Artist: Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire
Record Review from web archive January 23, 2009
Andrew Bird
Last April, Andrew Bird wrote in The New York Times “Measure For Measure” blog: “The record I want to make here and now – the one I wish I could find in my local record store – is a gentle, lulling, polyrhythmic, minimalist yet warm tapestry of acoustic instruments.” Yep, he’s done what he set [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #69 May-June 2007
Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
Busting entirely out of the intimate space he created on 2003′s Weather Systems, Andrew Bird inhabits an emotional range and resonance on his new album that we’ve only glimpsed elsewhere in his catalog. With Armchair Apocrypha (think apocalypse from the comfort of your own home), he has things to say and he doesn’t care if [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Andrew Bird – The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Violin virtuoso (and whistler extraordinaire) Andrew Bird never really goes easy on you, but on a purely musical level, The Mysterious Production Of Eggs is his most accessible album to date. Bird hasn’t fully abandoned the traipse-across-history approach that marked previous efforts; his forte is conjuring (and frequently colliding) bygone eras, and on Eggs one [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Andrew Bird – Weather Systems
Violinist Andrew Bird has sensuous delicacy so pure and strange that he often seems like an ethereal presence in his own songs. Fronting Andrew Bird’s Bowl Of Fire, he creates a still center with this aspect of his talent; on Weather Systems, a solo album recorded in a refurbished barn in western Illinois, he drapes [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #34 July-Aug 2001
Andrew Bird’s Bowl Of Fire / Kelly Hogan – Solar Culture (Tucson, AZ)
Kelly Hogan was perfection singing Richard Buckner’s “Blue And Wonder”, accompanied only by Andy Hopkins’ sensitive guitar and the melancholy keening of Jon Rauhaus’ almost human pedal steel. Perfection was the signature of this show, an evening of all but flawless performances of challenging music that variously evoked David Byrne, the Ray Charles Revue, Cornershop [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #33 May-June 2001
Andrew Bird’s Bowl Of Fire – The Swimming Hour
When characters in the film of Edith Wharton’s The House Of Mirth discuss Americana, the setting is genteel society in 1905. To these ladies and gentlemen, Americana is simply American art, quintessentially colonial and indigenous. See also: Andrew Bird’s Bowl Of Fire, whose third album, The Swimming Hour, is most sensual Americana: hot jazz, sugary [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Andrew Bird’s Bowl Of Fire – Mixin’ up the medicine
Twisted with such subtlety you’re taken in before you know it, Andrew Bird’s Bowl Of Fire, and their latest disc, Oh! The Grandeur, are too original to be so accessible, too arcane to be so catchy, too smart to be so popular, and entirely too musically expert to rock at all…but somehow they do. Bird’s [...]
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