I am bird but i cannot fly

I am Lady
And the boy said
I am Bird but I cannot fly

Tempestuous and mysterious, the joint project entitled Lady and Bird, launched in 2003, sends us to a unique universe, created by and for the two main characters of this strange fairytale, the Lady and the Bird, two entities that found themselves trapped in grownup bodies and are now in search of their true identity. The entire album is crossed by a fine narrative line, which strengthens the story-feeling that you get by listening to it. Song by song, you enter more and more in their dark and blurry world, where day becomes night and life is just a path towards what lies after it.

Subtitled “A Children's Story for Adults”, the album is far from targeting the kinder garden attendants. The main themes evolve around death, pain, loneliness, darkness. The combination of styles – indie, pop, psychedelic - and voices is harmonious in a painful way; the melody is simplified, and the emphasis is set on the story itself. The power, if one may say this, does not come from the rhythm, but from the unique manner in which the performers manage to compensate the slow flow of keys with strong and crescendo emotions.

Every one of the ten songs delivers strong visual images to your head, but none are as thrilling as the ones provided by “La ballade of the Lady and the Bird”, a dialog between the two characters, in which they use the voice of a little girl and a modified voice which is supposed to stand for the bird.
“Lady and Bird” continues, somehow, the melody path on which you may find albums such as Noah’s Ark from CocoRosie or Light out from Antimatter, but, in the same time, it creates new ambages for the artists that would dare to adopt this ambiguous style.

Nevertheless, despite this gloomy view that the two singers throw upon existence, there is always a shy sunshine waiting to be discovered, mostly because of the strangely sweet voice of Keren Ann Zeidel. For this reason, the subtitle is justified, with one correction: the children that they refer to are, in fact, the ones still trapped inside of each of us, grownups.