Two Dark Birds is a band from the Catskill Mountains led by songwriter Steve Koester and Drummer Jason Mills. They are joined by Josh Roy Brown (lap steel), Tyler Wood (keys), Iris Clementine (vocals), Mark Lerner (bass), Jeff Hill (bass). Since 2008, they have released four critically acclaimed albums as well as the 2022 EP Porous.

Prior to Two Dark Birds, Koester fronted the bands Punchdrunk, Koester, and Maplewood. The music has been called “knockout gorgeous” and “timeless…great rock music” and has received glowing reviews everywhere from Fader and Nylon to The Village Voice and The New York Times, showing up on year-end Best of lists in Magnet, Popmatters, Rhapsody, Disclaimer and more. Koester has also written, recorded and produced a wide variety of songs for TV and film, including features in Sidney Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” Laurie Collyer’s “Sherrybaby”

About the new record - Dreamers of the Golden Dream

Recorded at The Woods recording studio in Woodstock, NY, Dreamers is the fifth album from Two Dark Birds — exploratory, dense, hook-driven, moody, exhilarated, comic, and open-hearted. Lyrically, it seeks out the meeting point between the inner life and the wider world. Musically, it’s boldly eclectic yet always swinging for the fences.

“This is big-feeling, open-hearted music that meets the current chaos head-on, and sings anyway.” - Add to Wantlist

"Remember when rock music had no problem being this funky? This easily accessible and instantly infectious? When groove and grace were defining properties rather than volume and velocity, which now seems to be the norm? When soul and rock were brothers in musical arms? Remember all that? Two Dark Birds certainly does." - The Big Takeover

Marc Delgado Bio:

Marc Delgado is a singer/songwriter, poet & storyteller from Woodstock, NY. His last studio album: Wildwood Road is filled with cinematic, psychedelic snapshots of his days of addiction & violence, living out of motels up & down California’s San Joaquin Valley. Woven into these scenes are songs of loss & survival, redemption, recovery & love. When not performing with his band Delgado plays constantly as a one-man show. Part folkie, poet, raconteur & stand-up comic, Delgado tells stories & shares his experience from dark to light & all the shadows in between. With two live solo records under his belt: Live at Pete’s Candy Store Volumes I & II Delgado keeps moving forward finding his truest self on the stage. He is currently at work on a new studio album & his book, The Black Socks: A book of stories & poems & other stuff that may or may not have actually happened… is due out next year.

Two Dark Birds / Marc Delgado

Two Dark Birds / Marc Delgado