October 3 is the release date for Nocturnal Birding, the latest album from Tristan Shone's Author & Punisher project. The album will release on Relapse Records, with the first single debuting today. "Titanis," featuring Kuntari, is posted below. The video was filmed in Bali, Indoneesia and directed by Manda Selena and Ican Harem.
"When I sat down to start writing this album, I knew I wanted to make songs based on birdsong. The actual first guitar riff is one of the meadowlark’s songs. When you listen to ‘Rook,’ that melody is the rook’s sound. That track is us mimicking one of the rooks' many songs. I wrote all my tracks around the rhythms and melodies of birds I researched or heard in the wild,” Shone says of the album.
NOCTURNAL BIRDING TRACKLIST:
Meadowlark
Titanis (ft. Kuntari)
Mute Swan (ft. Megan Oztrosits of Couch Slut)
Black Storm Petrel (ft. Fange)
Titmouse
Titmice
Rook
Thrush
AUTHOR & PUNISHER ON TOUR:
Oct 18 - Nov 11 - EU Tour
Oct 18 Lisboa, PT @ Music Station (w/ Blood Incantation)
Oct 20 Madrid, SP @ Sala Mon (w/ Blood Incantation)
Oct 21 Barcelona, SP @ Sala Wolf
Oct 22 Marseille, FR @ Le Molotov
Oct 23 Montpellier, FR @ In Tenebris Lux
Oct 24 Nilvange, FR @ Gueulard Plus (w/ Divide & Dissolve)
Oct 25 Maastricht, NL @ Samhain Fest
Oct 26 Hamburg, DE @ MS Stubnitz (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 27 Aarhus, DK @ Voxhall (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 28 Oslo, NO @ Goldie (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 29 Goteborg, SW @ Monument (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 30 Copenhagen, DK @ Stengade (with Bong-Ra)
Oct 31 Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghaim (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 01 Gdansk, PL @ Drizzly Grizzly (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 02 Warsaw, PL @ Voodoo (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 03 Poznan, PL @ 2Progi (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 04 Leipzig, DE @ UT Connewitz (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 05 Frankfurt / Darmstadt, DE (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 06 Paris, FR @ Backstage (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 07 Bruxelles, BE @ Magasin 4 (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 08 Lille, FR @ La Bulle (with Bong-Ra)
Nov 09 Manchester, UK @ Damnation Festival
West Coast Nocturnal Birding Record Release Shows:
Nov 12 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah w/ King Yosef
Nov 13 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo w/ King Yosef
