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Article: LOCAL MUSIC; No Bird is the word; Former Hyder Ali members take flight with a new, ornithologically named trio.(VARIETY)(LOCAL MUSIC)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- September 11, 2009
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Byline: CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER; STAFF WRITER
Nearly everything about No Bird Sing is innovative and artistic. Just the musical makeup of the group is gutsy: essentially a hip-hop band built on the raw sounds of one guitar, one microphone, drums and little else. The lyrics are bold, too, influenced by everything from "A Clockwork Orange" to Muddy Waters to Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz. You remember ol' Chessy, right?
One big thing about the trio that's not so cutting-edge, though, is the origin of its band name. "None of us are really that big into ornithology," said frontman Joe Horton, aka Eric Blair, trying to explain how his band was named after a ...