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BIRDS OF TOKYO Press Release, August 31, 2010
This album carries with it the weight of one man’s world... the entire emotional gamut of a love lost, and the broken heart it left in its wake; set to breathtaking music fitting of such depth and complexity. And it is this journey into such deeply personal territory that makes Birds Of Tokyo’s most meaningful and powerful album, because the journey of a broken heart is one we all, at one time or another, have to face. As a composer will match music to images on a screen, Birds Of Tokyo have written the soundtrack to one of the most impacting human experiences... bringing to life the uncontrollable, unpredictable ride, and translating it into song. In and around the album’s themes and narratives, spectacular musical nuances decorate the signature Birds Of Tokyo style of taking rich, technically-detailed songs and presenting them with simple and elegant melodic hooks. The pictures are intricate and heavily detailed, but are at the same time so striking and bold... vividness made up of tiny subtleties just beneath the surface. It is Birds Of Tokyo holding nothing back. And while the subject matter of the new album is at times dark and enveloping, the band have seen more to the spectrum than just the bleak grey of sadness. Touching and thought-provoking, the album’s story is threaded throughout the passages of music, carrying equal highs and lows from one song to the next in a stream of creative consciousness. It is the meeting of real life and an artistic daringness that has been a constant and growing feature of Birds Of Tokyo. Always using the spoils of their successes to fuel and inspire their next, always bigger, adventure; Birds Of Tokyo sent themselves across the world, chasing and creating their own once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, to make the album they knew it could be. Recording between Sydney, London, Gothenburg and New York; Birds Of Tokyo gave themselves the most surreal and inspiring experience possible, knowing that the results of doing so would speak for themselves. The band had most recently stunned live audiences with their Broken Strings tour, and that experience – where their own re-imagined songs were emulsified with a stunning orchestral ensemble – lit their ambitions aflame. Birds Of Tokyo had opened a new door. With friend and mainstay multi-instrumentalist Glenn Sarangapany’s (quite literally) grand contributions, the band had found a new perspective they were all itching to explore in the studio. The vision for the self-titled album was to become fittingly huge... as was the album itself. But what the album is, and what it is about, is only a small part of the story. Birds Of Tokyo are, after all, a collective of individuals – each with their own story to tell, and their own significant mark on the band and its art. There is the voice of Ian Kenny; one of Australia’s most sincerely talented vocalists and humblest of gentlemen. There is the endless creative vision of guitarist and producer Adam Spark; whose music comes to life with such cinematic grandeur. There is the unshakable foundation of drummer of Adam Weston; spreading the girth of Birds Of Tokyo’s sound, giving it both backbone and attack. Similarly unsung, the bass playing of Anthony Jackson is the body and thickness of the band’s sound, ever-present and ever-steady. These friends, who have spent almost every day of the last seven years working and creating together... they are Birds Of Tokyo. They are its heart and they are its soul. And everything they have, they give to this. BIRDS OF TOKYO | BIRDS OF TOKYO | RELEASED JULY 23 *For further
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