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Member Since	7/23/2004
Band Website	ereiamj-h.com
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Influences	Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince - the first person to record moving images on film, several years before Edison and Lumière. He disappeared from a train in Paris on his way to exhibit his work in the United States, and neither his body nor his luggage were ever seen again.
Sounds Like	See the "Escape" Video on www.launch.com
Record Label	Elefant & Haus
Type of Label	Indie

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BIOGRAPHY

You cant be creative; it just happens mostly when youre not forcing its hand, and hardly ever on the eve of a deadline. But when the creative process strikes, when everything clicks and your muse suddenly comes into focus, thats when you find the potential for magicor terror. Either way, the results are usually transcendent.

Unfortunately, when youre in a struggling rock band, you dont always have the luxury of waiting around for your muse to appear. Brazil's Jonathon Newby realized this when, just days after completing a 14-month tour in 2005, he came home to Muncie, Indiana, to resume his day job at a metal shop.

"We were out with bands like Sparta and Coheed And Cambria", Jonathon remembers of the campaign, "dates of which also found Brazil supporting Engine Down and Rainer Maria, and the next thing I know, Im back home, working all day at the shop. Coming back into a routine like that, it just gets harder and harder to be creative when youre exhausted and sweaty and covered in mud from, you know, handling glass and aluminum frames all day."

But a funny thing happened when Jonathan, who rounds out Brazil with his keyboardist brother Nic, guitarists Aaron Smith and Eric Johnson, bassist Philip Williams and drummer James Sefchekreturned to the daily grind. The more uncomfortable I got with my working life outside of the band, the more I needed to write, he says. That whole period of discomfort gave birth to a lot of new material. Soon, the songs started flowing, and the members of Brazil, all of whom were feeling a similar existential tug, just clicked. Sealed off in Jonathon's garage, they began working furiously on the material that would become their second album and Immortal Records debut, The Philosophy Of Velocity. With Jonathon's typically alluring lyrics interweaving characters such as existential steam robots (Mr. Mercury) with manic-depressive submarine captains (Captain Mainwaring), the new album is a farcical document of the creative process itself, full of odd vignettes and absurdist rabbit holes that eventually lead the listener to the heart of the story. Musically, Velocity burns with fully realized sonic explorations by the band and producer Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev)who collectively utilized nearly every piece of equipment at our disposal, according to Jonathon, including multiple pianos, orchestral percussion, and experimental miking techniques, to create Brazils most artful and ambitious album yet.

Of course, fans will tell you that creative tension has been central to Brazil's music from day one: In 2000, after the breakup of his unremarkable former group, Jonathon left the U.S. to live in the Arab quarter of a small Belgian town; after months of laboring overseas in warehouses, during which he kept himself sane by formulating plans for a new musical project, he returned to the States, finally settling into the chapel of an abandoned, century-old church. It was here that the nucleus of Brazil (a reference to Terry Gilliams classic Orwellian-nightmare film of the same name) would arrive.

After recording a handful of demos in the churchs dank basement, Brazil started to play out, gaining a small but devoted fanbase throughout the Midwest. In August of 2001, the band hit the road for a three-week, self-booked U.S. tour in a dying minivan an experience which, if nothing else, revealed just how long the human body can survive on peanut butter and multivitamins, Jonathon remembers. However, impressed by their near-masochistic drive, Fearless Records offered to release the bands 2002 debut EP, Dasein (it translates roughly to existence) and once more sent them out on the road in support.

Like many debut releases, Dasein was a snapshot of the still-young bands attempts to reconcile their influences with their ambitions; and while the overall response to the EP was mixed, even Brazil's biggest critics recognized the potential within. [Dasein] hints that big things may be in Brazil's future, wrote Aversion.com. Skratch Magazine concurred, adding, Fearless Records has a monster band on their hands. And indeed they did though not even the label was prepared for the album that would follow.

Released by Fearless in April of 2004, A Hostage And The Meaning Of Life was such a quantum leap forward, it might as well have been the work of a different band. The skittering rhythms and cloudy keyboard atmospheres of Dasein had given way to crystalline keyboard figures and a grand, eloquent sense of rhythmic flow that extended all the way up to Jonathon's chilling upper-register pipes. Alternative Press responded right out of the gate with a 5/5 review, calling the band mad geniuses. Emotionalpunk.com upped the ante to 10/10, proclaiming Brazil to be the best-kept secret on Fearless Records until now. And Synthesis magazine concurred, adding, [Brazil] effectively transcend the commercial crap of the industry and offer a high-energy alt-rock alternative to the mainstream. Dont believe the critics? Hostage is among those exceedingly rare albums on Amazon.com to have a unanimous five-star rating from fans.

While the aforementioned 14-month campaign supporting Hostage found Brazil picking up momentum with each stop, the decidedly unglamorous return to daily life found them wondering what next? And so Jonathon moved into a tiny house back in Indiana, the tinier garage of which would become the Petri dish for Brazil's new material. In March of 2006, after being floored by the new demos, Immortal Records offered the band a deal, and soon afterward, Brazil holed themselves up at Tarbox Road Studios in remote Cassadaga, New York, with aural genius Fridmann to commit The Philosophy Of Velocity to tape. With the band finally having access to the giant canvas their art has always begged for, the result is a blissful, expansive marriage of pure sound that, although right in line with the Brazil of old, weaves together the wombadelic impressionism of My Bloody Valentine with the melodic/harmonic ambitions of Queen and Yes and the wry lyricism of Lou Reed and Nick Cave.

Of course, there's some danger in revealing a bands influences when the work they produce is this next-levela nd with The Philosophy Of Velocity, Brazil have moved beyond the obvious into a thrilling new sound thats unbound by genre and indebted to whats come before it only inasmuch as rock is indebted to, you know, music. And while it may not seem surprising that none of this could've happened if not for a wandering spirit and a drudgingly unremarkable shift at a metal shop, stop for a moment and ask yourself how many songwriters in similar situations have actually broken free of that grind to create something with universal truth.

Suddenly casts the line Don't quit your day job in a whole new light, doesn't it?

PRESS
..Name dropping the best of their peers can..t contain or adequately describe what they have created.. This album is the wake-up call the world needs... .. Alternative Press

..Breathtaking, beautiful, and obld. Make sure you check this band out, you will never forgive yourself otherwise... .. Altsounds

..9/10. An incredibly cohesive, fluid sound with perfectly controlled vocals... .. Absolutepunk.net

..Boasting a sound as big as Brazil itself, a style as wonderfully extravagant as the movie they named themselves after, the group have taken rcok in all its myriad moods to a whole new level, and themselves with it. 4.5 out of 5... .. Allmusic.com

..Dedicate 48 minutes of your life to listening to ..The Philosophy of Velocity.. without interrupting to anything else... .. Ultimate-Guitar

..9/10. A great CD. Brazil has really hit the nail on the head with this one... .. Punk Press

..Evokes the grandeur of Yes, Queen, and early Genesis... .. Revolver

..An exciting and energetic journey into the heart of progressive indie rock, reminiscent of Muse and The Mars Volta... .. Decoy Magazine

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JACKIE New CD Out Now	Jul 10 2009 2:32 AM brazil A little note to remind you how much we appreciate your support. It means the world to us! Please check out our current schedule and try to make it out to rock out with us! Saturday, July 11 - The Cove - Geneva, OH Friday, July 17th - Rock N Resort Festival - Canal Fulton, OH Saturday, July 18th - Tequila Rocks - Huntington, WV Saturday, August 15th - Jimmy's Bar & Grille - Mentor, OH Saturday, August 29th - Knockouts - Parma, OH Saturday, September 19th @ Peabodys in Cleveland, OH is our NEW CD LAUNCH SHOW! More Dates including overseas USO Tour Dates...coming soon! ~Rock On!
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