Brookville

Acabo de ver un boletin de Ivy, y mirando la discografía de Brookville, no tenía ni idea que en el 2003 ya hubiera editado un trabajo.
Ivy es una de mis bandas favoritas, y también me gusta mucho el proyecto paralelo de uno de sus componentes -Fountains of Wayne-. También sabia que la pareja formó un proyecto llamado Paco. Pero no sabia de la andadura de Andy Chase como Brookville.

Alternative / Indie / Electronica



Andy Chase of BROOKVILLE is a New York-based musician and producer. He is best known as a member of the band IVY, and has co-produced and co-written all of the music on IVY's four critically acclaimed albums, as well as IVY's score for the Farrelly Brothers movie "Shallow Hal", and IVY's song I'll Be Near You for the recent film "Bee Season" (Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche).

As a producer, he has enjoyed success with the French pop group Tahiti 80, whose debut album Puzzle was a critical and commercial hit around the world, particularly in Japan, where it went gold. This success in Asia led to numerous subsequent production and songwriting offers for Chase, including work with Japanese megastar Chara and several other artists, all of whom recorded songs that Chase had specifically written for them. Chase also co-owns Stratosphere Sound recording studio in NYC with former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha and IVY bandmate (also in Fountains Of Wayne) Adam Schlesinger.

BROOKVILLE is a project that allows Chase to balance his talent for songcraft with his love for rich sonic landscapes and textures. It is in some senses a "solo concept," on which Chase is free to explore the type of languid, atmospheric music that is only hinted at within the tight pop framework of IVY's records.

But the many contributing musicians that appear, including Eric Matthews, James Iha, The Brazilian Girls, Steve Osborne (New Order, Elbow, Doves), Jean-Pierre Ensuque (Autour de Lucie), Jody Porter (Fountains Of Wayne), Josh Lattanzi (Ben Kweller, The Lemonheads), and many others, suggest that BROOKVILLE is always a collaborative effort that leaves ample room for experimentation and exploration. Life In The Shade, BROOKVILLE's follow up to "Wonderfully Nothing", is set for release in June 2006.

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Discografia:

-Life in the shade (13 Junio 2006)(Unfiltered Records)

1. Blue Morning
2. Afraid to Fall
3. Break Yourself
4. Slow Emotion Replay
5. Golden -stream-
6. Crawling in Circles -stream-
7. Up on the Wire
8. Shadows
9. Hey You Hang On
10. Life in the Shade
11. Nothing's Meant to Last -stream-/-mp3-
12. Today
13. Missed You Again


Nothing's Mean to Last (Cassettes Won't Listen REMIX) -stream-/-mp3-

-Wonderfully nothing (26 Agosto 2003, Unfiltered Records)
Harp, September 2003
"Chase's enduring talent for melody ... create(s) a symbiotic lushness recalling Everything But The Girl or Avalon-era Roxy Music."
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Flaunting a sleek and slender Euro-romantic sound, Ivy's Andy Chase, steps out on his own with Brookville's debut, Wonderfully Nothing. It is beautifully rendered music that allows Chase to balance his talent for songcraft with his love for rich sonic landscapes and textures. It is in some senses a "solo record," on which Chase is free to explore the type of languid, atmospheric music that was only hinted at within the tight pop framework of Ivy's records. But the many contributing musicians on the album - including James Iha (Smashing Pumpkins), Eric Matthews, Jean-Pierre Ensuque (Autour de Lucie), Jon Skibic (Gigolo Aunts), Danny Weinkauf (They Might Be Giants), and producer-programmer Michael Hampton - suggests that the making of Brookville was also a collaborative effort that left ample room for experimentation and exploration.

Nothing's Meant the Last (featuring Brazilian Girls) -video-