Torn, Jarn, Bozzio - Polytown - what's similar?

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In case anyone else liked the 2015 debut album "Letters to Thurza" by Birds From Fire, they have a followup to be released soon:

Thanks for mentioning! Yes, I liked their debut very much. Some time after I bought it I had a brief email-contact with Robby Aceto, because I was curious about a possible third album by Red Letter (which turned out to be an impossible to find EP, titled "hum inside the heart"). He was very proud of that first Birds Through Fire.
This is what he writes on his site:

his guitar-driven solo debut code (produced by david torn; alchemy records, 1996) met with unanimous praise upon its release, and is considered a classic of experimental guitar and ambient song craft. he has recently completed work with australia-based electronica, chamber music & art collective birds through fire on their second full length album project the sting of everything for Sydney-Melbourne based label, Trench Editions. It is a wide-ranging meditation on existence, love, peril, and metaphysics, presented within a constantly shifting musical perspective, planned for release in early Spring of 2023 and will be made available of BandCamp. Their first album letters to thurza was released on trench editions in 2015 and can also be found there.

Birds Through Fire : The Sting of Everything

COMING SOON from TRENCH EDITIONS : SPRING 2023

featuring Robby Aceto, Paul Cartwright, Emma Rule, and Paul Smyth.

A two-disc set, 5 years in the making.

disc one; mixed by Robby Aceto. dic two; mixed by Paul Smyth with Robby Aceto

mastered by David Torn

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^^ PS I also like Paul Cartwright's Tenderpad from 2011, released on the same label Trench Editions.
https://www.discogs.com/release/7173...ight-Tenderpad

[Dave (in MA)]

The new album is out:
https://birdsthroughfire.bandcamp.co...-of-everything

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The new album is out:
https://birdsthroughfire.bandcamp.co...-of-everything

Thanks for the update!

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The new album is out:
https://birdsthroughfire.bandcamp.co...-of-everything

Just got this! It's again a fine mix of vocal pieces and melodic ambient. The second CD is completelly instrumental.

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Birds Through Fire released a video of the track Tribe from their latest double CDr The Sting Of Everything:



The album is slowly growing on me. Just like the first one there are also some similarities with the work of The Blue Nile/Paul Buchanan.

If you can't view the vid, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kToHUgiGcKo

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To be released on October 27th, the second album by Colin Edwin & Robert Jürjendal, The Weight Of A Shadow, has a sound that reminds me of Polytown at times. Mainly because Edwin uses Wal Basses (just as Mick Karn did), but also because of the atmospheric guitar-playing. Although the drums are generated by programming, they create a similar style as Jansen, Barbieri & Karn. There's no Bandcamp of this one yet, but here's their previous effort, Another World:

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Ha, five minutes after I posted ^^ the Burning Shed newsletter came in with this: https://burningshed.com/labels/HardW...of-a-shadow_cd

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Birds Through Fire released a new (download)track on Bandcamp, called Bullet Wind: https://birdsthroughfire.bandcamp.com/track/bullet-wind

[Dave (in MA)]

Birds Through Fire released a new (download)track on Bandcamp, called Bullet Wind: https://birdsthroughfire.bandcamp.com/track/bullet-wind

You beat me to it.

This one is mostly a solo piece by Aceto with words by Cartwright.
Aceto plays all the instruments except for the double bass provided by his brother Harry, and it features a spoken word delivery from Brian Cadd.

[ChrisNY]

To be released on October 27th, the second album by Colin Edwin & Robert Jürjendal, The Weight Of A Shadow, has a sound that reminds me of Polytown at times. Mainly because Edwin uses Wal Basses (just as Mick Karn did), but also because of the atmospheric guitar-playing. Although the drums are generated by programming, they create a similar style as Jansen, Barbieri & Karn. There's no Bandcamp of this one yet, but here's their previous effort, Another World:

The new one is out on Bandcamp now:

https://music.colinedwin.co.uk/album...ht-of-a-shadow

In my wishlist, perhaps next Bandcamp Friday.

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I don't see it mentioned here: the track The Grand Parade from Mark Isham's CD Castalia is played by the complete Polytown-trio + Isham:



There's also a video-clip of this piece of music:

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Listened to this a lot and Polytown during a three or four year period...for sure Buckethead on acoustic guitar isn't sounding much like Torn... so thinking the two are kind of similar may be an example of guilt by association.

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I've posted this in the Italian-thread too, but because Robby Aceto is involved I thought it might be interesting to post it here as well: Urban Vision, a solo-CD by Nicola Lori featuring GRICE, Robert Aceto (David Sylvian, The Heads, Tom Tom Club, Jansen Barbieri Karn); Andrea Chimenti; Cristiano Roversi; Colin Edwin (ex-Porcupine Tree, O.R.k.); Luca Calabrese (Richard Barbieri); Nicola Alesini (Claudio Lolli); Danilo Cherni (Antonello Venditti, Goblin Rebirth); Giacomo Anselmi (Goblin Rebirth); Stefano Panunzi (Fijeri) and Angelo Strizzi (Fjieri).

Although the website directs you to Bandcamp to order the CD and the video below suggests it's available through Burning Shed both sites don't mention the album yet. The album will be out on October 4.

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New in the series Innerviews from Anil Prasad: an interview with Birds Through Fire-member Robby Aceto, who played with with amongst others Tom Tom Club, David Sylvian, Jansen/Barbieri/Karn and Douglas September and released a wonderful solo-album years ago:

https://www.innerviews.org/inner/robby-aceto

[Boceephus]

Excellent music! Thanks for posting!


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[Dave (in MA)]

Quite a while ago Torn mentioned that he was going to set up his own Bandcamp page where he can put out some of his own music more frequently, and it took a while, but he finally did it a few months ago:
https://davidmtorn.bandcamp.com/music
For some reason he hasn't provided any preview clips on these releases, but it you're a Torn fan you already know pretty much what you're getting.

Also, this release with Stephan Thelen (Sonar) is pretty great:
https://stephanthelen.bandcamp.com/a...paces-volume-1

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New in the series Innerviews from Anil Prasad: an interview with Birds Through Fire-member Robby Aceto, who played with with amongst others Tom Tom Club, David Sylvian, Jansen/Barbieri/Karn and Douglas September and released a wonderful solo-album years ago:

https://www.innerviews.org/inner/robby-aceto

I was surprised to see Anil also asked some questions about Red Letter. I have both albums mentioned. In an older interview Aceto mentioned True North was their third album, which puzzled me. So I asked him which other album, besides True North and Reach Red Letter produced and this was his answer:

Regarding your question about Red Letter… the group existed and made it’s various recording releases in the ‘80s and early ‘90s, at a time before the mp3 or any streaming media was much in use.
So, those recordings for the most part only exist in the form in which they were released.
The group disbanded in the mid ’90’s shortly before i went to work on Code.
I’m sorry to say although the group had a large catalogue of released and unreleased material, no effort has been made to make them (Red Letter recordings) available through streaming or digital downloads.
The recording you asked about was an ep titled the hum inside the heart… it was available only in a short pressing and no copies seem to be left in circulation.

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Nice to see an old newspaper mentioning a concert by Red Letter (see page 16): https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a...txIN----------