watch Theodore Darst's animated video for jaimie branch's "prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2" /// FLY or DIE LIVE full concert video out this Sunday
!!! P4A ANIMATED VIDEO BY THEODORE DARST !!!
The final lead single from jaimie branch's forthcoming FLY or DIE LIVE – "prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2" – is out on all DSPs today!
EVEN BETTER though is the psychedelic animated video for "prayer" by Theodore Darst & Gregory Nachmanovitch, made/manipulated with performance footage from the FLY or DIE LIVE recording 1/23/2020 at Moods, also out today!
Watch the new video for
"prayer for amerikkka pt. 1 & 2"
today!
FULL CONCERT FILM OUT THIS SUNDAY MAY 16th
The full film of the full 1/23/2020 performance that became FLY or DIE LIVE will be available for streaming via Moods' website starting this Sunday May 16th!
(...minus Theo & Greg's amazing animations, which are only seen in the "prayer" video...)
Unless you are in NYC and are lucky enough to get a ticket to jaimie's concert watch party at IRL in Brooklyn...The only way you'll get the full 360 visual of the life-changing FLY or DIE performance that became this 2xLP live album is via Moods.digital, starting this Sunday.
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jaimie branch
FLY or DIE LIVE
Digital album out May 21st
2xLP & 2xCD estimated July 31st for USA & Canada
2xLP & 2xCD estimated August 27th for UK & EU
preview & pre-order 2xLP or 2xCD
via our Bandcamp page TODAY
"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.
*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 spot-glossed 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, 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 North American retail street date for the 2xLP and 2xCD editions of FLY or DIE LIVE is TBC. Currently we are expecting will be July 31st 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.
The retail street date everywhere outside of North America for the 2xLP and 2xCD editions is currently estimated for August 27th 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!!!
((( all live photos from 1/23/2020 by Radek Jozwiak )))
