Indie Electronic
Les Brown: The Next One
(Independent / 28 June 2024)
Les Brown's music trips along blithely from neoclassical and contemporary classical passages to electronica to rock and pop, and music that sounds cinematic - even like sound effects.
It's easy to come up with a bunch of sounds and riffs - not so easy to get them to trip along with each other seamlessly.
If music has a sense of humour, you'll find it easily in Yeehaw! where a vocal riff punctuates a tracks that ranges from pop dance to rock guitar riffs.
Multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Les Brown is on a mission to include as many of his great ideas into one release, and overall, the more is more approach works for him. A nicely original sensibility keeps it fresh, with each track offering a new angle to experiment.
In Happy Malfunction, it's electronica in early video game mode. In Picycle, it switches to a playful mode of EDM. Not surprisingly, Brown lists Tangerine Dream and King Crimson among his influences.
The Next One is his second full-length album, (after... The First One). Rather amazingly, he's largely self taught, and now producing as well as composing his own work. He has this to say in a statement,
"My albums are meant to be like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: "You never know what you're going to hear." If one tune isn't your favorite flavor, try a different one.
"I blend music genres, geographic regions, languages, instruments to make unique music with emotion and feeling. Some songs invoke fun or playfulness, while other songs are closer to rock or jazz, and others are entrancing psychedelia, an auditory space to explore or be enveloped within."
He's essentially taking his listeners on the journey with him.
"I write music to capture the sound and feeling of being in a new and unfamiliar, or perhaps mysterious, but always unthreatening place. I try to invoke feelings of being in a new space, real or imagined, for the listener to think "That's interesting!" or "I hadn't thought of that before. Cool!" I want the listener to enjoy experiencing music that is new and interesting, with no pretense or lessons; just the listener observing and coming along for the ride."
Musician Names/Instruments: Les Brown - Guitars, bass guitar, drums, synthesizers, samplers, effects
- Official Website: https://lesbrown.rocks
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