As of January 2012 Viva Bird has a load of new tunes recorded/mixed and ready to be mastered with still more in the home recording studio pipeline. Lance Koehler at Minimum Wage Recording has done the additional mixing and tweeking to help out these crazy recordings. The bulk of the songs are instrumental featuring both electronics and live instrumentation. No release date yet but sometime in 2012.
Viva Bird has signed the debut record "Traffic And Trees" with LoveCat Music in New York City, The Big Apple! The record contains 11 instrumentals and 6 tunes with vocals. We are looking forward to working with the fine folks at LoveCat. The 17 song cd was recorded way back in March/April of 2010 in a 20 day home recording fest. Great colorful artwork inside and out done by Kaitlyn at Revolve in Richmond VA.
VIVA BIRD is a side project mix of instrumental, groove, soundtrack, garage,industrial,experimental,electro pop,kitchen sink...The band's debut record is called Traffic and Trees and was released on Sept 28th 2010. The collection is unique in that normally songs are written and then recorded. Traffic and Trees was written as it was recorded, a much more "see what happens" approach to creating a record. The project was a nice break from the guitar dominated music of Caution Cat. The original intent was to use only two of my older keyboards, a bass guitar and a drum machine but that changed when the ideas started to take form....... some tracks needed guitars! There is also lots of acoustic and electronic percussion with a wee bit of uke.