*announcing* IARC0041 jaimie branch FLY or DIE LIVE Digital album out May 21st Double LP & CD out in July (exact retail date TBA)
*announcing*
IARC0041
jaimie branch
FLY or DIE LIVE
Digital album out May 21st
Double LP & CD out in July (exact retail date TBA)
preview & pre-order 2xLP or 2xCD
via our Bandcamp page TODAY
As we gear up for the full-blown (hopeful) return of live music in the coming months... We are happy to share a riveting whistle-whetter of a LIVE document from jaimie branch, recorded near the very end of the Before-Times (January 2020) when her ace quartet (with Jason Ajemian, Lester St. Louis and Chad Taylor) was in peak form...
A full flight capture of the full Fly or Die suite, parts 1 & 2 compounded and flawlessly communicated in a singular epic of raw, cosmic brilliance...
IARC0041 is jaimie branch's FLY or DIE LIVE.
((( photo by Todd Weaver )))
"It's not always time to be neutral."
There is a moment near the top of jaimie branch’s FLY or DIE LIVE, the new album recorded by the trumpeter’s quartet in Zurich, Switzerland on January 23rd, 2020, which feels like it bears the weight of both that specific pocket of time, and a prophecy for all that was soon to come. branch and her Fly or Die crew — cellist Lester St. Louis, bassist Jason Ajemian, and drummer Chad Taylor — had just kicked off the concert at Moods, with the opening tracks off their then-new studio album FLY or DIE II: Bird Dogs of Paradise, the second of which, “Prayer for Amerikkka” is among the best political songs written during the Tr*mp Era, and when the moment in question pops off.
A week into a European tour and after three months of constant live performance, Fly or Die is at home in the music’s contours, messing with its internal machinery while guiding its meaning. By now, “Prayer” had gained a tough spoken-word intro, bringing the context as it slowly gearshifts the intensity: “It’s a song about America,” off-the-cuffs branch while the band seethes behind her, “but it’s about a whole lotta places — ‘cause it’s not just America where shit’s fucked up...” Then arrives the climax, at once site-specific and far-reaching: “...and it’s not always time to be neutral, do you know what I mean?” The gathered Swiss crowd knows, understands, and responds vocally, as Taylor’s backbeats cue branch to bring the trumpet to her lips, and let out a high-pitched wail. Her horn doesn’t know what’s about to happen to our world, and yet, somehow, it does — with only the catastrophic details needing to be worked out. “This is a warning, honey…” cries the song, and over the ensuing 70 minutes, the band echoes its sentiment, filled with glee and terror.
“I didn't have a memory of the show being an amazing show,” branch says. “But sometimes when you have zero memory of it being good or bad, those are the best shows. Because when you're in the zone, in those moments of channeling creativity, there isn't time for judgment. So oftentimes a memory is not created around that judgment, and that's actually a good indication.” When branch listened back to the Moods recording for the first time, she was unequivocal: “I think this is like the best that we've ever played.”
Read the album's full story, in the words of writer Piotr Orlov, here.
lead single "theme 001" out on all DSPs today
The album's lead single "theme 001" is out on all digital music platforms today, along with video footage of the track courtesy of Moods, who will be releasing a full video of the full FLY or DIE LIVE concert performance on their website moods.digital May 16th
WATCH PARTY MAY 16th BROOKLYN NYC
On Sunday May 16th, the day Moods releases the full film of the full FLY or DIE LIVE concert via their website moods.digital, jaimie is hosting a watch party at IRL in Brooklyn, NY. They'll screen the full concert video, and branch and Lester St. Louis will do solo performances. Full details:
jaimie branch's FLY or DIE LIVE concert screening and celebration
With live solo sets by Lester St. Louis and jaimie branch
Screening of Fly or Die Live full concert video
followed by album release celebration.
Venue: IRL
80 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
6:30pm - 10:30pm EST
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/150983683261
Early bird tickets at $10 / $12
(limited capacity)
BYOB
*Deluxe Double LP Vinyl Package*
SHREDDED AMERICAN FLAG color vinyl
FLY or DIE LIVE comes on two 160-gram vinyl LPs (pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago) inside a deluxe reverse-board gatefold jacket with IARC obi strip, insert sheet, and dome-patterned inner-sleeve..
And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 555 copies of *Shredded American Flag* color vinyl.
Order a copy via our Bandcamp page today!
Distribution via RedEye for
US, Canada, North & South America
This album will also be available on 2xCD (in a deluxe tip-on eco-sleeve), on Classic Black Vinyl 2xLP (same specs as the above), and for independent retailers only, worldwide, an indie exclusive limited edition color vinyl variant.
The retail street date for the 2xLP and 2xCD editions of FLY or DIE LIVE is TBA.
Currently we are expecting will be late July 2021.
Retailers in the United States or Canada, or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!
Distribution via !K7 for
Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, and ROW
On all the same formats mentioned above, this album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Japan, Australia, Asia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
Again, the retail street date for the 2xLP and 2xCD editions is currently estimated for late July 2021.
If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!
((( live photos by Peter Gannushkin )))
