The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Future Is Your Past - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Pique is the sensational debut solo album from Dora Morelenbaum, one of the key talents spearheading Brazil's new musical wave. A member of the Latin Grammy award-winning band, Bala Desejo, Dora showcases a new side to her solo productions on this special LP. Whereas Dora's first solo EP, Vento de Beirada, was a leap of faith, Pique sees her soaring as one of Brazil's standout stars, emboldened, emphatic but ever elegant. Building bridges between past and present, it's a funkier, more groove-based affair, weaved together with those signature, slower, celestial tracks. Touching on disco, MPB, soul, R&B and jazz, the album is enriched with an indie pop aesthetic courtesy of fellow Brazilian star and co-producer, Ana Frango Elétrico. With an ethereal, enveloping air few can match, Dora's gift shines through both the serene and the spirited songs contained within. The blissful, sun-soaked 'Não Vou Te Esquecer' opens, before the funk-fuelled, feel-good 'Venha Comigo' and 'Sim, Não.' give a glimpse of the creativity bursting from the production partnership between Dora and Ana Frango Elétrico. Elsewhere, the album reclines into hazy lean-back realms via 'A Melhor Saída' and 'Petricor', virtuoso jazz funk in the form of 'VW Blue' and radiant MPB through the album's title track 'Pique'.The drumming is tight, fresh and swung, the horns and strings deftly arranged, as funk-driven basslines and strutting guitars mesh with playful production touches that give an added vibrancy to the record. It is an album that exhibits every side of Dora and one she has been involved in from the ground up, from the songwriting, singing, arrangement and production to booking the studio time and sourcing the artwork designer, Maria Cau Levy.An exchange of musical ideas powers every great scene and Rio's contemporary landscape is no different - a family of interconnected musicians and friends that

Something Else is the first of two full-length offerings from The Brian Jonestown Massacre to be released in 2018 with a self-titled LP following in the fall. Recorded between 2017 and 2018, this is the prolific purveyors of drone-laden psychedelia's seventeenth full-length overall, a less experimental departure which finds the Anton Newcombe commandeered outfit revisiting their more traditional roots. Sure to please old and new fans alike, Something Else is introduced by lead cut InchHold That Thought,Inch a reflective acoustic pscyh number with pounding drums.

Third World Pyramid is the 15th full length from The Brian Jonestown Massacre recorded in early 2016. It is the first album that was fully recorded & produced at Anton Newcombe's new Cobra Studio in Berlin. Third World Pyramid encapsulates the old and new sounds of the band, with the nine tracks starting from the melancholic InchGood MourningInch going through to InchAssignment SongInch - which is a cover of Nina Simone from her 1971 album Gifted & Black - and the latter tracks show the ever-changing dynamic of the band, acknowledging their past but also looking to their future. Featuring Ricky Maymi, Dan Allaire, Joel Gion, Collin Hegna and Ryan Van Kriedt. Also, Emil Nikolaisen from the Norwegian band Serena-Maneesh joins the band on this album, plus vocal performance Tess Parks and Katy Lane. Anton Newcombe has been a very busy man these past two years, kicking off with the critically acclaimed Brian Jonestown Massacre album Revelation in 2014 (AUK 030CD/LP). After a successful UK and European tour, the BJM followed this up with the +- EP (AUK 031EP, 2014). 2015 saw the of Musique de film imaginé (AUK 032CD/LP); an imaginary film soundtrack album featuring the track InchBonbonInch which has, ironically, been used in Dheepan, the Palme D'or winner at Cannes film festival 2015. In June, Anton and Tess Parks embarked on a well-received tour of the UK and Europe to support the of I Declare Nothing (AUK 120CD/LP, 2015). Anton finished 2015 with a BJM mini-album entitled Mini Album Thingy Wingy (AUK 033CD/LP).