Beef - Beef's Birdland

$Beef\'s Birdland by Beef$

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4...according to our Mingus on Thu 07 Jun, 2007.

Beef: "Birdland" (Self Release) Twelve crooned mantras and twenty four birdsongs on this nattily packaged cottage industry produce vinyl only lp. Housed in a foil and paper sleeve. We like a bit bird song round hear, there's no ladies in the office unless you count Maggie who's a girl (honest). Seriously, these are of the flying variety, interspersed with croonings of standards and classic. Sometimes coming across like some private moments in a bath or shower, these are personal reflections coloured somewhat by a serious intent, or is his tongue in his cheek. So if you like quirky workman-like approaches to song (think Postman/Milkman/Window Cleaner) and an off-kilter approach to splicing birdsong between cover versions of Nana Mouskouri, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hart & Rodgers, Peggy Lee and Duke Ellington. Slightly bonkers but your guess is as good as mine.

A new lp from beef, a collection of songs and spoken word interwoven with birdsong. Using just the voice, the focus hangs on the words and giving a direct meaning and feeling to the listener. This record takes a peek at themes in life – the funny and the sad, the ridiculous, the joys, the ups and downs.

Some previous reviews:

“Basic simplicity of ten a capella songs sung wistfully by mystery crooner Beef … nobly wandering through places that others wouldn't even dare consider going,” r + eb (uk website)

“It all reminds me of a couple acapella Chet Baker tracks that I've been fixating on lately … this Beef LP is riveting in much the same way, for how it gets to the essence of things, strips away the glitz and gets right down to it,” erasing clouds (usa website)

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