Butcher Brown announces their Solar Music album and drops an animated visual for “I Can Say To You” featuring Vanisha Gould. The Richmond, Virginia’s jazz base is always mingling with other genres and Solar is the word they use to describe their multi-influenced sound. Last year their Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey married Big Band jazz and hip-hop and created a new version of the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Unbelievable.” “I Can Say To You” is a soulful rumination on moving forward in life with the added layer of Tennishu’s rap verses. Solar Music will have the same piebald rhythms with guest appearances from Pink Siifu, Keyon Harrold, Jay Prince, Braxton Cook and more. The band explained the album’s meaning like this:
“Solar Music is everything under the sun. We get asked so often what type of genre we fall into, and at the end of the day, we play all of our influences. It’s not genre specific..It’s all types, & this album is a true representation of that. Solar Music is for everybody.”
Solar Music comes out October 6th and they are going on a global tour set to start in August.
Tour Dates
8/4 – Newport, RI @ Newport Jazz Festival
8/5-6 – Happy Valley, OR @ Pickathon
8/11-13 – Telluride, CO @ Telluride Jazz Festival
8/24 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
8/25 – Charleston, SC @ Pour House – Deck Stage
8/26 – Asheville, NC @ Salvage Station
8/31-9/3 – Stuart, VA @ Front Porch Fest
10/17 – Boston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
10/18 – New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
10/20 – Charlottesville, VA @ The Southern
10/21 – Philadelphia, PA @ World Cafe Live (upstairs)
10/22 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
10/24 – Minneapolis, MN @ Dakota
10/25 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village
10/26 – Detroit, MI @ El Club
10/27 – Indianapolis, IN @ Jazz Kitchen
11/4 – Eindhoven, NL @ So What’s Next?
11/6 – London, UK @ The Forge
11/7 – Antwerp, BE @ De Roma
11/8 – Berlin, DE @ J.A.W. (Zenner)
11/9 – Mannheim, DE @ Alte Feuerwache
11/10 – Técou, FR @ Coco Jazz
11/11 – Groningen, NL @ Rockit
11/12 – Rotterdam, NL @ Rooterdam / Bird
11/13 – Amsterdam, NL @ Bimhuis
11/14 – Charloeroi, BE @ Palais des Beaux Arts
11/16 – Geneva, CH @ TBD
11/24 – Richmond, VA @ The Broadberry
11/25 – Washington, DC @ Atlantis
