Elephant Micah Plays the Songs of Bible Birds

by Elephant Micah

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Elephant Micah Plays the Songs of Bible Birds on CD, in screenprinted art cardstock sleeve with lyric insert. Released by Time-Lag Records: www.time-lagrecords.com

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Elephant Micah Plays the Songs of Bible Birds on LP, in screenprinted art cardstock sleeve with lyric insert. Released by Time-Lag Records: www.time-lagrecords.com

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1.	Cardinals 04:28	download
2.	Free as the Freest 04:13	download
3.	Loop and Lil 01:58	download
4.	The Brighter Bird, the Better 04:23	download
5.	Imaginary Melodies 02:20	download
6.	Are You a Christian? 04:57	download
7.	Paradise 03:31	download
8.	To Exit this Circular Highway 03:56	download
9.	Auto-Lullaby 03:27	download

about

Touring the east coast in 2003, someone asked, "You're from Indiana--have you ever heard of the Bible Bird Man?" I hadn't, so I did some research. His video had already been stolen from the library at Earlham College, but I stole it back and returned it.

I began to imagine what the musical equivalent of his evangelical bird act might sound like. I wrote a song about the bird man, thinking of releasing it as a "re-issue" of a central Indiana country-gospel group that had never existed--the Bible Birds. Then I thought maybe I would do an Elephant Micah album of covers originally written by this (non-existent) Bible Birds band.

In the end of course the concept kind of dissipated and it just became an Elephant Micah album. I recruited Beth Remis from Static Films (and more recently Pillars and Tongues) to help arrange/sing harmonies for the songs, and generally bring them up to pseudo-gospel snuff. We played the songs around the upper midwest once with Ben Racher on a portable pump organ and Jason Henn on upright bass. All of us got together in Indianapolis in 2006 and recorded this. I drove everyone crazy with my insistence on weird recording methods. I think I was kind of trying to approximate the timbres of the hymn sing broadcast on Salem, Indiana's WSLM. Who knows? I was critical of the results and didn't finalize them for several years.

Here it is finally, a kind of "prequel" companion to the Hindu Windmills album.