Welcome to... Brazzaville

Infobox Album
Name = Welcome to… Brazzaville
Type = Album
Artist = Brazzaville


Released = ??? 2004
Recorded = 1998–2004/05
Genre = Pop, Bossa Nova, Rock
Length = ???
Label = Web of Mimicry
Last album ="Rouge On Pockmarked Cheeks" (2002)
This album ="Welcome to… Brazzaville" (2004)
Next album ="Hastings Street" (2004)

"Welcome to… Brazzaville" is a best songs album by the indie group Brazzaville. It was released in two editions. At first, it was put together when only three albums of the Brazzavile were recorded; the next time "Welcome to…" was released in Russia – after Hastings Street became available, – so WTB now had songs from the four albums, a different track list and two additional non-album songs (four in sum).

About the album

"Trey Spruance from Mimicry records approached me with the idea," says David Brown, the leader of the Brazzaville, "of putting out a record that would introduce Brazzaville to a wider audience."

"Welcome to… Brazzaville" features songs from the first three/four records as well as a couple of new ones ("Love Sky", "Christmas in East Cirebon" and later "Last Days", "Hotel Ukraina").

"Love Sky is the story of my mother and father and of distant memories I have of going to work with my father when he was still a trucker, hauling shipping containers from Long Beach and San Pedro to the train yards in Vernon.

"Christmas in EC is about a couple of young low budget travelers whose lovely existence gets destroyed by heroin."

Track listing

2004 year release

The original release of "Welcome to… Brazzaville" by Web of Mimicry

# "Super Gizi"
# "Foreign Disaster Days"
# "Boeing"
# "Casa Batllo"
# "Queenie"
# "Genoa"
# "Motel Room"
# "Voce"
# "Sewers of Bangkok"
# "Rainy Night"
# "4 AM Osaka"
# "Christmas in E.C." [fully "Christmas in East Cirebon", a non-album track]
# "Xanax and 3 Hours of T.V."
# "Love Sky" [non-album track]
# "High Life"

2005 year (Russian) release

Reissue by Zakat (Soyuz Records)

# "Last Days" [non-album track]
# "Hotel Ukraina" [non-album track]
# "Super Gizi"
# "Foreign Disaster Days"
# "Night Train to Moscow"
# "Casa Batllo"
# "Queenie"
# "Londres"
# "Genoa"
# "Motel Room"
# "Lagos Slums"
# "Voce"
# "Sewers of Bangkok"
# "Christmas in E.C." [non-album track]
# "Love Sky" [non-album track]
# "Rollin Easy" [it's not present in this way on Hastings Street (as claimed): instead, the track is a full-time tune of "Intro" and "Interlude"; it can be called, unofficially, a demi-albumtrack]

Non-album tracks are referred to as "Special Collector Tracks" on the back cover of the album.

External links

* Brazzaville [http://www.brazzaville-band.com/music/content.htm official discography]