A musician/poet who writes about the world around him. The concept for the Birdwu project was first created in 2007 when Birdwu was 22 years old. Originally From Hull, England, Birdwu has been playing guitar since he was 10 years old, getting lessons from his dad who is a professional musician. The name Birdwu was derived from a nickname he was given as a kid by his mum. The nick-name was "wurlybird". Wurlybird was originally an idea for an alias but while jumbling the words around he came up with the name "Birdwu" and it has stuck ever since. Before Birdwu, he was in many different bands such as Adventure Club, Ambience, (which featured Angel Ramirez from The Danny and Angel Show), and Maladapt. Just after leaving Adventure Club in 2006, he was introduced to a group called Abandoned Pools. After learning that the band mainly consisted of one writer, Tommy Walter, Birdwu decided that that's what he was going to do, be a solo act with a fully composed album. His debut album, Cubic Zoo, was released in August 2009. It is available on itunes, cdbaby, amazon, and digstation. The album consists of material ranging from the war in Iraq, to vitriolage in the middle-east, to the free-mason's, to social situations viewed from an observers perspective. To Birdwu, lyrics are very important and he always trys to challenge himself as a poet and through this he created a certain way of writing lyrics. Metaphors are the key and they play a huge role in Birdwu's songs. He has played such venues as Ghenghis Cohen in Hollywood, The Griffin, Freakin Frog, and House of Blues in Las Vegas, Dublin Pub in Portland while also having toured in the U.K. He has just completed his sophomore album, "Flight of the Moth", as of January 2013. Birdwu, very fortunately, had the help of Graphic Artist/Painter/Sketch Artist Alejandro Aranda to choreograph the visual concept of the album (as he did for Cubic Zoo back in 2009). He also had the expertise and wisdom of Andrew Guerrero, who is currently the guitar player for the critically acclaimed Las Vegas based band "We Gave It Hell" to mix the record and thus is responsible for what we hear today. Once the mix was in place and all the artwork was complete, Birdwu relied, once again, on DiscMakers to finalize the product. This new album obtains a heavier feel with songs like "Poor Man's Lyric" and "Imperial Idiots", an indie rock feel with songs like "Letters from the Arbiter" and "Phantom in the Sand", an acoustic feel with songs like "Wings Holding Iron" and "Imagine That", and an electronic feel with songs like "Whitefly Aphid", "The Ephemeral" and "Flight of the Moth". The new album can now be viewed and listened to on facebook.com/birdwuism as well as birdwu.bandpage.com, soundcloud.com/birdwu and reverbnation.com/birdwumusic. He currently resides in Portland, OR.


BiRdWuism
The content in this box will be an attempt to explain the thought process and ideals behind the lyrical content and direction of BiRdWu. It will hopefully give you, the audience, a view as to why BiRdWu writes about what he writes and in what method he writes it in by conveying those ideas through a text format. First I will talk about the fuel and inspiration in which BiRdWu receives his ideas. Basically the poetic blueprint of BiRdWu births from the environment around him, not from within. There will rarely be any messages of heartache or romantic convincing in any of his song's meaning. Most of the material that is collected is from books, newspaper articles, news media whether online or otherwise, documentaries, or just social inquiries that he personally encounters. It's brought upon from history and the present day and also one about the future. Anything from Vitriolage in the middle-east (Eyelids Retired) to a psychedelic experience (Zep Tepi, which is the ancient Egyptian term for the Atlantis flood. Used in a metaphorical context). From the falsifications of some/most medias Raping of the Dog) to Freemasonry (Secret Keeper). "I believe that there are more things in life to write about than love whether old or new and dancing." Conveying information through song in an information age is what BiRdWu is all about. Taking a situation or a way of life and transmitting it into a melodic document is what drives and challenges BiRdWu as a writer/musician. If you go to his links and click on the www.reverbnation.com/birdwumusic or www.soundcloud.com/birdwu, you can go to his song playlist and click on the lyrics portion (reverbnation) or just simply click on the song and the lyrics and description will appear on the right (soundcloud). Once there, it will reveal the lyrical content of the song plus the inspiration behind it. "I want to spread messages of awareness to people who are willing to listen." Well that concludes the first segment in explaining the art of BiRdWuism. Now comes the second segment. The method. Now the style in which BiRdWu writes is very metaphoric and complex in word usage. While writing a song lyrically he will always have a dictionary next to him in order to fully utilize the English language as best and as appropriately as possible. Using words as pluvial, demarcation, inchoation, myopic, karakul, kismet, fey, and obsidian to name a few (some of these are featured on the new album "Flight of the Moth") is something that he is very passionate about. There is also a different technique that is used in BiRdWu's songs. "The hyphenated metaphor." Its a way to cheat your way through the common lexicon and still make sense (some what). For example: In the song "Nia Mard" featured on the "Cubic Zoo" album he writes: "all of these fights are ghost-denial" having the words "ghost-denial" being the above mentioned "hyphenated metaphor." It's a style of writing that BiRdWu accidentally created when he was younger and when writing alot of poetry. "I merely use this method in order to better explain a certain line in the song/poem even though it grammatically doesn't make sense." Another example is from the song "Foreign Alien" in which the line reads: "a nico-element, liquor-designed. A two in one i guess. Well hopefully this anecdote from BiRdWu's-neuro-net hasn't been too boring for you. I guess if it was then you wouldn't be reading it. But for those who did, thank you.
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