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Circles - from the album Pink Lions (2009)
File: Mp3, 320kbps stereo | Length: 3:25 (8.30MB) The track Circles is featured on the Shinto Records compilation Lunar Sea out now! 
Heart - from the album Pink Lions (2009)
File: Mp3, 160kbps stereo | Length: 3:59 (4.70MB) Click here to read the Shadows Commence review of Pink Lions CD. OverThrow
Read OverThrow's January 2009 MySpace blog about Buried Birds 
Pink Lions
The track Pink Lions is featured on the compilation CD that comes with the July 2008 special edition of Dead Fox Fanzine  BURIED BIRDS Q&A INTERVIEW by Maria Laverty: July 2008 Maria Laverty: - Describe your music… Chris: - The music of Buried Birds is a smooth flow of sounds through avant-pop and new wave with underground pop overtones. To support the importance of the words as lyrics for the music and help create an atmosphere of torture and suffering, Buried Birds go back to the origins of life, the nature of existence, and explore the feelings of alianation, decay, agony, and despair. M.L. - How did you get started as a musician? C. - As soon as I had my first bunch of songs I started recording under the name of Buried Birds, together with guitarist & producer Janos Agocsi. At the same time I was out playing gigs in various venues in London, either solo with my guitar or with Janos, before meeting viola player Andreas Petrovic, who joined the band later. M.L. - Who are your biggest influences? C. - The music of Bill Callahan, from the one-man band Smog, is one of my biggest inluences. His lo-fi recording techniques and effortless singing is a constant reference. Then it's the songs of Phil Ochs. I always go back to his music as a musician, especially his melancholic tunes. But most of all it's the simplicity in Nico's songs that has influenced the way I write music and changed the way I perceive music in generall. Nico's entire life and career is also a big influence for some of my favourite bands today like Broadcast, Stereolab, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Pram, Luna. M.L. - The Beatles or the Stones? C. - This is like having to choose between black and white, when sometimes white is seen as the Good and black as the Evil. And in this case it is indeed a choice between a band for all the members of a family and a band for the angry youth only. So I would definitely want to be at the edge and go for The Stones, not only for their music but also for their connection with Nico (through guitarist Brian Jones) and Marrianne Faithfull among others . M.L. - Your best experience to date as a musician/worst experience? C. - We mostly enjoy the moments that we play live and the best experiences come from those little moments where the chemistry between the audience and the band is right. Without mentioning only one specific gig, our best experiences so far were our concerts, even those with bad sound quality, just because the atmosphere together with the response from the crowd was excellent. M.L. - What do you think the best thing about music is at the moment (2008) /worst thing? C. - There are many great bands around and thousands of venues you can see them play. As far as my mp3/CD player at home is concerned, it can only play Fleet Foxes, Beach House and The Dodos ...at the moment. M.L. - If you had the choice what era would you have liked to have been born into and why? (ie 70’s/80’s etc…) C. - I envy those who lived in the 60's and could go to concerts of The Velvet Underground, or perhaps Phil Ochs, and even Nick Drake, Nico, and Kaleidoscope (UK). M.L. - Plans for the future… C. - We would like to play as much as possible and we're currently planning to go outside the UK and visit many countries. And as we're constantly recording we're planning to release another EP soon, and perhaps a second one by the end of the year. M.L. - How do we find out more about you? C. - www.myspace.com/buriedbirds
Pink Lions album review: by cmerik (www.theshadowscommence.wordpress.com)  The big 2009 spring surprise came from BURIED BIRDS. I found their second release ”Pink Lions” in the mail box without even knowing about its presence. In 2006 they released their debut mini album ”Empty Lake of Sanity” and I have my review of that one published. That one had four tracks. ”Pink Lions” has a total of 8. Furthermore, the sound’s been enriched by a wider instrumentation, for example a viola and flute player has joined the band. Apart from this, things are quite familiar, only more more more and better better better! In ”Empty Lake of Sanity” BURIED BIRDS really found their own unique sound by combining electronic pop with industrial, darkwave and neofolk. The concept has been drawn further into the dark tunnel and we’re now facing not just a band with an original sound, but also a band with an original sound that could, probably, sell their album to anyone that fancy any kind of dark and alternative music. I know I wrote the same in the ”Empty Lake of Sanity” review but this time, it feels so much more true. I mean. What do we have here now? An intro that is pretty much soaring and deranged strings. The second track approaches with a more poppy smell, driven forward by neat keyboards and pounding electronic drums. U-turn again, ”Nothing” is a pure, acoustic folk ballad. Quite different from the folky experiments on the previous album, this one consists of exemplary guitar plucking backed up by murky string work. The acoustic guitar remains the star for a while, ”Unexpected” is a powerful guitar driven pop song with the best chorus line I’ve heard in a long time, and overall, this one sounds pretty much like something out of ”Empty Lake of Sanity” with the addition of viola. ”Mother of the Moment” sneaks up, to begin with quite shy with a simple beat and keyboard. Soon, you’re standing in the middle of, what could be, BURIED BIRDS best song so far with a modern sound where a simple, brooding piano melody in harmony with interesting keyboard sounds create a most emotional and excellent entity to remember and think about. This is for sure the top of the album and after it, things are slowly descending for a while… ”Stone” isn’t very interesting, apart from the lyrics it’s quite unremarkable with its minimal electro sound. ”Advice” is nice but it could have been even nicer if the guitars, the vocals, the drums and the atmospheres clashed better. I get the feeling that the band tried to push in as much as possible in one track which in itself isn’t a bad idea, but a little more consideration would have helped this one. Still, a catchy song where the rule cheerful melody / cheerless lyrics works fine. The final song is called ”Heart” and it is again an alright song. Flute, viola, vocals. Has some nice moments, especially the flutes are awesome and it works fine as outro but personally, I think a slightly slower tempo would have made it even better. So, listening to ”Pink Lions” is for sure a bewildered experience with lots and lots of unexpected turns. Pop music, orchestral music, folk music, electronic music, dark music, bright music – you name it. All is though perfectly bound together by Chris’ distinctive and rather sad voice, and his lyrics that seem to exploit an existence in endless desperation, isolation and loss. The music is nearly flawless, apart from some mixing work, and utterly unique without being ”complicated” or ”difficult” to get into. Experimental? Yes. But not it’s not experimented asunder at any time. Obey Markus’ ordination! Pick up a copy of ”Pink Lions” right away and support the very underground. I’ve said it before (two times actually) but one more time around couldn’t hurt; BURIED BIRDS should appeal to you, whatever you’re usually listening to. And they’re great musicians as well. ( www.theshadowscommence.wordpress.com) |
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UPCOMING PERFORMANCES: no shows to announce PAST PERFORMANCES 2008 12/11 The Slaughtered Lamb (London) 20/10 The Old Queen's Head (London) 19/09 Betsey Trotwood (London) 28/05 The Edinburgh Cellars (London) 2007 18/10 The Miller (London) 25/09 Betsey Trotwood (London) 12/08 12 Bar Club (London) 11/08 The Daniel Defoe (London) 20/06 The Slaughtered Lamb (London) 10/03 Notting Hill Arts Club (London) 10/03 Leonard's (London) 17/02 Soho Revue Bar (London) 23/01 Biddle Bros (London) ::   :: |
