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Thursday 12 November 2009

Like a prayer

I’m getting ready for a trip to Manhattan next week, and I’ve been working feverishly to get some posts in the can for the days that I’ll be away, but it seems that every time I pick up something to listen to and perhaps write about, I’m finding myself thinking, “This is too good to keep until next week, I need to talk about it now”.  Such is the case when my new friend Jon Janes (aka The Mountain & the Trees) turned me on to a little project he’s been involved with called Bird & Bear.

Jillian Freeman has the type of voice that sounds like it came down from heaven:  smooth as silk, supernaturally graceful, peaceful and calming like a prayer.  The six songs on Bird & Bear’s debut EP, Into The Moon are as charming as the young woman who sings them.  There is a comforting glow in songs like “The Photographer” and “Practical Imagination” that makes this collection feel intimate and personal, like she’s singing for an audience of you.  Janes joins her on banjo, organ, accordion and percussion, while Freeman handles guitars, harmonic, and piano.  Together they sound as powerful and tight as an full-on band, much the same way Janes’ other band does (small wonder, since Freeman does double duty as part of the live Mountains & The Trees experience).

Into The Moon is available as of today, and your week (nay, your life) won’t be complete until you’ve experienced it in full.  As their Myspace site so succinctly puts it, Bird & Bear: Part Human. Part Animal. All heart.

MP3: Bird & Bear “Practical Imagination”
Myspace: Bird & Bear

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