Welcome to... Brazzaville
Welcome to… Brazzaville is a best of songs album by the indie group Brazzaville. It was released in two editions. At first, it was put together when only three albums of the Brazzavile were recorded; the next time Welcome to… was released in Russia—after Hastings Street became available—so Welcome to... now had songs from the four albums, a different track list and two additional non-album songs (four in sum).
Welcome to… Brazzaville | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | ??? 2004 | |||
Recorded | 1998–2004/05 | |||
Genre | Indie Pop, Bossa nova, Chamber Pop | |||
Length | ??? | |||
Label | Web of Mimicry | |||
Brazzaville chronology | ||||
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About the album
"Trey Spruance from Mimicry records approached me with the idea," says David Brown, the leader of the Brazzaville, "of putting out a record that would introduce Brazzaville to a wider audience."
Welcome to… Brazzaville' features songs from the first three/four records as well as a couple of new ones ("Love Sky", "Christmas in East Cirebon" and later "Last Days", "Hotel Ukraina").
""Love Sky" is the story of my mother and father and of distant memories I have of going to work with my father when he was still a trucker, hauling shipping containers from Long Beach and San Pedro to the train yards in Vernon.
"Christmas in EC" is about a couple of young low budget travelers whose lovely existence gets destroyed by heroin."
Track listing
2004 release
The original release of Welcome to… Brazzaville by Web of Mimicry
- "Super Gizi"
- "Foreign Disaster Days"
- "Boeing"
- "Casa Batllo"
- "Queenie"
- "Genoa"
- "Motel Room"
- "Voce"
- "Sewers of Bangkok"
- "Rainy Night"
- "4 AM Osaka"
- "Christmas in E.C." [fully Christmas in East Cirebon, a non-album track]
- "Xanax and 3 Hours of T.V."
- "Love Sky" [non-album track]
- "High Life"
2005 (Russian) release
Reissue by Zakat (Soyuz Records)
- "Last Days" [non-album track]
- "Hotel Ukraina" [non-album track]
- "Super Gizi"
- "Foreign Disaster Days"
- "Night Train to Moscow"
- "Casa Batllo"
- "Queenie"
- "Londres"
- "Genoa"
- "Motel Room"
- "Lagos Slums"
- "Voce"
- "Sewers of Bangkok"
- "Christmas in E.C." [non-album track]
- "Love Sky" [non-album track]
- "Rollin Easy." This track is a full version of Intro and Interlude released in Hastings Street album.
Non-album tracks are referred to as "Special Collector Tracks" on the back cover of the album.
External links
- Brazzaville official discography
- Sponsor a needy child for christmas