Echolocations: River

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Echolocations: River
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 6, 2017
Genre New age, field recording
Label Wegawam Music Co.
Producer Adam Samuel Goldman
Andrew Bird chronology
Are You Serious
(2016)
Echolocations: River
(2017)
My Finest Work Yet
(2019)

Echolocations: River is the eleventh solo studio album by American songwriter and musician Andrew Bird. It is the second album in his Echolocations series, the first one being Echolocations: Canyon. [1] The album makes prominent use of field recording, with Bird performing in the Los Angeles River under the Hyperion Bridge. Additional studio recordings were added to supplement the field recordings and flesh out the compositions.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Cormorants"2:28
2."Ellipses"6:33
3."Lazuli Bunting"3:38
4."Gypsy Moth"6:33
5."Black-Crowned Night-Heron"4:02
6."Down Under the Hyperion Bridge"9:34
7."Dear Killdear"0:52
8."The Green Heron"6:50

"Gypsy Moth" is a different rendition of Bird's 2016 composition "Roma Fade."

Reception

Steve Horowitz of PopMatters rated the album 8/10, writing: "The ambient sounds of the waterway combine with Bird’s playing and use of sonic effects to create a heightened sense of tranquility." [2]

Personnel

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References

  1. Braudie Blais-Billie (2017) “Andrew Bird Announces New Album Echolocations: River Pitchfork , 25 September 2017. Accessed 20 February 2018.
  2. Horowitz, Steve (2017-11-02). "Andrew Bird: Echolocations: River". PopMatters . Archived from the original on 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  3. Bird, Andrew. Echolocations: River. 2017. Perf. Andrew Bird. Wegawam Music Co, 2017. CD.