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So, so good.

Welcome to...Brazzaville
Brazzaville
Manufacturer: Mimicry
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Hastings Street
Brazzaville
Rouge on Pockmarked Cheeks
2002
The Road to Escondido

ASIN: B0006G8KQY
Release Date: 2004-11-02

Tracks:

Super Gizi
Foreign Disaster Days
Boeing
Casa Batllo
Queenie
Genoa
Motel Room
Voce
Sewers Of Bangkok
Rainy Night
4AM Osaka
Chirstmas In E.C.
Xanax And 3 Hours Of T.V.
Love Sky
High Life

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So, so good........2006-04-12

Passed on to me by a friend with excellent taste, this album is an oh so very cool mix of american and european styles. I'm a terrible music critic, and at a loss of who to liken the band to. If you enjoy mellow indie rock and world lounge-y music with excellent instrumentals (e.g. classically trained keyboardist), do not hesitate. I can't believe no one else has reviewed this album!!!

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Perfectly comfortable on the street.
going strong
Fine wine and cigars at night

Somnabulista
Brazzaville
Manufacturer: South China Sea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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2002
Hastings Street

ASIN: B0000589F5
Release Date: 2001-02-20

Tracks:

Air Mail
Foreign Disaster Days
Sandman
Boeing
Casa Batllo
Lazy, Flawed + Hopeless
Jane
Super Gizi
4 A.M. Osaka
Old Man Dub
3rd + Broadway

Customer Reviews:

Perfectly comfortable on the street........2005-05-04

I found this by accident. Actually, make that "happy accident." It never ceases to amaze me how much of what I like has its roots in Barcelona, and this group is no exception. The whole time I was listening to it I was thinking "where have I heard this before..." Then I read the liner notes and realized "Barcelona." The CD captures the essence of what it is to walk through Barrio Gotico, down the Ramblas, or though barrio chino at night. A little edgy, a little out there. Perfectly comfortable on the street.

going strong.......2002-12-14

After a awesome debut album (2002), I wondered if they could keep up the same level of brilliance in their second CD. To my delight, they did! My record/CD collection is fast approaching 1,000 entires, and I would place anything Brazzaville easily into the top 100.

Fine wine and cigars at night.......2002-01-13

Perhaps best known to the public for their haunting ska-raggae piece "Old man Dub" currently being used by the Ford Motor Company for the 2002 Thunderbird commercial ("The race"), Brazzaville's music hits at many levels.
I was initially drawn to the piece used in the commercial, being a great fan of reggae that features a horn section and bought the CD expecting more of the same in the album. I actually was quite surprised at the breadth of the music. To call it jazz or ska or reggae doesn't quite capture the full richness of the music. "Air Mail" and "Foreign Disaster days" do have that jazzy feel to them - but a very hip modern jazzy feel - like it belongs in a South Beach Cafe on a Friday night. Precise guitar work that betrays a very Les Paul heritage. "Sandman" & "Casa Batllo" takes on a more samba or Cuban Jazz flow with crisp keyboard work. While "Boeing" & "4am Osaka" have heavier guitar work with a rock and roll edge. It is definately and interesting journey - song to song with enough variety to make the listener pay attention to the music.

"Old man Dub" has tight reggae riffs to make Burning Spear proud - now I that I have listened to it, I think an album that reproduced that genre from song to song would have been a tad monotonous. All in all a very entertaining album that takes you some very well sophisticatedly executed pieces that never leave you bored. Like a fine a wine and good cigar, this album leaves you a better person for the experience. Full marks.

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MAGIC OF THE MUSIC
A CD you should buy!!
Very very good. Buy it and listen.

Brazzaville
Brazzaville
Manufacturer: South China Sea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Welcome to...Brazzaville

ASIN: B00000I85N
Release Date: 1999-02-09

Tracks:

Deng Xiaoping
Caldo De Cana
Sewers Of Bangkok
Pablo's Lament
Ocean
Voce
Oi
IMF
Shioda
Shams
1963

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MAGIC OF THE MUSIC.......2000-01-12

THE LEAD SINGER DAVID BROWN'S VOICE IS SO SOOTHING AND BEAUITFUL YOU COULD FALL ASLEEP TO THE MUSIC. THIS IS A MUST HAVE FOR A TRUE LOVER OF SOFT TO THE EAR MUSIC

A CD you should buy!!.......1999-09-29

The combination of musical styles found on this recording and the quality of the recording make this one you should buy. Danny Frankel shines on drums/percussion!!

Very very good. Buy it and listen........1999-09-02

I have to give this album five stars because of the inflated rating system on this site. It is indeed a terrific album of unusual yet somehow digestible music. Unless you prefer sentimental drivel such as Julio Iglesias or Celine Dion. Here we have Jazz/samba/hip hop/spoken word/unknown thing fusion. One of those discs you put on and leave on for a long time. As perfect as the original Getz/Byrd "Jazz Samba"? Of course not. That would be a ten star album minus three for brevity. But as good a purchase as you are likely to make this year, unless of course you finally get around to picking up Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue". Man, you backward. And for everyone who forgot, buy Coltrane. Soultrane will knock you out, whoever you are.

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Tropicalia with a twist
strange journey

2002
Brazzaville
Manufacturer: Engine Group
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Somnabulista
Welcome to...Brazzaville

ASIN: B00004TJXB
Release Date: 2000-08-08

Tracks:

Deng Xiaoping
Caldo De Cana
Sewers Of Bangkok
Pablo's Lament
Ocean
Voce
Oi
IMF
Shioda
Shams
1963

Album Description

Featured in the new TV commercials for the Ford Thunderbird.

Customer Reviews:

Tropicalia with a twist.......2000-06-17

Members of Beck'sbank take a leisurely vacation in Brazzaville. Named after the capital of the French Congo, Brazzaville conducts a dreamy tour of exotic ports of call through a blend of geographic references, both in terms of lyrics and the music, with a home base in the Brazilian tropics.

strange journey.......2000-06-11

Brazzaville is rich bored youth seeking stimulation on strange exotic travels. It is young Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart ... Languid instrumentation backs world-weary talking vocals laced with intellectual observations. Think back alley meetings in Asian cities. Like waking from an unsettling dream.

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simply brilliant!
Brazzaville has infectious lyrics, instrumentation.

Brazzaville
Brazzaville
Manufacturer: South China Sea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I5C2
Release Date: 1999-03-23

Tracks:

Deng Xiao Ping
Caldo de Cana
Sewers of Bangkok
Pablo's Lament
Ocean - Brazzaville, Joe Frank
Voce
Oi
IMF
Shidda
Shams
1963

Customer Reviews:

simply brilliant!.......2002-12-14

It is rare that a band with such an impresive collective resume' puts out a unique CD such as this. David Brown's mix of voice, excellent musicianship, excellent recording (sound quality) and worldly influences creates a true gem - actually three. All fans of great music should know of Brazzaville - and you should start with 2002.

Brazzaville has infectious lyrics, instrumentation........1999-02-09

I took several CD's, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Morphine, Was Not Was and put them into my Waring blender. Turned it on and poured out a glassfull of Brazzaville. Excellent lyrics, instrumentation and recording.

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Who is "Mad Finder"?

Hit the Grass!
Mad Finder
Manufacturer: LoveCat Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000A1GY2W
Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

Loco Roaches Flute
Boriqua in Space
Head Ga Noche
Butter Hornin'
Hit the Grass!
Tear It Down
Jack of Trades
Jagananda Sleeps
Perla Negra
Juego de Alma
Mermaid XXX
Mia and Alexander
A.K.A. Love Bombs
Mil Peros
Straight or Narrow
Walking Nickel Jones
Sludge With Frosty
Up Turn

Product Description

18 tRACKS

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Who is "Mad Finder"?.......2005-12-20

Mad Finder is David Ralicke, an original member of Brazzaville. Ralicke plays sax and trombone on all of Brazzaville's albums, and "Hit the Grass!" is Ralicke's second solo album. This is basically very groovin chill music. The instrumentals are very eclectic: part latin jazz, part surf music, part motown with some dub and New Orleans Big Brass thrown in for good measure. The sheer richness of Ralicke's hybrid compositions is impressive.

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The Girl Is Allright
Brazzaville
Manufacturer: Deaf & Dumb Sweden
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000523JY
Release Date: 2000-11-28

Tracks:

Flick It
Do You Like It
Moonboot Baby
Baby
Great Women
Firegirl
Boom Boom
Be Whippy
Electricity
Goodbye Girl
Grindboy
Doin' It Again

Tracks:

Kaiser Man [*]
Shut up Train (Shut Up) [*]
Battery Thinkers [*]
Candelight Dinner [*]
Rock Me Baby [*]

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East L.a. Breeze

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000NVILPM
Release Date: 2007-03-20

Album Description

Delicately-layered melancholy pop from David Brown and company. Another amazing find from the great Vendlus Records. 2007.

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Music for a place where time does not matter
A Great Escape
A Great Record!

Rouge on Pockmarked Cheeks
Brazzaville
Manufacturer: South China Sea
ProductGroup: Music
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Hastings Street
Welcome to...Brazzaville

ASIN: B000065ARP
Release Date: 2002-05-07

Tracks:

Motel Room
Samurai
Queenie
1980
Rainy Night
Genoa
Trona
Xanax And Three Hours Of TV
High Life
N. Koreatown
Late Night Lullaby

Customer Reviews:

Music for a place where time does not matter.......2004-06-08

I can't believe I like this album at all, let alone that it is in my top 20 favorites of 2003. But then, considering the images in my head that the album draws up, I can.

The album kicks off with the song "Motel Room," which is an apt title, for the whole album gives the kind of feel in staying in some old roadside motel with the ancient flashing neon sign, somewhere out in the desert of Nevada or southeastern California or Arizona. There you are, on a hot desert day, too hot to do anything even if you did have the energy. You feel kind of blah but also kind of pleasantly relaxed...actually enjoying doing nothing. That's the picture and feel I get from this album.

The songs are all very slow, with the main instrument being acoustic guitar, played in a kind of mild bossa nova fashion. Scattered throughout the album are appearances of other instruments. The second song features a muted trumpet played with the hand, making a wah-wah sound, plus a trombone. A fiddle appears in one song, played slowly. Other instruments that appear are saxophone, accordian, and harmonica. One song begins with a musicbox playing "Sakura, Sakura." Throughout many songs on the album is what I call a western or cowboy electric guitar; I don't know how else to describe it, but when I hear this kind of guitar, it often makes me think of the West. This kind of guitar is used by Starflyer 59 and Bon Voyage also.

Speaking of Starflyer 59, the vocals on this album sound very similar to the singing of Jason Martin, lead singer of Starflyer 59: sung in low register, softly and lazily, or perhaps with a pensive mood. I think the combination of the singing, the western guitar, and the overall mood of the album makes this a summer album for me all the way. This is for late summer, when it's hot and humid and you don't feel like doing anything but lazing around.

There must be some Asian connection in the album, either in the group's experience, their fascination, or some Asian members, because there are several references to Asian culture. Song names include "Samurai" and "North Koreatown." In one song I hear the word "Taiwanese." In two different songs, there is mention of the fruit mangosteen, a fruit I enjoyed when I lived in Taiwan but have not been able to find in the United States, even in Asian markets. (And when I hear it mentioned in these songs, it makes me want to eat some again!) An inside picture of the CD package is of a city street in Asia with lots of neon lights. (One sign is in Japanese and English, other signs look like Chinese, and one says "Hong Kong Arts," so I'm not sure where it is.) The front cover has a picture of mountains in the American west desert with an old motel sign and a McDonalds sign in the background, with an Asian-looking girl in the foreground. The back cover has pictures of what look like fishing boats in Asia, with skyscrapers in the background that look like apartments. And as I previously mentioned, one of the songs begins with a musicbox playing that famous Japanese song about cherry blossoms.

But despite the Asian connection in lyrical references, titles, and photos, the album feels very much Southwest U.S. to me. It also has a strong lounge feel. The lyrics of one song mention "pink champagne and donuts on the beach" giving even more of a loungy feel. This album is definitely adult music.

The album ends with a hidden track that features loungy piano and pretty female vocals (as well as the lead male singer) with some PA announcement going on in the background. As this song fades out, ocean sounds fade in. The last four minutes of the album are just ocean surf, a perfect ending to the album. Before, I said it feels like I'm in a desert when listening to this, but by this point, it's like I'm in some rundown beachfront town, still at some retro motel, but taking in the smell of the salt air and the feel of the ocean breeze. Still doing absolutely nothing.

A Great Escape.......2003-02-03

This Brazzaville album is mellower than the first two, and the songwriting is not quite as strong, but it is still quite remarkable. The band has expanded their sound a bit, with more keyboards than usual and even a violin and an accordian on some tracks. Bandleader David Brown has played saxaphone for Beck, and a couple of other musicians here--Smokey Hormel and Nigel Godrich--have also been associated with Beck. I think this album blows away Beck's new one, however, as it is just as downcast yet somehow still lively. And as on every Brazzaville offering, the musicianship is tremendous, with a mixture of jazz, reggae, folk, and pop, played with warmth and affection. (Caution: The bonus track sounds an awful lot like "Riders on the Storm.")

If you are a newcomer to this wonderful but underappreciated band I suggest starting with either "Somnambulista" or "2002." But if you REALLY want to capture that vibe of lying flat on your back with a hangover in a cheap motel room in some godforsaken third world country, "Rouge on Pockmarked Cheeks" is the answer to your daydreams. It's a great escape.

A Great Record!.......2002-08-18

This album gather beautiful compositions. Like a soundtrack, it takes you to a place where you do not want to come back.
I love this record and keep playing it on heavy rotation. I like travelling.
It is a record that everyone need to buy.

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Rouge On Pockmarked Cheeks
Brazzaville
Manufacturer: independent
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000LXCVJO

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