Finally BFF's

After many attempts experimenting with different materials, designing various templates, figuring out the complexities of paper weight, attempting to line things up perfectly, and realizing the importance of a bleed zone; I present to you Beast Friends Forever, a physical object available for purchase. Limited edition of twenty number CDr's.

Grab your best friend, or beast friend, and enjoy a collection of tracks recorded mostly between July and August 2012 (with a few tracks dating back to 2010). You'll hear zany circus tunes, spacey synths, gritty lo-fi synths, some vaguely noisy sounds, some vaguely danceable sounds, ley-lines, UFOs, ducks, hippos, elephants, it's all here for you.

Listen/download it for free on bandcamp, but if you're super cool you'll want to buy a copy to show off to all your BFFs.

Almost BFF's

As you can see there are some printing issues at the moment, but physical copies of Beast Friends Forever will soon be available for purchase.

Workout Music for Emotional Problems

If there's one thing The Brown Christmas consistently does, it's coming up with ideas for projects that, for one reason or another, never come to fruition. Every so often however, remnants of these aborted ideas appear on albums. Here is an example from Beast Friends Forever.


The track Workout Music for Emotional Problems, comes from a jam session sometime in the spring or early summer of 2010. The improvisations of this session began taking on an upbeat, energetic, and slightly danceable tone. There was then a humorous realization that we were recording workout music, or at least some bizarre bastardization of workout music.

It was proposed that we continue with this theme, and compile all these tracks into an album. Perhaps something like Sweatin' with The Brown Christmas. We came up with unusual names of exercises, like the lower neck workout. There was also even the idea of either recoding video of fake exercises to accompany the songs, or reediting found exercise video footage and releasing the songs this way.

However because our editing and releasing of music was so far behind, this concept was put on hold. By the time we had caught up and could have potentially released this, the music was already four years old. Much of it didn't age very well; the content and quality of most of the recordings was not of a caliber we felt comfortable releasing at that point. The one gem that existed however was Workout Music for Emotional Problems, and so it found its place on Beast Friends Forever.

Updates

One of the benefits of acting like a hermit is being able to catch up on editing all the weird music no one will listen to. After a few months of mercilessly plowing through hours upon hours of jam sessions I am down to the final two. There are at this very moment, six albums worth of new unreleased Brown Christmas material ready to go. Expect to see these gradually trickle out over the coming months.

Here is a preview track from one of them.


Physical releases are also on the way, although there's been a bit of a setback regarding the logistics of making these. Originally the plan was to make crafty packaging using recycled cardboard boxes from my day job. However after several experiments It became apparent that these were too thick, unmanageable, and of poor quality. Now there are useless mountains of cardboard sitting around taking up space. However this will not deter me, I am exploring other packaging options, and hopefully you will see physical copies of Beast Friends Forever for sale by August.

Beast Friends Forever

Here it is, the latest collection of musical madness from The Brown Christmas. Composed mostly from jam sessions recorded in July and August 2012 (with a few dating back farther), back when we were all eagerly awaiting the mayan apocalypse. Available now as a free download and in the near future as a reasonable priced physical object.