LEO BRAZIL
Before you ask, it's not a stage name! Leo Brazil has been writing and recording his own music since he was a child singing into a tape machine. As well as drawing on his love for classic pop, rock and roll and soul, Leo draws inspiration from animals with songs that connect personal emotions and experiences with stories from the natural world.
Establishing his own label as an umbrella for diverse projects, Leo works out of his home studio and is developing a unique and colourful evolution of sound that mixes acoustic, folk, rock and psychedelia. After well received first releases in 2024, some collaborations and previews from the forthcoming acoustic based solo record "Alone" - 2025 has started with the debut single from dinosaur themed psych-rock quartet Bone Wars described as "Forward-thinking, fresh and familiar" - The Big Takeover
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Leo is a multi-instrumentalist and in the studio plays keyboards, drums and violin. Live he mostly sticks to guitars and banjo where he draws on his big repertoire of self penned songs, equally comfortable with low key acoustic ballads or foot stomping energetic numbers.
He has supported The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Son of Dave, Floral Image, Trip Westerns, The Blow Monkeys, Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Chris Helme, Space, Miles Hunt, Romeo and Michele Stodart, The Blues Band, Seamus Fogerty, Liela Moss, The Rails, AK/DK, Scott Lavene and many more...
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"... fragile and dreamy...authentic, heartwarming...beautiful"
"...written in an extremely clever way which makes it gut-wrenchingly relatable to so many. This is a very impressive songwriting ability, and I eagerly anticipate the rest of this album."
Songs Behind The Music
"...the songs are so memorable I feel like I've known them all forever...energy, passion..."
"Your charisma as both a performer and songwriter really shines through"
- New Champion Management
"...fascinating music...a cornucopia of genres all thrown gleefully into the stylistic melting pot and glued together by a beautiful concept..."
"...raw and bloody raucous...an edge of psychedelic madness...a wall of gorgeous sound that will leave you breathless"
"Alone is a must-hear release complete with thought-provoking lyrics, an intelligent arrangement and charming performances...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."
"... a distinctive sound. Inspired by ’60s psychedelia and folk...a nuanced balance of gentle acoustics, sizzling synths and electric guitars."
"...unique lyrical swagger...psychedelic folk, fused with cosmic and disco pop...fun, clever and unique..."
- Loafers
"...chock-full of suitably crunchy riffs and addictive hooks that are irresistibly uplifting..."