The
Firebird Band is:
Christopher Broach, Mike Marsden, and Steve Znavor.
The newest record – The City at Night is available
through Bifocal
Media and Lucid
Records.
* bassist John Isberg plays bass, keyboards, sequencers,
and even some backing vocals on THE CITY AT NIGHT
**drummer Rob Kellenberger (Duvall, Tuesday, Slapstick) plays
live drums on THE CITY AT NIGHT…
*** singer (and Broach's sister) Elizabeth Black did some
vocals on 3 of the tracks from THE CITY AT NIGHT as well…
Most of the songs on this record – “The City
at Night” – were played in no specific order (all
but 6 of the 15 tracks) and over the next 6 months (from January
to June of 2003) cut up, edited, and put together at home,
at Coney Island Studios in Madison, Wisconsin, and at Steve
Colletti’s house (of Monday’s Hero) by Broach.
Most of the “parts” to the songs were just played
back to back for a period of time – and left open as
to how it would fit together later. To let it the music breathe,
give the guys (Broach and Isberg) a few months (9 months)
to think about how to out it together, and leave it open for
interpretation at a later time. The acoustic tracks were recorded
by Matt Talbott (of Hum and Centaur) in the fall of 2001 at
his studio in Champaign, Illinois – Great Western Record
Recorders.
The Firebird Band continues to grow, and has been getting
more and more heavily involved in using synths, drum machines,
vocoders, and computers to layer and write new songs. As well
as a somewhat organic approach to the guitars and live instruments
- it makes for an interesting and fresh new hybrid between
electro, rock, and that new "electro-clash" word
that seems so befitting of the times as of late... and fresh
and new hybrid that you won't be able to compare to any other... |