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Funeral for a King

by Summon the Birds

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For best results, Summon the Birds recommend listening to ‘Funeral for a King’ in a heavily fortified castle keep, possibly in the eastern wilderness. Be sure you are well stocked with wine, bread, cheese and Motown records because hark! Hear the walls tremble? Hear the women wail? Hear the men mutter their funeral rites? The barbarians are coming.

Summon the Birds flash out the shadows of the sky, spinning tales of fallen kings, dissected criminals, Arctic exploration, cloud riding and London rain. The canvas weaving these disparate threads together is the ornate musical setting in which the song-stories become an unflinching and expanding whole. Imagine latter-day Talk Talk picking the locks to Spoon’s basement as The Drones circle, restless, looking for the pink pill...

Summon the Birds’ second album Blood Love will see release on Hidden Shoal in late 2017. The album was recorded by producer and engineer Tim Johnston (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Dandy Warhols, The Drones).

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released September 18, 2017
Jonathan Shaw – vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards
Tim Clarke – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Drew Corby – bass
Kris Arrowsmith – drums
Adrian 'Astro' Perger – trumpet, tenor horn, slide trombone
Marlene Samson – backing vocals

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Summon the Birds Melbourne, Australia

Summon the Birds are a band from Melbourne, Australia playing expansive folk-rock music influenced by Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Talk Talk, The Drones and Spoon.

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