BROTHERS PAST

band
Tom Hamilton (guitar, vocals, electronic drums), Tom McKee (keyboards, vocals), Clay Parnell (bass, vocals), and Rick Lowenberg (drums, electronic drums)

press release
BROTHERS PAST MOUNTS 'SOUTHERN INVASION' 

FIRST LEG OF EPIC ROAD SHOW SEIZES THE SOUTH BEHIND ACCLAIMED FUTURISTIC CONCEPT ALBUM 'A WONDERFUL DAY'

��Monsters Come Out at Night� from this Philadelphia rock improv quartet�s new conceptual ode to insomnia, �A Wonderful Day,� is the track of the year thus far. Twelve minutes of techno-guitar mayhem, it both provides the pivot point for a refreshingly ambitious studio effort and accurately reflects the group's intense onstage spirit.�

- The Village Voice

PHILADELPHIA -- Following a series of early 2003 sold-out shows throughout the Northeast and a flurry of media attention, improv buzz band BROTHERS PAST is mounting "The Southern Invasion" with a mind-bending road show centered around the insomnia theme explored on their heralded new CD, A WONDERFUL DAY.

The breakout Philly foursome will be moving through the South on the first leg of a yearlong touring commitment behind their futuristic concept album, which was formally unveiled before a hometown crowd of over 500 revelers at a frantic year-end release party.

The Philadelphia Daily News says the "buzz" on this innovative electronica outfit is "deserving" as it continues to embrace technological innovation and rehumanize listeners with A WONDERFUL DAY, the retro-futuristic new concept album Daily News critic Jonathan Takiff deems "something special." Calling A WONDERFUL DAY "ambitious," The Village Voice has singled out the 12-minute "Monsters Come Out at Night" as "the track of the year thus far." And despite its Jan. 20, 2003 national release date, A WONDERFUL DAY was nonetheless chosen Top 10 of 2002 by Hear/Say Magazine.
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"�Monsters Come Out at Night� from this Philadelphia rock improv quartet�s new conceptual ode to insomnia, �A Wonderful Day,� is the track of the year thus far. Twelve minutes of techno-guitar mayhem, it both provides the pivot point for a refreshingly ambitious studio effort and accurately reflects the group's intense onstage spirit."- Village Voice

"The buzz has been very good on Philadelphia rock originals Brothers Past, and yes, it�s deserving. ... This group jumps out as something special on its futuristic concept album, �A Wonderful Day.�" - Philadelphia Daily News

"Earnest improvisational rock �n� roll." - The New Yorker

"Ripe with potential. ... There is a bright future for this band." - Relix

"Excellent. ... (�A Wonderful Day� is) eccentric, engrossing." - Philadelphia Inquirer

"�Elements� has style. It�s one of the first great post-Phish trance-fusion albums and sounds like Pink Floyd jamming with Sasha and Digweed in Brian Eno�s bedroom." - Richard Gehr (Village Voice, Spin)

"Brothers Past come on like a rising panic attack." - Jambands.com

"(Brothers Past) uses technology to its best advantage, making fairly organic music from thoroughly electronic resources" - AOL Digital City, Philly

"(Brothers Past) has found ways of making every show a unique experience." - The Diamondback, Towson State University

bio
Bubbling up from Philadelphia and rippling across the nation is BROTHERS PAST, a young, improv-oriented four-piece band that has recaptured the passion lost with the so-called �death of rock� and rewired it for the digital age.

Skillfully blending effects-oriented improvisation and introspective, melodic songwriting, BROTHERS PAST takes listeners into the Fourth Dimension with layered audio soundscapes ranging from ambient-style space to Earth-shaking explosiveness. The band creates an entirely  new range of sounds each night, grounded in an ever-expanding repertoire of original songs, the latest of which can be found on its retro-futuristic new concept album, A WONDERFUL DAY.

Influenced as much by Pink Floyd and the Beatles as Radiohead and Stereolab, A WONDERFUL DAY is a cohesive piece that connects well-crafted, melodic songs to weave an emotional tapestry surveying the paranoia, uncertainty and frustration of insomnia. Ultimately, hope and triumph prevail against a multi-textured sonic backdrop that transports the listener across the digital divide into the darkness of night.
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