Andrew Hayes
great album! I saw you guys in Nashville and it was a phenomenal show. Please come back. I love every song on this album. -Andrew
Favorite track: Fruitless Trees.
Brainstory's self titled "mini-album" is a landmark for this Inland Empire born trio of jazz musicians. The Album takes listeners on a maiden voyage inward through the skies of the soul. The journey embarks its listeners through psychedelic landscapes and untouched terrains of psych-rock jazz leaving its passengers in a cathartic state of euphoria. Humanistic themes such as illusions, desires, and inner contemplation relate the listener back to his or herself in an effort to clear a path of self discovery and enlightenment. The band feels all too much that the word "psychedelic" has lost its true meaning in today’s music scene. Instead, the word suggests retro outfits and 1960s nostalgia. Brainstory wishes to remind audiences that psychedelic music is aimed at freeing the mind and soul to explore the depths of existence in this vast universe of being.
credits
released May 5, 2017
Brainstory would like to thank:
The Universe, Mom and Daddy Roy Martin, Rochelle Martin, Coo Coo,
Roonie, Grandma Naomi and Grandpa John (our inspiration), the whole
Martin Fam, Eduardo Arenas for the immense love, guidance, and hard
work to make this possible (our fifth Beatle straight up), our
brothers Chicano Batman: your mentorship, encouragement, and
inspiration is more than love —it is a foundation, Lorena Endara and
Producciones Con Sal, Gloria Plaza, Melissa Pérez, Katherine Findlay,
Jose Cruz, Qvolé Collective, Lizette Hernandez, Benny Carranza and
Gemma Castro for lending your beautiful voices on stage, Fresko and
Renzo, Julian Porte and our Levitation Room brothers, Papa Joel
Jerome, Rudy de Anda, Mike Becerra, The Buttertones, Summer Twins,
Michael Rey and the Woebegones, Quitapenas, Miss Chief, Son of Cecil,
Brandon Cordoba for lending your amazing talent to this record, Chola
Orange, Buyepongo, Yanga, Hayokaht, El Haru Kuroi, Aye Brook, Kamasi
Washington and the West Coast Get Down for the divine inspiration,
Master Miles Mosley for your lessons and support, Kendrick Lamar for
the truth, all the homies of Rialto, CA & the Inland Empire aka the
Brigade, Pablo Romero for infinite support, FLAN aka Jaime Muñoz,
Richie Velasquez, the Aviña Family, the Higgins tribe, the
Aviña-Higgins family, our brother Levante, the Strange Fruit Militia,
Tommy Davidson who was down, everybody who has and is helping us along the way, your love fuels our endurance, all the listeners of our soul
quest in music, anybody who is doin it for real cuz thats exactly what
we tryin to do! Thanks my g!!!!!!
Recorded at Salsipuedes Studios in Commerce, CA
Produced by: Eduardo Arenas
Engineered by: Jose Cruz
Mastered by: Matt Lynch at All Welcome Studios
All Photos by Jacquie Ray
Album Layout by Blindherd
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