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TAXI 028CD
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The second of two albums to be released by Brion Starr over the same month, this one is produced by the legend that is Tony Visconti. Brion Starr lives and works in New York City, joined by a group of foreign and domestic collaborators. Their latest album A Night To Remember is a meditation on night itself, a spinning sci-fantasy through this future darkness we all contemplate, a journey to the end of the night told as a story of one evening in an internationalist future city with no up and no down, no beginning and no end. Passing through the seedy clubs, with all their trappings, when the night is just turning into morning. Have you lost your mind? Blackout and wake on a train. Is this a dream? We are nocturnal. There's fire in the streets. The first tier looks down on you. So, find the ones you love and hold them tight. Recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville and produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex, Sparks). Starr's current collaborators include Jaie Gonzalez (Splashh), Hayden Tobin (Hanni El Khatib), Pete Sustarsic (Public Access TV), James Hurst (Beach Party), Ben McConnel (Beach House), Grace Kennedy, Charlie Sands, and composer Nigel Wilson. "We had a listening party when we finished, Tony was so happy that day, he told me he hadn't had a listening party in 'probably 30 years' (and we were in the middle of the pandemic!) I smile when I think of him suggesting we do it. It was a true celebration, I still have the cork from the champagne!"
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TAXI 028LP
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LP version. The second of two albums to be released by Brion Starr over the same month, this one is produced by the legend that is Tony Visconti. Brion Starr lives and works in New York City, joined by a group of foreign and domestic collaborators. Their latest album A Night To Remember is a meditation on night itself, a spinning sci-fantasy through this future darkness we all contemplate, a journey to the end of the night told as a story of one evening in an internationalist future city with no up and no down, no beginning and no end. Passing through the seedy clubs, with all their trappings, when the night is just turning into morning. Have you lost your mind? Blackout and wake on a train. Is this a dream? We are nocturnal. There's fire in the streets. The first tier looks down on you. So, find the ones you love and hold them tight. Recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville and produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T. Rex, Sparks). Starr's current collaborators include Jaie Gonzalez (Splashh), Hayden Tobin (Hanni El Khatib), Pete Sustarsic (Public Access TV), James Hurst (Beach Party), Ben McConnel (Beach House), Grace Kennedy, Charlie Sands, and composer Nigel Wilson. "We had a listening party when we finished, Tony was so happy that day, he told me he hadn't had a listening party in 'probably 30 years' (and we were in the middle of the pandemic!) I smile when I think of him suggesting we do it. It was a true celebration, I still have the cork from the champagne!"
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The first of two albums to be released by Brion Starr over the same month, the second of which is produced by the legend that is Tony Visconti (TAXI 028CD/LP). On 2020, the first full-length album recorded at the infamous Chateau d'Herouville in France since its closure in 1985, Starr explores a year which none of us will soon forget. Starr says of the album: "I feel like this is us at our most blunt, I certainly haven't felt very poetic this last year. I've been writing about what is right in front of me and have chosen to eschew beauty for the raw reality of what has been happening in NYC this year." 2020 is a genre-hopping, time-traveling whirlwind with heavy depth and impeccable range which is set very firmly in the surreal and manic time we are living in. The music and lyrics found within equal the surreal with the subtly psychedelic, the manic with a frantic talent. For fans of: David Bowie, Lou Reed, Shintaro Sakamoto, La Femme, Roxy Music. Limited edition clear vinyl with silver streaks.
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TAXI 010LP
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Brion Starr is a musician based in New York City. Starr's debut album, Global Identity (TAXI 002LP, 2019) was released in early 2019. The album was recorded at Konk Studios (home of The Kinks) in London with a cadre of international musicians including Robbie Wood (Swim Deep, Lida Fox, and Matthew McAuley (ARE Weapons). This is the sister album, Rope Memories, the diary of a highly successful advertising agent who is at the end of earth's life cycle and has to choose to stay on a fated earth or take all of their money earned to buy seats on a shuttle to an exclusive colony in space. The album is to be understood as a concept and varies between highly-developed art rock songs with moments of glam spectacle and punk brevity alternating with slower instrumental ambient songs reminiscent of early ambient pioneers which are meant to represent various stages of space travel. Edition of 300, printed inner sleeve.
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Brion Starr is a singer, artist, and actor based in New York City, though this debut album was recorded over three months North London's Konk Studios (home of childhood musical heroes, The Kinks). This followed a year-and-a-half touring with The Noh Starrs after releasing their eponymous album via Modern Sky in 2017. Along with former bandmates Robbie Wood and Lida Fox, Starr follows the experimental drone and psych-rock elements of their debut album aligned with cut-up pop structures and free jazz contributions by Matt McAuley (TV Baby, A.R.E Weapons). Starr then explores musique concrete, loop-based tape compositions and ambient meditations on the latter half of the album with harpist Marilu Donovan.
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