We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The bird you never were

by Son of clay

supported by
thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

      42 DKK  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 3 Son of clay releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Two abstract paintings, The bird you never were, and Face takes shape. , and , .

      94.50 DKK or more (25% OFF)

     

1.
Bring me water or bread 05:32
buy track
2.
The colour scheme 02:58
buy track
3.
Forest on paper 01:43
buy track
4.
Vision thing 05:08
buy track
5.
Max Kristofer 04:33
buy track
6.
The rook 01:40
buy track
7.
I can't make it alone 05:25
buy track
8.
First snowflakes, then winter fall 05:35
buy track
9.
So much love I can take 03:43
buy track

about

With "The Bird You Never Were" Andreas Bertilsson refines the fusion between acoustic sounds, field-recordings and digitally processed material introduced on the debut album "Face Takes Shape". The result is a transparent and poetic work where the sound and the timing itself is everything. Behind every manoeuvre there is a decision. In Bertilsson's musical works we find contrasts between the digital and the analogue, between nature and urban life and between chance and structure. The first track on the album is more closely linked to the debut album with its intense atmosphere, while the following tracks are more freeform and present a more elaborate use of wood- and metal sounds and processed instruments like the guitar and the clarinet. Lingering and tentative tones mixed with swift attacks of sound unite, form a structure and then deconstruct to start all over again. The seemingly simple grows into complex musical compositions full of detail, of precise and restrained intensity where silence form a balance between disturbances and tranquillity, the surreal and the ordinary. The music of "The Bird You Never Were" is, despite its abstractedness, bare, personal and direct. The sounds create a state which forms a direct link to body and memory. Bertilsson creates a personal renewal of his musical experiences from composers such as Morton Feldman, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Mamoru Fujieda, Akemi Ishijima, Jimmy Giuffre and Talk Talk. A poetic soundscape takes shape where the sounds could be seen as separate objects, focused timbres where every movement is executed with deliberate and simple elegance.
(Pressrelease)

credits

released March 15, 2004

Written, recorded and produced by Andreas Bertilsson in Berlin 2003/2004.Mastered in Copenhagen by Hans Appelqvist in Studio 2 at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. Cover: Detail view from “Untitled” by Astrid Svangren 2003.

Musicians
Andreas Bertilsson: Computer, fieldrecordings

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Son of clay image

Son of clay Copenhagen, Denmark

contact / help

Contact Son of clay

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Son of clay, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now