LFT:RT by Barra Brown
This album is called LFT:RT for many reasons. Ultimately it’s to call attention to how binary thinking is destroying us individually and collectively. The first thing you may think about is our two-party system. We see all around us the destruction that this binary causes. We are tricked into thinking we have only two options that will deliver us salvation when both do not represent or lift up the voices of the masses. Living in the gender binary inhibits our own exploration and is used to discriminate against non-binary people. Why do we believe two genders can encompass the complexities of billions of people? We live in an Either/Or not Both/And world. I began to see destructive binaries in my own creativity. I thought I needed to live in this genre or that. I say I’m left-handed yet I am quite ambidextrous. Through making this album, I embraced my multi-instrumentalist self and realized my drumming was not left or right-handed, but a circle. What I played and the ideas that came with seeing my hands as a continuous part of one body, was significant. What other significant shifts can we make as individuals and collectively that will move us from thinking in binary terms so that we might be left right, continuous, and healed?
-B
Tracklist
| 1. | RIDE (feat. ePP) | 2:24 |
| 2. | SAM | 1:34 |
| 3. | CYRUS | 3:39 |
| 4. | GULLS | 3:24 |
| 5. | NOAH | 2:46 |
| 6. | interlude | 0:58 |
| 7. | FERK | 1:21 |
| 8. | FERK FERK FERK | 1:19 |
| 9. | WHOA HEY! | 2:25 |
| 10. | WASTED TIME (feat. Alexander Mackenzie) | 1:44 |
| 11. | rhetorical | 2:49 |
| 12. | Bonus w/ pre-order - Oh Fuck break | 0:03 |
| 13. | Bonus w/ pre-order - GULLS break | 0:42 |
| 14. | Bonus w/ pre-order - interlude break | 0:08 |
Credits
All of the co-writers on this album either live in Portland currently or were living here for some time. This album highlights what Portland sounded like right before and during the first five months of the pandemic and how we can still make compelling and expressive music without being in the same room. Even though there is no replacing the experience of musicians’ energy interconnecting in space, we used the various
technologies we had and made a really cool album. It was mostly just email! Thank you to all the musicians who contributed sounds and melodies. I hope you can appreciate all the detail that's in the music.
Composed, Mixed & Produced by Barra Brown
Mastered by Dana White at Specialized Mastering
Art, Design, & Direction by Barra Brown
Please see individual tracks for detailed credits:
Vocals & Lyrics - ePP & Alexander Mackenzie
Trumpets - Cyrus Nabipoor, Noah Simpson, Tree Palmedo, Ben Caiazza
Flutes - Barra Brown
Synths, Keys, Rhodes - Barra Brown, Alex Meltzer, Ben Caiazza
Guitars - Barra Brown, Jack Radsliff, Mike Gamble,
Dan Balmer, Cary Miga
Bass Guitar - Barra Brown, Sam Arnold, Alex Meltzer,
Milo Fultz, Cary Miga, Zack Teran
Drums - Barra Brown & chops from Ateller & Cory Drums Sample Packs
Released on Cavity Search Records
CSR151
