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CL22 DJ C & Zulu "Darling" 12" |
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CL17 DJ C feat. Zulu "Body Work" 10" |
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CL16V Units History of the Units LP |
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CL16 Units History of the Units CD |
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CL15 Strategy "Future Rock" 12" |
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CL14 Rolan Vega Documentary CD |
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CL13 Christmas Decorations Communal Rust CD |
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CL12 Zulu & DJ C "Animal Attraction" 7" |
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CL11 Project Perfect PM+ CD |
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CL10 Jefrey Leighton Brown Change Has Got to Come! CD |
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CL9 Reanimator Special Powers CD |
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CL8 Reanimator Reanimator 12" |
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CL7 Evolutionary Jass Band Change of Scene CD |
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CL6 Solenoid "Night Beach" b/w "Sam Clam's Disco" 12" |
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CL4 Eats Tapes "Dinosaur Days" 12" |
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CL3 nudge "stack" b/w "div" 12" |
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CL2 Sawako+ Omnibus CDEP |
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CL1 Strategy "World House" b/w "I Have to Do This Thing" 12" |
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CL10
Jefrey Leighton Brown
Change Has Got To Come!
CD, mp3
Release Date March 16, 2007
Tracklist:
1. Devotion
2. Ain't No Such Thing as What If...
3. October
4. 1968
5. Floatin' On A Cloud of WHAT?
6. Change Has Got To Come!
Jefrey Leighton Brown, founder of ComLib's own Evolutionary Jass Band and former key participant in Jackie-o-Motherfucker, steps forth with his fantastic debut CD, Change Has Got to Come! This singular musical statement is as much a manifesto asserting soul-jazz's place in today's underground, as it is a document of Brown's individual songwriting vision.
Change Has Got to Come! ...Might seem an anachronism to some, even more marginal still for being an isolated beam of Blues light in a major-key, indie-rock world. All the way down to its revolutionary, hopeful title and austere, homespun presentation, Change is a purposeful, careful reinterpretation of 70s-era, introspective avant-jazz and obtuse, small-town R&B (as Brown once described to me himself, "the sort of soul jazz recorded in jingle studios after hours..."). But in inimitable Community Library style (where the old and new joyfully clash and swap identities), this album is far from being a simple exploration of retro-fantasy. Brown brings his signature swinging-but-casual sensibility to classic composition, as well as unusual, sparkling instrumentation (including vibraphones, sitar, electric bass, deeply layered,
multi-tracked saxophones, and vocals). Most importantly, Brown wields a sense of angular deconstruction (both intervallic and rhythmic) that brings his songs into high-contrast, modern expressions of tension, calm, and urgency. Free of self-consciousness, Brown brings his unpretentious, careful, abstract songwriting style to an updated soul-jazz idiom and all its moods and phases. And all this is recorded in the privacy of his own basement, with his brother and closest companions in tow, over the course of several years.
Change Has Got To Come! is a perfect counterpoint to the recent Evolutionary Jass Band CD (Community Library CL7 CD) and gives some glimpse into the wealth of music yet to spring from this group and their community.
Artist Info
PDF Version of Promo Sheet
Reviews & Press
Textura review
Textura interview
Willamette Week
Portland Mercury
Free Music
