The Milled Pavement Collective,The TFD Massive, The Basement Troubadour mindmeld,The Subversiv family,The Beat Pimps Brotherhood,Experimental Hiphop,Long Winters,Gothic New England,(real) Punk Rock, Doom metal, My own personal Iron Goddess, Beer, insomnia, friends + family, so-called friends, biters, snake-tongue masters of disguise,pushing boundaries of good-taste, thinly veiled enmity, unrequited yearnings, high school surrealism, cultural criticism, industry locusts, space-rap,nerd-hop, New Wave, No Wave, and "Conspiracies" (i.e. the truth.).
Sounds Like
New England Gothic Hiphop. Progressive, yet bitter.... sometimes expansive, yet often introspective....and other analytical scalpel-scraping.
At age 28, BRZOWSKI is laying his heart and mind open w/ all the desperation and explosive energy of a nervous breakdown coupled with a mid-life crisis. The Portland, ME by-way-of Swansea,MA emcee kicked around the Massachusetts and Rhode Island music scenes in varying projects since 1993, before taking a permanent vacation to the northeast tundra, where long winters and unsuspecting audiences could better nurture his creative spirits / personal demons. Joining forces with producer/technophile-at-large AGENT8 in the studio and settling in with disc-jockey extraordinaire/tour psychologist GRAYMATTER on stage, he has been steadily amassing a sizable groundswell of indie hip-hop true believers who clamor for something more artfully substantial than the mainstream stranglehold can spoon-feed them. BRZOWSKI's music contains many truly atypical aspects: lengthy songs, techno/industrial influenced beats, literary and visual culture references, a touch of the defiance of early 90's punk rock, and a dark cloud behind every silver lining. Winning poetry slams, consistently ranking in the finals in mc battles, tour stints with Sage Francis, Epic and Galapagos4, as well as playing to packed clubs opening for the likes of Hangar 18,Busy Bee, Killah Priest, Atmosphere, Sole, jdwalker, Murs, Dalek, Brother Ali, Doug E. Fresh, Josh Martinez, Grand Buffet, DJ Vadim, Astronautalis, Sleep, Moshe, K-the-I???, members of the Shapeshifters, and myriad others have cemented BRZOWSKI a reputation for quality live performance. BRZOWSKI is set to drop a new studio album in the coming year (to follow-up his critically acclaimed debut MaryShelleyOverdrive), steadily racking up compilation and guest spots on labels spanning the western hemisphere, and all while scrambling to continue a hectic performing schedule. For the New England Gothic herald of poetic doom, the future appears curiously luminous.
The first official BRZOWSKI release in 3 years, Blooddrive Vol.2 is now available on P.O.E./MilledPavement Records. It consists of 23 tracks spanning 2004-2008, including new, rare, and out-of-print songs, as well as guest spots by New England legends such as K-the-I???, Onepersun, Nomar Slevik, and Moshe, as well as European titans Xndl, Dj Extend and Monsieur Sai. This release is but a teaser for the searing proper full-length A Fitful Sleep to be released in late 2009.
If you have been sleeping, consider this the alarm.
(This release will be available at www.milledpavement.com, Bull Moose Music, Newbury Comics, Access Hiphop, Phonographique, Vinylkingz, and fine underground music retailers everywhere)
Booking and additional information:
www.myspace.com/brzowski
www.milledpavement.com/brzowski.html
I'm promoting to spread the word around for my new album that just came out this summer. It's free free free! here http://www.dillydillymusic.com If you haven't gotten it yet!
so sorry i didn't get to see you or chill saturday. sad...i know. my car is illegal so my luck it would break down and i'd get arrested in the process ha! but hell....congrats on best mc. you deserve it. miss ya face homie!! if you head up to the mountains in NH hit me up...i'll be haunting-zombie style at Ghoullog @ Cranmore Mountain in N. Conway NH. every weekend in Oct. keep killin it. xoxo
