Since 2006, Yellow Bird Project (YBP) has been collaborating with indie rock bands to raise money and awareness for various charity organizations. They’ve worked with bands such as Bon Iver, Beach House, Best Coast, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, The National and The Shins to produce exclusive t-shirts for charity.
Now, the ultimate YBP covers compilation is nearly here. The concept is simple: YBP bands covering YBP bands. Good versus good. Mano y mano. Imagine Andrew Bird taking on The New Pornographers, Keaton Heston doing Beach House. We’re almost there, folks. Let’s make this dream a reality. Like Inception.
After three fruitful years, the first-ever YBP compilation of covers is sounding sweet as sugar. It’s not errday that a beautiful group of YBP artists secretly record and mix their fave tracks from fellow YBP bands, but lucky for us, they’ve gone and done it alright. Rad-city? Indeed it is. And a labour of love too. GOOD PEOPLE ROCK is now in its priming stage, ready to bottle on vinyl and CD. Each of the 10 songs were recorded exclusively for this compilation.
There’s the beauty of Andrew Bird (can the man do no wrong?). You’ll find out what it feels like to be sailing on a dreamboat when you hear Whispertown cover Rilo Kiley’s ‘Give A Little Love’ and TV on the Radio’s ‘Family Tree’, re-imagined by the one and only, Hayden. The great Keaton Henson takes on Beach House and King Creosote takes on his mates from Hot Chip. It’s all golden, the whole flippin’ lot of it. Good people really do rock!
With each of the 10 songs now recorded, YBP is reaching out to you to help them raise enough funds to finalize the album. All of the money which is raised from this campaign will be used to pay for its mastering, artwork, marketing and distribution. So we are calling upon you for help, but empty handed we are not – there some pretty awesome swapsies up for grabs!
See with every pledge, a prize is earned. For your kindness you see. There’s a heap of really relevant and creative mementoes for the taking, including an exclusive t-shirt and a special printed poetry zine with original contributions from some of the album’s featured artists. Get your music just the way you like it, in CD, MP3 or vinyl format. Imagine cracking that vinyl plastic in the foreseeable future and sitting back with two fingers of whiskey to hear the rocking-chair beauty of Micah’s acoustic rendition of King Creosotes ‘Not One Bit Ashamed’. Not too bad at all, we thinks.
GOOD PEOPLE ROCK is a labour of love. For true. To make this magic happen, a handful of YBP artists recorded and mixed their own covers of fellow YBP bands. How rad is that? Sure, the idea’s cool, but wait until you hear the songs. Dry the River covering Metric (oo-laa), Alec Ounsworth (of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) does Elvis Perkins (yee-ha!). And Elvis returns the favour, covering an unreleased Alec Ounsworth b-side. Majestic, really.
Music laced with love and respect, all for the efforts of raising funding and awareness for YBP so we can continue on our mission to help charities marry together with indie bands around the world. What better way to do it than by spreading the word about good music that we love? :)
Please get involved and help us bring this incredible record into the world!
