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Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Dancing on A'A

Read "Dancing on A'A" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Dancing on A'A documents the improvising quartet Birdsongs of the Mesozoic early in their second decade. It's highly unusual for a group of improvisers to stick together for over 20 years, but this is hardly an average group. While other stable musical units might doggedly pursue the same style to perfection, Birdsongs aims for the anti-style. Anything that crosses genre boundaries is fair game for this group.

On Dancing on A'A, electric and acoustic instruments arrive at fruitful collisions. Birdsongs ...

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Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic: Petrophonics

Read "Petrophonics" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


With their 10th recording titled Petrophonics, Boston Massachusetts based “Birdsongs Of The Mesozoic” have perhaps achieved the pinnacle of mastery with this truly superb newly released effort. Here, pianist/composer Erik Lindgren and woodwind specialist Ken Field cap off a string of successful solo ventures as the duo realigns with guitarist Michael Bierylo and synthesizer ace Rick Scott for the band’s latest and first effort in over five years.

“BOTM” continues to defy any rigid semblance of categorization yet surge onward ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Extreme Spirituals

Cuneiform Records
2006

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2001 Live Birds

NEARFest Records
2004

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Dancing on A'A

Cuneiform Records
2001

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Petrophonics

Cuneiform Records
2000

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Pyroclastics

Cuneiform Records
1992

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Life Line

Creative Sources
1986

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