Stogie Fest

Vape enthusiasts need not apply, it's Stogie Fest 2017!!! In addition to improvising music, we also have a tendency to improvise dialog. This is usually limited to a few remarks at the end of a track, but occasionally we'll do slightly longer 'skits'. Aside from Brown 'til Dawn all our recent releases have hardly any talking segments, but I felt as if Joemazing and myself had some entertaining exchanges that deserved to be included.

Let's not forget however, that there is also music on this album! It seems we stayed pretty consistently laid back and upbeat with these songs. Our usual detours into abrasive clusters of synth noise are absent, and while we do get spacey we never quite get spooky. Things get a little dark on "Cold Ghost Wanderer" and our cover of ZZ Top's "Tush," but for the most part we keep things chill and silly.

What else would you expect to hear while attending Stogie Fest? The audience demands mellow tunes for relaxing under clouds of acrid tobacco smoke. Wether it's "Sunset Hay Ride's" uplifting, melodic build up; "Picnic by Comet Light" with it's cosmic ambience over inquisitive arpeggiated bass; or "Swimmer in the Night Sky's" driving, forward flowing rhythm, this is the ideal album for wrapping up the end of summer.

Besides the afore mentioned "Tush" we also cover the Primus song "Mr. Krinkle," and do another cover of Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain." You can also hear new versions of our own songs including; "Love Young Brown" and possibly my favorite version to date of "Cataract Jack."

So light up your stogies, catch a screening of Wall Blart, and get one more relaxing weekend in before your brick arrives for Wall Day.

Booty Sammich

Although our albums are 100% improvised, leaving plenty of room for unexpected sparks of inspiration to kindle, there are two themes that seem to emerge with some regularity; we like to call them: spooky and spacey. More often then not I am the one generating the spacey feelings, and Joemazing creates the spooky feelings, although this is not exclusively the case. Maybe the music we create just naturally lends itself to visions of slowly moving massive celestial bodies in an expansive void, and of dark otherworldly forces clawing their way out of dreams and into our waking life. So here is Booty Sammich; a little spacey, a little spooky, and always a little silly.

How to Make an Egg Cream

The Brown Christmas is equally skilled in the culinary arts as well as the art of love, our latest cookbook/erotic novella perfectly exemplifies this. These tunes are perfect whether you're in the kitchen or in the bedroom.

We are now in the final stretch of our unreleased catalog, all recordings from here onward are only about a year old. We entered 2016 with a auditory exploration that begins light hearted and innocent, leads to the triumphant sounding "A Thousand Risen Suns", then slows to a crawl. At this point we gradually enter darker and dark territories, reaching a peak with the punishing electrical sizzles of "The Crushing Weight of Nothingness." Eventually we emerge from it unscathed and can breathy easy again with the cheery, round-a-about melodies of "Scattered Rolling Beads of Light." Finally we wrap up our adventure with "Hundred Foot Strut," a hard grooving tune with a squealing synth solo.

A solid chunk of this album is tethered together with a deep, pulsing kick drum; keeping a slow steady pace while melodies and textures are exchanged. Joemazing's knack for creating interesting textures really shines through on this release. He lays down a nice skin of sound ranging from subtle spooky drones, piercing shimmers, to thick walls of synthy distortion.

It's not an easy task to make an egg cream, but with our new album anyone can learn!

Discrete Santa

Warm up those chestnuts, slurp down a frothy glass of nog, and get the christmas spirit deep inside you; it's Christmas on Craigslist again!

It's a bit of a Christmas miracle that this album exists at all; we recorded these tracks back in December 2014 with the intention of releasing the album the following year. Foolishly I didn't back the files up, and the hard drive they were on became corrupted. It seemed as if this jam session was lost to the computer gods. However after some research into data recovery I discovered that the files were just trapped in purgatory. Then it was just a matter of having the time and money to recover everything.

I was thrilled when everything was fully recovered and I had an opportunity to listen to what we had recorded for the first time in 2 years. There are some really solid Craigslist classics on here like "Mistress for Christmas" and "16 Days of Christmas", not to mention some non-craigslist originals like "Hey Who Put these Chestnuts Here?" and "Santa Doesn't want to go to Work Today."

These are sure to become your new favorite carols to sing. Maybe you'll even hear a track played on Jon Solomon's 25hr Christmas Marathon on WPRB this year.

Enjoy Your Christmas and remember to be discrete!

Christmas Retrospective part 3

Our most recent Christmas album came out 2 years ago and was a double mini album, if that makes sense. The first disc contained new christmas recordings from 2013, a couple of these tracks were new craigslist Christmas songs, and the rest were our rendition of christmas classics. Unofficially this is Dicks Pics volume 3 1/2.

The second disc was something rare indeed; The Brown Christmas rehearsing. These recordings were from 2012 in preparation for a noise fest we were playing. Basically these were our favorite, and most easy to recreate, songs from A Craigslist Christmas. One of my personally favorite moments from this disc is the addition of a brief break down in "Got No Girl" were Joemazing pounds out a maniacal rendition of "The Little Drummer Boy."

The spirit of christmas was alive and well in our bowels and with a little time, construction paper, glue, glitter, wrapping paper, and anything lying around on the floor, we created custom stocking packaging for each set of discs. We still have some available for sale, although if you purchase one you won't get it by christmas because preoccupied with various other christmas duties.

Christmas Retrospective 2

Oh no, it's Christmas again! It took three years for us to put out another Christmas album, but I believe the wait was well worth it. As the name suggests A Craigslist Christmas is not only a christmas themed album, but is also volume two of our Craigslist series.

For those not in the know, several years ago we started scouring craigslist casual encounters for the dirtiest posts we could find and would then use them as improvised lyrics for songs. So it seemed only natural that when Christmas came along some of these posts got kind of festive, and thus A Craigslist Christmas was born.

The tracks on this album are delightfully dirty and seasonally sexy. Highlights include the upbeat rocking "Got No Girl", The abrasive droney "Christmas Cums for Santa", and the hip-hop classic "My Name is George" which is one of our all time favorite craigslist tracks ever.

Christmas Retrospective Part 1

It's the most christmasy time of year and The Brown Christmas has a new Christmas album coming your way soon, but first take a retrospective look at our older christmas albums. Up first; The Brown Christmas Presents: A Very Special Brown Christmas, Christmas Special: for You and Yours
Recorded about 10 years ago when The Brown Christmas was just a (Santa) baby, and officially released 7 years ago. Aged like a fine glass of milk, our first Christmas album sounds quite primitive and minimalist compared to the recent material we've been releasing and rightly so. Some of these songs were recorded less than a year after our formation. I didn't even have a proper synth yet, and was instead banging on cheap toy keyboards running through pedals.

I think this was also the only album for which we've done a proper "release" show. In quite grand fashion we dressed in our christmas bests, decorated our set up with lights, and gave out christmas presents. Several lucky fans received this album with it's very special christmas special poster, a screen printed article of clothing, and our non-christmas themed album; Polish Men in $500 Hats. That performance in it's entirety is available here:

13 Piece Log Puzzle Combo Box Meal Deal

The Brown Christmas delves into some percussive minimalism with this click-clacky little number from the upcoming album "Where the Moon Don't Shine." Joemazing channels his inner Steve Reich, stacking loops of percussive synth hits to form this upbeat cacophony.

"Where the Moon Don't Shine" will be available later this month with a limited edition cassette release on Orb Tapes.

Meteor Shower

Coming next week is our new album "Brown 'til Dawn" a very special, very sexy, late night performance by The Brown Christmas featuring 18 tracks that will keep you going all night long. Enjoy this spacey preview, and stay cool out there in radio land.

Contemporary Adults

Enjoy some music for the adult of today! We here at Brown Acres Enterprises realize that today's discriminating adult will not settle for just any flavor of music. That is why we are proud to offer an alternative to the mainstream. Contemporary Adults starts smooth and finishes strong, always full flavored never watered down.

This album starts off slow and spacey with docile drone tones before taking a sharp turn into more gritty lo-fi tunes with our bizarre cover of Pantera's Walk. The madness continues with a long overdue circus performance by the Gorilla. The astute listener will also notice Joemazing shredding on the Otamatone on several tracks, an instrument that hasn't made an appearance on an album since L.E.D Zeppelin V.

Please listen responsibly

Lunar Sand Dunes

The Brown Christmas has about a dozen albums worth of material that will be gradually disseminated over the coming months. This will ideally be at the rate of an album a month, but we'll see how things go. Here is the first track from the upcoming album Good Enough to Screw; like most of this particular album this is a more downtempo groove with gradually evolving textures. Enjoy!

Get Outs the Sprouts

Title says it all. Here's an up beat danceable little jam from 2014. There is copious amounts of new music coming down the sewage line, this will be on not the next album, but the one after that.

Dark Nebula

In an effort to clear out the backlogs of unreleased Brown Christmas recordings, and to keep listeners updated on our continuing auditory adventures, I will be attempting to post something new every week.

While the last few tracks posted on our soundcloud have been previews from our 'new' upcoming album, they were actually recorded almost 3 years ago. This song however, is freshly picked from only a few weeks ago. I can't say when recordings from this jam session will actually make their way onto an album, hopefully it won't be 3 years from now, but for now enjoy this little dark spacey synth ditty.

Walls

Things go from ambient to abrasive, with this new track from our upcoming album. About a minute into this recording I lost control of the situation; the electronics became sentient and started blasting deliciously textured noise. Luckily the ghostly humming and clicking from Todd's synth kept everything grounded.

Night Skyline

Start the new year off with a new track from The Brown Christmas. As previously mentioned this album will be significantly different from our previous releases, not that our albums are all that uniform to begin with, but with this recording session we explore the softer, more ambient side of The Brown Christmas. It is also noteworthy that this is the first album to feature only myself and Todd; normally our albums consist of trios of Todd, Joemazing, and myself or duos between Joemazing and I. So sit back and listen as we duel it out with our synthesizers.

Unfamiliar Voices

A track from an upcoming album. This will be quite an interesting album as it shows off our more ambient side with lovely spacey synths.

Seeking Married for an Affair

The next album in our Dicks Pics series will be available soon; in the meantime, here is another preview track.

Love Young Brown

Love Young Brown ...is that the name of your eccentric producer/manager/enabler?

It's actually one of the people we based our band name after. Love Yung Brown and Well Hung Christmas. You know like Pink Floyd did?

I see, but according to the internet Well Hung Christmas was a doomsday cult leader in late nineties Korea. I can't find Love Yung Brown. Although I can speculate that he was an infamous minor league basketball player, largely known for his sexual prowess and insatiable hunger for hotdogs. Which he would eat, as if he were in a competition, by dunking them in lukewarm water and swallowing whole.

Sixty Roses

Check out this preview from the next installment of our Dicks Pics series. This is a lovely ballad about roses, a perfect song for couples in love.

Golden Cuckoldies

A new Brown Christmas album for the new year. Golden Cuckoldies is the fourth installment of The Brown Christmas' Dicks Pics series. All the lyrics for these tracks come straight from craigslist casual encounters posts. You can download it for free now, and keep a look out for a limited physical release coming in the near future.