I am Lawry Joseph Tilbury. I come from a tiny village in Dorset called Winterbourne Steepleton. i make music.
"his music is quite wonderfully weird and unique. Although on record the instrumentation can be varied, tonight Birdengine simply played a guitar and sang. This was good as we could concentrate on his biggest asset, his extraordinary voice."
..............Mark Kirby, brightonculture
FOR BOOKINGS PLEASE MAIL birdengine@yahoo.co.uk
My latest release 'I Fed Thee Rabbit Water' is available on drift records.
"Tilbury displays the same quiet understatement and backwards weirdness as Bonnie 'prince' Billy, but transposed to Dorset. Listening to I fed Three Rabbit Water is like visiting a museum of curiosities packed with shelves of malformed foetuses and two-headed dogs pickled in jars; the songs are full of rustic-mythic weirdness, with Tilbury singing about dead mermaids, feral children, "beast folk" and sewing his eyelids shut"
Andy Gill, The Independent
"nervy pastoral loneliness and recorded entirely on 4-track cassette - is a reminder of how much of an intrusion digital meddling with music can be; the birdsong on *The Evil Twin* sounds as far from affectation as it could be. There's a witchy weirdness to this all - titles like *You Gave Birth To A Horse* give that away - but it's a very beautiful record"
Joe Muggs, Word Magazine
"I Fed Thee Rabbit Water', exposes a major talent yet to be uncovered and was entirely self recorded on a four track tape recorder, aided only by a Dictaphone. Tilbury spins tales of mermaids, dead rulers in glass prisons and the lunar cycle, never once leaving his fingers on a single note for too long crafting what sounds like an effortless aura of shrouded calm destined for desolate pastures and walkmans alike..."
www.music-zine.com
Recorded on cassette (really) this is dark and sinister nu-folk from the backwoods of deepest Dorest. Accompanied only by an acoustic guitar, tape crackle and the occasional snatch of birdsong, Birdengine's murmured vocals tell tales of strangeness and charm, darkness and mystery. It's an older England that these songs come from, a pagan land, where mythagos and weirdness lurk in the depths of the primal woods, glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, there but never truly seen.
Maverick Magazine
available at www.driftrecords.co.uk
I also released two ep's on scottish label benbecula records.
'early 4-track recordings ep'
available at www.benbecula.com
'birdengine ep'
"...the first relevant work of…freak-folktronica..."
Stylus.com
"Those looking for kindred spirits might imagine Birdengine as an eccentric third cousin to The Brothers Quay who likewise embrace a refreshingly ancient-modern coupling"
Textura.com
www.benbecula.com
'i, dancing bear' - westhill - may 2007 - brighton
'buried in the black snow' - lawm - november 2007 - lancaster
'thoughts of a falling glass man' from 'birdengine ep' released on benbecula records www.benbecula.com (director adam aiken & shelley revill)
'Scarecrow and the Longpig' is great, but also really quite extraordinary. Listening to it is like going on a journey into the deep, dark woods. That's a wonderful vocal performance too. ~sighrens~
Hey Laurie, we got it together finally and placed some stuff on the space. come hither and have a glance/listen. I wanna hear you're new stuff old chap
Hello Birdengine was wondering what the name of that genius suzuki joy making sound machine was? Have totally forgotten :( You used it at the gig at the star and shadow.
