- East L.A. Breeze
Infobox Album
Name = East L.A. Breeze
Type =Album
Artist = Brazzaville
Released =12 June 2006
Format =CD
Recorded = winter–spring 2006
Genre = Pop, Bossa Nova, Rock
Length = 39:37
Label = Zakat (Soyuz Records)
Producer = ???
Last album ="Hastings Street" (2004)
This album ="East L.A. Breeze" (2006)"East L.A. Breeze" is the fifth studio album of the indie group Brazzaville. For the first time this CD was released by a
Soyuz Records sub-label Zakat in 2006. Until released by some Westernrecord label , the album's been available only in CIS.All songs are written by David Arthur Brown, except "Star Called Sun" featuring music by
Victor Tsoy (Виктор Цой), the leader of the Russian rock group Kino (Кино).The Russian song "Звезда по имени Солнце", which gave the title to "Star Called Sun", is more precisely translated into English as The Star "Named" Sun.
Regular Russian edition track listing
# "Peach Tree" – 2:39
# "Star Called Sun" – 3:41
# "East L.A. Breeze" – 3:18
# "Mr. Suicide" – 3:19
# "1983" – 3:51
# "Jesse James" – 3:48
# "Madalena" – 3:44
# "Bosphorus" – 3:18
# "Ugly Babylon" – 3:04
# "Taksim" – 3:07
# "Blue Candles" – 3:29
# "Morning Light" – 4:19International availability
On October 9, 2006 "East L.A. Breeze" was released in Spain on South China Sea /
Discmedi . For North America this album is promised to be published byVendlus Records in late 2006.Digipack
In July 2006, the album was reissued by Zakat/Soyuz in a digipack (limited edition?). This version has two songs more ("Lena", "Lazy Boy") and a "Star Called Sun" promotional video.
In Soyuz shops it is available at the same price as the regular album, but the quantity of digipacks is smaller (roughly speaking, one digipack by eight regular releases).
Track listing
# "Peach Tree" – 2:41
# "Star Called Sun" – 3:43
# "East L.A. Breeze" – 3:20
# "Mr. Suicide" – 3:21
# "1983" – 3:53
# "Jesse James" – 3:50
# "Madalena" – 3:46
# "Bosphorus" – 3:20
# "Ugly Babylon" – 3:06
# "Taksim" – 3:09
# "Blue Candles" – 3:31
# "Morning Light" – 4:23
# "Lena" [bonus track] – 3:48
# "Lazy Boy" [bonus track] – 2:27
# "Star Called Sun" Video
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