Amplissima - Iron Bird

 

Iron Bird- Amplissima

This is a run down of that album with some track by track thoughts on it.

Amplissima is one of many audio projects featuring, Tim Mungenast, E Dahlfree, Dobra Jené Ashentree, and myself under one of my many ridiculous aliases. 

This album was recorded in the same attic space in Norton as the Amplissima album Fields Converge (which featured awesome guest Vanessa LeFevre).

The house in Norton is supposedly haunted and supposedly was formerly a brothel a hundred or so years ago.

All I can say for sure is that the attic space is a great recording area. 

It's got a nice resonance and plenty of room to spread out.

This is the 4th Amplissima album. 

released October 25, 2024

1. Lamb Hops 5:45 -This track is a good example of E using his trumpet to build space around the rest of us.

2. Iron Bird Shenanigans 10:14 -A bit of enjoyable interplay between Tim & Dobra here on their respective stringed instruments.

3. Anything Unusual? 5:05 - Some tasty Tim guitar. Oh wow! This track has E's broken varmint call.

4. Future Events 8:42 -Featuring many samples from the classic movie Plan Nine from Outer Space. Future events such as this will affect you in the future.

Thank you Ed Wood! Some fun sonic textures on this one. Nice percussion by Dobra.

5. Hash Machine 7:17 - Hash Machine! The silliest track on the entire album. That's why it's at the end. What better way to return your ears to the planet you live on.

Amplissima is:

Dobra Jené Ashentree: octave mandolin, tambourine, tongue drum, metal guiro, tin whistle, FX, percussion, vocals

E Dahlfree: trumpet, electronics, voice, bells, broken varmint call

Tim Mungenast: electric guitar, effects pedals, overtone singing, field recordings

Drake Robey: voice, bullet microphone, sampler, samples, synth, monotron, electric kazoo, weird sound generator, FX

- I used a cheap casio synth from the late 80s on this album. I ran the output through a lot of pedals and I rather like some of the weird sounds it created.

I gave the synth to Tim. I hope he is having fun with it.

Recorded on 10/15/22, on a Saturday evening in a mysterious house in Norton MA.

Created, recorded, mixed, engineered, produced, and mastered by Amplissima.

Copyright 2024 Amplissima

The cover photo was taken by E 

The cover design was by Dobra 

Yours in iron birding,

Count Robot