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Following a 10 year hiatus, Birdengine released his third album SOMNAM in 2021. SOMNAM contains themes of grief, sleep and nostalgia and utilises tape loops, vocal sampling, warped distorted synthesis and organic rhythms created using found sound. Later in 2021 Birdengine released the mini-album
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Birdengine's live performances have been described as "both unnerving and intriguing in equal measures", having "strange and compelling beauty" and a "bizarre, yet deeply likeable tone".
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BRUTAL, 9 very different pieces from solo piano sketches to distorted heavy synth via church organ and field recordings.
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as "Outsider Music, riddled with themes of alienation and a sense of not belonging; an outcast even among the freaks".
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as "...like a waltz for the dead – the results are unmistakable and unsettling.", and by
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Helen Mitchell, Birdengine Live Review, Maverick Magazine, Issue 80: March 2008, p. 94.
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Everett True, 'Birdengine – Birdengine EP', Careless Talk Costs Lives, Dec 2005, p. 80.
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The Great Escape: Birdengine, The Basement, Brighton, 14 May
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garnered widely positive reviews, and was described by
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Birdengine, "I Fed Thee Rabbit Water" CD, Drift, 2007.
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Trunk (credited as 'Mortis Tobias & Clara Kindle')
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Bryan Berge, Stylus magazine, November 2005, p. 68.
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Birdengine at End Of The Road Festival 2008
End Of The Road Festival
Experimental
Freak Folk
Found sound
Benbecula Records
birdengine.co.uk
Benbecula Records
Stylus Magazine
Benbecula
Independent label
reel-to-reel tape player
Uncut
The Quietus
Birdengine website.
Archived
Wayback Machine
Birdengine EP on Bleep
‘Birdengine EP Review’
Birdengine EP Reviews


Birdengine "I Fed Thee Rabbit Water" (Drift 2007)
Archived
Wayback Machine
An Exclusive preview of next months album releases
Lynch(ed) Recordings
Archived
Wayback Machine
"Discography"

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