Super sweet limited edition LP from Ben Vida's 'Bird Show' project. Loads of acoustic percussion and string-ed instrumentation with guest appearances by Greg Davis and Michael Zerang among others.

Tracks:

Side A.
-Two Organs and Dumbek (7:54)
-Clouds and Their Shadows (5:06)
-BRDDRMS (4:34)
-Synthesizer Solo (1:25)
-Mbira, Harp and Voice (2:42)

Side B.
-Green Vines (6:02)
-Percussion and Voice (6:03)
-Pan Pipe Ensemble and Voice (3:30)
-Berimbau (2:07)
-Wood Flute, Berimbau, Mbira and Voice (3:32)

-Limited to 300 Copies

"With a few delicate touches of banjo and acoustic guitar, Geoff Mullen traced hints of Americana upon the guitar-drone abstraction of his debut album Thrtysxtrllnmnfstns. For Armory Radio his principle influence is not John Fahey but Keith Rowe, manipulating the strings and pickups with transistor radios in sporadic working condition.
Pushing radio static, detuned transmissions and garbled speech through the guitar, he delivers amorphous improvisations of growl and grit. Across the four sprawling pieces on this double LP, he steadily increases the noise threshold from a softened blur towards buzzsaw volatility. Yet, as on his previous recordings, melody serves Mullen
well. It would be hard to qualify his guitar wrangling as tuneful, but the emergence of half-melodies rapturously counters his insistence upon snarled distortion and cacophonic crackle."

-jim haynes - from Outer Limits Page 76 The Wire Dec (286)