Firebird (USA) - avant candidate

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US band, self-described and considered by others as avant, combining quirky rock with jazz, avantgarde and classical orientation with soprano lead vocals.

One album, Bonds of Life (2014), released so far. It's on Spotify

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Windhawk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 28 2006 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 11400	Topic: Firebird (USA) - avant candidate Posted: January 13 2016 at 12:25
	US band, self-described and considered by others as avant, combining quirky rock with jazz, avantgarde and classical orientation with soprano lead vocals. One album, Bonds of Life (2014), released so far. It's on Spotify Homepage
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yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5820	Posted: January 13 2016 at 14:37
	Biography and an excellent band pic on the band's website, two mostly positive reviews here and here...plus one very negative review here - mainly because iTunes and Spotify both lump this album together with the discography of the British blues-rock power trio of the same name founded by Bill Steer in 1999, and that's the type of music that this particular guy was expecting to hear! Well, it's certainly not "utter rubbish" or "total crap" as this latter review suggests, but the Tarja Turunen like vocals are certainly unusual in this type of music, and might take a bit of getting used to for some people. Edit: The firebird already on progfreak is not this one - it is the band led by Bill Steer, as mentioned above (though only one album from the discography is included on the site, and no country has been assigned). I can't edit that particular entry myself - it needs Mike himself to do that, so I've added this firebird to progfreak with the country of origin in brackets in order to distinguish it from the British band of the same name: http://progfreak.com/Firebird-US--165409.html. Edited by yam yam - January 13 2016 at 15:13

Nogbad_The_Bad Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 20205	Posted: January 13 2016 at 15:07
	Looks like the album is up on youtube
	Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5820	Posted: January 13 2016 at 15:21
	^ It's one of those 'Various Artists' jobbies supposely provided by CDbaby, who are distributors for the CD. These tubes are seldom available for very long, and already I'm getting a message "This video is not available - sorry about that :/" Unless you found something different, of course...