Elephant Micah Plays the Songs of Bible Birds

by Elephant Micah

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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.

credits

released 01 February 2010
Harmony vocals and violin by Beth Remis
Upright bass by Jason Henn
Drums and pump organ by Ben Racher
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