I’ve been making myself listen to new stuff from my collection on my walks to work lately and today’s pick was The Swimming Hour from Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire. I don’t know who gave me this album (Jer? Ken?) but it is really a great listen. Pretty eclectic and difficult to explain the sound. iTunes Music Store has it filed under Jazz. That’s a bit of a stretch. It’s not particularly formulaic so it wouldn’t fit neatly into pop or singer/songwriter. I’d say closer to a Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks in that the song dictates the form and style of each track. I’m pretty sure a live show would be killer and I’m surprised to see a gig slated for Providence.
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Unless Jer beat me to the punch, I sent you this album last week on the USB drive. If you like that, I’ll one day send you another album of his I picked up. This other one isn’t quite as infectious as TSH, more mellow (like Beck’s “Mutations”).
ky
sweet! i’d love to hear more. note that the USB drive got sent back to me today. Apparently the SASE needs 49cents of postage not the 37cents you had on there ;-)
Anyway, you should get it in a couple of days.
isnt there a risk that the postal scanning equipment will damage the data?
Funny that it made it there with the SASE and the drive for just 37c. Maybe the songs you put on there are really heavy?
Hempstead, there probably is some risk that the drive will get damaged. I cut up part of a cereal box to line the envelope so as to make it flatter and less susecptible to mangling by the automated equipment.
ky