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HBE AND WOMAD

2011-05-09T14:08:00.000-07:00

Hey Caceres, tell Spain to stand up. The bad boys of brass are visiting the World Of Music And Dance. Hypnotic and WOMAD have a beautiful history. This will be our ninth performance with one of the best festivals around the world. Each city and each show has been a different experience. So don't underestimate us Spain. Come ready to be blown away. Go to the website and check out our schedule. You might be in a city near us. For now, SPAIN STAND UP. We're coming to show you the fruits of our labor. In the eleven years that the HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE has been working as a BRAND, this is the first time we have taken off work to create new music and be with the family. Now after five months in the woods we emerge stronger.

UNTIL WE SEE YOU IN PERSON, HERE'S A LOOK BACK IN TO HBE IN POLAND NOV. 2010

HBE KILLED IT @ SOB'S

2011-05-09T13:37:00.000-07:00

The new music is tight.................
One word i heard all night was "energetic". Everyone can feel the energy from this new line up. Of course we still had to play a few of the oldies for the newbies in the crowd. All of the music has grown to a level that touches the core of your soul with no effort. Here's a teaser.

HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE IN NEW YORK

2011-04-28T08:23:00.000-07:00

Get ready for one of the livest shows New York will see this year.
I just got done listening to the latest addition to Hypnotics' discography and I can only say one thing. "IT'S ON YALL"

This will be the beginning of our summer tour as well as our night to show off the new music the world hasn't heard yet.
If you know the Hypnotic sound, then you do not want to miss this sneak preview into whats going to be one crazy summer.
If you have never heard us before, then you will be blown away by this powerful brand of music played by the family of brothers known as HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE. Either way it goes, get ready for the best night you've had in a long while. Come dressed to impress cause the music expects nothing less from its guests. See you there music lovers.

COMING SOON TO A CITY NEAR U.

2011-04-24T06:25:00.000-07:00

Ok Hypnotic world, its been a while since you've heard from us directly. But hey, its time for new beginnings. So get ready for a new HBE. On may 3rd we'll be releasing our new EP in New York. It's going down at SOB's 204 Varick Street
New York, NY. If you have been craving and missing the brand that is HBE. Don't miss this epic event. We'll be presenting new music from the EP and the up coming album. Get ready for some of the strongest music Hypnotic has created to date. As well as some features you wouldn't expect.
Check HypnoticBrassEnsemble.com to see our up coming dates and cities. We expect to see a full house ready to party into the night.

ARE YOU READY????????????????????????????????

HYPNOTIC BRASS IN HYDE PARK

2009-07-09T12:53:00.000-07:00

It's taken a number of things to get us this far. I'll only speak of one right now, the people. The real music lovers. We could'nt do it without you. It was good to see the Blur bring the people out. Even better to see that crowd rockin to H.B.E. With the mixture of music that was on that stage, if you missed that event then you missed history. AND ONE HELL OF A PARTY.

ROUND 2 STARTS WITH GLASTONBURY

2009-07-09T12:23:00.000-07:00

See that look in our faces. Nobody told us we were supposed to bring boots and tents. How funny is that? This is one of the top festivals in the world. So if you like festivals and you've never been to GLASTO, you must make the pilgramage.

As far as i hear, the Blur had a killer show. Besides them, guess who had one of the best shows at Glasto 09? If you don't know who the Blur are, then look them up. They got some s%!t for he real music lovers. But more about Damon and company later.

IF YOU AIN'T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW

2009-06-19T15:23:00.000-07:00

This is for those that didn't catch the Jools Holland show.
ENJOY

FAMILY OWNED

2009-06-18T13:32:00.001-07:00

We are the sons of a man that taught us to be ourselves. Also to cultivate and express ourselves. No matter the fashion we choose. It took alot to make it this far. Hard choices and impossible missions. Now with the torch that was passed to us, we bring it around the world spreading the fire that creates new thoughts. Don't be afraid to stand out and let the world know who you are. Learn From everybody around you without sacrificing your personal style. Music is our tool to open all ears to this same message and mission.
ITS OUR PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE COMING OUT TROUGH OUR HORNS.

Amsterdam interview and more Hypnotic goodies

2009-06-09T07:27:00.000-07:00

A promise is a promise, so here's more photos and videos from yours truly. We know it's hard to keep up with the hardest working band on earth (No sleep for the touring!) so we're here to give you a little leg-up.

It all started in Norway...

Street shot from Stavanger, Norway. Whoever said Scandinavian women are icy is dead wrong. Just look at those smiles... (PS. Yosh's white jacket is crispy!)

Then just not that long ago, we were back in Amsterdam for another epic show. We did this interview with this radio chick. The all mighty DJ Pay. The girl got skillz. You can watch right here. If we don't look too cooperative, remind yourself it was mad early and that we was in Amsterdam City after all. Case closed.

Also, to any Chi-town heads watching... Yosh didn't really mean Amsterdam is home. What he meant was more like Amsterdam is our new summer home, you know, like some sweet cottage you go to in the summer, when the weather is nice. No need to go and get all mad, people! You know the other Baji Twin. Every where he gose is his home.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble interview (june '09) from Pay Jamz on

And there was also a collection of shots from a gig we did in the UK we wanted to send your way. Looking over them, we can only conclude that the photographer (a sweet chick with a big smile and long hair) was either stuck in that corner of the room all night, or else she definitely had a little something going on for our youngest recruit Rocco. Either way. From these shots, you could think the band ended somewhere around Clef, with not a trumpet in sight... See for yourself.

Sweaty Rocco

More sweaty Rocco

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(See what I'm sayin?)

I swear we was all there...

One last shot for posterity: looks like the "Hypnotic Brass Quartet" or some ish! Move over to the other side too next time... You just might like what you find.

Brooklyn Interlude

2009-06-08T17:55:00.000-07:00

Just as the brothers are packing their bags and crossing the Atlantic for a little breather back in the United States, the New Yorker magazine is publishing a mad decent write-up about your favorite Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. (You can read Sasha Frere-Jones' article here.) Although everybody is not sure they like how they look in Pablo Lobato's cartoon, (whatever happened to Hudah's head? And to Yosh's jumbo jaw? WTF!), the article was a nice reminder that not everyone back at home is sleeping on the best brass act in the galaxies.

Trouble brewing: the Bass Section.

The four Horsemen of the Apocalypse a.k.a the Trumpet Section.

Hypnotic in sunny Norway, hanging ninja-style on the docks.

So if you felt a little tear coming cause you missed Hypnotic when they came to your hood (peep the above video from the Paris gig at New Morning and see if you don't feel like hitting yourself upside the head for staying in and ordering Chinese), or if the brothers' European circuit hasn't hit your town yet, just know that we'll back in a minute with renewed bounce, beats and vision.

In the mean time, mosey on to iTunes and cop our new album on Honest Jons. And if you're in Europe, well, you already know a little visit to HMV is all you need to do to dramatically improve your day. As true brass addicts know, securing a little Hypnotic love between live shows is never a bad idea.

EUROPEAN SUMMER TOUR: PART 2

June 26, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury
June 27, Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury
July 2, Hyde Park with Blur, London
July 4, BBC4 Loose Ends Talk Show
July 12, DURHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL, DURHAM
July 13, DURHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL with FEMI KUTI, DURHAM
July 14, DURHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL, DURHAM
July 15, DURHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL, DURHAM
July 16, Pori Jazz Festival, Pori (Finland)
July 17, Pori Jazz Festival, Pori (Finland)
July 18, LoveBox, Shoreditch Festival, London
July 19, Durham Jazz Festival
July 25, Womad Fest, Chalton Park, UK
July 26, The Barbican
August 1, Raw Rhythm Festival, Amsterdam
August 5, FNAC w/African Express
August 8, BIG CHILL, EASTNOR CASTLE, UK
August 15, Flow Festival, Helsinki (Finland)
August 28, Shambala festival
august 29, liverpool
August 30, ROCK EN SEINE. Paris
September 5, CABARET SAUVAGE, Paris
september 6,electric picnic festival
October 16, AKBANK JAZZ FESTIVAL, Istanbul, Turkey

Kicking it Euro-style

2009-06-02T05:37:00.000-07:00

These are epic times for the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. After having enraptured already-loyal crowds and made new fans all over England and Ireland over the last month, the brothers now prepare to wrap up the first half of their 2009 European Summer Tour, with a quick succession of dates in France (Paris, June 3), the Netherlands (Amsterdam on June 4, Rotterdam June 5) and Italy (Navarra, June 6), all before they fly back to the U.S. of A. for some well-deserved R&R at the new Brooklyn pad. The tour will then get back on track in early July, when Hypnotic Brass hits the stage with Blur for a big blowout in Hyde Park, London.

The first stretch of the tour has been brothers hustling hard and getting a lot more props than beauty sleep. Traditional European media has been paying close attention to the eight brothers from Chicago, who were showcased in an episode of the celebrated television show Later with Jools Holland on BBC Two (watch their live performance in the BBC courtyard here). Hey, HBE even has its own artist page on the BBC website now. Innit bossy?

Social media networks have also been spreading the Hypnotic love through Twitter and other such sites. A quality 30-minute recording, courtesy of Paris DJs, has surfaced in the Twitterverse and basically gone viral. This is what the guys over at Paris DJs ("Our Music is a Secret Order") had to say:

"This Hypnotic Brass Ensemble blew my mind the first time I heard them. I had seen some videos on YouTube but was finally able to grab two copy of their War/Mercury 10 inch at a local record store (thank you to the kind people selling Jazz and World @ Gibert Joseph in Paris!)... The spare one went into the hands of Pierre from Souljazz Orchestra who got to see them onstage a few days after, opening for Mos Def in Amsterdam. He told me they totally stole the show, which I'm sure they did! Listening to their rare self-released albums (on CDR you can buy at their shows) or concert that are circulating on the Internet (you gotta check the one with Tony Allen!) can only mean one thing: the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is currently one of the few killer live bands out there!! They'll be playing next Wednesday in Paris at the New Morning and we have 10 tickets to offer - be there or be square!"

So stay tuned for more highlights, pics and vids as the season heats up. This here summer is poised to go down in history. Peace.

HMV HAS THE PRODUCT

2009-06-01T03:44:00.000-07:00

Last week, we got a number of reviews from different critics across Europe. This week, the new album form Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is now available in all HMV stores across Europe. For the rest of the world, you can get that cd and all four of our previous albums on itunes.

HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE CD RELEASE PARTY

2009-05-23T13:29:00.000-07:00

THIS IS HONEST JONS BEST OF HYPNOTIC

HONEST JONS IS THE LABEL.
H.B.E has shaken hands with H.J.R and presented the best of Hypnotic album to Europe. With a variety of features. Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sola Akingbola from Jamiroquai and Malcolm from The Heliocentrics on drums. Online, the world has access. Every ones invited, but only a few at a time get to experience nirvana...Hypnotic style.
We turned the house upside-down. Have you ever seen a rave? Well picture that but with Hypnotic on stage. It's only been a couple of times in Hypnotics career where the crowd went home soaking wet. You would know if you've been to one of our intimate shows. Thursday, May 19Th will go down in history as a day of Hypnotic Brass Ensemble showing the world we're moving, once again to that next level and it's no coincidence this is the day of Malcolm X birth. The beautiful thing about playing GOOD music is when you hear it, you can't get enough of it. Which sometimes leads to people loving your music so much that they're inspired enough to recreate what they hear and feel from it. Here goes some seed's planted by yours truly,now watch them grow.

IN FULL FORCE

2009-05-20T12:24:00.000-07:00

ITS 2009 WORLD.The H.B.E SUMMER TOUR IS ON AND POPIN.

It's been a while since you heard from the guys. No more worries. Your favorite band is back on the block. Of course what you missed has been added to the H.B.E Lost Tapes. To be revealed at a later date.

NEXT UP

Londons premier music venue, THE 100 CLUB.
+ AGMP presents HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE 21 May

Time: 7.30pm
HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE

Direct from Chicago - The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble have played in London alongside Mos' Def & Tony Allen to packed crowds. The eight brass players are all sons of Sun Ra Arkestra Trumpeter Philip Cohran.

This is the only London date before they support Blur in Hyde Park in July.

plus support from JEZEBEL SEXTET

www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e%7Cartist=HYPNOTIC+BRASS+ENSEMBLE&n%7Cartist=null&resultsperpage=20&filler1=see&filler2=art-srch&orderby=date
www.hypnoticbrass.net/

Advance Ticket: £17.50
Door: £20.00

WHEN YOUR BEST JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

2008-06-16T11:54:00.000-07:00

You've seen Hypnotic do shows before............

But if you missed the Blue Note, i want to let you to know you missed a tremendous, spectacular, extraordinarily epic, special in every way, colossally classic night in the Hypnotic World.

Unfortunately, I'm not putting any pics up yet. You'll have to find out from one of your friends that made it to the show. For now, i leave you with these words. FAMILY IS EVERYTHING.

NEXT UP.

2008-06-10T07:35:00.000-07:00

THE BLUE NOTE. We have a special treat for all the true H.B.E fans. See you there.

Doing what we love, and doing it well

2008-06-10T06:53:00.000-07:00

Hypnotic came back to New York hitting hard. A nice amount of shows and some very interesting possibilities for the near future. We'll speak on those when they come into fruition. Hypnotics last day playing on the streets is on september 1st. So we that we haven't gotten much sleep this last month. Outside of giving our blood, sweat and tears somewhere in the city everyday, more shows are being booked. More countries and cities are calling for us (You can go to HYPNOTICBRASS.NET to see our tour dates).

H.B.E in paradise

2008-05-11T10:43:00.001-07:00

St. Lucia is paradise! We were there to play the St. Lucia Jazz Festival. We were treated like kings, or something like it. The food, the landscape, the women, the climate... this is a place of natural beauty. We almost didn't come back to the U.S., it felt like home. We'll be back there next year!

Another star on the list

2008-05-11T10:03:00.000-07:00

There is a long list of celebrities that have our album. Dave Chappelle is the most recent. After doing Joes Pub, you know how Hypnotic gets down. We were right back in the streets the next day. Outside of being the walking dead from no sleep the night before, the park security was giving us a hard time. Dave and his family just happened to be at the Lotus festival at union square. He walked up and talked the green shirts into getting off our backs. So we played a song for him. Gathered a crazy crowd. Popped cd's and posed for pics. He's a cool cat. We'll see what comes from it.

The next level

2008-05-11T09:41:00.000-07:00

After playing London, we prepared ourselves for a crazy night at Joes Pub in New York. People were scalping our tickets for $150. True fans! We turned away another 200 people at the door. We did tell everyone to get their tickets online. Those that did, got a special treat. Those that didn't, either paid a ton of money or missed out on Hypnotic taking it to the next level.

The Good, The Bad, and The Queen ft. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

2008-04-30T10:35:00.000-07:00

We hit the stage with Damon Albarn for the finale of his show, then ended the show with Jerry Dammers playing Ghost Town. The song we played with Damon was a song we recorded with him our last time in the U.K. I love playing with these guys. You can expect to see more of us with The Good, The Bad, and The Queen. How about the Lincoln Center, NY? That's going to be a crazy show. Next up. Get ready for H.B.E at Joe's pub. See you there.

100,000 veiwers

2008-04-30T10:19:00.000-07:00

This festival has been going on for thirty years. With different artist through the years, it has become the second largest fest in London. This year Hypnotic got to give some love and join the long list of the love music hate racism performers. Not playing original tunes though.

Love Music Hate Racism

2008-04-29T05:51:00.000-07:00

Hey H.B.E world. i would love to catch you up on that we've done this year, but i'd rather just skip all that. Or we'll just talk about it later. Maybe. O.k, so we're in London right now. You got to love pound country. Europe show us a lot of love. We played for Damon Albarn and Jerry Dammers.We didn't play any standard H.B.E. it was their show. And yes we killed the show. Put anything before us and we'll put our brand on it. We're headed back to NY for our night at Joes pub on may 3rd.

CREATION

2008-04-23T15:42:00.000-07:00

These shots were taken by a good friend of the band, William Mooney. What do you think? Check him out, he got skillz. http://gallery.mac.com/jmoo007

Back to H.Q

2008-04-23T15:29:00.000-07:00

So after Depaul, it was right back to head quarters. Working on the $4th piece of Hypnotic's creative art at the Josh Roseman studio in WilliamsBurg.

Keepin it movin

2008-04-23T14:02:00.000-07:00

It's hard to stay gone from the CHI. It's more than visiting family and chillin with friends. I sometimes forget how many thing you can do in Chicago. After having a brief reunion with the cultural community of Chicago, celebrating the First Fruits festival called Kwanzaa. We went back to NYC. But not for long. On the 22nd of that same month we partied with the Depaul University crowd. Giving them that Hypnotic sound that we don't give to often.

hypnoticbrass.net

2008-04-23T10:44:00.000-07:00

Hey bloggers. H.B.E is moving. Before we get to that lets take a recap of the year so far. We started the year out at Malcolm X college in Chicago. The Karamu Ya Imani(the festival of faith)