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THE BIRDWATCHER - BIOGRAPHIE THE BIRDWATCHER - "The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn" TAL-002. Après Elk City - "Status" - la seconde référence de Talitres records demeure en provenance des Etats-Unis, de Brooklyn toujours: "The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn" représente le premier volet d'une trilogie qui vise à retransmettre les sons et les impressions de l'aube, de l'après midi, enfin du crépuscule. L'album est sorti aux USA chez Arena Rock Recording.
Dan Matz quitta Austin (Texas). Pour Brooklyn. L'approche de New York, la "collision urbaine" et ses "insincérités" lui firent délaisser pour quelques temps THE WINDSOR FOR THE DERBY (certaines rumeurs insinuèrent que les membres du groupe s'étaient définitivement séparés, il n'en est rien). Dan Matz débuta en tant que projet expérimental THE BIRDWATCHER. Il exerça alors ces expérimentations sur scène, en solitaire, ou avec certains membres de JETS TO BRAZIL et de HOME. L'inquiétude des voix frissonnées, le murmure instrumental réverbèrent les premiers bégayements du jour naissant, l'hésitation des premières lueurs. La fragilité du vol des oiseaux et la "négligence du soleil" traduisent l'envie peut être aussi de chasser ces "absurdes dispositions", ces idées devenues "calleuses" sous l'effet du "vacarme" de la grande ville. "The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn" a été principalement enregistré dans le studio personnel de Matz (Hope Union) à Brooklyn. Dan Matz est l'un des membres fondateurs de The Windsor For The Derby. Le groupe reçu un certain succès critique aux Etats-Unis lors de la sortie de leurs albums chez Trance Syndicate Records puis sous le label de Michael Gira Young God Records (Calla, Ulan Bator, Swans) et fut comparé aussi bien à Nick Drake, Brian Eno qu'à Authechre.
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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