BIRDS AND BEASTS RECORDS
Launched to release music written and recorded by musician/songwriter/producer - Leo Brazil.
Birds and Beasts Records is a new label distributing digital and physical releases and merchandise, promoting live events and pitching music for synchronisation in media.
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Birds and Beasts Records operates out of Leo Brazil's studio in West Yorkshire and is evolving fast with lots of releases and new projects launching from 2024 into 2025.
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Leo launched the label with Tiger Inside, a collaboration with Yorkshire blues supergroup Wadcutter Blues that reworked an old song of Leo's to celebrate twenty years of songwriting and described by Local Sound Focus as 'a storming slab of blues rock...guaranteed to leave you grinning'.
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The second release 'Alone' was announced a s the title cut from a forthcoming solo album with Leo playing all the instruments himself and planting himself in the mellow acoustic indie-folk field. The track is picking up momentum and interest for the album and garnered some nice plaudits 'emotionally raw and brilliantly crafted' - Click Roll Boom.
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Leo's upcoming projects include Bone Wars' - a new psychedelic rock quartet inspired by dinosaurs, 'Zoodelic Psychestra' - an evolving electronica collective and 'Leo Brazil's Amazing Animal A-Z' a series of songs/books that teach about the natural world through a menagerie of styles and influences.
"... fragile and dreamy...authentic, heartwarming...beautiful"
"... a distinctive sound. Inspired by ’60s psychedelia and folk...a nuanced balance of gentle acoustics, sizzling synths and electric guitars."
"...the songs are so memorable I feel like I've known them all forever...energy, passion, tight harmonies..."
"...the music is great, it’s music that you can wig out to. It’s music that makes you smile..."
"...raw and bloody raucous...an edge of psychedelic madness...a wall of gorgeous sound that will leave you breathless"
"...fascinating music...a cornucopia of genres all thrown gleefully into the stylistic melting pot and glued together by a beautiful concept...a high energy record which demands and rewards repeated listens."
"...unique lyrical swagger...psychedelic folk, fused with cosmic and disco pop...fun, clever and unique..."
- Loafers
"Alone is a must-hear release complete with thought-provoking lyrics, an intelligent arrangement and charming performances. This superb release stays with the listener long after the music has ended!"
"...well-placed confidence in the songwriting department...colourful and joyous...groove filled, thumping and purposeful."
"...chock-full of suitably crunchy riffs and addictive hooks that are irresistibly uplifting..."
