Biography
"The focal point of Yellow Ostrich's magnificent debut the mistress is Wisconsin native Alex Schaaf's voice. On the mistress
it gets looped and layered, stretched and manipulated; it's stacked up
several high and, most often, it's used as an instrument, fleshing out
the empty spaces in his bare, searching songs. The album was originally
recorded (largely by Schaaf himself with occasional help from a few
friends) and given very limited release online for free via his Bandcamp
site before he hooked up with now-fulltime bandmates Jon Natchez (bass,
horns, vocals) and Michael Tapper (drums, vocals) in New York. Fully
remastered and with the addition of three brand new tracks recorded by
the trio, Barsuk's release of the mistress will mark the album's first broad availability digitally, and its first time on compact disc."http://www.barsuk.com/bands/yellowostrich
it gets looped and layered, stretched and manipulated; it's stacked up
several high and, most often, it's used as an instrument, fleshing out
the empty spaces in his bare, searching songs. The album was originally
recorded (largely by Schaaf himself with occasional help from a few
friends) and given very limited release online for free via his Bandcamp
site before he hooked up with now-fulltime bandmates Jon Natchez (bass,
horns, vocals) and Michael Tapper (drums, vocals) in New York. Fully
remastered and with the addition of three brand new tracks recorded by
the trio, Barsuk's release of the mistress will mark the album's first broad availability digitally, and its first time on compact disc."http://www.barsuk.com/bands/yellowostrich