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2010 holds so much in store! Keep your eyes on honeybird & the birdies as many amazing live shows and tours are planned for the new year. Album in production with Subterra Records of Vetralla, Italy: http://www.subterralabel.com/to be released using alternative distibution channels. Awesome!

Flashy: Photo shoot at OZU, north of Rome, with the exceptional photographer Tiziano Cocciò ("tizzibird"). What an adventure!

The Buzz:  New video by 3Eg0 klipman with original drawings and animations for "Quemby the Queen Bee"

 

upcoming shows:

 

19 March 2010, "Tutto L'Amore del Mondo" in 300 cinema d'Italia

fine Marzo 2010, presentazione al Circolo Degli Aristi, Rome

past shows →

honeybird & the birdies

is an eclectic trio formed in 2007 by three experimental musicians in Rome. They play, sing and perform honeybird songs using instruments, rhythms and energies from around the world.



honeybird & the birdies are sweet like honey and quirky like birds!


honeybird & the birdies are:
honeybird charango, guitar, berimbau & vocals

was born and raised in Los Angeles. She heard music from an early age as her Italian father strummed and sang Mediterranean melodies and her New Yorker mother kvetched in yiddish. Her passion for creating music began at the age of 3 sitting on an upright piano then embracing the upright bass, until one day the guitar took center stage and she began writing honeybird songs. In 2003 she visited Bolivia which had a powerful impact on her life – both as a cultural and social eye-opener – and that is where she found her first charango, a 10-string traditional Andean instrument, which inspired new honeybird songs such as “shrinking mind”. Her travels in Latin America and contact with social issues, capoeira and indigenous communities are very present in what she does.

honeybird writes sings and dreams about pachamama, justice and the colorful cultures of our world - from mapuche to raramuri, japanese to quechua, italian to iraqi, brazilian to nahuatl. her music sings praise for those who have courage and aren't afraid of standing up and speaking what they believe and feel.


p-birdie percussion, balafon, snare, kalimba, flute & vocals

was born and raised in Sicily, and moved to Rome in 2006 to study singing. Her first contact with music was with the flute, she was called the "magic pied piper" for how well she played and for her enchanging rhythyms. In her hometown of Catania, she was drummer in an all girls band called "le zero in condotta". She is currently in music conservatory and enjoys great delight in singing and playing a wide array of percussion instruments, snare, flute, kalimba and much more in the world of honeybird.


ginobird bass & vocals

(Gino Guain) comes from Anzio in the south of Rome where he plays bass, sleeps infrequently and loses at poker.


in italiano! →
honeybird & the birdies

è un trio eclettico formato nel 2007 da tre musicisti sperimentali a Roma. Suonano e cantano canzoni scritte da honeybird con strumenti, ritmi ed energie da tutto il mondo.



honeybird & the birdies sono dolci come miele ed eccentrici come uccellini!


honeybird & the birdies sono:
honeybird charango, chitarra, berimbau & voce

è nata e cresciuta a Los Angeles circondata da musica: il padre romano suonicchiava stornelli mentre sua madre newyorchese “kvetch-ava” in yiddish. La sua visita in Bolivia nel 2003 ebbe un profondo impatto su di lei con la scoperta del charango, uno strumento tradizionale delle Ande con 10 corde, che ispirò nuove canzoni. Nei suoi successivi viaggi in America Latina, incontrò le lotte sociali, gioco’ la capoeira e conobbe le comunità indigene – questi i semi da cui fiorisce la musica di honeybird.


p-birdie percussioni, balafon, rullante, kalimba, flauto & voce

è nata in Sicilia e si è trasferita a Roma nel 2006 per studiare canto. Il suo primo approccio con la musica è stato attraverso il flauto; la chiamavano “pifferaio magico” per come suonava bene e per il suo ritmo incantato. Ha fatto parte di un gruppo rock di sole ragazze,”le zero in condotta”, dove suonava la batteria. Attualmente si diverte da morire a dilettarsi con le molteplici percussioni che il mondo honeybird offre.


ginobird basso & voce

(Gino Guain) viene da Anzio dove suona il basso, dorme poco e perde a poker.


← in english!
naiman

"Naìman" EP

release date 6 April, 2008, available at jamendo.com
also available at

and on Subterra Label

tracklist:
  • 1. don't trust the butcher
  • 2. naìman
  • 3. na linga kayo
  • 4. dolores inside
  • 5. don't trust the butcher - instrumental
  • 6. naìman - instrumental
  • 7. na linga kayo - instrumental
  • 8. dolores inside - instrumental

Compilations:
  • "nati antenati" on The Box, released by Peppermill Records, Canada, 2008
  • "na linga kayo" on Liberalarte 3, released by the FPML, Fronte Popolare per la Musica Libera, Roma, 2008
  • "dolores inside" on Il Paese è Iperreale, released by Sub Terra, Vetralla, 2009
  • "usain bolt" on Paax Electroacustic Orquestra, soon to be released by Paax Label, Guatemala, 2009/2010

photos

photo by Lorenzo 'freshguy' Franchini photo by Lorenzo 'freshguy' Franchini photo by Wondergiada photo by Tiziano Cocciò photo by Tiziano Cocciò photo by Oriol Lagilé photo by Lorenzo 'freshguy' Franchini photo by Lorenzo 'freshguy' Franchini photo by Lorenzo 'freshguy' Franchini photo by Lorenzo 'freshguy' Franchini photo by Lorenzo 'freshguy' Franchini photo by Lorenzo 'freshguy' Franchini photo by Alessandro Chiodo photo by Tiziano Cocció photo by Tiziano Cocció photo by Tiziano Cocció photo by Mystery Bird

videos

don't trust the butcher video by 3Eg0 Klipman Na Linga Kayo usain bolt - video by 3Eg0bird Quemby the Queen Bee +

June 2009 Kataweb →


April 2009 The Scope →


December 2008 Rialto mgzn →


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for publishing info contact: Duckhead Green Music (BMI)

band contact:
honeybird@honeybird.net
tobia_1984@yahoo.it
ginoguain@hotmail.it



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