"Songbread" by Bird By Snow

The "lost", third Bird By Snow album, out of print since 2009, resurfaces again in digital form! (In advance of a new limited vinyl run happening sometime in 2020.)

Recorded on 8-track cassette tape in former homes in San Francisco, and Oakland Californias. This is a capsule of songs written by Fletcher Tucker all over Europe and North America (between 2007-2009), back when Bird By Snow was an endlessly DIY touring solo act (and often two-piece with Spencer Owen). In many ways "Songbread" represents the home-recorded apex of the Bird By Snow project. Indeed, of all the five LPs that were to flow from these aural-springs this album is among the warmest, most intimate and diverse in style, tone, and texture – with a few sonic surprises tucked away in each track.

"Songbread" features all the Bird By Snow archetypes in merry measure: primitivist yearnings, eco-spiritual poetics, naturalistic melodies, polyrhythms, intricate multi-instrumentalism, and radically unabashed sincerity. We are glad to share this work again after so many years – and as the album title implies... we hope you find nourishment in these songs.

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Here is a a nice review from 2009:
"Bird By Snow walks the tightrope between several worlds; the natural and the manmade constructs, the eternal and the temporal, the spirit and the flesh. His songs spilling out like wood smoke hanging low over a cool morning meadow. Weather, wind, fire, water and air, acoustic instruments and nuanced amplification illuminating the inter-connections. Exploring personal and universal identities with an understated, yet sometimes quite grand grace and organically natural ease, almost like these songs sound like they just happened rather than being crafted and created. This beautiful ten song set is a perfect compliment to his first two albums, and continues and expands upon his northwestern vision quest." – George Parsons (editor), Dream Magazine

Tracklist

1.	Domestic Freedom	4:35

2.	If You Wait	2:23

3.	Caveman Baby	3:27

4.	You are Mom	5:01

5.	Lovers on our Backs	4:38

6.	When You Surrender	0:33

7.	What I am Doing	7:52

8.	Another Ocean	2:54

9.	My Life is Easy	8:32

10.	I Give Myself	2:08

Credits

released January 2, 2009

Written, composed, arranged, recorded and performed by Fletcher Tucker.
Percussion, piano, bass, back-up singing, occasional guitar, and additional arrangements/composition by Spencer Owen.
Cello and back-up singing performed by Mania Lozinska.
Banjo performed by Adam Snyder.

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