The Second Bird, by Peppermoth

The Second Bird

by Peppermoth

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A gorgeous 6-panel Digipak featuring the original artwork of Canadian master printmaker and painter Stu Oxley. The package features monographs from his recent collection and a very limited number of CD's include 2 5"x5" art cards, printed especially for this release.

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1.	Bloom 04:21	buy track
2.	Treasure Hunter 03:50	buy track
3.	Metranatomy 03:51	buy track
4.	The King is dead 05:24	buy track
5.	Accompany Me 03:17	buy track
6.	Me Then You 03:48	buy track
7.	Ballet Of The Stars 04:05	buy track
8.	Here's Where We Begin 05:08	buy track
9.	Yellowstone 05:07	buy track

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“The second bird represents (the) conscious testimony in us. It’s the ability to observe the life that’s going on and the activities going on, but it’s not doing anything...” (Mooji)

Inspired by this simple contemplation, ambient artist Peppermoth presents The Second Bird, a sprawling suite of instrumentals bathed in neo-classical, electronica, dub, improv and impressionist influences. It continues Peppermoth creator and Canadian producer Andrew McPherson’s guiding mandate for the project, which is to ensure the music allows space for the listener to act as a second bird, if you will – a no man’s land where a listener’s creative responses are consciously or unconsciously superimposed onto the pieces as a kind of co-creator.

Against the backdrop of winter, The Second Bird evolved from hours of improvised recordings and an unhurried but decisive mindset, enriched further by the arrival of a 40 year old, analog mixing desk that breathed new life into the recording/mixing process. Piano and guitar remain at the heart of Peppermoth’s sound but Andrew’s deep love of inspired sonics insured collaborations were also encouraged. Returning is trumpeter Gary Diggins (R. Murray Schafer), double bassist Jeff Bird (Cowboy Junkies, Natalie Merchant), alongside Les Hartai (Eccodek) on modular synths and newcomer Adam Bowman (Alysha Brilla, Elise LeGrow) playing Handsonic.

Like previous Peppermoth releases, The Second Bird explores a rich terrain of style and fusion. ‘Ballet of the Stars’ and ‘Treasure Hunter’ layer Byrds-soaked guitar melodies over shape-shifting modulations and dubwise tape effects, while impressionist piano anthems pollinate in ‘Me then You’ and ‘The King is Dead’. Album bookends ‘Bloom’ and ‘Here’s where we begin’/’Yellowstone’ build weightless tapestries of sound out of shards of melody, bass drones and the escaping breath of bamboo flute. The Second Bird explores more obvious use of rhythm than in previous releases with ‘Metranatomy’s’ skittering, electro-chatter and trance bass and ‘Treasure Hunter’s’ soul shuffle that appears in the track’s closing.

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released January 24, 2020

Produced, recorded and mixed by Andrew McPherson at The Monastereo, Guelph Canada, 2019.
All compositions by Andrew McPherson SOCAN 2020 c + p

All instruments by Andrew McPherson except,
Gary Diggins - Trumpet
Jeff Bird - Double bass, electric mandolin, treatments
Les Hartai - Modular Synths, Ableton
Adam Bowman - Handsonic

Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova.

All artwork (monographs) generously provided by Stu Oxley.

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Welcome to the online store for Eccodek, Peppermoth and Andrew McPherson. Canadian producer and artist Andrew is a 2-time Juno nominatee, 2-time CMA winner and has releases on Buddha Bar, Six Degrees, Sony, EMI, Real World, White Swan and Six Degrees Records. ... more

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