Burrowed Into the Soft Sky, by The Doomed Bird of Providence

Burrowed Into the Soft Sky

by The Doomed Bird of Providence

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	1.	Burrowed Into The Soft Sky 19:48		buy track
	2.	The Blood Dimmed Tide Is Loosed 20:18		buy track

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Stirringly political, The Doomed Bird of Providence’s work has long been focused on colonial histories of Australia, observing periods of oppression to indigenous life and identity. Where this previously manifested in lyrical observations and traditional storytelling, the group here create a meditative orchestral work through two aggressive, tension-smashing instruments, twinned with a sound direction that is equal parts pastoral, doomy, and post-rock.

Compositionally, it’s some of their most brilliant work, busy but compositionally sound, almost cinematic in how well the group diverges from one suite to another: the opener is seamless, opening on a hissing drum march and turning towards gorgeous a violin movement that builds and imbues environment. The tracks, detailing different things, are shaded differently: “Burrowed Into The Soft Sky” is a piece that details the passing of a comet through the sky, offering a ruminative disquiet before a noisy, plummeting finale. “The Blood Dimmed Tied is Loose” opens on dissonant, devastatingly pitched string work with resonant fury, unfolding a detailing of atrocity against indigenous people by colonisers. It is a shrieking, noise-filled sound piece with overtones of driving military music.

Viewed in its historically steeped context, this is an important listen detailing both lives and their oppressions. (Norman Records)

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released September 1, 2017

Richard Acton - guitar
Angela Chan - violin
Drew Barker - ukulele
Katie English - flute, cello, glockenspiel
Stafford Glover - bass
Ian Hothersall - percussion
Mark Kluzek - accordion, violin
Rachel Laurence - viola
Joolie Wood - violin

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The Doomed Bird of Providence London, UK

"...a vessel of bastardised prose, drawing on numerous literary sources, both real and fictitious, to create their tawdry tales of woe." (The Quietus)

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