Barra Brown has an excellent new track entitled “NOAH” off his album LFT:RT, due out March 5th via Cavity Search Records. On the upcoming effort, the Portland, OR-based producer explores instrumental music through various sonic lenses such as hip-hop, nu-jazz, and ambient. “NOAH” takes its name from trumpeter Noah Simpson. Brown reports that the horn player stopped by one afternoon to record two parts of a trumpet melody, “an A section and a B section.” He goes on to explain:
“I worked on it a bit, but Noah wasn’t sold on his melody. I was! The song had potential, but we never met again to record new parts. After some production and adding a new section, the track really came to life! It’s amazing what came to be from two trumpet ideas.”
Much of LFT:RT includes remote-recorded contributions and co-writes from a host of musicians, including ERYST artist ePP, guitarist Jack Radsliff, Brubeck Institute Fellow Tree Palmedo, Oregon Music Hall of Famer Dan Balmer, and more. Additionally, Brown himself plays drums on the album. Discussing his title’s reference to binary thinking and the trap of reducing life into a set of opposites, the musician references his own drum playing, explaining, “I say I’m left-handed, yet I’m extremely ambidextrous.” After careful observation, the percussionist discovered that his technique “was not left or right-handed, but a continuous circle that connects at points of contact.”
Below, you can watch the Barra Brown video for “NOAH.”
