Browse by Artist: ICARUS

Artist:	ICARUS
Title:	I Tweet the Birdy Electric
Label:	LEAF (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	BAY 036CD

"Cousins Sam Britton and Ollie Bown created Icarus in 1997 to represent a collision of ideas that were best expressed musically. I Tweet The Birdy Electric is an adventure in sonic construction and musical history, melding the base of electronic culture's past with new bricks of originality. Like their peers Autechre, Supersilent and Burnt Friedman, Icarus walk a tightrope between inherited musical tradition and experimentalism, using the former in service of the latter without compromising the power of either. The album twists its musical elements much in the way its title plays on Walt Whitman's famous poem pointing to a possible new direction for electronic music, recombining the past in new ways to render it completely innovative, while incorporating distinctly recognizable acoustic instruments to ground the compositions in an approximation of reality."

Artist:	ICARUS
Title:	Six Soviet Misfits
Label:	TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LIMITED
Format:	2CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	TRR 058CD

"Icarus is the misadventure of Ollie Bown and Sam Britton, following the fiddly twisted rhythm along a scratchy line; noise from black boxes through which only certain pieces of data may pass. This in turn feeds through boards and wires to become processed as musical, by default. In short, an effect similar to dropping ink into water is experienced aurally as a series of ineffable blips, interleaved within the sounds of the marketplace. With a bit of luck this should reconfigure musical industriality into a Dadaist work of precision chaos, but a freak occurrence could equally spell disaster for us all. All Icarus can do is try to mediate the event; this is the true fate of the modern musician, sending his or her sound bouncing along wires until somewhere, at some unknown point, they crash headlong into context. It's like tapes and cars. It's like the junk equation. It's like the effect of indifference to sound, which is less than the difference in sound from in front or behind. The dissolution of noise clears way for a fragmented melody; a flux of harmony on a polymetric pulse. As yet more vibrations fall victim to the staccato bit-wise we say 'let noises run amok'."

Artist:	ICARUS
Title:	The Marvel World of Icarus
Label:	WOODEN HILL (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	WH 016CD

"First-ever official, master tapes reissue of 1972 British psych/prog concept album, allegedly withdrawn at the time due to pressure from Marvel Comics. The full story is told in the lavish 16-page booklet, which also includes previously unpublished photos and band quotes. Five bonus tracks: a U.S.-only single that was an outtake from the LP, the band's 1968 pop-psych debut single and, most impressively of all, both sides of a fantastic unreleased 45 from 1969. This release also doubles as the complete recorded works of one of the most elusive, mysterious bands active during the British psychedelic/progressive era."

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