Wrong Concerts just released a charity sampler featuring 25 bands, including Labasheeda’s single ‘False Flag‘. You can buy this compilation by donating 10 euros or more on Bandcamp. Funds raised go entirely to the victims of the earthquake in Turkey. Read more about this project on hilfsbund.com
Born out of the desire to create an lp-like experience with the immediacy of a digital download, Brooklyn based songwriter & Chapman Stick player, Alex Nahas, aka Bright Brown, is releasing, “And So…”, a hand written lyric book with a corresponding download code of seven songs written in isolation over 2020 & 2021 and accompanied by illustrations contributed from Pete Moulthrop, aka Bearded Tales of Woe.
Alex Nahas loves limits. That may seem odd coming from Brooklyn N.Y.’s singer / multi-instrumentalist who plays the Chapman Stick and harbors a deep affinity for the likes of Peter Gabriel and Talk Talk, but Nahas’s solo project Bright Brown is a case study in how to wring more from less. As Bright Brown has evolved over the course of three LPs, two EPs and, most recently, the new Digital EP / Illustrated Lyric Book, ‘And So…’, reflecting the post 2020 world seen through his dark but hopeful lens, Nahas has carved out a niche that slots into the same lineage as David Byrne, David Bowie, Daniel Lanois and Elvis Costello: all one-of-a-kind artists who shoehorned unorthodox approaches into highly digestible pop music. There’s the unmistakable common thread of a seasoned songwriter with a flair for mood, texture and atmosphere. Thoughtful and reflective with a knack for rendering outside-world concerns in the landscape of the personal, Bright Brown continues to venture into new frontiers, casting the Stick in a fresh light as a songwriter’s instrument with each successive song.
The Illustrated EP / Lyric Book will be out on Friday October 7th, 2022