Man Is Not A Bird, But He Can Fly

In the belly of a big red boat with a giant lighthouse light on the top, a group of people gathered for rocking. As the band set up, and tuned their instruments, we waited to see what would come from those speakers. When the music began, we were going to receive a lesson in biology. Man is definitely not a bird.

Take one of your favorite rock operas from the 70s, skip to about three and a half minutes in when the guitarists let it rip; now play that continuously for an entire set, stitched with streaming melodies, throbbing drums, and a steady crescendo of the volume dial. It’s the music that two guitarists, a bassist, and a drummer should be making. With the result as satisfying as this, who needs singing?

The only vocal accompaniment came from alien-like audio clips taken from the 1965 Yugoslavian film “Man Is Not A Bird.” The romance movie has little to do with the style of music played by the band of the same name, yet somehow the audio adds an extraterrestrial feel to the context of the music, like listening to it while inside an Apollo capsule.

It is important to disclose that our lead software engineer Adrien is indeed the drummer of this talented group, but it is also important to disclose that the writer of this post was not expecting to see such a good show. But they rocked it. We will definitely be at their next performance. Until then, here is one epic song:

24th September 2012

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