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is important. BIRD BY SNOW was formed in the
weather, wild, and little towns of Northern California. Cold water,
dark woods. Fog in the branches, sunlight through a Pelican-wing.
Abundance in all directions. This is the place that has
informed the aesthetic of the whole Lo-fi, Pacific Northwest
Indie Scene. Bird By Snow can be seen there too, but not
limited to one view, instead at home in the limitless, expanding
west. --- You’ll find genres bent as if light through a
prism. Song-craft as ritual, where themes of primitivism, pagan
meditations, and transcendent dronings breathe deeply. Only one
constant member: words, tunes, recording and much playing by Fletcher
Tucker.
Bird
By Snow has been performing and recording since 2005; regularly
traveling the US and Europe on seven tours (so far), sometimes
performing solo, sometimes with a band, and occasioning to share
the stage with many lovely people along the way... Mt. Eerie,
Julie Doiron, Ariel Pink, Daniel Higgs, Wildbirds & Peacedrums
and many more. In addition to the handsome tours Bird By Snow
has performed at a handful of international festivals including
several (((Folkyeah!))) happenings and festivals in Big
Sur California, The Festival of Endless Gratitude (2009)
in Copenhagen Denmark, and (most notably) at the auspicious Tanned
Tin Festival (2007) in Castellón Spain, alongside
new giants like the Sea and Cake, Deerhoof, and
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DISCOGRAPHY |
| "Common
Wealth " (LP/CD) 2010 --- Gnome Life
Records
forthcoming |
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"Wild
Life" (7"EP) 2010 or 2011 --- Kalligrammofon
(Sweden) forthcoming
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| "After
Birth" (Mp3 EP) 2010 --- Gnome Live
Free |
| "Songbread
/ Another Ocean" (Cassette) 2010 --- Kalligrammofon
(Sweden) |
| "Songbread
/ Another Ocean" (LP) 2009 --- Gnome
Life Records |
| "Songbread
/ Another Ocean" (CD+bonus EP) 2009
--- Gnome Life Records
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| "Sky"
(2nd pressing LP) 2008
---
Gnome Life Records
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| "Sky"
(CD) 2008 --- Kning Disk
(Sweden) |
| "Antlers
and the Sun..." (2nd pressing LP) 2008
--- Gnome Life Records |
| "Ecstatic
Giving" (Mp3's)
2007 --- Gnome Live Free |
| "Sky"
(1st pressing LP)
2007 --- Gnome Life Records |
| "Industrial
Collapse" (7"EP) 2006 --- Gnome
Life Records |
| "Antlers
and the Sun..." (1st pressing LP) ---
Gnome Life Records |
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holding
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giant
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"common
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"Painted
box" option explained: for an extra few
dollars ($9)
I will hand-paint your record mailer (box)
with a unique design of my choosing. Each box features
the mantra: "you are part of a magic world."
It is a shame that in order to mail records I have to
use so much card-board, and paper products, so I've
decided to make it possible to make each transaction,
and little piece of packaging, more important. Make
garbage into art for just a few bucks more. You
only need to click once per order.
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"COMMON
WEALTH" LP+Mp3's (Gnome Life, 2010)
This is my 4th long-player, and my first release that
I did not record myself at home. It was indeed produced
by the magnetic Tim Green (on tape) at Louder Studios
in San Francisco. Tim has recorded a few of my favorite
records, like "Ancestral Songs" by Daniel
Higgs, and "Diadem of 12 Stars" by Wolves
in the Throne Room, and he's worked with countless
other awesomes... it was a great joy to record with him.
Spencer Owen and I took full advantage of the 24-track
studio and birthed a wilderness of songs, a new ecosystem
of lush arrangements. This album explores moments where
friendship, the wild, love, ancient practice, community,
and the broader literatures of the present moment make
the heat haze of seperation look less convincing.
And on an even simpler level, this album is about feeling
the good flow.
THIS
EDITION is limited to 500 copies, on thick white
vinyl with beautiful center labels, perfectly printed
jacket
and deluxe
booklet (10-inches x 10-inches, 8-pages, full color).
[All
together in this photo] Both cover and book feature
35mm photos of an installation by Noël Vietor and
myself. It really is very lovely. Mastered by John Golden.
The vinyl also come with an Mp3 download code.
TRACK
LIST: 1. Wobbly
Legs 2. Friends in the City 3.
One White Flag 4. There is a Marriage
5. As we are now 6.
Without Reaching 7. Across the Water
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"COMMON
WEALTH" CD (Gnome Life, 2010) This
is the CD version of my 4th album. My first release that
I did not record myself at home. It was indeed produced
by the magnetic Tim Green (on tape) at Louder Studios
in San Francisco.
THIS
EDITION is limited to 500 copies, featuring a
gatefold,
all card-board (post-consumer recycled), beautifully printed
jacket. The CD was mastered by Tim Green.
TRACK
LIST: 1. Wobbly
Legs 2. Friends in the City 3.
One White Flag 4. There is a Marriage
5. As we are now 6.
Without Reaching 7. Across the Water
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"AFTER
BIRTH "
Mp3
EP (Gnome Live Free, 2010)
This is a digital EP which I was going to release
as a 7" but just decided to start giving away. I
like to record multiple versions of songs, it feels more
like they have their own lives and energies. These two
songs are alternate universe versions of songs from "Songbread/Another
Ocean". Recorded on 8-track cassette at home in San
Francisco.
THIS
EDITION is a free Mp3 release.
TRACK
LIST: 1. Helpless 2. Empty
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"SONGBREAD/ANOTHER
OCEAN"
Cassette
(Kalligrammofon,
2010) This is the cassette version of my 3rd album
(more info about the album in the LP section below). Same
music as the record and CD, this album was recorded on
cassette so in a sense this is the "purest"
representation of the music.
THIS
EDITION was made by an awesome Swedish label
in a super small edition of only 100 copies.
TRACK
LIST: 1. Domestic Freedom 2.
If You Wait 3. Caveman Baby 4.
You are Mom 5. Lovers on our
Backs 6. When You Surrender 7.
What I am Doing [mp3 is an excerpt] 8.
Another Ocean 9. My Life is
Easy 10. I Give Myself
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"SONGBREAD/ANOTHER
OCEAN" LP+CD-R
(Gnome
Life, 2009) This is my 3rd LP. I recorded it on 8-track
cassette at home, for a lo-fi record, it is pretty hi-fi.
Most of these songs were two years old before I recorded
them, written on tour, and performed many many times.
They were like old friends and I knew them very well before
I arranged them, they hold no secrets. Amazing percussion
arrangements by Spencer Owen here! And my friend
Mania Lozinska lends her cello and voice to a
few songs, which couldn't please me more. This confusingly
titled LP is full of new sounds sparkling in the daylight,
alongside new visions... of old ways. Side A
speaks of nourishment, side B of expansion, both aspire
to arrive at a wakeful, grateful place.
THIS
EDITION is limited to 550 copies, on completely
clear
vinyl. It comes with a CD version of the same music;
a deluxe
handmade booklet of literature, lyrics, ideas, and
points of entry; AND a second semitransparent poster of
poetry called "SLOW
POEMS" . The cover is a color lithograph
poster.
The LP was mastered by John Golden.
TRACK
LIST: 1. Domestic Freedom 2.
If You Wait 3. Caveman Baby 4.
You are Mom 5. Lovers on our
Backs 6. When You Surrender 7.
What I am Doing 8. Another Ocean
9. My Life is Easy 10. I Give
Myself
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"SONGBREAD/ANOTHER
OCEAN"
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"SONGS OF SURRENDER"
bonus EP, CD
(Gnome Life, 2009) This is the CD version
of my 3rd album. Same music as the record BUT with 20
minutes extra in the form of bonus tracks.
THIS
EDITION is limited to 510 copies, featuring a
gatefold,
all card-board (post-consumer recycled), beautifully printed
jacket. No booklet or inserts, just some freash baked
tunes.
TRACK
LIST: 1. Domestic Freedom 2.
If You Wait 3. Caveman Baby 4.
You are Mom 5. Lovers on our
Backs 6. When You Surrender 7.
What I am Doing [mp3 is an excerpt] 8.
Another Ocean 9. My Life is
Easy 10. I Give Myself +
"SONGS OF SURRENDER" bonus EP 11.
Empty Brain 12. One White Flag 13.
Two Black Roads 14. Neither
Ceiling, Nor Northern Sky 15. Forget
it 16. We'd Better Move on
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"SKY"
LP+CD-R on SALE! For only $9 (Gnome
Life, 1st pressing 2006, 2nd pressing 2008) This
is the 2nd pressing of my 2nd record. These are my most
dense sound-scapes, a sculptural album that moves in and
out of fog and tape hiss. Sometimes tiny and orchestral,
sometimes huge and minimalist. Shimmering with strings,
and hearty notions. You can hear some attempts to create
new genres, like mountain dub and California-soukous.
Songs written as poems, in many different places around
the world, over a year... and then recorded at home, on
tape, all in the order they appear on the LP. The meanings
of these songs were a mystery to me, unraveling only as
I began to record and perform them. It is a record of
slow unveilings.
THIS
EDITION is limited to 500 on black vinyl with
color
lithograph covers, printed on reverse jackets, completely
matte. Comes with CD version and original lovely hand-made
booklet. The LP was mastered by George Horn... who
mastered Zuma by Neil Young.
TRACK
LIST: 1. White Sky 2. Black
Elk in the Mountains 3. Plato's Cave
4. (___ __________ ____ ____) 5.
The Sound and the River Within the Sound 6.
Sasquatch Says: the Old World Whispers 7.
Green I's 8. (_____ _____ ______) 9.
I am not the Moon and Neither is the Moon 10.
Animals Calling
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"SKY"
CD (Kning Disk, 2008) This is
the CD version of the LP above, released by the awesome
Swedish label Kning Disk. It features new, very
nice mastering. Same music as the LP (which still comes
with a CD) but if you don't have a record player, buy
this.
THIS
EDITION is limited to 400, featuring a triple
gatefold paper digi-pack (no plastic) with original
booklet.
TRACK
LIST: 1. White Sky 2. Black
Elk in the Mountains 3. Plato's Cave
4. (___ __________ ____ ____) 5.
The Sound and the River Within the Sound 6.
Sasquatch Says: the Old World Whispers 7.
Green I's 8. (_____ _____ ______) 9.
I am not the Moon and Neither is the Moon 10.
Animals Calling
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"INDUSTRIAL
COLLAPSE " 7-inch EP(Gnome Life, 2006) This
is an EP recorded right before starting work on "Sky".
My only 7" to date, the recording and mastering is
insanely lo-fi and raw. These songs are golden never-hits
to me, some of my favorite songs lyrically that I've ever
written, both sort of funny, and weird. Not many left,
don't miss your chance to own my strangest release.
THIS
EDITION
is limited to 300 copies, each cover is hand printed from
a linoleum
block by me, at no extra cost to you.
TRACK
LIST: A.
No Beard Now B. Chew Your Fucking Legs
Off (if you have to)
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"ANTLERS
AND THE SUN AND ALL THE THINGS THAT GROW OLD AND PASS
AWAY" LP (Gnome Life, 1st pressing 2005,
2nd pressing 2008) This is my 1st record. Recorded
on 4-track cassette, these songs were made with great
fluidity... most of the tunes and words were written,
but the accompaniment was improvised as I recorded, one
of the songs (lyrics and all) was completely improvised.
I play a lot of folky instruments, the songs and sounds
are simple, my approach is naked and plain. Bird By
Snow was born here, and you can hear that I'm still
squirming and blinking, but you can tell by the look in
my eye that it's me... a number of friends joined me on
this one, companions of the Santa-Cruz-house-shows-days,
here's a list: Spencer Owen, Kelsey Barrett of Effi
Briest, John Garmon of Whysp, Spencer Doran of
Cloaks, Matt Longwell of I Explode You!, &
Adam Payne of Residual Echoes .
ALL
EDITIONS were severely limited, the 2nd pressing
to only 100, on transparent-red vinyl. The covers of the
first 75 vinyl LP's sold (of the 1st pressing) featured
an Intaglio
(copper plate) etching, hand printed by me. This is
the only Intaglio record cover in human history (maybe)...
but all 75 were sold fast, the remaining copies featured
a 2 color silk-screened cover on recycled inside-out records
jackets... The 2nd pressing is a 3
color hand-made paradise, also printed by me.
TRACK
LIST: 1. Exhaling Lungs 2. Great
Glower And Gloam 3. Sea Lion 4.
Fat New Born Baby 5. I Will Age 1,000
Years And Not Improve 6. Please Favor
Me World 7. Darker Skin 8.
Antlers And The Sun
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