Brazil: Rarities, and a live album

Working on two post-Backerkit projects at the moment (not including preparations for Post. Festival).

First up, a Rarities album - if you made a pledge to the POV Backerkit, you probably received a download code for this one (and the other one, too).

Rarities is a rollup of a slew of demos, outtakes, and live performances pulled into the official historical document of Brazil's creative path over almost a decade.

It includes 4-track sketches, single microphone live takes, and basement takes recorded with our friends who were invaluable in a journey that snaked from 2000 to 2008.

Second, the live album. Currently undergoing a remix by our sound engineer, this was a live feed pulled from the front-of-house mix at our 2019 reunion show and cataloged away in a hard drive for almost 8 years, until now.

Other than a few random fan Youtubes, there aren't many recorded live performances out there. And just as the Rarities album is the official historical document, Live at the HI-FI is the official live document.

I think of it as an official bootleg, which is technically a contradiction in terms (bootlegs are supposed to be pirated fan recordings sold on the seedy musical black market), but we figure if Frank Zappa and Napalm Death can release official bootlegs, then so can we.

Both of these will be released on limited edition CD in the coming months.

Stay tuned for more info.

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What I’m reading: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Lester Bangs)

What I'm listening to: Psychotic Reaction (Count Five)

Read the Brazil tour blog at the Substack: