Album Notes

Tinamou is a a band composed of dear friends who love to make music but love each other more. Members Morgan Mecaskey (guitar, vocals), Cameron Schenk (violin), and Anthony Foti (drums, percussion) collectively create an amalgamation of soulful melodies, intricate yet unified arrangements, and poignant lyrics. This is music for your mind and heart; this is music for your soul and body.


"The Bird Runs is a gently delivered montage of intricate, organic folk compositions that lifts you high above usual songwriting. Lyrically it dabbles heavily in the metaphysical, but buries its stakes deep within your brain. It's as hopeful as it is elegiac, and haunts you till you're back for more. The Bird Runs has achieved something great, but it won't grab you at the onset. Dig a little deeper and you'll find more than a collection of nice folk songs. These four Cleveland natives are surely onto something great, and there's nothing stopping them..."
- Nick Wise, Madison East; Authors

"Ancient wisdom painted in soft melody and sung with gut wrenching sincerity. I get chills when I listen, and desire to love God and change the core of my outlook and practice."
- Doc Harrill, Dee Jay Doc

"The Bird Runs" has quickly become my most played CD. These artists have created a sound reflective and rhythmic, exciting and calming, harmonious and melodic, complex and simple. This is quite possibly the most balanced music I have heard in quite a long time. Tinamou, I dub thee "acoustifunk!"
- Lee Harrill, Kaden

"Intricate, spiritual (though not exactly denominational) and poetically waxed, Mecaskey and DeRubertis pen emotional, uplifting songs that haunt the memory...these four Cle-folk are onto something that is completely original. You'll find yourself returning to this slate of music again and again."
- Peter Chakerian, Cool Cleveland