The Firebird Band
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“Night Remixes” 2011 - (City at Night Rx)
Purchase/Stream The Firebird Band “Night Remixes” Single at Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music (digital only release)
The Firebird Band “Night Remixes” Single - available digitally from Bandcamp
“Green” 2011 - (City at Night Rx)
Purchase/Stream The Firebird Band “Green” Single at Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music (digital only release)
The Firebird Band “Green” EP - available digitally from Bandcamp
“Say Hello” 2010 - (Mind Over Matter Records / City at Night Rx)
Purchase/Stream The Firebird Band “Say Hello” Single at 7" vinyl from Mind Over Matter Records (very limited) | Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music
The Firebird Band “Say Hello” 7” Record - available from Mind Over Matter Records
“The City at Night” 2004 - (originally released via Bifocal Media / Lucid Records)
Purchase/Stream The Firebird Band “The City at Night” Album at Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music | Digital or CD from Amazon (only released on CD, out of print)
The Firebird Band “The City at Night” Album (out of print) - available digitally from Bandcamp
“The Drive” 2001 - (orignally released via Cargo/Headhunter - re-released via City at Night Rx)
Purchase/Stream The Firebird Band “The Drive” EP at Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music | Digital or CD from Amazon (only released on CD, out of print)
The Firebird Band “The Drive” EP - available digitally from Bandcamp
“The Setting Sun & Its Satellites” 2000 - (Mintaka Conspiracy & Cargo/Headhunter - re-released via City at Night Rx)
Purchase/Stream The Firebird Band “The Setting Sun & Its Satellites” Album at Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music | Digital / CD / Vinyl at Amazon (CD and Vinyl Out of print)
“The Setting Sun & Its Satellites”Album - available digitally from Bandcamp
“Archives” 2003 - (Lucid Records)
includes previously released The Firebird Suite “New York” 7” single (via Mintaka Conspiracy, 1997), previously released The Firebird Project “Feel Alright” CD EP (Mintaka Conspiracy, 1998), and previously unreleased music from The Firebird Suite (1997) and The Firebird Band (1999).
Purchase the CD at Bandcamp / Stream The Firebird Band “Archives” Album at Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music | Amazon Music
“Archives” Album - available on CD or digitally from Bandcamp
WORDS / PRESS
BIO / INFO
"True to its title and cover art (on which I can see the building in which I work), City at Night is a slick, urban album that feeds off the energy of streetlights, neon signs, and cool, brisk air. It's hard to listen to half of these songs without picturing Mitsubishis speeding through downtown tunnels in silver-green monochrome, their cabins packed with well-proportioned young urban professionals going God knows where...maybe nowhere. Mechanical beats with live accompaniment do most of the heavy lifting as the band piles on synths, guitars, basses, keyboards, and vocals, occasionally hinting at punk but never quite detouring all the way. The seagull synths that announce opener "Obsessive Compulsive" set the album's midnight clubland mood. That song is one of the best here, a propulsive piece of post-disco that finds Broach in fine vocal form, somewhere between The Faint's Todd Baechle and The Fire Show's M. Resplendent." Pitchfork Media, Nov. 8, 2004 (pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/3064-city-at-night/)
History:
The Firebird Band started with Chris Broach of Braid & his brother Riley Broach as “The Firebird Suite” around 1996. Chris Wilson joined as drummer shortly thereafter and they release their first 7” via The Mintaka Conspiracy in 1997. Pablo Gammeri joined on bass, and Riley Broach left the band after a couple of short tours, though he continued working with the band off and on through the year 2000. In 1998, the band continued on as The Firebird Project, toured with 100 Watt Clock and Sean Na Na, and released a CD EP “Feel Alright” on The Mintaka Conspiracy. Both Pablo Gammeri and Chris Wilson left by the end of 1998, and when Braid broke up in 1999, the band became known as The Firebird Band, as Chris Broach began recruiting new members for a more electronic spin on their indie sound. The new band featured Todd Finkel on drums, Erik Bocek on bass, and Andrew Hawthorne on guitar. “The Setting Sun & Its Satellites” was released in 1999 under the name The Firebird Band - and Cargo/Headhunter purchased the release - and re-released it in 2000, as the band prepared to begin touring. “The Drive” came out the next year, as a CD EP with Aaron Barr on bass, and Roy Ewing on drums - and went on US tour in 2001 with a touring cast of new characters - including Sebastien Paquet, Andrew Hawthorne, John Isberg, and a short stint with Seth Fein before Dave Lebleu from The Mercury Program - who The Firebird Band was on tour with - agreed to fill in on drums. The band van broke down for the second time on the tour in Medford, OR. - and their relationship with Cargo/Headhunter soured. They begged and borrowed money to get home, took a break, and the new incarnation of The Firebird Band emerged; even more electronic and dance savvy than before - featuring Chris Broach and John Isberg as the only remaining members - and the co-writers of “The City at Night” - which was released in 2004 on Bifocal Media, and Broach’s label Lucid Records. The band again embarked on another US tour, and continued from there to release singles, tour with new members (including Steve Znavor, Chris Camden, Robert Bock, and Mike Marsden) and released remixes through the 2010s, until Broach and Znavor decided to start fresh in 2015 with SNST. Other significant contributions to The Firebird Band include Ben Wilson on bass ca. 2000, and Steve Lamos on drums ca. 2000.
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