Sunday, July 10, 2005

VIVA ENCYCLOPEDIA



The second record I made mostly by myself. I finally understood what I wanted to write and what my strengths were so I gave my musical project a new, horrible, impossible to remember name. My ideas for this record were: use mostly acoustic guitars, analog keyboards, lots of percussion other than drumkits, sometimes multiple drumkits, and VHS movie samples. Lots of bands' first records contain little facets that never show up in their discography again. I think it's safe to say that nothing I write in the foreseeable future will have a 2 minute organ solo. A lot of these songs give a good indication of the direction that Troy, David, and I would take on the next record, however. I'm not sure if there are any great "songs" on this album, but there's some nice music.

Written and Recorded by Justin Brown at Brown House and Granny Little's House
except "Handshake Lesson" written and recorded by Jared Brown
Justin Brown: vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drumming.
Jared Brown: vocals, guitar, drums on "Handshake Lesson"
Nic Frederic: bass on "Blood"
Steven MacLauchlan: harmony vocals on "Viva Encyclopedia"
Marcie Simpson: claps on "I Navigate"

You can preview three songs from the album at our myspace page.

1. Viva Encyclopedia
2. Beware/Fireflies
3. My Friend the Robot
4. Syrup
5. Handshake Lesson
6. Honey
7. The Guest
8. Match Game Adaptation
9. I Navigate
10. Fairbanks
11. Bucket's Empty
12. Blonde Swan
13. Blood