Andrew Bird | Music Composer
Not to be confused with the Basketball player, the amazing USA multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird or the Newcastle-Based DJ.
Andrew has been making music since the early nineties and developing and producing artists for over 15 years.
His first two solo albums, "Voyage" and "Lift" were released in the days of Tape and CD and a decade of pop and punk bands, solo artist and folk production followed.
Upon wrapping up the studio New Zealand, Andrew returns to his roots of 70's electronica, orchestral, folk and percussion.
Here is some information on the current releases :)
Happy days!
twitter.com/AndyRBird:
Sorry, it’s been a while Blogville, but I have been busy checking up on LA and collaborating with “Lovelace” plus trying to track down Brad Feidel for permissions to use his amazing old theme to majestically resolve my latest Album, “Controls”. Learning string arrangement, KYMA and the 8DIO libraries has also been wonderful and ongoing challenge.
This is where the magic happens: Check out my http://www.soundcloud.com/andrewbirduk
and in other news, a lack of recent employment meant I could write every day for weeks and Yay of Yays I now feature in the Audiosparkx music for film and tv library here
http://www.audiosparx.com/andrewrobertbird
It’s hard work but totally worth it. Time for tea.
Bliss is the the 4th solo album by the UK/NZ multi-instrumentalist and producer Andrew Bird. Not to be confused with the Basketball Player, the brilliant USA Folk Multi Instrumentalist Musician (http://www.andrewbird.net) or the UK DJ.
Find it here http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/bliss/id518012709
“Bliss” is mainly an epic electronic and soundscape affair but roots of english folk, electronica, orchestral and plenty of percussion can be heard and felt.
Having produced hundreds of folk and pop artists in NZ for a decade (including Esther Mitchell, Raylee Bradfield and Dan Bedingfield), Andrew returns to original form, last heard in zygotic phase his previous albums, “Lift” (1997) and “Voyage” (1994) which were released on tape and CD. The Robotronic EP, released in 2010 was a fun little story of the birth, life and death of a robot and a challenge to produce music mainly by step writing instead of writing with piano and music notation.
OTHER FEATURED VOCALISTS AND INSTRUMENTALISTS ON “BLISS” //
Duduk : Dream of Zen (David Tawfik)
Vox & Poetry on Bliss : DT Capri (Joy Ramirez)
Vox on “Constant” : Lynsey Berry
Vox on “Silver” : Andrew Bird
Granular and processing performance on “Voyager” : Andrew Bird & KYMA
INSTRUMENTS //
KYMA, NI Absynth, Vocals, Ivory, Roland SH-3, Armenian Duduk, Irish Flute, North American Flute, Bodhran, Tuned Tambo, Glockenspeil (a present for Andrews 7th birthday), Senegalese Djembe, Egyptian Djembe, 80’s Ibanez Jem, Gibson Les Paul.
Robotronic EP! http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/robotronic-ep/id445787689
A fun little EP and the first of 8 of this series of comedy/ story EP’s, Robotronic tells the story of the birth, life and death of a little Robot called the “Robotronic Master Blaster”. People who grew up with the likes of Jarre, Kraftwerk and Boney M will appreciate the little music nods and jokes in this light hearted affair. Mainly step-written, a few ‘classic’ 90’s synths also feature.
Sometimes music takes itself too seriously. With art from the great cartoon illustrator, Steve May, each of these little EP’s is set to bring a little levity and fun.
FEATURED INSTRUMENTALISTS AND THINGS//
Guitar on “Dead Technology” : Mike Harding (Gentlemen Project), check out the genii here:
Vocodes and Vox : Andrew Bird, Symbolic Sound KYMA and NI Reaktor
80’s Glockenspiel, Roland 1080, Cloud Base Nine Analogue Mono Synth, EMU AUDITY 2000, ESI 4000, Logic Synths and physical reversed 8 bit sampler loops (hence the slight ‘looped’ feeling on “Dead Tech”, KYMA.
