Bird's Eye View is the debut full-length album by singer-songwriter Amy Kuney

Amy Kuney

Amy Kathryn Kuney is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist from Tulsa, Oklahoma.-Early life:At the age of 13, Kuney's dad moved the family from their home in Oklahoma to Honduras to live as missionaries after he saw a video highlighting the destruction of Hurricane Mitch.In March 2003,...

, which was released August 12, 2008 by Spin Move Records

Spin Move Records

Spin Move Records is a boutique independent record label based in Santa Monica, California and is home to such artists as Ainjel Emme, Frank Bell, Rochelle Diamante, and Winsome Kin; as well as former artists including Amy Kuney, James Jr., Jessica Sanchez, and Olivia Thai.Peter Barker and Marc...

.The iTunes version of the album includes a cover of Damien Rice

Damien Rice

Damien Rice is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer who plays guitar, piano, clarinet and percussion....

's song, "The Blower's Daughter."

The album was featured on iTunes' "New Releases" and "Indie" music sections from August 12th through August 19th. During the months of February and March 2009, "Bird's Eye View was featured on iTunes' "New and Noteworthy" section on the Singer/Songwriter page.

"Bird's Eye View" was featured on Rhapsody's homepage as a new release, and on WindowsMedia.com under "Emerging Artists."

Songs from "Bird's Eye View" have been featured on The Real World: Washington D.C. and Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Keeping Up with the Kardashians

Keeping Up with the Kardashians is an American reality television series that airs on E!. The series premiered in October 2007. It focuses on the personal and professional lives of the members of the Kardashian and Jenner family. There will be a 7th Season to premiere in 2012.As of September 2011,...

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Track listing

All songs written by Amy Kuney

Amy Kuney

Amy Kathryn Kuney is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist from Tulsa, Oklahoma.-Early life:At the age of 13, Kuney's dad moved the family from their home in Oklahoma to Honduras to live as missionaries after he saw a video highlighting the destruction of Hurricane Mitch.In March 2003,...

; "The Blower's Daughter" written by Damien Rice

Damien Rice

Damien Rice is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer who plays guitar, piano, clarinet and percussion....

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1. "Simple Things" – 4:14
2. "Rocket Surgery" – 3:59
3. "Angel Tangled In The Telephone Lines" – 3:20
4. "Would You Miss Me" – 3:44
5. "Thank You For Last Night" – 3:12
6. "Love Is Trippy" – 3:57
7. "Appreciate Your Hands" – 3:59
8. "Time Machine" – 2:57
9. "Under My Bed" – 5:53
10. "Bird's Eye View" – 3:48
11. "The Blower's Daughter" (iTunes bonus track)

Production

• Produced by Scott Seiver
• Mixed by Peter A. Barker and Scott Seiver
• Engineered by Peter A. Barker (additional engineering by Scott Seiver)
• Assistant Engineers: Scott Coslett, Todd Bergman, Ursula Arevalo
• Mastered by Gil Tamazyan
• Recording Studios: Threshold Sound + Vision and Loma Lada Studios
• Executive Producers: Peter A. Barker, Marc Schrobilgen, Lynn Lasher

Personnel

• Drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  : Scott Seiver
• Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  : Shawn Davis,
• Piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  : Amy Kuney, Scott Seiver,
• Guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s: Scott Seiver, Josh Lopez, Amy Kuney, Ari Hest
  Ari Hest
  Ari Hest is an American singer-songwriter and a native of Riverdale in the Bronx borough of New York.-Early life:Ari took piano lessons as a child and later, as a teenager, taught himself to play his mother's nylon string guitar by ear with influences from both his parents' record collection and...
  
  
• Violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  : Marisa Kuney, Elizabeth Headman
• Viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  : Rodney Wirtz
• Cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  : Ira Glansbeek
• Cajon
  Cajón
  A cajón is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front face with the hands.-Origins and evolution:...
  
  : Mona Tavakoli
• Saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  : Ben Wendel
• Tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  : Chuck Koontz
• French Horn: Sarah Bach
• Trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  : Clifford Childers
• Trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  : Dustin McKinney
• Melodica
  Melodica
  The melodica, also known as the "blow-organ" or "key-flute", is a free-reed instrument similar to the melodeon and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole,...
  
  : Scott Seiver
• Wurlitzer
  Wurlitzer
  The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, was an American company that produced stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass instruments, theatre organs, band organs, orchestrions, electronic organs, electric pianos and jukeboxes....
  
  : Scott Seiver
• Mellotron
  Mellotron
  The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
  
  : Scott Seiver
• Synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  : Scott Seiver
• Tambourine
  Tambourine
  The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
  
  : Scott Seiver
• Timpani
  Timpani
  Timpani, or kettledrums, are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick called a timpani stick or timpani mallet...
  
  : Scott Seiver
• Shaker: Scott Seiver
• Organ: Scott Seiver
• String Arrangements: Scott Seiver
• Horn Arrangement: Scott Seiver
• Choir Arrangement: Scott Seiver
• Orchestration: Ben Wendel
• Backing Vocals: Scott Seiver, Ari Hest
  Ari Hest
  Ari Hest is an American singer-songwriter and a native of Riverdale in the Bronx borough of New York.-Early life:Ari took piano lessons as a child and later, as a teenager, taught himself to play his mother's nylon string guitar by ear with influences from both his parents' record collection and...
  
  , Azusa Pacific University Choir, Hayden Lasher
• Horn Section Contracting: Ben Wendel
• String Section Contracting: Marisa Kuney

External links

• Bird's Eye View AllMusic Page