Bird Music

[sphinxsix]

Christopher mentioned Jerzy Grotowski talking to cows on the other thread but are there more talkative animals than African grey parrots.?!

L&D, meet Einstein...

 

 

[Ralf11]

Cetaceans are more talkative.

 

For an interesting book on one particular parrot, try:  Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg.

 

I am not gonna weigh in on the veracity of her claims, or whether she was railroaded by the good ol' boyz, etc. etc.

 

There are also a couple of interesting books on ravens by Bernd Heinrich (who studied bumblebees when he was in Calif.)

[christopher3393]

 

[sphinxsix]

10 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

 

 

It reminded me of the fact that Bird loved birds, chickens precisely. This was Charlie Parker's favorite food. Here is a story which seems to be an ultimate image of be bop hedonism described by Miles Davis in his autobiography:

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He was a great and genius musician, man, but he was also on of the slimiest and greediest motherfuckers who ever lived in this world, at least that I ever met. He was something.
I remember one time we was coming down to The Street to play from uptown and Bird had this white bitch in the back of the taxi with us. He had done already shot up a lot of heroin and now the motherfucker’s eating chicken— his favorite food — and drinking whiskey and telling the bitch to get down and suck his dick. Now, I wasn’t used to that kind of shit back then— I was hardly even drinking, I think I had just started smoking— and I definitely wasn’t into drugs yet because I was only nineteen years old and hadn’t seen no shit like that before. Anyway, Bird noticed that I was getting kind of uptight with the woman sucking all over his dick and everything, and him sucking on her pussy. So he asked if something was wrong with me, and if his doing this was bothering me. When I told him that I felt uncomfortable with them doing what they were doing in front of me, with her licking and slapping her tongue like a dog all over his dick and him making all that moaning noise in between taking bites of chicken, I told him, “Yeah, it’s bothering me.” So you know what that motherfucker said? He told me that if it was bothering me, then I should turn my head and not pay attention I couldn’t believe that shit, that he actually said that to me. The cab was real small and we all three were in the backseat, so where was I supposed to turn m head? What I did was to stick my head outside the taxi window, but I could still hear them motherfuckers getting down and in between, Bird smacking his lips all over that fried chicken. Like I said, he was something, all right.

 

Parker with Chan Robertson Parker and daughter Kim (ca. 1953).

 

 

[christopher3393]

13 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

 

It reminded me of the fact that Bird loved birds, chickens precisely. This was Charlie Parker's favorite food. Here is a story which seems to be an ultimate image of be bop hedonism described by Miles Davis in his autobiography:

 

Parker with Chan Robertson Parker and daughter Kim (ca. 1953).

 

 

 

hmmm... how to digest this conversational lubricant?

The modern migration of orgiastic ritual?

"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken." (Isabelle Allende) ?

A meditation on aesthetics and disgust? https://www.academia.edu/9757376/Disgust_Oxford_Encyclopedia_of_Aesthetics_2nd_ed._

 

or...MORE CHICKEN!

 

 

 

[sphinxsix]

8 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken."

Charlie Parker's preference was definitely for the whole chicken..

Genius and craziness often go together..

 

An early Bird with Miles.

 

 

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[sphinxsix]

The link between Bird and Zappa is pretty obvious:

 

 

A chicken inspired Zappa to play one of his wildest solos (starts 2:00). It's a common knowledge chickens get wild every now and then.

 

 

And of course Zappa's band was famous for using the chicken to measure it...

 

 

One of the youtube comments to this video is: 'Someone please explain this.'

 

 

[sphinxsix]

On the piano side of ornithology. He breaks the theme a hundred times and it's still fantastic!

 

 

[christopher3393]

BIRDS OF A FEATHER | Official Music Video | Theme From “Chicken Girls”

 

 

RAINED ON ROOSTER from Slim Bawb and the Stumpgrinders

 

 

[sphinxsix]

Zhaoze playing electric guqin on his “Birds Contending” album which was mainly recorded in a forest in Zottegem, Belgium. Post/progressive rock ethno music.? Sounds pretty cool.

 

 

[sphinxsix]

A mockingbird. A very musical one

Have a great evening everybody!

 

 

[christopher3393]

Bobby Day "Rockin' Robin" 1958

 

 

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[sphinxsix]

46 minutes ago, christopher3393 said:

 

 

 

 

Flying birds, you say

 

 

 

 

[christopher3393]

Released in 1970 16 weeks on the Country Music charts, 2 weeks at no.1,

the unforgettable "Tennessee Bird Walk"

 

 

And now a technically fascinating special live version from our stars:

 

 

Just to round things out, a few moments with a walking parrot:

 

 

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[sphinxsix]

20 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

Just to round things out, a few moments with a walking parrot:

 

 

 

Annie Lennox, charming as usual..

 

 

..and Olympic.

 

 

[Daccord]

Sibelius Symphony No. 5 - Feat. swans:

 

[sphinxsix]

As for Sibelius and swans (I'm not sure but I think no one mentioned this one):

 

 

As for rock and swans (Swans - the band obviously comes to mind too):

 

 

[sphinxsix]

I don't listen to music like that but I'm actually listening to the album on which this piece is included..

It's good to break your own rules and habits from time to time

Thanks @Confused !

 

 

[Daccord]

I've seen Adrian Belew play several times with King Crimson, and most recently in a solo show at an awful bar. The recorded music the bar played before the show was all pretty familiar - David Bowie, Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Paul Simon, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, King Crimson... It was a while before I realized the theme - Adrian Belew had contributed to everything they were playing. So here's his contribution to this thread.

 

 

[89reksal]

Neil Young: "Beautiful Bluebird"

 

[89reksal]

The Decemberists: "The Crane Wife 1 & 2"