SEVERE INSOMNIA glass package, hand-painted by Polish artist Ania Werner! I'm really excited about this limited edition pressing of my new instrumental album, which you can purchase by scrolling 3/4 down this page!

The Release of "Severe Insomnia!"

I'm very excited to announce that my second album, "Severe Insomnia," is now commercially available via the great left-of-center UK/Polish label Lumberton Trading Company! Entirely instrumental, the record mixes musique concrète, orchestral recording, prepared guitar, chamber ensembles, hyperventilations, and electronics. I'm excited about this release and have had great response to the music thus far! Lumberton and its sister label Fourth Dimension Records have released work by the likes of Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Michael Gira (Swans), among many other noisemakers current and past, so I'm quite thrilled to be on its roster.

While the music of "Severe Insomnia" is taken from various performances, it's very much inspired (as the title implies) by the haziness and unease that comes from insomnia. One of the pieces was also originally the score to an excellent, Student Academy Award-winning stop animation directed by the awesome Robyn Yannoukos, which you can check out here: 

"Severe Insomnia" is limited to 500 physical copies (it's not digitally available), with 25 available as a special, hand-painted, glass-packaged edition, which can be requested by clicking here!

You can also purchase the "regular" edition, as well as my album of weird rock, "Oh Ah Ee" (which, I'm happy to report, is still getting excellent reviews that you can check out on the "press" tab of my site) via the discography page of my website: http://hannisbrown.com/discography.html

A CD release party is in the works--please check out the "shows" tab of my site to learn of upcoming events (I've been performing lately with a pretty awesome seven-piece band of saxophones, clarinet, drums, upright bass, guitar, and vocals).