I've recently begun doing yoga in the mornings in an attempt to better more holistically healthy and less stressed/more focused. Either way, it's better than waking up at 5 am to watch Sportscenter.
I like to listen to instrumental, ambient types of music during my morning stretching routine, and lucky for me someone wanted to introduce me to the instrumental group Collections of Colonies of Bees recently.
The Milwaukee, Wisconsin product have a new album coming out on Tuesday, Birds, and are currently on tour.
According to their Myspace page,
In an era of pervasive lo-fi meandering and leaden, self-indulgent navel-gazing, Collections of Colonies of Bees sweep in grandly, as their name implies, in great, billowing swarms of sound, bourn aloft on a thousand wings of miniscule, elegant detail. In these extended instrumental tracks, guitars chime and soar, recalling the best campaigns of the guitar armies of both Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham; deft yet intensely focused percussion propels towards an inevitable dawn; covering it all is a gossamer veil of subtly nuanced electronica.Birds is a joyous, expansive experience; crisp, clean, and clear; dappled in sunshine; mottled with dew; epic minimalism in exquisite registration. That's saying something. In our present musical climate of smoggy lassitude, Collections of Colonies of Bees are diligently producing a sound that is dazzling – and as sweet as honey taken straight from the comb. Dig in.
Fans of Explosions in the Sky and the former band Pele will certainly dig the delicate yet strong (like good coffee) harmonies of Collections of Colonies of Bees. Have a listen below, and enjoy the yoga-rific tune. Your hamstrings will thank you later.
Collections of Colonies of Bees - "Flocks III"
Completely unrelated sidenote:
If you're in the Milwaukee area you might want to drop by the Milwaukee Museum of Art and check out Bodyworks.