AUGIE MARCH - Strange Bird 2LP jazz and the second one equals

and the second one equals to the square shape

smack in the middle of my dreams after a night on the graveyard shift

flavoured occasionally by squalling feedback and Michael Gira's general sense of disgust at consumer culture/wage slavery/the human race

but always threatening to verge - angry and exhausted - out of its orbit

Sarah Scherer’s keys swirl to Miranda Vera’s insistent beat

AUGIE MARCH - Strange Bird 2LP jazz and the second one equalsA more concise record than the epic 'Sunset Studies', 'Strange Bird' (2002) still manages to cover more sonic terrain. It veers from the sweet, building harmony of 'The Vineyard', through the Wild West gallop of 'This Train', the heavy 'Song in the Key of Chance' and muted melancholy of 'O Mi Sol Li Lon' to the plaintive balladry of 'The Night is A Blackbird', and that's all in the first half hour! Like its predecessor, 'Strange Bird' includes two