***Lightning Ghost is the second BIRD SHOW album, following the debut release Green Inferno. It centers around BEN VIDA’s home-fi sound experiments. Tracks are carved out of opiate'd chanting, disjunctive drum circles, synth meditation and prepared piano trance song. Vida's sonic explorations are embedded into tighter song structures, with a greater role given to vocals in the mix. The ceremonial air has been retained and expanded with a strong percussive presence and repeated, mesmerizing musical figures. Vida recorded the album at home, but much of the material resulted from the hours spent on stage this past year.
CD $14.00
04/04/2006
***The second solo album from TOWN & COUNTRY member and Chicago musical mainstay BEN VIDA and PILLOW member LIZ PAYNE under their BIRD SHOW banner. Recorded at home on a digital 16 track recorder, Green Inferno finds Vida delving further into the realm of outsider, stream-of-consciousness vocal/percussive / psychedelic drone songcraft. Performed with violin, cornet, accordion, acoustic guitar, organ, qrareb, assorted shakers, tambourine, and mbira, as well as integrated field recordings provided by ATSUHIRO KOIZYMI and FRED LONBERG-HOLM.
CD $14.00
02/15/2005