9 trks, 47 mins. Bird Show is Ben Vida from Town & Country's solo project, coming on as a nexus of improvised neo folk & hypnotic world music, ala Tower Recordings + Sun City Girls.

Though best known for his work in Town & Country, who have been experimenting in acoustic resonance, minimalist composition and world musics for the past seven years, Ben Vida has been a prominent player in the Chicago music scene, placing himself at the nexus between improvised and acoustic minimalist musics. He has played and recorded with Central Falls, Terminal 4, Pillow and Everyoned. Green Inferno is Vida's second solo recording, a long-in-coming successor to Mpls., which was released on Brent Gutzeit's Boxmedia label in 1999. Boxmedia described Mpls. as "a record of delicate acoustic guitar compositions, soft melodic songs with hidden teeth." Green Inferno is a different beast, showing its teeth with dense percussive tracks and droning narcotic folk reveries. Ben Vida describes it as an attempt to fuse all of his favourite aspects of the groups he has been playing in.

While working on Green Inferno, Vida had been listening to field recordings from around the world, and Morocco, Zimbabwe, and Pakistan in particular. He found himself as interested in the surroundings the recordings were made in as he was in the music itself. Lattices of percussion blur in mesmerising fashion, voices sing out over gongs, cicadas, and helicopters, trenchant drones break into conversations and then into song.

Subsequent to recording the album, Vida and Liz Payne (who is in the improvising group Pillow with Ben Vida as well as Town & Country) began a group called Bird Show. Bird Show intend to pick up on and extend the musical ideas used on Green Inferno and the duo will tour as soon as the album is released. Ben Vida and Liz Payne decided to attribute Green Inferno to Bird Show to underline the new band's commitment to the material on the album.