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famous last birds

by The BCC

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red wing, fisher king 04:03
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from a tangled bank 03:49
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golden hills, red wing 05:58
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confluence, cormorants fishing 02:47
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famous last birds 03:22
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feathers fade with winter 06:03
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room enough in the air 03:22
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When we first started thinking about this collection of tunes, we detected a climate change theme. "famous last birds," in that context, was going to be a heavy, sad, apocalyptic thing that, the more we thought about it, seemed impossible to contain in the space of 30 or 40 minutes of music. And, anyway, as we started making field recordings and experimenting with mucking them up through granular synthesis, the more personal the tunes became. We quickly realized that this was an album about climate change, but as we experience it walking with our dog along the creeks and through the hills of the Palouse bioregion.

So this is a dog-walking record. A record of changing seasons. It's full of the sounds we encountered over the course of the past year, so it's also an album we might have called The Four Seasons. It's a collection of sounds that moved us and saved us and delighted us. We hope we find something similar here. Thanks for stopping by, and especially for listening.

Thanks especially to Shawn, Nathan, Karen, and Dirks for being.

"Now I held in my hands a vast methodical fragment of an unknown planet’s entire history, with its architecture and its playing cards, with the dread of its mythologies and the murmur of its languages, with its emperors and its seas, with its minerals and its birds and its fish, with its algebra and its fire, with its theological and metaphysical controversy. And all of it articulated, coherent, with no visible doctrinal intent or tone of parody."
-- Borges: “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”

The Plural is a confluence of streams, dreams, schemes, of confidants musing. At the confluence, the plurals fuse.

Listening to the first episode of a podcast called Finnegan and Friends: In Finnegans Wake, none of these characters is a character, they are all personages, the plurals it takes to raise a village (and especially a village plagued by academics). To even imagine one person wrote the Wake is ridiculous. Joyce read and read and read and tossed bits of what he read into the salad. We are all tangents, angles exploring, angles ruminating. From Indian religions to children’s fairy tales, it’s a democratic text.

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released April 17, 2021

Written, performed, produced, mixed, and mastered by BC Clark/The Plural Muses

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