Kahane, Gabriel - Magnificent Bird escape games marking the group's first time

marking the group's first time without longtime producer Neal Avron

I pulled out a lot of unreleased songs

Finally seeing the light of day here we have an unreleased album recorded in NYC in 1999 by this super band: Jerry Teel on vocals

a poison-tipped dart is pointed at the government

bruised and tender

Kahane, Gabriel - Magnificent Bird escape games marking the group's first timeWith Magnificent Bird, his second album for Nonesuch, Kahane brings to life a trunk of songs written in self imposed isolation a full year off the internet with the help of a dozen colleagues whose long distance contributions were made possible, paradoxically, through the very technology he had shunned. Despite having written two and a half dozen songs, Kahane chose just ten for the album. It's tight construction makes it's themes throb in