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This is a quick one today, I have heard “Bowerbirds” over at NPR and was really taken with the honest gritty performance. This is no-frills music but it seems to be full off ideas and besides I love a band that takes chances. Have a listen to “In Our Talons” and see what you think.

According to their bio, Bowerbirds started out as a duo–guitarist/songwriter Phil Moore and Beth Tacular on accordion and percussion. Before the recording of their album Hymns for a Dark Horse, Mark Paulson joined the band, adding piano, violin and percussion to their musical equation. SO that’s three singers and a bunch of acoustic instruments.

Moore and Tacular currently reside in an AirStream trailer on the outskirts of Raleigh, NC, on a quiet plot of land that is completely off the grid. This sort of organic, rural, simple way of life is reflected in their music. The songs could be written underneath a moonlit sky, joyously sung around a campfire, and performed without the use of any electric amplification. The music is pure, spiritual and perfectly unrefined, and with each song, Bowerbirds remind us that we humans are part of something larger than our culture, larger than humanity — something beautiful and sacred.

Here is a video from YouTube of “In Our Talons”…

All in all an interesting band. Recommended

Websites at http://www.bowerbirds.org/ and http://www.myspace.com/bowerbirds

Their album Hymns for a Dark Horse is released by Dead Oceans