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Brazzaville - Sheilas Dream '2020

Sheilas Dream
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Album name Sheilas Dream
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Date 2020
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Play time 00:33:04
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 77 / 189 mb
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Tracks list

Tracklist

01. 7th Andy
02. Dream Sea
03. Oatmeal and Coffee
04. Dasha
05. Memory Park
06. God Falls in Love
07. The Clouds in Camarillo
08. Aegean Beauty
09. Dominguero
10. Sheilas Dream

Led by Beck saxophonist David Brown, Brazzavilles exotic, globally minded indie
pop was as much a product of Browns extensive travels as it was the Los Angeles
coffeehouse scene from whence most of its members came. Born in L.A., Brown had
been a teenage runaway and heroin addict before cleaning up and finding a new
lease on life from his love of traveling the world on the cheap. He
criss-crossed Europe, South America, and Asia, picking up musical influences
from the Far East, Brazil (bossa nova and Tropicalia), Africa, and France
(cabaret pop), among others. Eventually, he returned to California, where he
studied the saxophone at L.A. City College. There he first met Beck, and was
introduced to a community of artists and musicians centered around the Los
Feliz/Silver Lake area of L.A. When Beck hit the big time, he tapped Brown as
the saxophonist in his touring band, and invited him to play on the Odelay
album.
In 1997, during the world tour supporting Odelay, Brown conceived the idea for
Brazzaville, taking the name from the capital of the Congo, which in a recent
study had been branded with the worst quality of life of any major city in the
world. Brown added guitar to his instrumental repertoire (which grew to include
piano, trombone, and percussion as well), and when he returned to Los Angeles in
1998, he put together a diverse lineup of musicians -- scenesters and session
men -- that reflected his own wide-ranging tastes. Trombonist/saxophonist David
Ralicke worked with numerous acts, including Natalie Merchant, Ozomatli, Ben
Harper, Macy Gray, and Ziggy Marley, and later joined the L.A.-based Cambodian
rock band Dengue Fever. Guitarist/bassist Kenny Lyon, whod grown up in Zaire and
Spain, had performed with alternative bands like the Lemonheads and the
Divinyls, as well as singer/songwriters like Mark Curry, Jann Arden, and David
Baerwald. Guitarist Smokey Hormel was another Beck regular who also performed
and recorded with Cibo Matto, Sam Phillips, John Doe, and Tom Waits, among
others. Percussionist Danny Frankel had played with musicians from Victoria
Williams to Luscious Jackson to bluesman Ted Hawkins. Pianist Mike Boito was
another Beck cohort whod also played with Ralicke in the ska band Jump With
Joey.
Together with turntablist DJ Swamp and several other players, this version of
Brazzaville recorded a self-titled debut album and released it on Browns own
South China Sea imprint in 1999. It received favorable reviews of its hybrid of
indie pop, lounge jazz, world music, and noir-ish atmosphere, and was most often
likened to Tom Waits or Morphine. Later that year, the Engine label picked up
the records distribution rights and reissued it under the title 2002. The
follow-up Somnambulista, released in 2001 on South China Sea, welcomed several
new members, including Guadalupe-born/Paris-raised percussionist Joel Virgel
Vierset (whod worked with Nina Hagen), bassist Joe Zimmerman, and
Latin-influenced trumpeter/accordionist Mick Bolger. Brazzavilles third
full-length, Rouge on Pockmarked Cheeks, appeared in 2002 with much the same
cast of characters. Afterwards, Brown relocated to Barcelona and assembled an
alternate European lineup of Brazzaville, which included guitarist Paco Jordi,
keyboardist Richie Alvarez, bassist Brady Arthur Lynch, and drummer Ivan Knight.

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