Birney-Willen is a sonic collaboration between filmmaker Albert Birney & artist/designer Bruce Willen.
Landscapes
Landscapes is the second album from Birney-Willen. Ten scenes and dreams, captured and fermented from four improvisation sessions in 2024.
Listen while looking out the window of a moving train, on a long walk around the neighborhood, on the porch as a storm rolls in, at home with eyes closed.
- Sunrise on Broome
- Cerulean Cove
- Climbing Above the Treeline
- Casting Off (First Light on the Pier)
- Footpath Through Snowdrops
- Butte with Purple Sky
- Cul-de-sac Golden Hour
- Behind the Waterfall
- Back Porch Glow
- Fireflies Along the Fence
Two Flowers
The eight tracks on Two Flowers are distilled from four improvisation sessions on synthesizers and harmonium recorded in 2022.
Recordings from these sessions and some early mixes first appeared in episodes of Tux & Fanny: Eyeballs in the Darkness.
- Sumo Cotillion
- A Rabbit in the Woods
- Two Flowers
- Night Beings
- Triadic Ballet
- Quixote
- Five Leaf Clover
- Anibli Englimr
Credits
All music composed and performed by Albert Birney & Bruce Willen on synthesizers and harmonium.
Recorded at Bruce’s house in 2022 with some additional tracking by Bruce & Albert at home in 2023.
Mixed and mastered by Bruce.
Artwork by Bruce & Albert
Photos by Marnie Ellen Hertzler
