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THE BIRDWATCHER - BIOGRAPHY THE BIRDWATCHER - "The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn" TAL-002. After Elk City - "Status", Talitres' second release is from the USA, still from Brooklyn, "The Darkest hour is Just Before Dawn"is the first instalment in a trilogy reflecting upon the morning, the afternoon and the evening. The album was released in US through Arena rock recording.
Dan Matz moved from the humid state
of Florida (Tampa) to the not-much-less-humid state of texas (Austin)
in 1995. Shortly thereafter, he and a few friends formed a band
called WINSDOR FOR THE DERBY. They went on to release critically
acclaimed records on King Coffee's Trance Syndicate and Michael
Gira's Young God Records and they were compared to everything
from NICK DRAKE to AUTHECHRE to BRIAN ENO. They also toured the
U.S and Europe with peers such as BEHEAD and SWANS.
WINDSOR became a long distance project
as Matz moved to Brooklyn. Eventually, amid rumours of WINDSOR's
break up (no, they have not), he began experimenting with what would
become THE BIRDWATCHER. Matz began playing live shows in
New York and the Northeast, sometimes with a full band (with members
from JETS TO BRAZIL and HOME), sometimes solo, to
exercise these experiments.
Although he has worked with fellow
Florida ex-pats HOME and the aforementioned Michael Gira. "The
Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn" is Matz first full-lenght
foray into solo territory. It was mostly recorded at Matz's Hope
Union Studio in his Brooklyn home, which allows for its intimacy.
THE BIRDWATCHER is much more NEIL YOUNG than NICK DRAKE. More SYD
BARRET than BRIAN ENO. The avant-rock elements of WINDSOR FOR THE
DERBY have given way to barren, amorphous pop. "The Darkest
Hour" is the first instalment in a trilogy reflecting
upon the morning, the afternoon and the evening.
The Birdwatcher - "The
Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn" (TAL-002)
1. cutting rope 02:51:21 - 2. first
bright light 05:54:15 - 3. bound to collide 05:54:15 - 4. dawn 10:20:07
- 5. little birdy 01:32:02 - 6. the hunt 04:41:20 - 7. three weeks
03:20:18 - 8. no expectations* 05:43:16
d. Matz with j. Johnson, j. Kimball,
j. Wilkins, b. London, and b. Staudt. Recorded
at the Hope Union and j. Teel's Funhouse nyc. *written by m. jagger
/ k. richard
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first bright light / in this
list of maladies there's a host of insincerities / this pass is
frozen over, callused shut / it's embarassing / unearthly disposition
ending as we speak / we have found the sun is diving down so carelessly
/ a heart is beating like bells ringing like birds singing in the
night / a name on your tongue that burns your mouth, a pleasure,
a treasure, a void / a voice in your ear repeating, "it's much
better now, it's much better now"
bound to collide / the season
was made it's settled / cautious in doubt, cautious at least / picked
her up from her second trip to the floor / so much space we were
bound to collide / bound to collide
dawn / i cannot breath, said
with a smile / this stranger she has me sleeping for miles / my
hands i can't feel / my feet off the ground / the landscape's not
changing / we're lost in this town
little birdy / little birdy,
little birdy, what makes you fly so high / little birdy, little
birdy, what makes you fly so high / 'cause I have lost my true love
and i just want to die / little birdy, little birdy, what makes
your wings so blue / little birdy, little birdy what makes your
wings so blue / 'cause i've been a grieving, grieving over you (public
domain)
the hunt / they love to hunt
don't eat the kill just love the blood they need the thrill / they
keep away safe from harm they don't get close not even warm / their
day is done their day is done / such a shame their day is done
three weeks / three weeks
and three more trying / to create a new way of flying / we strangled
envy and greed / and we painted their cold, cold face / we thought
up different phrases about the moon's phases and the we used them
just for their grace / losing sleep and losing touch with famine
next door / a tight mouth that cannot finish what it is thinking
/ if reason is your fear but there's a passion that's no severe
/ why are you here, why are you here
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