Birds Build Nests Underground - So As cd

Birds Build Nests Underground - So As cd

So As is Birds Build Nests Underground s first studio album after three years. It features four songs/compositions created exclusively with turntables and prepared vinyl records. The first of them, Sintordin, is BBNU s attempt to add something to the jazz from hell niche. And the idea of clashing marching bands... Ossifying Tongues started, as the name implies, as a sonic description of the ossification of the mouth: the human voice material was slowly changing into white rhythmic and repetitive skeletons. However, over the years, the song has changed into a different kind of a monster and can be read as a comment on BBNU s industrial/ambient past. Axe Loop is a rock song intro, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, instrumental break, chorus... somehow it is sixteen minutes long after the band decided to leave out one verse. And finally there is Smoking Sun, a short interpretation of the band s long-lost loop. New Romance meets clarinets on a nicely decorated dissecting table with some flowers in the pot. The fifth is a video track a 10 minute part of BBNU s performance from the autumn 2011, the day Freddie Mercury died. Martin Jezek shows his skills of 16mm improvisation here while Petr Ferenc and Michael Brunclík are locked in their favourite groove. Birds Build Nests Underground (BBNU) is a Prague-based trio working in the fields of found sound and vision. Their basic tools are a double DJ set and 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and KP8 film and slide projectors. Their goal is, however, not standard DJ/VJ entertainment muzak and screensaving but a deep dive into the very nature of sound and image. The turntablists of the band Petr Ferenc and Michal Brunclík manipulate records by keeping them out of their covers, placing stickers on them, cutting, scratching and piling them on turntable plates in order to allow all the mistakes and coincidental sound events equally important to the end result. Martin Jezek, the filmmaker of the band, treats (not only) found footage the same way as the turntablists treat their records: he juxtaposes, collages and edits the image to create a wholly new visual experience. Birds Build Nests Underground (BBNU) are not one of the few bands that create live soundtracks to an already existing filmwork. Their music and images interact, coexist and are created at the same time.