Stream Still Lost Bird’s August – album out today

Composer Simon Fink moved with his wife from Chicago to St. Joseph a couple of years back to work as a teacher in music and art at Missouri Western State University. In the meantime, he has also kept busy with his musical project, Still Lost Bird. The project’s new album, August, is released today.

The album features American folk music, heavy on the banjo and pounding foot, set to lyrics taken from various poets. “Lament for the Makers” takes its words from the poem of the same name by William Dunbar, “Luke Havergal” from the E.A. Robinson poem, and so on. The whole album bears a strong resemblance to William Elliott Whitmore’s earlier stuff, and the vibe going on is certainly more folksy than literary.