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Back in the mid-14th century, Beak was willed into existence by a four-headed green dragon named Ricardo II the Powerful. The dragon was immediately pleased with his manifestation and began teaching the entity how to play guitar. The guitar is an extremely rare 14-string 8th century Mendosa Nomad model, boasting a 4 foot long fretboard equipped with strings woven from over 3000 bald eagle eggs. Beak immediately learned to wail savagely on the guitar, but to this day is no match to his master Ricardo II. This is why Beak invented the computer back in the 1850s; he desparately needed processing technology capable of doing his 14 string Mendosa Nomad appropriate justice and thereby surpassing the abilities of his virtuoso dragon mentor. Aided by the magic of digital computing, Beak records his unique guitar stylings into discrete packets of 0s and 1s, layers them on top of each other in the most advanced of all electronic editing software, Goldwave, and releases the songs free to the public in the most generous display of altruism ever witnessed by human beings.

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dirtycarp wrote:
16 days ago

woo these guys are awesome!

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ULIK_S wrote:
22 days ago

Beak> is here: http://www.last.fm/music/Beak>;

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adam_wrong wrote:
26 days ago

No, this is not Beak>

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nonasumy wrote:
last month

this is NOT beak> (with Geoff Barrow from Portishead), right? It couldn't if here where so much albums and on http://www.myspace.com/beak2009 they said: "BEAK> were formed in January 2009 by three Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller, Matt Williams and Geoff Barrow." I hate this bandnames with forbidden signs in it! ;-( ... going to http://www.lastfm.de/music/Beak%3E now ...

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irotas wrote:
last month

i honestly believe my head would explode off my neck if i ever heard Beak live

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adam_wrong wrote:
September 2009

Well, in the space of one EP, Beak has become one of my favorite artists.

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Superbomber wrote:
August 2009

it's Beak> (solo project of Portishead)? or different band?

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adam_wrong wrote:
August 2009

What's this we have here? Something strangely close to perfection.

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SezoShawn wrote:
June 2009

Nice description.

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WayneBirch wrote:
April 2009

Just discovered your music yesterday ... very impressed :) Keep up the good work!

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phetamin wrote:
March 2009

get more :D

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littlelupin wrote:
February 2009

have only heard 'how a hot air balloon works' so far because i was tuned in to puyo puyo radio but i liked it a lot so i downloaded all 15 free tracks (y)

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Spindash wrote:
February 2009

This is excellent stuff.

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Nethiros wrote:
January 2009

i guess you should try his myspace, website is under construction..

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josh_down wrote:
January 2009

is there somewhere where i can get all this dude's stuff in a better mp3 quality... i can't stand 128kbit

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Nethiros wrote:
January 2009

essines' hair is top. should be top-listened, too

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irotas wrote:
January 2009

I heard tracks recently from DoF and Pix that sound remarkably similar to Beak - I'm starting to think Beak is everywhere!

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irotas wrote:
December 2008

actually Jeff Pearce does a great job sampling guitar loops into beautiful mellow electronica - his collaborations with Vidna Obmana are spectacular

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Smoj wrote:
December 2008

beeeeek

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skytree wrote:
December 2008

beak and i are definitely the same person. no two individuals could both meld folksy guitar with blips and bloops using computers.

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