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Depravity Brown

About Me


Over the preceding fifteen years, Depravity Brown has appeared on more unreleased albums than any other artist in history as a drummer, guitarist, pianist, composer, engineer and producer. A musician since birth, the artist needlessly studied jazz and classical music on four instruments when he should have been perfecting his hair-cut. He is one of the only artists in history to begin performing solely from the need to express new ideas and sounds for desperate ears, rather than the urge for sexual gratification from strange women.
Taking the lead from past multi-instrumentalists as Roy Wood (Move, ELO, Wizzard), Ollie Halsall (Patto), Christian Vander (Magma) and Peter Hammill (VDGG), and with bags of Zappa-style cynicism (firmly-implanted during impressionable adolescent years), Depravity Brown seeks to fuse any possible musical genre or guttural grunt into a single, bludgeoning cacophony of organized mania.
Our Depraved friend first emerged in 2002 to release his debut LP, ‘Domestic Depravity’, featuring the 25-minute composition, ‘The Tragedy, Travesty & Majesty of Derelict, Despondency and Depravity’. The latest release, ‘Ugly Music For People Who Hate The World’, took the better part of four years to complete, written in three different cities and recorded in four different studios, with only Depravity Brown at the instruments and microphones, and his producer and co-composer, Aidan Campbell (another long-time industry sufferer), at the controls.
Despite his willingness to go anywhere, any time, Mr. Brown would be happy to remain a blip, ignored by all, save for those select few who remember a time when musicians could actually play their instruments well, packed depth into every second of their recordings and, well, actually meant something…

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/08/2007
Band Website: www.depravitybrown.com
Band Members: THE NEW ALBUM IS FINALLY HERE!!!!!! Copy these symbols:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/depravitybrown2
Featuring 7 tracks and housed in a tri-fold sleeve with additional illustrated booklet and inner / outer sleeves. UGLY MUSIC FOR PEOPLE WHO HATE THE WORLD
Titles: Brown Primer / Four Dollars / Stereo Weasel / Toilet Bowl / The Need For Greed / Feel Good, Live Well, Pay The Same / Pure Frustration, Parts 1-4.
DEPRAVITY BROWN:
guitar, bass, electric piano, piano, piano guts, organ, drums, percussion, vocals.
PRODUCER: Aidan Campbell
ENGINEERS: Aidan Campbell, Dean Watson, Nick Beneteau
ARTWORK: The Decroock Lads (Michael 'Beardo' and Phil 'Phildo')

DISCOGRAPHY
as DEPRAVITY BROWN
Domestic Depravity (2002)
Ugly Music For People Who Hate The World (2008)
with WAX MANNEQUIN
and Gun (Cincinnati Records – 2002)
Orchard & Ire (Infinite Heat – 2007)
with BALLS FALLS
The Crossing Guard (Coqi Records – 2002)
with CORWIN FOX
Compassionate Relay (Coqi Records – 2002)
with EAST COAST DISASTER COMPLEX
phys’ed ep (Coqi Records – 2003)
with AQUAMUFFIN
The Bagina Sampler (Bagina – 2000)
Stock Your Stuffings (Xmas Disc 1) (Bagina – 2000)
You’re Ruined Christmas For Everyone (Xmas Disc 2) (Bagina – 2001)
Natiquamuffin (Bagina – 2002)
Influences:
MUSIC - Peter Hammill, Soft Machine (Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt), Patto (Ollie Halsall (R.I.P.), Magma (Christian Vander), Second Hand (Kieran O'Connor, Ken Elliot), Web & Samurai (Dave Lawson), Hard Stuff (John Du Cann and Paul Hammond (R.I.P.), Hugh Banton, Guy Evans, Rare Bird, Zombies, Family, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Moody Blues, Al Kooper, Herbie Flowers, Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Jack Bruce and Pete Brown (Piblokto!), Jim Mullen, Ginger Baker, Jack DeJohnette (with Miles), Miles (playing Zawinul with Chick Corea), Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
OTHER - Mr. Show, Mega Man 2, John Swartzwelder, negativity, poverty, low self-esteem, rejection.
Sounds Like: Rock without the blues, jazz without the sheen, pop without the sex, prog without the whisp, theatre without the fun.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

AmericanaUK review of 'UGLY MUSIC'

NOTE FROM THE DEPRAVED MAN HIMSELF:After more than fifteen years in the business, someone has finally reviewed one of my offerings in a serious manner. I believe the terms 'willfully obtuse' do indeed...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:23:00 GMT

THE NEED FOR GREED (lyrics)

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Posted by on Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:27:00 GMT

DO-IT-YOURSELF AND KILL YOURSELF - The Sparkling Finale

.................. ..My sincerest appreciation goes out to the handful of DB fanatics who consumed this entire feature;  the album has been completed and is finally ready for sale (just clic...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:26:00 GMT

DO-IT-YOURSELF AND KILL YOURSELF, Part 6 - Master Suicide

Part 6    Our last chapter ended in the Fall of 2006, with the traumatic explosion of my home computer, the single most important device in the whole process of recording and mixing the...
Posted by on Tue, 20 May 2008 13:03:00 GMT

DO-IT-YOURSELF AND KILL YOURSELF, Part 5 - Try Everything, Then Try It Again

                     Ontario's capital proved to be the third city (and fourth site) of recording for my beloved 'Ug...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:51:00 GMT

DO IT YOURSELF AND KILL YOURSELF, Part 4

PART 4 - The Stupid Period You know the drill; if you haven't read parts 1-3, none of this will make any sense (it may not, anyway). The final sessions at Attic Studios occurred around the occasion ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:22:00 GMT

DO IT YOURSELF AND KILL YOURSELF, Part 3

 Okay, I'm going to drop on into this thing as if you've been following all along. Here goes& PART 3  Attic Studios, Part 2/3 / The Accident  It was time to tour the 'Price' with Wax Ma...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:36:00 GMT

DO-IT-YOURSELF AND KILL YOURSELF: THE MAKING OF UGLY MUSIC..."

DO IT YOURSELF AND KILL YOURSELF:The Story of 'Ugly Music For People Who Hate The World'Parts 1 & 2       My twenty-or-so fans will have noted that the projected release date ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:15:00 GMT