Forgotten Birds – Sahara
(Karaoke Kalk)
Forgotten Birds are from
Hamburg, formed around the duo of Jan Gazarra and Judy Willms. “Sahara” is
their debut LP. Together, they play a kind of ambient country-folk music. With
space and light they tackle old-school love stories, every day existence, and
express melancholy with a heartfelt happiness.
Sprinkling everything
with rays of sunshine and the odd electronic dappling, they seem to have rid
themselves of negative emotion: “She Goes” tells of someone walking away
forever, and is delivered beautifully with no regret, despair or tears
A flower-powered passion
for love, peace and simplicity pervades throughout. Tracks such as, “Brooklyn
Bridge” and “Fools Rush In” have a touch of Laura Viers about them whilst the ‘quietly
does it’ approach of Kings of Convenience is ever present - possibly no
coincidence, as Marcin Oz of Whitest Boy Alive plays bass!
The album ends with the much
covered easy listening classic, and the theme to “The Thomas Crown Affair”, “Windmills
Of Your Mind” and I suppose, in a nutshell (and meant in the best possible way)
this album represents the stylized easy listening of the 21st
century.
Willsk
Forgotten Birds – Fools Rush In
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