Another post rock outfit with a long strung out name! Much of the soundscape is familiar to post rock fans, guitars, Rhodes keyboard, drums, and not much vocalizing (none). The latest album from these guys simply titled “birds” contains four different “flocks”. The the instrumentation bounces around seeming to morph sounds into some sort of structure, and while it occasionally slips toward the oh so tiresome slow build formula, the organic sounding samples, combined with enough compositional motion seem to help it from becoming too stale or predictable.

Collections of Colonies of Bees

The maiden voyage of our new band Colt Vista took place last Thurs at The Know here in Portland Oregon. The show was packed (with Ryan and Pete’s massive following) and they seemed to enjoy the performance quite a bit. We had a few kind people videotaping the event and I just captured some of the footage. Here is a clip of the song Pigeon Feeder which is currently the band favorite and quite a rousing closing number if I don’t say so myself. If you are in the Seattle area you can catch us next Thurs March 13th over at the High Dive.

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