Bird People

by Swantje Musa

BIRD PEOPLE are a drone band formed in 2010 by Ulrich Rois. Solo and with a host of collaborators Rois has since explored various forms of extended tone music, often influenced by drone-based folk music, Hindustani music and early minimalism.

Bird People have toured extensively throughout Europe and have released a number of tapes and LPs and various labels including Feathered Coyote Records, Sloow Tapes, Was Ist Das?, Cruel Nature Records, Sic Sic Tapes, Dead Vox, Liminal Noise, etc .

Recently (as of late 2018) Bird People have played some sets in a full, electric line-up, resulting in loud, feedback-driven sessions that one listener appropriately dubbed “noise-rock spirituals” (Ned Netherwood, Was Ist Das?).

Links:

http://bird-people.bandcamp.com/

Discography:

Sacred Ruins In The Transformation Station, collab with Pandelindio and Louise Landes Levi (2018, Feathered Coyote Records, tape)
Sporal Dispersal, split tape with Pandelindio (2016, Frente Al Fuego, tape)
Laan Sunset Drone (2016, Cruel Nature Records, tape)
Down Of The Hamsa (2016, Eiderdown Records, tape)
The Blue Jay’s Dream (2016, Dead Vox, LP)
Constellations (2015, Was Ist Das?, tape)
Bird People / Waterflower (2015, Liminal Noise Records, split tape)
The Pomegranate Tree (2015, self-released, tape)
Mistletoe and Mid-Winter Skies (2014 ,Was Ist Das?, tape) – compilation, track: “The Holly King and the Oak King”
Solar Devotion (2014, Pantheon, CD-R) – compilation , track: “Drums At Dawn”
Regions of Eternal Darkness : Regions of Eternal Light (2014, self-released, digital plus incense)
King of the Grove (2014, Yerevan Tapes, tape)
Autumnal Hum (2014, Dead Vox, LP)
Nightshades (2014, Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam, tape and CD-R)
Terma (2013, J&C Records)
Bird People / Hering und seine sieben Sachen (2013, Sic Sic Tapes / Feathered Coyote Records, tape)
Water Buffalo (2013, Sloow Tapes, tape)
A Story of Rats / Bird People (2013, Feathered Coyote Records, tape)
Leveret / Bird People (2013, Feathered Coyote Records, tape)
Sky Huntress / A Pulse in the Void (2012, Feathered Coyote Records)