Birds of Avalon w/ Flaming Lips
By Team JamBase Aug 27, 2007 • 12:00 am PDT
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“It’s the sound of mirror shades, beaver hunts, shag-carpeted muscle vans and cleaning your weed on a gatefold sleeve. In the words of Geezer Butler (or was it Roger Glover?)—stonkin’!” -Harp Magazine
After a seven-year stint in a prison van with the double drum, frenetic rock n’ roll assault known as The Cherry Valence, guitarists Cheetie Kumar and Paul Siler, felt a growing desire to move on. In a final whirlwind year that saw The Cherry Valence touring Europe multiple times, the couple, Kumar and Siler, got married and made the difficult decision to divorce their band.
Returning home hitched and band-less, they began late night clandestine meetings with neighbor and local crooner Craig Tilley (The Weather), where they hatched a plan to form Birds of Avalon and laid the foundation for what was to become the first batch of Birds Of Avalon songs. Still needing to round out their line up they snared their favorite area drummer Scott Nurkin (Dynamite Brothers) and soon added multi-instrumentalist and fanatical 4 tracker, David Mueller on bass.
With the release of their debut full length, Bazaar Bazaar, Birds Of Avalon have developed a unique psychedelic meets progressive sound that yields feelings that transcend the conventions of both. Skillfully channeling elements of a time in rock since past, while maintaining their place in the lineage of North Carolinian independent rock heritage. Easily traversing an area between raw blues rock and atmospheric pysch-pop. Birds Of Avalon “can tear it up in a three-minute barn-burner or lure you into an extended psychedelic journey, wandering schizophrenically like a Brian May guitar solo,” so says Jens Lekman of Cincinnati City Beat.
Bazaar Bazaar was released on May 22 on Volcom Entertainment and was recorded and produced by Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let’s Active, Wilco), Greg Elkins and Brian Quast.
Watch Birds of Avalon shred HERE.
BIRDS OF AVALON US Tour Dates:
Volcom Tour w/ Riverboat Gamblers, Valient Thorr, Totimoshi, ASG, and more! w/ Fucking Champs! w/ The Flaming Lips!
08/28/2007 Ottobar Baltimore, MD
08/29/2007 Peabody’s Cleveland, OH
08/30/2007 Magic Stick Detroit, MI
08/31/2007 The Basement Columbus, OH
09/01/2007 Subterranean Chicago, IL
09/02/2007 The Rave/Eagles Club Milwaukee, WI
09/07/2007 Dante’s Portland, OR
09/08/2007 Crocodile Cafe Seattle, WA
09/16/2007 Aquarium Fargo, ND
09/17/2007 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN
09/18/2007 Waiting Room Omaha, NE
09/19/2007 Record Bar Kansas City, MO
09/20/2007 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
09/21/2007 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT
09/24 Lonestar Pavilion @ Sunset Station San Antonio, TX
09/25 La Zona Rosa Austin, TX
09/28 The Pageant St. Louis, MO
09/30 Agora Theater Cleveland, OH
10/01 Clutch Cargos Detroit, MI
10/03 Amos Southend Charlotte, NC
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