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BRAZZA NEWS Aug 02, 2008 Hello Everyone, -21st Century Girl will be released in the US on Parasol/Bus Stop Label on Sept. 8th. -The interview/live session we recorded at WXPN in Philadelphia for World Cafe w/ David Dye will be broadcast on Sept. 30th on most NPR stations in the US -The Brazzaville DVD/audio CD with B sides etc. should be finished by this fall. -The Clouds In Camarillo (w/Minerva) is on over 64 radio stations across Russia and has been played more than 25,000 times in the past few months. It remains in the top 10 on Radio Maximum. -We are still hoping to record a CD with Turkish musicians but that plan seems to have stalled for the moment. -We are planning a big Russian tour for the fall. The cities that we are hoping to hit if all goes well should include Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Kaliningrad, Novosibirsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. We will post all shows and dates as they are confirmed. -There might be some slight movement with the ship tour. -There are some new songs in the works, some of which will be played at the upcoming shows. -We have posted 6 brand new songs from the new CD on our myspace page. FORÇA BRUTA!!!!! Jun 27, 2008 I can say with complete certainty that my favorite album of all time is Força Bruta by Jorge Ben. I have put the photo from the cover of it's 1970 release on our front page for inspiration. Years ago I had a cassette with many of the songs from the record and I listened to it non stop for months. I am off to play a solo show in Kiev tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to visiting Ukraine again. It's a wonderful country. I hope we'll be able to make it back with the whole band next year. The US tour is coming up! If we coming to your town, it would be great to see you at a show. I love playing in the US. The complete tour schedule is on our Tour page as well as our myspace page. Here is a really funny video that Justin, the bass lpayer from Beck's old band sent to me the other day. I'm the one in the funny wig playing the sax with football shoulder pads on. BRAZZAVILLE NEWS Jun 10, 2008 -We will be playing a big show in Barcelona at Sala BeCool on June 26th at 10 pm. -I have finally written the final chapter of the Russian tour journal. You can read it by clicking on the journal icon. -The US tour dates have all been finalized. We will be visiting Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Madison, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Providence and L.A. You can see the complete schedule with dates and times by clicking on the microphone icon or by visiting our myspace page at www.myspace.com/brazzaville ST. PETERSBURG NEWS STORY Apr 25, 2008 This is a news story about Brazzaville that was filmed in St. Petersburg on our last tour in Russia. It's in Russian http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJ_sgJE3vY NEW ENTRY IN THE JOURNAL SECTION Apr 18, 2008 I have finally continued the Russian tour saga. Check the journal section and scroll down. NEWS! Mar 24, 2008 -I just got back from almost a month in Russia. It was an amazing experience. I have begun to write about it in the journal section and will continue with that this week. -The Clouds In Camarillo (with Minerva) is becoming kind of a minor hit in Russia. It’s getting a lot of play on the radio and there is talk of making another video for it. -We are off to play three shows in Ireland later this week. Two of the shows will be with Larry Beau. I am really looking forward to playing with him. I really enjoy his music a lot. -We are working on playing in Romania around May 8th and 9th. That sounds like it would be a lot of fun. -The US tour seems to be coming together for July. As of now, it looks like it will include, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, New York, and L.A. In addition there might be shows in Minneapolis, Boston, Philadelphia, DC and Providence. I will post the dates on the site as soon as they are confirmed. -The first pressing of 21st Century Girl in Russia has completely sold out and they are pressing a second run. -We are planning to release a DVD/CD in the fall. -Lots of people have been ordering our new CD from the website. The system seems to be working out quite well. We ship them anywhere in the world! -Soon you will be able to buy all of our record on mp3 from CD Baby. Actually, you can already get most of them there. They come in a higher quality mp3 format than even iTunes and they include the album cover art. -Hopefully, I will record an album with the Turkish musician, Denis Cuylan when his military service is over in May. -We are planning a HUGE Russian tour with the full band for September. We may include a show in China at the beginning of the tour and then begin the Russian tour in Vladivostok and Khabaravsk and work our way west to Moscow, P-burg and maybe even Kaliningrad. Hopefully we will get to play in Nizhniy Novgorod this time as I know there are a lot of great fans out there. BRAZZAVILLE NEWS FEB. 28TH 2008 Feb 28, 2008 -We played 3 really fun shows in Turkey last week. The first was at Locus Solus in Ankara. A lot of people turned out for the show and, even though there was a fair amount of talking during our set, everyone seemed to have a good time. There was a total eclipse later that night but I was too tired to stay up for it. The second show was in Istanbul at Is Sanat Concert Hall. It is a beautiful concert hall which is located a bit far from Taksim, but has the best acoustics I’ve ever experienced. It is a sit down venue so it was a pretty relaxed evening. We had a great time and Richie got to play a Steinway for the first time in his life. The third show was on the Anatolian side of Istanbul in a neighborhood called Kadikoy. It was at a club called Isis. That show was acoustic. The setting was very intimate and we had a wonderful time. The Turkish audiences were great. James Hakan Dedeoglu and Ipek sat in with us that night. -March 1st will be the first show of the upcoming Russian tour. I will be doing a solo set in Ekateriburg. After that, the full band has 3 shows (2 in St. Petersburg and one in Moscow). The P-burg shows are at Maina and The Place. The big show in Moscow will be at Apelsin. It is on March 8th which is Woman’s Day. After that, the band will go home and I will head out to Vladivostok to play some shows with som Russian musicians. They are busy learning about 22 Brazzaville songs as I write this. It should be a great adventure. After Vlad, I will fly to Siberia to play some solo shows in Novosibirsk and maybe Tomsk. -We are planning a US tour for July. So far we are looking at shows in Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC, Brooklyn, Philly, DC and maybe Boston. IN addition, we are considering a west coast swing through LA, SF, San Diego and maybe even Portland. -We are talking with prmoters in Ukraine about touring there at some point this spring. -We are also talking to a promoter in Romania about doing a show in Bucharest. I would LOVE to do that. -We will be playing 3 shows in Ireland at the end of March. I haven’t been there for many years. It will be very interesting to go to the place where a lot of my father’s family came from. -I will be performing the song Kao San Road with the Russian band, B2 in Moscow on March 3rd. It is a song that I co-wrote with Shura’s uncle. -The new CD, 21st Century Girl has been released in Russia and Ukraine. It is also for sale through our website. It has 14 tracks of brand new Brazzaville songs! -We are still planning on putting out a Brazzaville DVD/CD combo at some point this year. BRAZZAVILLE NEWS JAN/FEB 2008 Jan 23, 2008 -We played some really fun shows in Amsterdam. Many thanks to Coparck for inviting us to play with them at Paradiso and to Olga and Jeroen for arranging our show at De Neiuwe Anita and to them and Arthur for putting us up while we were in Amsterdam. -East L.A. Breeze has been released in Benelux on V2 Records. People in Amsterdam told us they have been hearing it on the radio and that it was featured on an important Dutch website last week. -The Turkish shows are all finalized. for February. We will be playing full band shows in Istanbul and Ankara and an acoustic show on the Anatolian side of Istanbul. There are full details for the shows on the tour page of this site. -Our Russian language website, www.brazzaville.ru will be launched shortly. -The Russian tour is coming together for March with shows confirmed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok. We are awaiting word on shows in Siberia. -21st Century Girl will be released in Ukraine at the beginning of Feb. Hopefully we will come and play some shows there in April. -We have 2 shows in Dublin at the end of March. We are hoping to book a show on the west coast of Ireland as well. -21st Century Girl is available for pre-order in our online store and should be available in the next month or so. BRAZZAVILLE NEWS JAN. 2008 Jan 01, 2008
-V2 Records will be releasing East L.A. Breeze in Benelux in January -We will be playing a big show at the legendary Paradiso with the Dutch band Coparck on January 17th. -David will be playing a solo show at De Nieuwe Anita the following night on January 18th. -21st Century Girl will be released in Russia and the Ukraine at the beginning of February -We will be playing a show in Istanbul at Is Sanat on Feb. 22nd and David will be playing a solo show across the Bosphorus in Kadikoy, on the Anatolian side of town at Arka Oda on Feb. 24th. We are working on booking shows in Izmir and Ankara around that same time -We will be playing a HUGE show in Moscow to celebrate Woman’s Day and the release of our new CD, 21st Century Girl. The show will be at Apelsin on March 8th. We are working on putting together some other Russian dates for around that same time. -We will be shooting a video for Jesse James with Dr. Tikov, a Russian director and musician who lives here in Barcelona -We are hoping to come and play some shows in Ireland toward the end of March. A wonderful musician by the name of Larry Beau (www.myspace.com/larrybeau) is helping us to set them up. -Staying with Ireland, a super-cool Irish guy named Mark Wrafter is rebuilding our website so that it will be easier for us to upload photos, text, music etc. He is also building us an online store so we will be selling our CDs, t-shirts and even songbooks directly from our site. -There is a possibility of us going to play some shows in China in late March/early April. -We are looking into playing some festivals in the US this summer. If that happens we will book some other shows around them. Cities would most likely be in the Midwest and on the East Coast but maybe we’ll try to get out to L.A. as well. -HAPPY NEW YEAR to all out wonderful fans! Love, Brazzaville NEWS NOV. 2007 Nov 01, 2007 NEWS NOV. 2007 -We have been in Cristian Vogel's Station 55 studio mastering our latest CD. It should be all finished by next week. -V2 Records has licensed East L.A. Breeze for Holland, Belgium and Luxambourg! -Brazzaville will be playing in the legendary Paradiso in Amsterdam on January 17th. We will also be playing a show the following night at our favorite Amsterdam club, De Nieuwe Anita (The Foyer). -Brazzaville will be playing in Istanbul at the Is Sanat Concert Hall on Feb. 23rd. -We are working on playing a HUGE show in Moscow in February or March to celebrate the release of the new CD. -We are planning the release of the latest CD in Russia in early February. -We are planning to release a DVD/CD set featuring live footage of the band as well as TV interviews, videos etc. The CD will have radio interviews from around the world as well as rare recordings and live versions of some of the songs. -David will be going to Istanbul next Spring to record a record with musician/producer Deniz Cuylan. It will feature 12-15 Brazzaville songs recorded with various Turkish musicians. It will be released in Turkey on Elec-Trip Records. -We are working on shows in many other countries right now and will post information about them as they are confirmed. Upcoming shows (confirmed): Jan. 17 th Jan. 18 th Feb. 22nd NEWS-FALL 2007 Sep 01, 2007 NEWS-FALL 2007 (old)
-We recorded an English/Russian version of a song called Camarillo that was co-written by Misha Korneev, his friend Vanya and myself. Misha was visiting in Barcelona and he and I got together in the studio to do the version. I am very happy with how it turned out. -On Sept. 11th we shot a video for the song with the great video director Ferran Calvo and starring the beautiful Dadanoia http://dadanoias.blogspot.com as the protagonista. Sept. 11th is a big holiday here in Catalunya. I walked out of my house at about 9 AM and the street was filled with police and people assembled in front of the Tibetan Center around the corner from my house. I walked over to take a look and a car pulled up and the Dali Lama emerged, smiling and waving to everybody. He seems like a truly wonderful man. Anyway, it seemed like a good omen. We shot all day in locations around the wastelands of Besos and Badalona. -Brady and I went to the US to play some shows from Sept. 12th through the 18th. It was a whirlwind tour through Madison, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago. We played with Todd Richards on the guitar and Eric Radloff on the drums. They did a great job. Todd arranged the whole tour and put us up in his house the entire time. He is a real mensch! -I leave for Turkey tomorrow, Sept. 20th, to play a couple of solo shows in Ankara and Istanbul. The details of the shows are listed below. -We are playing some shows in Russia beginning on Oct. 17th in St. Petersburg. P-burg, Ufa and Kaliningrad have been confirmed. We are waiting to hear about a few other cities and we will list them as soon as they get confirmation. - Here are a couple of bits of press from the Midwest tour:http://www.mkeonline.com/story.asp?id=1402384
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upcoming Turkey shows: Sept. 23rd
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