Birds and Buildings

a master piece in progressive rock`s new era

Sounds like exciting news to me 

i will definitely be getting this when it's released.  :)

KingCrimson250 wrote: Any word on Multipurpose Trap? Any at all? I'm dying here!

Why, I thought you'd never ask.  I just wrote a blog on myspace a few days ago:



http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=147345791&blogId=536926316

July 10, 2010

We are working very hard on our second album "Multipurpose Trap"....our first album is a little hard to follow, and I had been worrying there was nothing we could do to equal or top it, but I am starting to feel more confident in the new material.

Yes, there will be singing, probably on every track, but hopefully not by me, and only for a minute or less on most of the tracks.  This is to confuse people who want to label each song "instrumental" or "vocal."

The working titles and my best recollection for running times are:

1. The Dumb Fish (3:30)
This one is jazzy and catchy.
2. Horse-Shaped Cloud (formerly Underscore) (4:30)
This one goes from perky to maybe the most intense part we've ever done back to perky.  Surprisingly it doesn't feel too disjointed.  It's about flying in a hot-air balloon, then getting blown around by a horse-shaped cloud, then landing safely.  Though there are only two lines to the lyrics, the music will help tell the story.
3. Miracle Pigeon (2:30)
A soundtrack to a comic book about a superhero pigeon.  I was wanting to actually get someone to do an animated cartoon to this, but there probably won't be enough time.
4. East is Fort Orthodox (6:00)
This is a murky prequel to the next song.
5. Secret Crevice (maybe to be renamed Stealth Cantiri) (5:00)
This one doesn't let up at all from beginning to end.  I added some mellotron parts that really hit the spot too.  This would make a great show-opener, maybe with the preceding track.
6. Tragic Penguin (7:00)
The entire track is built around an improvisation I did on electric piano on November 17, 2007.  It was a lot of fun to build stuff around it, and sometimes I think this is actually a genuinely progressive way to make music.
7. Catapult (10:00)
Requisite offspring of "Birds Flying Into Buildings" or "Battalion"
8. Aviator Prosco (10:00)
Yes, that's Prosco as in "progressive disco" and to make matters worse for closed-minded prog fans, this one starts out with a very breezy jazz feel very unlike everything we've done before, but the kind of thing that Brian and Malcolm are great at playing.  The evolution from jazz to disco is fun, and the chord sequence for this song is very Tony Banksian, even though Brian wrote almost half the song and has never really heard Genesis before.
9. Abonimable Pelican (14:00)
This is built around a very simple theme that Malcolm improvised against, and then I built some completely different stuff around what Malcolm recorded.  It's still in the early stages, but it's probably going to be a good way to end the album, even though the diversions into hardcore funk aren't exactly what we're known for.

And yes, there is indeed an animal theme to this one, at least in the song titles.  I'm working on the artwork, and that's taking almost as long as the music.  It will be quite a package once it's finished.

If you want to hear an early version of Miracle Pigeon, go to CD Baby and look for the Emkog sampler CD.  I already pitched it in the previous blog, so I won't provide the link again.

<end myspace blog quote>

Well, the Progarchives Dan WILL provide that CDbaby link :

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/emkog

"Miracle Pigeon" is the sixth track there, and several other snippets are in the "A Big Blob of Demos and Early Versions of Forthcoming Music" track.

Estimated release date for Multipurpose Trap is January 2011.

Any word on Multipurpose Trap? Any at all? I'm dying here!

Almost a great album but the male vocals really hurt it in my opinion. I think they'd do better as an instrumental band.

Bantom To Behemoth is extremely good, love it 

A new album by B&B is due this year.

I really like Birds and Buildings. Their album has been on my very long list to buy for a while now. I must get it soon, hopefully next month.

Edited by Nightfly - October 13 2009 at 13:32

Thanks to avestin and his great recommendations I could listen to this band, and how interesting is their music, really recommendable.