Brian Ellis - Cosmic Perspective

STR003 - released: 09-26-2006 Brian Ellis Cosmic Perspective
	3� CD-R EP 1 track, 20:53 min $8.00 (shipping incl.) Buy it Direct From Earstroke Records!

Brian Ellis' first hard copy release, Cosmic Perspective, is a fresh, organic take on a wide variety of styles molded into one epic, 21 minute piece. check out the sweet promo video he made for a clip of the music: stream on youtube or download.

the 3" cd-r is designed with handmade multicolor imprints and packaged with a plastic sleeve encasing the album art.

track listing:			clips:	download	play
1.	Rigil Kentaurus (20:53)		1:30 min	128kbps mp3

Brian Ellis - The Silver Creature

Brian Ellis
"The Silver Creature"
Benbecula Records, 2007
(BEN042CD)
CD Album
5060110361250

Release date: 20 August 2007

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Track Listing

01 The Morning After
02 Basement Boogie
03 Para Ti
04 Night Trails
05 Flute Salad
06 Home Cookin
07 Say
08 Traveling
09 Cookies and Cream

Watch the "Say" Video!!

Benbecula are over the moon to secure this multi-talented individual from the west coast of the USA, whose jazz inspired mix of electronic funk is possibly one of the most unique blends of sound to be produced this decade. Followers of the label will no doubt recognise Brian's output as one half duo behind the highly acclaimed Minerals release "Free Festival". Brian's solo work is a phenomenal one man band with multi-tracked instrumentation that is so well put together it easily deceives, sounding more like a 6 piece band.

CD release features fold out double sided poster - unavailable from file sharing networks!

Reviews

"... Ellis proves himself to be a daring and original talent on the Silver Creature, and this is a hypnotic pleasure that yields up new evidence of his rare talent with every listen."

AllMusic

"Fusion, fusion, use your illusion … may I face the immutable wrath of The Silver Creature for all eternity if this isn’t one of the most impressive albums of 2007. Brian Ellis exhibits all of the finest and most powerful aspects of recorded music, and deserves recognition as such."

PopMatters

"It's a rare occurrence these days when an album pops up that completely defies pigeon-holing in every capacity. Such can be said of Brian Ellis's genre-bending album, The Silver Creature ... 4 / 5"

Reverb

"Some 54 minutes of genre-bending jazz-funk-postrock-tronica make it perfectly clear that Ellis is indeed a remarkable talent ..."

Foxy Digitalis

"Granted, The Silver Creature brings an element of awkwardness to the table, but after a few spins it becomes an embraceable entity. Though some may find it impenetrable, The Silver Creature makes for an interesting mix, and could well provide the stopgap for post-rock fans in search of something a bit more off-kilter than Tortoise."

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Brian Ellis - Free Way

Brian Ellis
"Free Way"
Benbecula Records, 2007
(BEN532)
CD Album
Minerals Series - Limited

Release date: 11 June 2007

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Track Listing

(Track samples are edits)

01 A Wiggles Worth
02 Deep and Out
03 Smeared Smiled
04 The New Free Way
05 Escondido
06 Sewer Bugler
07 Abmilak

Brian Ellis releases his first album proper for Benbecula in anticipation of his full scale release "The Silver Creature". "Free Way" explores the more experimental facet of Brian's style with illustrious jazz workouts that harp back to the days of such freedom of expression during the early 70s, although still maintaining a very modern edge through the use of contemporary composition and instruments.

Excellent artwork and packaging on this one off Minerals Release make this a must have.

Video

Sewer Bugler

Reviews

"A formidable release, music can't get any cooler than this."

Angryape

"Free Way is a thorough exploration of the thin, glitchy line that exists between free jazz and ambient electronica - just like it sounds, eh? Even though the Californian's debut in Benbecula's storied Minerals Series is supposed to showcase his more experimental side, this work of fluid art finds the uncharted territory Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and Steve Reid were going for but, as close as they were, didn't quite reach."

Nerve Magazine

"Free Way by Californian Brian Ellis is anything but meditative soundscaping. Ellis's own Benbecula debut (soon to be followed in August by The Silver Creature) inhabits an explorative jazz-electronic zone situated halfway between Flanger and On the Corner- era Miles Davis. With its free flow of drums, tenor sax, guitar, bass, electronics, and echoplexed trumpet wah-wah, the psychedelic space-jazz of “Deep and Out” sounds like an outtake from a lost 1972 Miles session. If the material is entirely constructed by Ellis alone (often impossible to tell these days), he effects a remarkably convincing simulation of a full band's interplay on extended workouts like “Smeared Smiled” and the thirteen-minute “The New Free Way.” Transporting the album momentarily to India , tablas generate agitated, up-tempo rhythms in “ Escondido ” before sax and drums barrel in and assume center stage. A nice change of pace, “Abmilak” closes the album placidly with a kalimba-laden setting. Ultimately, Ellis's release may deploy a markedly different production methodology than that of On the Corner, Agharta, et al., but, sonically, Free Way doesn't stray radically from the template established by those releases."

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