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DATE
26 JAN 2010, TUE
TIME
7.30pm
(75mins, no intermission)
(75mins, no intermission)
VENUE
Concert Hall
PRICE
$40*, $60
Concessions: Limited concessions for students and NSF: $25* Mosaic Friends Special
Buy the top-priced ticket at $50 (U.P. $60). Present your Mosaic Friend card at Esplanade Box Office and all SISTIC’s authorised agents. Online booking is also available. To sign up to be a Mosaic Friend, click here.
Concessions: Limited concessions for students and NSF: $25* Mosaic Friends Special
Buy the top-priced ticket at $50 (U.P. $60). Present your Mosaic Friend card at Esplanade Box Office and all SISTIC’s authorised agents. Online booking is also available. To sign up to be a Mosaic Friend, click here.
SYNOPSIS
Proud Supporting Sponsors of Mosaic Music Festival 2010: Häagen-Dazs, Harry's, Heineken and Pioneer Electronics.
“In a subgenre stuffed full with mediocrity, Bird has developed a singular style that frees him to add or subtract anything he likes from it – no matter what he does at this point, chances are you're never going to mistake his music for anyone else's.” - Pitchfork
Part gypsy-folk, part southern bluegrass, part swing jazz, part progressive rock and part overdubbed symphony, the music of Andrew Bird, wizard of the loop pedal and several instruments, is a layered storm of multi-tracked violin cadenzas, fuzzed guitar chords, Looney Tunes-like riffs, sparkling glockenspiel, a background drone like that of the Indian tanpura, precision drums, unearthly falsetto, deadpan vocals and plenty of whistling.
When the singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist walks onstage with guitar slung on his back and violin at his chest, audiences are usually unprepared for how heavily layered his sound is.
Fluctuating between violin, guitar, glockenspiel, pre-recorded sound samples and loop pedal, Bird delivers music with rhythmic complexity, rich orchestration and often intricate parts that he improvises on during his live performances.
Classically-trained since the age of four, Bird demonstrates his diverse interests with songs that bear the stamp of influences from Hungarian gypsy, Scottish folk, calypso, early jazz, swing, country blues and South Indian music. Add to these his infamous whistling, smart, quirky lyrics and left-of-centre take on things, and what we have is music that is disarmingly engaging.
Fluctuating between violin, guitar, glockenspiel, pre-recorded sound samples and loop pedal, Bird delivers music with rhythmic complexity, rich orchestration and often intricate parts that he improvises on during his live performances.
Classically-trained since the age of four, Bird demonstrates his diverse interests with songs that bear the stamp of influences from Hungarian gypsy, Scottish folk, calypso, early jazz, swing, country blues and South Indian music. Add to these his infamous whistling, smart, quirky lyrics and left-of-centre take on things, and what we have is music that is disarmingly engaging.
A classical violin graduate, Andrew Bird started with a solo violin album, Music of Hair, that paid tribute to American and European folk traditions, jazz and blues, released in 1996. A year later, with his new band Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire, he released Thrills, followed by Oh! The Grandeur in 1999, The Swimming Hour in 2001 and Fingerlings in 2002, all the while collaborating with other musicians on their albums.
Then in 2003, Bird re-invented himself as a solo artist, employing the use of the violin, guitar, glockenspiel and whistling more, and recreating the sound of a full band with the help of multitrack recorders and loop pedals! Solo albums such as Weather Systems (2003), The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005), Armchair Apocrypha (2007) and Bird’s latest, Noble Beast (2009), have since blown critics and fans away.
Then in 2003, Bird re-invented himself as a solo artist, employing the use of the violin, guitar, glockenspiel and whistling more, and recreating the sound of a full band with the help of multitrack recorders and loop pedals! Solo albums such as Weather Systems (2003), The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005), Armchair Apocrypha (2007) and Bird’s latest, Noble Beast (2009), have since blown critics and fans away.
Proud Supporting Sponsors of Mosaic Music Festival 2010: Häagen-Dazs, Harry's, Heineken and Pioneer Electronics.
