Christ. Since then it has gradually shifted to a completely acoustic music that is likely to designate as "folk".

A lone British, from electronic music to folk ... All that you do not remember a Matt Elliott? It could also earn the parallels between these two musicians, as Lawry Joseph Tilbury aka Birdengine hue also his compositions Slavic melodies ( "I, Dancing Bear") and flamenco accents ( "Barnaby"), and does not among the most joyous of the planet. But where rabies Elliott escaping domestic flights by major saturated, that of his compatriot not reflected by the complex inflections of his beautiful voice. A full voice, falsetto to air, but by revealing moments un annoyance (cynicism?) And even pain that blend well in the image of a hermit misanthrope that can be of the character.

Recorded on a 4-track with the support of a single voice, the EP of a fourth count Franciscan is the evidence that there may well be changed from "production" if you have good ideas and talent . At times using his guitar like a sitar or a lute, Birdengine recounts in the manner of a minstrel out of wood, small and enigmatic poetic fables, always on the razor's edge. And if it is difficult to listen to The Black Voice repeatedly as his load of desperation is strong, little time elapses before a semi-masochistic impulse drives us to return...www.paperblog.fr w/ google translate