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Sparks From The Mothership proudly presents
MOON MOTH, a reissue of the 2015 LP by
THE BIRD AND THE MONKEY (Scottish Borders)
THE BIRD AND THE MONKEY (Scottish Borders)
WHO: The Bird And The Monkey
WHAT: Moon Moth (album)
WHEN: Throughout February 2019
FORMAT: Free Digital Download
LABEL: Athene Noctua Records / Sparks From The Mothership
NEW RELEASE or REISSUE: Reissue (first released 2015)
DESCRIPTION: "Post-Punking the Eurythmics on a Lunar Trip..."
WHAT: Moon Moth (album)
WHEN: Throughout February 2019
FORMAT: Free Digital Download
LABEL: Athene Noctua Records / Sparks From The Mothership
NEW RELEASE or REISSUE: Reissue (first released 2015)
DESCRIPTION: "Post-Punking the Eurythmics on a Lunar Trip..."
For further enquiries on this & other releases, email us at: sparksfromthemothership@gmail.com
"I swear at one point I heard them chanting 'gonorrhea ooh ooh'...
Why this duo aren't all over your iPods like a rash I'll never know."- Paul Kerr (The Devil Has The Best Tuna)
"The Bird and the Monkey live and breathe music,
and I, for one, am very glad they are around."
- Alastair Braidwood (Scots Whay Hae)
"Blood On Our Hands: It's angular, it's obtuse and it packs
more into 3 minutes 47 seconds than
Beady Eye packed into their entire career."
- Paul Kerr (The Devil Has The Best Tuna)
Why this duo aren't all over your iPods like a rash I'll never know."- Paul Kerr (The Devil Has The Best Tuna)
"The Bird and the Monkey live and breathe music,
and I, for one, am very glad they are around."
- Alastair Braidwood (Scots Whay Hae)
"Blood On Our Hands: It's angular, it's obtuse and it packs
more into 3 minutes 47 seconds than
Beady Eye packed into their entire career."
- Paul Kerr (The Devil Has The Best Tuna)
Download Moon Moth by
The Bird and The Monkey in various
formats, including MP3, WAV & AIFF:
The Bird and The Monkey in various
formats, including MP3, WAV & AIFF:
(01) Bowery Bums
(02) Moon Moth
(03) Blood On Our Hands
(04) Meet The Maelstrom (Temples Of Grandeur)
(05) Eat Your Star
(06) We Sing Ourselves To Sleep
PRESS RELEASE:
Moon Moth is a 6-track mini-album by Scottish Borders based duo Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian, aka The Bird And The Monkey. Originally released in 2015, on Swan & Simian's own Athene Noctua label, this collection of songs shows a more experimental edge than those on the pair's debut album, AMPLITUDE-one (2014), with frantic detuned guitars, crackling electrical buzzes, screwdrivers jammed through guitar strings, mysterious lyrics and wordless voices, layered effects and unconventional time signatures all explored in the BirdMonkey labs.
Moon Moth's title track was featured in BBC2 teen drama, The Cut, and picked as one of the Top 100 tracks of 2015 in the Glasgow Herald. As well as making music together as The Bird And The Monkey, Sarahjane Swan (a Fine Arts Graduate in Sculpture from Gray's School of Art) & partner, Roger Simian, create underground films, installation art and experimental writing under the banner Avant Kinema, which you can check out on their Vimeo page.
OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR
BLOOD ON OUR HANDS
BLOOD ON OUR HANDS
LINE-UP / RECORDING NOTES:
All songs written, played, engineered and mixed by Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian at B Plus M Equals?, Scotland. Mastered by Steve Muzzaman Murray at Mix2Master. Published by Sentric Music. Cover Art by Sarahjane Swan. © Athene Noctua Records 2015.
PRESS PICS
The Bird And The Monkey - Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian
FULL PRESS QUOTES:
"Bowery Bums is a tribute to Lou Reed, a song about the Velvets, the Voidoids, CBGBs, the Amercian Punk scene and all the boozed up romantics who called the Bowery home. It sounds like three brilliant songs melded into one amazing whole. This one song has more ideas than the entire career of The National and Vampire Weekend put together. I swear at one point I heard them chanting "gonorrhea ooh ooh" which would be brilliant although I think I may have misheard. Why this duo aren't all over your iPods like a rash I'll never know. I just hope that the rest of the world catch on in 2014." - Paul Kerr (The Devil Has The Best Tuna, December 2013)
"I always have time for The Bird and the Monkey as they never fail to surprise and delight, and their tribute to Lou Reed, Bowery Bums, is no exception. It certainly channels Reed and Bowie from round about the Berlin adventures. But just when you think you know what’s going to play out, trumpets and piano come in, and it goes in another direction entirely, and what starts off as a tribute becomes a celebration. The Bird and the Monkey live and breathe music, and I, for one, am very glad they are around." - Alastair Braidwood (Scots Whay Hae, December 2013)
"Blood On Our Hands - The new song from Devil's favourites the Bird & The Monkey sounds like Pink Military Stand Alone. It's angular, it's obtuse and it packs more into 3 minutes 47 seconds than Beady Eye packed into their entire career. In the video Sarah Jane dons a blonde wig and ends up looking like Debbie Harry after an incident involving an industrial tub of strawberry jam. " - Paul Kerr (The Devil Has The Best Tuna, November 2014)
"If true originality was as lauded as c list celebrity in the shallow, superficial world of 2013 pop then The Bird & The Monkey would be unbiquitous. Meet The Maelstom is yet another track from the Bird & The Monkey conveyor belt of quality alternative pop that deserves pride of place on your itunes playlist or whatever medium you young hipsters use to consume your music these days. Why this couple are not mega stars I'll never know. Clasp them to your bosom world and revel in the knowledge that you have exquisite taste." - Paul Kerr (The Devil Has The Best Tuna, May 2013)
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