California Morning

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First fruit of a partnership between Brent Kenji (The Fairways, The Guild League, Skypark) and a Swedish chap called Erik Hanspers. The two have yet to meet, collaborating instead through the marvels of our international postal service and a shared sense of songwriting. The Young Tradition is a unique alliance producing beautifully orchestrated songs with jangling guitars, keyboards, trumpet, rich melodies and Brent’s captivating vocals. The sort of single that demands repeated listens again and again, this brilliant debut features two inspired originals and an earnest cover of "Isolation" by San Francisco pop heroes Poundsign. An absolute score for the Matinée roster, the duo is currently working on tracks for its debut album. In the meantime, marvel to the splendid sounds of your new favorite band! Limited to 1000 copies.

California Morning, Music, The Young Tradition

Little Darla Has A Treat For You, Vol. 16
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Little Darla Has A Treat For You, Vol. 16
Various Artists , Sisterhood Of Convoluted Thinkers , hollAnd , My Morning Jacket , Mahogany , Stars , The California Oranges , The Still , Mall , and The Bitter Springs
Manufacturer: Little Darla
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000K9CSTC

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LITTLE DARLA HAS A TREAT FOR YOU, VOL. 16! Hard-To-Find 2001 Compilation Of Independent Music. TRACKS: 01 Sisterhood Of Convoluted Thinkers - Armstrong Archer; 02 hollAnd - Edit; 03 My Morning Jacket - Lowdown; 04 Mahogany - Soleil Radieux; 05 Stars - The Very Thing; 06 The California Oranges - Olivia; 07 The Still - Today; 08 Mall - Ambush; 09 The Bitter Springs - Under The Rainbow; 10 E*Vax - What We Meant; 11 The Photon Band - Little Mind; 12 Migala - Fortunes Show Of Our Last; 13 Momus - Mountain Music; 14 A Boy Named Thor - Devil Eyed Girl; 15 A Girl Called Eddy - The Soundtrack Of Your Life; 16 Paloma - Daily Sisyphus; 17 Mr. Wright - Winter On Harrow Road; 18 Mus - La Sosiega; & 19 The Sensualists - Clouds & Rain.

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California Morning
The Young Tradition
Manufacturer: Matinee Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Northern Drive

ASIN: B0000EIHKK
Release Date: 2003-09-22

Tracks:

California Morning
All Up To Me
Isolation

Album Description

First fruit of a partnership between Brent Kenji (The Fairways, The Guild League, Skypark) and a Swedish chap called Erik Hanspers. The two have yet to meet, collaborating instead through the marvels of our international postal service and a shared sense of songwriting. The Young Tradition is a unique alliance producing beautifully orchestrated songs with jangling guitars, keyboards, trumpet, rich melodies and Brent's captivating vocals. The sort of single that demands repeated listens again and again, this brilliant debut features two inspired originals and an earnest cover of "Isolation" by San Francisco pop heroes Poundsign. An absolute score for the Matinée roster, the duo is currently working on tracks for its debut album. In the meantime, marvel to the splendid sounds of your new favorite band! Limited to 1000 copies.

A Gift From a Garden to a Flower: A Tribute to Donovan

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A Gift From a Garden to a Flower: A Tribute to Donovan
Various Artists , PAS/CAL , My Morning Jacket , Photon Band , The Orange Alabaster Mushroom , Alsage Lorraine , The Scarboro Aquarium Club , Greater California , Ashley Park , and Lowlights
Manufacturer: Darla
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000RNLZZ4

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Pas/Cal's "Oh Gosh," features a spot on Donovan impression; Phil Spector-ish wall-of-sound production gives My Morning Jacket's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" a warm & fuzzy feeling; Photon Band "To Sing For You" sounds like head 'maniac; The Orange Alabaster Mushroom imbibe the cult classic "Fat Angel" with sitars, loopy organ rides and wah-wah vocals; Jon DeRosa dons his Pale Horse and Rider cap for a beautiful, romantically forlorn version of the obscure "There Is An Ocean." Alsace Lorraine's breathy, sexy, sultry vocal on the equally obscure "Sadness" slides somewhere between St Etienne's Sarah Cracknell and the French yé-yé girls of the 60s; Scarboro Aquarium Club, exhume "Divine Daze of Deathless Delight." "Jersey Thursday" is even more haunting than the original; Vancouver's Ashley Park begin "Widow with Shawl" in a rainstorm and end up in a groovy, psych-country pastiche a la Mojave 3. Low Lights must have drawn the short straw to end up with "Catch the Wind;" Donovan's finest track ever; Screen Prints mercilessly butchers "Celeste;" singing it in the wrong key and about half a beat behind the song's established melody. Great Lakes, digs "Teen Angel" out of the grave, smacks it around a few times and then sleepwalks all over it in a Prozac-induced haze; Watoo Watoo is a husband & wife duo from Paris though it actually sounds more like Japanese cut-ups, Pop-Off Tuesday than a yé-yé wannabe. On the other hand, Color Filter actually are from Japan, yet they chose to present "Hurdy Gurdy Man" like a 60's French soundtrack. The Blood Group sounded at first as though they were rap, then Jessica B opened her mouth and out poured sweetness and light. Sweet Trip's sacrilegious video-arcade-through-a-bullhorn version of "Sunny Goodge Street" is an insult to the song. So even if you are not intrigued by unknown artists covering hits and obscurities of one of our finest psychedelic poets, you will enjoy the variety of styles and reverential tweakings included herein.

Superhits: The Early '70s (Time Life Music)

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Superhits: The Early '70s (Time Life Music)
The Chairmen of the Board , Albert Hammond , Delaney and Bonnie and Friends , Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes , The Friends of Distinction , The Buoys , Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose , The Partridge Family , Smokey Robinson and the Miracles , and Don McLean
Manufacturer: Time Life Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000THMAK2

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Super Hits - The Early '70s - Various Artists [1992] All tracks stereo. 22 songs. Song list: Maggie May - Rod Stewart/Listen To The Music - Doobie Brothers/Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce/Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers/I Woke Up In Love This Morning - Partridge Family/The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & Miracles/Give Me Just A Little More Time - Chairmen Of The Board/Love Train - O'Jays/It Never Rains In Southern California - Albert Hammond/Never Ending Song Of Love - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends/If You Don't Know Me By Now - Harold Melvin & Blue Notes/Sooner Or Later - Grass Roots/Let's Stay Together - Al Green/If - Bread/Fire And Rain - James Taylor/Love Or Let Me Be Lonely - Friends Of Distinction/Ventura Highway - America/Timothy - Buoys/Too Late To Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose/The Love You Save - Jackson 5/Speak To The Sky - Rick Springfield/Vincent - Don McLean

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Stunning debut
Don't even think of not buying this album...
jangly indie pop
From Pop Matters
From Glorious Noise, March 2005

Morning Kills The Dark
Biirdie
Manufacturer: Pop Up Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007U3JRE
Release Date: 2005-03-15

Tracks:

Open Letter To Jenny
You've Got Darkness
The Other Side Of Sunset
Kala Lynne
Hotel Piano
I Got You (On My Mind)
To Know That You Need Me
Pacifica
I'm Going To Tell You Something
California Is Waiting

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This new combo from Los Angles, California writes songs that run the gamut... from Brill Building pop to Tin Pan Alley; roots music to indie pop. It's a hodgepodge of styles that collectively make up what is Biirdie.

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Stunning debut.......2006-04-26

Once upon a time, your parents were young and they liked music. They bought albums by people like Billy Joel and Elton John, not because it was hip or cool, but because they liked the songs.

With that said, trying to describe Biirdie's MKTD is almost pointless. One can toss out phrases like "chamber pop" and drop the dreaded Brian Wilson influence and be completely accurate, but in the end this album is about the songs, not the sound. It's extremely refreshing to hear a simple pop album that doesn't try to evoke the classic pop of the Beatles or the Beach Boys or Big Star, nor does it tread in the indie cesspool of new bands trying to ape the Strokes or the Shins (whom I both love).

Completely free of ironic posturing, Biirdie has produced a magnificent debut full of memorable melodies and homespun TLC that deserves a wider audience. One of the top 10 releases of 2005.

Don't even think of not buying this album..........2006-04-06

If you are fortunate enough to have found it... just buy it. It has quickly become one of my favorite albums. This is some of the best music your ears will have the pleasure of hearing. Period.

jangly indie pop.......2005-05-27

a mix between belle and sebastian and the anniversary. very lush sound for such a small operation. really good stuff here.

From Pop Matters.......2005-05-10

Biirdie is a new trio specializing in a slightly trippy brand of chamber pop. On the group's debut CD, Morning Kills the Dark, leader Jared Flamm displays some classy song writing coupled with a strong Phil Spector/Brian Wilson-like production, and the end result is an emotionally powerful and musically diverse effort that will certainly have people taking notice.

You can really feel the love that has gone into the making of this album, which was recorded in Flamm's native Florida, in and around his new home of L.A. and quite a few points in between. It's as honest a record as you're going to hear, as it documents Flamm's travels across the country, touching on universal themes such as love (or more importantly, the loss of love), regret, the restlessness that comes with losing one's direction, and ultimately a glimpse at arriving at some sort of personal realization and redemption. It's one of the few albums that gives a voice to all the little in-between stuff that occupies our lives most of the time; the grey that divides the black and white, or the things that we just can't seem to put our finger on, much less verbally explain to each other. Biirdie are adept at occupying this ground and giving it a definitive shape, all the while delivering music that is constantly fresh yet still somewhat familiar sounding.

Heavy? Well yeah, but Morning Kills the Dark manages to convey these sometimes awkward emotions in the most straightforward and personal way, avoiding the wallowing that too often accompanies this type of subject matter. Flamm, along with singer Kala Savage (sister of The Wonder Years' Fred Savage for all you music trivia buffs) and drummer Richard Gowen, have crafted some exquisite harmonic melodies to wrap around the visual lyrics, recalling everything from the Beach Boys to Brill Building pop to Ben Folds with a dash of The Velvet Underground and Burt Bacharach thrown in for good measure.

Morning Kills the Dark is divided into a "Morning Side" and a "Dark Side", with the more experimental fifth track, "Hotel Piano", (with its Pink Floyd-like elements) acting as a buffer between the two conflicting sides. Oddly enough it's the supposed "Dark Side" that is the poppier and more streamlined of the two, with its accessible melodies and simpler production style making it an increasingly satisfying listen to my ears. "I Got You (On My Mind)" cleverly evokes Burt Bacharach's "What the World Needs Now" with its "love, sweet love" line, and the blend of Framm's and Savage's voices is a little slice of pop heaven. Savage is a stronger presence on these later tunes, which shine brighter because of it. Her vocal on "I'm Going to Tell You Something" is especially sublime and sexy, and the natural interplay between her and Framm is again evident on the excellent "To Know That You Need Me".

The promise of great things to come is hard to ignore here, and Jared Flamm has been making music long enough to realize that he's onto something special with Biirdie. The three members seemingly blend effortlessly as they wind their way through the 10 tracks on Morning Kills the Dark, and while it's clear that this is essentially Flamm's vehicle right now, the others aren't there merely to serve his ideas. Savage and Gowen add their own distinctive stamp to the songs, and Flamm is smart enough to acknowledge this and just let the songs develop naturally.

This is a great album to curl up with on a rainy day, and it just seems to get stronger and deeper with every listen. While the earlier tracks tend to overreach a bit, with their ambitious arrangements sometimes falling just shy of the mark, Morning Kills the Dark is still a fine debut album from a band that will hopefully be laying down the soundtrack to our lives for many years to come.

- 6 April 2005

From Glorious Noise, March 2005.......2005-05-10

Biirdie, by most accounts an indie pop trio with a psychedelic slant, was formed in Daniel Lanois' Silverlake, CA home while he was out of town. On the day before Halloween, 2003, Jared Flamm was housesitting for the accomplished producer when he met Kala Savage (sister of Ben and Fred), who was working locally as an actress. Together, with Flamm's friend Richard Gowen, they jammed in Lanois' living room to songs like "Pale Blue Eyes" for forty minutes at a time. Included in that living room was Dylan's Time Out of Mind piano, which turned out to be magic once again.

The magnificent debut Morning Kills the Dark is divided into two five-track parts - the "Morning Side" and the "Dark Side." As one might expect, the "Morning Side" is exuberant and playful, holding promise and hope for the future in regards to things like friendship, love, and the places we call home. The "Dark Side," conversely, feels somber and melancholy, and dwells on the more trying realities of much of the same subject matter.

From the rise of dawn to the fall of dusk, Morning Kills the Dark features stunning vocal harmonies, lush melodies, and bright instrumentation. Its music fills the air like a warm haze, gently easing the listener down to rest in a fog of auditory anesthesia. But this calm is mated to exhilaration, as in a dreamt view from above. The album's most singular moments haunt like a new love: "To Know That You Need Me" - the first time that I heard it, I wrote down "Jesus this song is beautiful;" "The Other Side of Sunset" - opens with a spiritual high/low vocal harmony over patiently pacing piano chords; "I Got You (On My Mind)" - through creatively sparse guitar, synth, and drum fills, the up-and-down melody is never lonely, but never lost; "California is Waiting" - "I'm going to California from this little Florida town / From Hollywood to Silverlake, I'm Los Angeles bound / With tons of cars and five-pointed stars on every sidewalk street / What California doesn't have is you / You and me," Flamm sings with the weariness of two thousand miles in his voice.

Not since Pet Sounds have I heard a pop album with so much orchestrated gorgeousness, so much emotional and aural appeal, so much genuine sentiment. If that classic Beach Boys album is a symphony to God, Morning Kills the Dark is a symphony to life. And it's no less powerful to behold.

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