2002 by Brazzaville

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11 tracks | 47 minutes

Released Sep 2003
on South China Sea

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Soft and sad, and tinged with a weary sort of sex appeal...explores the worlds of dereliction and exile--war zones, ghettos, welfare hoyels, shooting galleries, train cars, the world wide web in a poetic shorthand that is bandied, buoyed, and embellished

Editorial review

What do Fiona Apple, the Blasters, Cibo Matto, the Creatures, Divinyls, Jewel, Ben Lee, Sean Lennon, the Lemonheads, NOFX, Michael Penn, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, and Victoria Williams have in common? Well, besides being a representative sample of the most influential projects and artists of the last two decades, all these names are on the collective resum? septet Brazzaville. Put together by saxophonist David Brown (Beck), Brazzaville boasts, slinky, spy-at-the-beach sounds that suggest exotic, tropical vacations courtesy of the Federal Witness Protection Program, or an invitation into dangerously cool, Yakuza hangouts where no body knows your name until all the doors are locked. World traveler Brown gathered his journeyman musician friends together to create music fusing his Far East and South American infuences. The result, which has room to reconcile both West Coast cool jazz and New York City hip-hop flavors, also allows room for even some vivid spoken word in the gritty "Sewers of Bangkok" and the now-I-am-become-Kali "Ocean" featuring Joe Frank (National Public Radio). Eclectic arrangements that successfully synthesize a multiplicity of genres rich in percussion, while incorporating organ, turntables, piano and more, give every track a unique and exotic feel. This self-titled debut is one of those rare albums that more than fulfills its promise. ~ Tom Schulte, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

SF WEEKLY 6/11/2003 by Silke Tudor

Brazzaville, the river-port capital of the Republic of the Congo, was

founded in 1883 by Pierre Paul François Savorgnan de Brazza, a

Brazilian-born adventurer of Italian nobility who became a French

citizen so that he could explore and colonize Africa. The result of a

similarly Byzantine array of influences, Brazzaville, the Los

Angeles-based nightclub septet, was founded in 1998 by David Brown, a one-time runaway from L.A.'s Koreatown who tramped through India, Brazil, Venezuela, Spain, Japan, Nepal, and Thailand before becoming Beck Hansen's saxophone player. With bossa nova rhythms lapping softly against a fading accordion, a delicate piano melody wafting through a golden haze of saxophone, and Brown's smooth, unhurried tenor supplying an offhand sort of Parisian cool, Brazzaville is the band you might expect to find at the end of the line in The Night of the Iguana.