BROTHERS PAST

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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.

BROTHERS PAST warmed up for "The Southern Invasion" with a four-week January residency at the esteemed Knitting Factory in New York and sold out three shows. Since then, BROTHERS PAST has been filling rooms to near capacity and sellout crowds throughout the Northeast with its hypnotic stage spectacular, and has become one of the most-searched-for bands on the 'Net.

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 form an emotional tapestry that surveys the paranoia, uncertainty and frustration of insomnia. Ultimately, hope and triumph prevail against a muti-textured sonic backdrop that takes the listener across the digital divide into the darkness of night. Jambands.com called it "a real uncompromised achievement ... a flowing document of their melancholic conceptualism."

"It's about the uncertainties of what happens when you can't sleep and your mind starts racing," says guitarist Tom Hamilton, joined in BROTHERS PAST by Tom McKee (keyboards), Clay Parnell (bass) and Rick Lowenberg (drums). "The album is saying that tomorrow is always different. It's something for the listener to relate to -- to be able to say, 'I've felt like that, and this guy is OK.'"

A WONDERFUL DAY, the band's studio debut, follows BROTHERS PAST's critically acclaimed live CD, Elements, which has earned praise from The New Yorker, The Village Voice and Relix Magazine, among others, since its early 2002 release.

Elements was the first in a series of experimenal live records on the band's agenda. A WONDERFUL DAY is being distributed nationally through Leeway's Home Grown Music Network.