Born
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Steven Z
Steven Z
Technically layered, vibrant, organic, has a real groove and deep well of power.
Favorite track: Descending Us.
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paul rote
Classic seventies style prog . Great in any year !
Favorite track: Descending Us.
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lloydd
Nothing much to add to what has already been said. Seventies prog of the highest caliber. This band hits on all cylinders. I don't know whats up but my last few purchases are heavy prog.I know whats up i do enjoy good prog. There I said it.
Favorite track: Descending Us.
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Born
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Descending Us
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Boundless, thousands of miles between
Lost and wondering till the dawn of our days
We’re falling, washing the salt off the earth
Caught in the runaway of our time
And the hands that are moving too slow
Breathe, last breath
As I drift into the noise
From within the void
Silence takes control
Of all your memories
And my enemy is by your side
The wall has just begun
To fall around me
Descending us into the void
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For Yesterday
09:14
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Who am I to give myself away
To know what it’s like
To know how to stay
And if we were in love
Careful what to say
Can’t go back in time
Live for yesterday
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Cosmic Tears
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Another Time
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Underneath the fray
Shadowed by a light
Beyond the furthest path we’ve gone before
To find a way to the only place, left to go
Left to go
Blinding silver sands
Separate the lines
Between too distant paths that fail to cross
That guide us to the other side of everyone
Will the mind decide it’s gone today
Will there be another second chance
To understand or undermine
A way to you
Leave what left behind
And come back when
The sign of severed ties is just a dream
That takes us to another time
That never was
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If you wanted to
I’ll be the darkest light of all
If you needed to
I’ll be the one to break your fall
All along, you neglected to be the dawn
Lying beautiful, holding others while on the edge
Now we’ve turned to grey
Radio child has gone away
Leading surfacing
Overriding colorful days
All our love is neglected and gone away
Buying comfortably
In the loneliness of your mind
Cold trite parasite, taking my mind
What will they have us to know
Trying to siphon the singing in my head
Hopelessness leaves us alone
If you wanted to live in a life of wasted time
Broken bandages leading us miles to idle lines
All our love is injected to empty veins
If you wanted to live this loneliness live this pain
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about
“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world” .
So wrote Mary Shelley in Frankenstein, arguably the first science fiction tale. A full 204 years later, the quest remains - how best to elucidate our daily lives with some form of inspiration that moves the spirit beyond its earthly shackles?
This is the current realm of Birth, San Diego’s most transcendental new band and purveyors of a form of vibrant and electrifying progressive rock that moves beyond time and space itself. In 'Born' their debut for Bad Omen Records, the listener is invited on a magic-eye journey through a Castenadean realm in which colours and sounds warp into kaleidoscopic dimensions. Yet far from the trappings of retro chic and fashion-aligned classicism, these five celestial serenades stake their claim in a different headspace to most other exponents of the form. Certainly it’s true that many of the audial shapes manifesting themselves here - the exploratory jazz-rock diversions, Mellotron and Hammond-abetted textures and the rich melancholia of the song-writing - may recall moments from progressive rock’s past, and the listener may be forgiven for losing themselves in a gatefold-sleeved reverie. Nonetheless, this is a band which was thrown into life via the constrictions and temporal shifts of a global pandemic, as well as one which has largely set about chronicling a reality in which the surrounding world appears to be hurrying its own demise.
Birth evolved from Astra, whose two albums for Rise Above Records - 2009’s ‘The Weirding’ and 2012’s ‘The Black Chord’ - had already reinvented classic sonic textures and mind-melds in lucid and intoxicating style. Conor Riley and Brian Ellis nonetheless found themselves seeking out new life and new civilisations. Initially this led to a collaboration with Psicomagia’s Trevor Mast and Paul Marrone, although later Marrone (while he does play on ‘Born’) was replaced by Thomas DiBenedetto (of Sacri Monte, Joy and Monarch) as sparks began to fly in earnest.
The result has been a debut which combines a questing spirit with a dystopian take on the here and now. Musically, whilst traces can be discerned of the dark and magisterial King Crimson of ‘Red’ herein, as well as the yearning cadences of early Yes and the delirious contortions of Van Der Graaf Generator, a whole host of influences made their presence felt in these mournful cadences, joyful solo passages and kinetic freakouts, from '70s mainstays like Aphrodites Child, Premiata Formeria Marconi and Area to the primitive folk of Robbie Basho and the symphonic soundtrack work of Osanna.
Meanwhile, Reilly sums up the themes of songs like “Descending Us” and “The Long Way Down” as "the deterioration of society, transformation... more
So wrote Mary Shelley in Frankenstein, arguably the first science fiction tale. A full 204 years later, the quest remains - how best to elucidate our daily lives with some form of inspiration that moves the spirit beyond its earthly shackles?
This is the current realm of Birth, San Diego’s most transcendental new band and purveyors of a form of vibrant and electrifying progressive rock that moves beyond time and space itself. In 'Born' their debut for Bad Omen Records, the listener is invited on a magic-eye journey through a Castenadean realm in which colours and sounds warp into kaleidoscopic dimensions. Yet far from the trappings of retro chic and fashion-aligned classicism, these five celestial serenades stake their claim in a different headspace to most other exponents of the form. Certainly it’s true that many of the audial shapes manifesting themselves here - the exploratory jazz-rock diversions, Mellotron and Hammond-abetted textures and the rich melancholia of the song-writing - may recall moments from progressive rock’s past, and the listener may be forgiven for losing themselves in a gatefold-sleeved reverie. Nonetheless, this is a band which was thrown into life via the constrictions and temporal shifts of a global pandemic, as well as one which has largely set about chronicling a reality in which the surrounding world appears to be hurrying its own demise.
Birth evolved from Astra, whose two albums for Rise Above Records - 2009’s ‘The Weirding’ and 2012’s ‘The Black Chord’ - had already reinvented classic sonic textures and mind-melds in lucid and intoxicating style. Conor Riley and Brian Ellis nonetheless found themselves seeking out new life and new civilisations. Initially this led to a collaboration with Psicomagia’s Trevor Mast and Paul Marrone, although later Marrone (while he does play on ‘Born’) was replaced by Thomas DiBenedetto (of Sacri Monte, Joy and Monarch) as sparks began to fly in earnest.
The result has been a debut which combines a questing spirit with a dystopian take on the here and now. Musically, whilst traces can be discerned of the dark and magisterial King Crimson of ‘Red’ herein, as well as the yearning cadences of early Yes and the delirious contortions of Van Der Graaf Generator, a whole host of influences made their presence felt in these mournful cadences, joyful solo passages and kinetic freakouts, from '70s mainstays like Aphrodites Child, Premiata Formeria Marconi and Area to the primitive folk of Robbie Basho and the symphonic soundtrack work of Osanna.
Meanwhile, Reilly sums up the themes of songs like “Descending Us” and “The Long Way Down” as "the deterioration of society, transformation... more
credits
released July 15, 2022
Conor Riley – Vocals, synthesizer, electric piano, organ, acoustic guitar
Brian Ellis- Guitar, electric piano, percussion
Trevor Mast – Bass
Paul Marrone - Drums
All songs written and performed by Birth
Recorded and produced by Brian Ellis and Conor Riley
Mixed by Trevor Mast, Brian Ellis and Conor Riley
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering
Artwork by David D’Andrea
Layout by Annick Giroux
Conor Riley – Vocals, synthesizer, electric piano, organ, acoustic guitar
Brian Ellis- Guitar, electric piano, percussion
Trevor Mast – Bass
Paul Marrone - Drums
All songs written and performed by Birth
Recorded and produced by Brian Ellis and Conor Riley
Mixed by Trevor Mast, Brian Ellis and Conor Riley
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering
Artwork by David D’Andrea
Layout by Annick Giroux
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Birth San Diego, California
Elegiac mellotron-assisted songcraft, richly melodious abandon and monumental solo passages thus join forces to deliver a third-eye-cleansing blast of vibrant progressive rock, replete with grandiose cinematic scope and psychedelic intensity.
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Jul 2022 -
Jul 2021
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