Brandon Boyd Solo Song

riporto news direttamente dal manager Steve rennie....progetti solisti per Brandon...

From Incubus manager Steve Rennie:

Ok. Here's a little background for all of you. Yesterday Brandon came by the office to take care of some MYF business with the Jakester. As we were sitting around the office talking we got on the subject of new music. As most of you know Mike finishes up at Harvard at the end of the May and all the guys are turning their attention back to the making of an Incubus record. But while he's been off at Harvard doing his thing everybody has kept busy being creative and doing what they do. Brandon has always had a great studio area at his home where he painted and worked on his art which alot of you have seen and enjoyed. Awhile back he decided to put some recording equipment in there as well so he could 'keep his music chops' up to speed. In a posting way back then I think I mentioned that Brandon had been 'working' on some songs on his own and that I hoped at some pointt he might share them with you Incubus fans. To be honest, I never thought much about it as I've only ever heard Brandon write and sing with Incubus. So yesterday, as we were talking about how excited all the band was to be getting back together to work on an Incubus record, I asked Brandon if he was ever going to let me hear what he'd been working on in that studio of his. Much to my surprise he said yes, walked to his car, grabbed a CD and played me this song. What you heard was a song called "Runaway Train". Turns out that what you heard was 100% Brandon. He wrote it, played every instrument on it, and recorded it all on his own. And to be quite honest I saw 6 or 7 or 8 tracks listed on the CD while I only heard one. Somebody asked if there is a plan to put out a solo record and I honestly don't know. I'll leave that to Brandon. But in the meantime, I loved the song so much that I asked him if I could share it with an Incubus fan or two. Again, much to my surprise he said yes. So after he left, and before he could change his mind, and before all the calls I'll likely get from the Sony legal team could happen you got a chance to hear what goes on in that little studio of Brandon's. I hope you enjoyed it. - Ren

If you haven't heard it go to our page and check out the wall. The link is posted for you to download and listen!

Happy Incubus Day!

ECCO LA NUOVA CANZONE SOLISTA DI BRANDON!
Runaway train ! ENJOY IT!

Perfettamente in linea con il rinnovato stile di Bra,direi...

..A parte il fatto che m'è preso un colpo,perchè dopo più di un mese senza pc,una news del genere è abbastanza "strong"...
Si sapeva di questa cosa dei vari progetti solisti,ma nn mi aspettavo tanta concretezza..Vabbè..basta che nn si dimentichino dei cari,vecchi Incubini...
Il brano mi piace.Da 1 a 10:7.Temo solo che essendo particolarmente orecchiabile possa stufarmi in breve tempo...vedremo.Sarei curiosa di ascoltare anche l'altro materiale.

Avrei tovato un abbozzo di testo:

"Runaway Train"

Presently, future is in the middle of a love triangle
With calamity, and me (and the poor?)are starting to feel uncomfortable
Should I douse the spark or fan the flames or merely think of clever things to say
Oh the more I try to separate, the better it feels to get it right in the way

And I try so hard
Out of the way
of that
Run away train
(oh how)
I do love the rain
(ohhh)

Seems to be, that being in the middle is starting to get me in trouble
Try to run away, but they have a talent for making trouble seem enjoyable
Oh the more I try to separate, the better it feels to get it right in the way
Should I douse the spark or fan the flames or merely think of clever things to say

And I try so hard
Out of the way
of that
Run away train
(Oh how)
I do love the rain
(ohhh)

Ohhhhhh, ohhhhh, ohhhhh
Runaway train
Runaway train
Runaway train
Ohhhh
And I try so hard
Out of the way
of that
Run away train
Oh how
I do love the rain
Ohhhhh
Runaway train
Runaway train....

grazie Ale della bozza del testo, se qualcuno ha tempo di iniziare a fare una traduzione si facci avanti! ;-)
anche io sono curiosa di sentire altro materiale.....vedremo!

Cacchio! Manco da una settimana e mi ritrovo codeste nuove! Che dire, a primo impatto mi sembra.."strana"..aspetto qualche ascolto e qualche giorno in più per giudicare meglio. Comunque già solo sapere che qualcosa si muove mi fà piacere.

....a me personalmente fa impazzire!!!!!!!!

..L'album di Mr.Boyd sembrerebbe pronto!
Dalla pagina ufficiale di FB:

"Album is mixed! About to be mastered! Inching closer to a release date which will probably be sooner than later. I'm scared and excited."

Sono troppo curiosa!:)

sì sì è vero, l'ho letto anche io! non vedo l'ora di ascoltarlo!!!!!!!!!

ooooooooooh,ma fra quanto esceeeee!!!!!!!!!!

voglio troppo sentirmi l'album,il singolo mi ha troppo incuriosito!!

eccovi il video ufficiale!!!!
è fighissimo, fatto tutto in Stop motion !!!

http://vimeo.com/12744805

Directed by - Brantley Gutierrez
Editor - Ryan Adams
Composting & VFX - Alex Perez
Colorist - Joaquin Gomez


è ufficiale anche che il 6 luglio uscirà il primo album solista di Brandon!!! yuppie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

il video è fantastico,tutto nel suo perfetto stile!!!!
....finalmente un po' di belle notizie ^^


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THE WILD TRAPEZE è il titolo del nuovo album, gia la copertina dice tutto ahahahah
vi riporto ciò che dice la pagina di FB del Bra:



I have been making albums with my band Incubus now for almost 19 years. We have released six LPs, a handful of EPs and DVDs, as well as numerous live CDs and as of last year our first Greatest Hits CD chronicling it all. After the latest effort, and the most enjoyable and successful tour of our career, we decided to continue what had been an extended hiatus from the road and the inevitable chaos it brings. Each of us in the band then went to our respective corners of Los Angeles and each (in our own inimitable way) continued the strange process of discovering who we were as individuals when not in this band. An interesting quandary indeed. Especially when you factor in the logistics of our career thus far. I turned 34 in February of 2010. I started Incubus with Mike and Jose when I was 15 years old. So much of my identity, both personally and creatively, has been attached to and related to Incubus. For better or worse! And I do believe that every person in every corner of the world asks themselves at some point on their ride, “Who am I...today?” For this is indeed a process and we are indeed malleable, fallible and dare I say 'Human'. (?) As Artists though, we have the unique and sometimes frightening opportunity to actually SEE and HEAR who we are from day to day. Our unconscious material gets spilled onto canvases and recorded into waveforms. We then are gifted and/or cursed with the ability to look at and listen to what's going on in the deepest recesses of our hearts and minds. A Miner emerging from the depths of the sooty underworld, coughing up coal but holding in front of him a shiny relic of unquantifiable worth.

Incubus has proven to be the proverbial 'Diamond' in my life. And I would venture to say that it has acted as such for my Brothers in our band as well. Fraught with struggle, too many hours in the dark and questionable as to if it’s worth all of the effort. But at the end of the day, sparkling, hypnotic, with angles that can cut glass and sometimes even make women sigh... Ha ha. Yeah. I just said that.

But what of the material that’s unearthed in the interim? What should I make of the stuff I uncover with my bare hands? My trusty pickax set aside and digging furiously with only the strength of my fingers. I would say that these efforts are just as important. For different reasons. But reasons that though not as obvious are proving to be telling of that devious query, "Who am I... today".

Today actually, Producer Dave Fridmann and I are mixing and finalizing my first solo album, The Wild Trapeze. This group of songs was born of a very different process than the many my band and I have been employing for our almost two decades at work now. The Wild Trapeze began as pot-induced meanderings on my dusty acoustic guitar while Incubus was off the road, and has slowly been morphing into things that I originally could never have imagined.

When I initially allowed the idea of a solo album into my conscious mind, I figured I would be writing a bunch of music that other musicians would help me interpret and record. At which point I would do what I did best and take it from there. I soon began to understand that my expectations as to how this would emerge were so off base, that it would make my head spin. Not only do I not know that many musicians, I was hard pressed to find anyone who I wanted to work with other than the guys from my band! A strange quandary to say the least. It was and is not my intention to "move on" from Incubus. There is too much we have yet to uncover creatively and we still have too much fun making music together to employ that notion. But I have never considered myself a musician, truth be told. I always saw myself as a lyricist and a singer. So now I had presented myself with the daunting challenge of making an album without “musicians”. Hmmm.

After a few false starts with some very talented players, I decided to literally take matters into my own hands and keep pressing forward no matter what the result was. My tenacity brought me clear across the country into New York where I began working upstate with Dave Fridmann. His discography indeed speaks for itself. And even upon making the journey to his remote, rural studio I still wasn't sure as to how we were going to execute this batch of songs. But it took us a mere few hours before I would understand what I needed to do. I was going to play everything myself! Well, almost everything. Dave is a keyboard wizard and I wasn't going to turn down some beautiful strings and keys just because I wanted to indulge my inner control freak. But back to my point; I took it upon myself to play the guitars, drums, bass, timpani, chimes, glockenspiels, percussion, hand claps, whistles, whines, pots and pans on this album. And though it indeed may sound like a guy who doesn't play and understand these instruments firsthand...it...I...umm. Well, we'll just leave it at that.

What it does sound like, in my humble opinion, is a guy in room surrounded by toys who has an undying enthusiasm for finding out what each toy does, and has been given full license to make as much noise as he pleases.

The Wild Trapeze is an exercise in self reliance. A leap of faith as to and into one's powers of intention. A coalescing of one's peripheral aptitudes in the hope of realizing a larger picture. And above all else, an accurate portrait of an Artist in his Process right around year 34 of his time on Earth. For better or worse, I played 98% of the instruments you hear aboard this Soundship. And though the temptation to "fix", "correct", "fiddle", and "fuck with" the parts and their mistakes via the astounding technology we have to do so with was ever-present, I'm proud to say that there are little to no edits. No cheating, as I like to say. I figure I have been at this in one way or another for long enough that I should be able to make something worth listening to, when left to my own devices. A sandcastle built not by architects, but by a child with his bare hands.

The title track, "The Wild Trapeze" quotes Henry Miller from his inspired book of musings and observations 'Stand Still Like the Hummingbird'. This song imagines a person on a path to a greater realization of his existence. A waking up to his potential and to the joy that that brings. Alone, unencumbered, radiant and observing a road in front of him that will only grow wider the further he walks. Calm and full of grace in amongst the noise of the world.

'Runaway Train' tells a brief story of a theoretical ménage à trois involving the Future, myself and that whore of a slut, Calamity. They are forever entwined; locked at the hips and grinding away. And I am the curious but cautious newcomer to their theater. Standing in the corner with my trousers folded perfectly in my hands but still wearing my underwear and truly uncertain as to if I should just jump in there and give it my drunken, college best or if I should first go and get a towel and perhaps a game plan. This song reserves the coveted seat of donning the least original song title in modern musical History! But I do believe that what it's heading lacks in originality, the song itself makes up for in content and delivery. Yes, I just reviewed my own song.

“Here Comes Everyone” is a reaction to the growing contingent of complacent cynics in our youth culture today. A generation of young adults who at every advance in art, culture and government roll their eyes because of a learned feeling that "everything has been done and nothing good and or new could possibly emerge." Having felt the pangs of this fiendish and misguided emotion I respond with the thought, "Yeah, we're only treading water, whether yours or whether ours..." Then into Oscar Wilde's all too necessary and often quoted phrase, "We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars." The chorus lyric is a reminder that no matter where we are in our process as a species, be it culturally, politically, or otherwise, most of us are only doing the best we know how at that moment in time. So a growing complacency towards cynicism (though only the best that those wrapped in that emotion know how to do at that given moment) is actually a potentially destructive way to perceive each other, and perhaps we should approach new things with tolerance, hope, enthusiasm and a more child-like perspective.

So, how is the average Incubus fan going to respond, compare and view this solo offering? Though I would rather avoid this question, I do realize it is inevitable and relevant. The answer is: I actually have no idea. I would never compare the two things, let alone condescend to predict how someone might perceive it! In truth, there is no comparison. Incubus is...well, Incubus. And this is just me. That was that and this is this. That was this and then is now. Wait...never mind. The fact is, Incubus is a collective, a meeting of the minds. I write lyrics and melodies in response to the magical musical mysteries that my guys in the band hand over. I in turn hand back an altered and interpreted version of what began as something and ended up twisted and gnarled but unexpected and hopefully enjoyable. The Wild Trapeze is not a collective. It is the sound of one hand clapping. Or something like that. So it is, in its essence, something all together different.

I hope this album brings reflection, introspection, dancing, playing, swaying and swooning. Conversations, perplexities, inspirations and critiques. But above all else I hope that it brings enjoyment and the hope that just because an Artist makes a solo album, it doesn't have to turn out sounding like a mayonnaise or soft drink commercial. The Wild Trapeze is Music for Music's sake. Art for Art's sake. I needed to do it to help myself understand what I sound like today in the year 2010. To externalize the noises rumbling around in my heart and mind and decide after the fact what indeed it really is. And what is that? I won't claim to know. I never know or understand what these things mean until long after they've been out and about. Part of Art’s life (beyond its creation) is to be consumed, interpreted, digested, misinterpreted, vomited up, perceived, then reinterpreted. And even then it's difficult to know for sure. But maybe that is why we keep coming back to it. Because it's something beautiful, engaging, mysterious yet reminiscent, incendiary and soothing all at once. That was a butt-load of adjectives in one paragraph.

I can tell you one thing (among others) that it has done for me; it has reminded me, unequivocally, that in my band Incubus, I am blessed to have some of the most fantastic musicians I have ever heard all sharing and warming our mitts around the same campfire. Stepping away from the glow and the familiar smell of the embers has been a wonderfully rewarding experience, but it has revitalized certain growing understandings about my band. Understandings I won't bore you with today, but will hopefully share with you in sound in the months soon to come.

I will leave you today with a quote from one of my favorite authors, Tom Robbins. I find that he has summed up some pretty heady details when he wrote, "...Art, like love, is what makes the world forever fresh and new. However, this revitalization cannot be said to be art's purpose. Art revitalizes precisely because it has no purpose. Except to engage our senses. The emancipating jounce of inspired uselessness." Thanks for that Tom. And thank you for reading. I hope you all enjoy what you hear.

Brandon

Grazie Mara, lo stavo per postare io il comunicato di brà...
eccovi la copertina!
:D

Ahahahahahahah,la copertina dice tutto



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da domani (6 luglio) è disponibile su i-tunes, significa che esce anche nei negozi o bisogna aspettare più avanti?


su wikipedia c'è scritto cosi:

'The Wild Trapeze' is the first solo studio album by American singer, and Incubus frontman, Brandon Boyd. The album is scheduled to be released on 6 July 2010.Boyd has described the album's sound as "a guy in room surrounded by toys who has an undying enthusiasm for finding out what each toy does, and has been given full license to make as much noise as he pleases."
The album was announced on 6 June 2010 through Boyd's facebook page.
On 21 June 2010, a music video for Brandon's first single, entitled "Runaway Train", was released on the internet.


boh qualcuno mi illumini.

quì ci sono i primi 30 secondi di ogni traccia dell'album di Bra

...non so se uscirà subito quì in italia....ma su I-tunes sicuramente

ciaooooo

Su Itunes italiano nulla, c'ho provato tutto oggi ma sta solo sullo store americano. Ma la cosa che mi ha fatto ridere di più è questa: Andando sul negozio ufficiale di Bra puoi ordinare l'album, e mi sono sentito più o meno come quando cerchi di montare qualcosa che hai comprato e ci sono le istruzioni pure in Guatemalese ma in Italiano nisba.
Appare questo messaggio:

Seleziona il tuo Paese dalla lista. Non disponbile in altri paesi.

* Argentina vai
* Austria vai
* Canada vai
* Finlandia vai
* Francia vai
* Germania vai
* Giappone vai
* Messico vai
* Paesi Bassi vai
* Polonia vai
* Regno Unito vai
* Spagna vai
* Stati Uniti vai
* Sud Africa vai
* Svizzera vai

Cioè capito..con tutto il bene che posso volere agli Africani. Nel terzo mondo si e qui no...andiamo avanti..

e Snake...io ho momentaneamente scaricato l'audio dei video amatoriali della gente di youtube che mette le canzoni mp3...l'album è ottimo,fidati ;)

...sperando che arrivi in italia però :(



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L'ho ascoltato tutto, e ne sono rimasto piacevolmente sorpreso. La mia paura era che venisse fuori un incubus-solo-album, invece il progetto si discosta completamente dallo stile incuboso e fa molto song-writer. Comunque è presto per recensirlo come "ottimo album", per il momento mi sono piaciute molto la canzone che da il titolo al cd ma soprattutto Courage and Control, anzi vi posto il testo di quest'ultima, me gusta parecchio

Courage and Control

The boulevard is bustling
A vast and wrinkled muslin
Is all over my eyes
and I know I don't belong

There is a noise inside of me
That bustles asymmetrically
Oh how have I to balance
Those sounds into a song

It's time to let your hair down
and give yourself permission
it takes courage and control
but you start by letting go

The city's an analogy
For things building inside of me
This chaos and this discourse
Still we move along

The chaos hangs of symmetry
and all her words of poetry
and that's the kind of city
which I want to belong

It's time to let your hair down
and give yourself permission
It takes courage and control
but you start by letting go

All I think, I feel, I see
All that this place is not me
I want to be alone, but be wild and free
Oh he who asks receives

It's time to let your hair down
and give yourself permission
It takes courage and control
but you start by letting go

eheheheheheh,ho il vizio di dire ottimo a tutto quello che mi piace....in effetti ho ascoltato tre o quattro volte l'album....meglio aspettare un po' per metabolizzarlo e poi dare un giudizio,ora come ora ero troppo felice che era uscito



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ciao!
seguo spesso il vostro forum ma non ho mai scritto nulla (timidezza???!!)
vi posto un articolo trovato ieri che afferma che the wild trapeze sarà disponibile su itunes italia dal 13 luglio!

http://www.musicroom.it/articolo/brandon-boyd-incubus-the-wild-trapeze-e-il-primo-album-da-solista/15999/

io personalmente l'ho già acquistato da itunes USA (eheheheh)

concordo con snake_911 sulla sorpresa nel vedere che l'italia non comparisse nella lista dei paesi in cui è possibile acquistare il cd....vabbè ... come dice lui andiamo avanti!

anche a me personalmente l'unica che mi ha colpito profondamente è stata Courage and Control, le altre bhò, non mi hanno detto molto, per carità non son brutte, però alcune un pò si assomigliano...cmq lo riascolterò quando sarò in condizioni psicofisiche + tranquille (son reduce dal'hjf..)
Grazie Snake per il testo!

la tracklist completa dell'album è questa:
Tracklist:
01 - The Wild Trapeze
02 - Here Comes Everyone
03 - Dance While the Devil Sleeps
04 - A Night Without Cars
05 - Revenge of the Spectral Tiger
06 - Courage and Control
07 - Runaway Train
08 - Last Night a Passenger
09 - Mirror of Venus
10 - All Ears Avow!

pare che adesso si riesca ad ordinarlo, io ho provveduto subito :D


si vede che le nostre preghiere sono state esaudite :D

sul facebook ufficiale Brandon ha scritto che si può prenotare x le copie "fisiche" al sito

Secondly, you can purchase physical cds via mail order and can do so by visiting
www.thewildtrapeze.com

alcune interviste al Brandon ...

Ciao Raffa, ma quale timidezza! Qui siamo tutti una "Big Family", benvenuta e scrivi tutto quello che vuoi! Male che vada i moderatori-cattivi ti censurano
A parte i scherzi benvenuta sul serio.

Grazie mille x il benvenuto! .... Ok basta timidezza!:-)))

Ho avuto il piacere di chiacchierare un pó con Alienaccia, attraverso il gruppo incubus Italia di FB e anche lei è stata veramente molto molto gentile! :-)

Conosco da poco, rispetto a voi, gli incubus, (circa 2 anni) ma come ho spiegato anche a Alienaccia, mai ero stata così sconvolta! ..... Dopo aver ascoltato dig x caso non ho più smesso di ascoltarli, cercando di mettermi in pari con tutta la discografia....e ad ogni ascolto ero sempre più stregata dal sound, dalla voce, dai testi......
Brani che mi hanno aperto la mente e mi hanno cambiato....ho imparato a focalizzare la mia "rabbia" in energia positiva e propositiva!

Come mi ha detto giustamente Alienaccia .... È il potere della musica! :-)

La canzone che mi ha fatto piangere al primo ascolto (e a volte anche ora) è Pardon me, e in generale make yourself è l'album che preferisco, se così si puó dire, xchè in realtà in ogni album ci sono almeno 3/4 brani che mi hanno colpito dritto al cuore!

Avevo bisogno di questi cinque ragazzi .... Forse non è stato un caso l'ascolto di dig :-) una cosa è certa: non posso più farne a meno! :-))

E quest'inverno è nato anche un tatuaggio....appena ho visto questo disegno ho deciso che l'avrei avuto sulla mia pelle....x me è il simbolo della forza, della volontà di lottare, di credere, di non essere spettatori impassibili, di libertà, un urlo contro l'ipocrisia e le ingiustizie!

"there's never been a better time to be on fire" di Brandon Boyd

http://www.graphit.biz/raffa/tattoo/tattoo.html

Infuocati, arrabbiati....ma sprigionando calore, energia, urla di speranza, urla che chiedono amore e pace!

:-)

Raffa

siamo un po fuori discussione, ma complimenti per il tatoo, spacca davvero!

hai ragione. Scusami davvero! Grazie x i complimenti!:-)