OLD NEWS

THE NEW BRAVE NEW WORLD ALBUM,
"SPORK," IS NOW ON SALE



ORDERING INFO FOR "SPORK" - SPECIAL PREVIEW EDITION

NEW BRAVE NEW WORLD CD - "SPORK"

The new Brave New World album, "Spork," is now on sale (see ordering info above). Adam is thrilled to be working with mixing wizard Jeff Jones, also known as the Jedi Master. Adam worked with Jeff a while back at RVI studios, and Jeff helped record and mix Adam's first solo album, "In A Loud Way." Jeff recently won a Grammy for his production work on Dr. John's new CD, "The City That Care Forgot."

The album, originally intended as a 25 minute EP, will now be a regular length CD. Adam says "we had enough strong material, so what the heck..." The recording approach and the material are very 'old school'; most of the songs were recorded live in the studio, that is, the whole band playing together at the same time, like back-in-the-day! The music is uncompromising, there are no attempts at a 'radio song', just loud, blazing, EPIC slabs of face-melting jazz-rock. Tracking was done at world famous Avatar Studios in New York City, and mixing is proceeding at Jeff Jones' World Alert Studios, also in New York.




Why "Spork"? Well, sporks don't fit easily into any common category. Neither does jazz-rock! ...And there you have it!!! A Special Preview Edition of the new CD will be available (hopefully) in time for our tour, sometime in mid-October. Make sure you don't miss out on this sure-to-be-a-collector's-item-maybe-sometime-pretty-far-down-the-road-in- the-future Special Preview Edition!!

BREAKING NEWS FLASH! HOT! HOT! HOT!
BRAVE NEW WORLD EUROPEAN TOUR
FALL 2009 - ABOUT TO COMMENCE!!!!



Yes, folks, Adam Holzman & Brave New World will once again be returning to Europe for another trail-blazing swing through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The tour is set to begin October 23rd in Switzerland, and go for 2 weeks. The line-up will be original Brave New World members Adam Holzman, Aaron Heick, Freddy Cash and Mitch Stein plus special guest drummer Lionel Cordew. The tour will feature music from our upcoming new CD, plus a selection of Brave New World classics! Wow.

Below is the tour itinerary; there might be changes, so stay posted. As a matter of fact, log on every 20 minutes for the next month or so, just to be safe.

Adam Holzman & BRAVE NEW WORLD
EUROPE FALL 2009

OCTOBER
23 Switzerland-Rorschach/Jazzclub
24 Germany-Maria Rain
27 Austria-Vienna/Reigen
30 Germany-Nordhausen/Music School, Cyriaci-Kapelle

NOVEMBER
01 Germany-Giessen
02 Paris (Adam only, w/ "Miles From India")
03 Germany-Karlsruhe/Jazzclub
04 Germany-Essen/Zeche Carl
05 Germany-Minden/Jazzclub
06 Switzerland-Schaffhausen/Kammgarn
07 Austria-Freistadt/Local-Buhne

ADAM WITH 'MILES FROM INDIA'



Return of the Miles 1986 band: Darryl Jones, Adam, Vince Wilburn
in Budapest, August 2009

Adam recently performed with the Miles From India band at this BIG rock festival in Budapest, Hungary, called the Sziget Festival. Adam re-united with Miles compadres Vince Wilburn and Darryl Jones. "It was great playing with those guys again." Adam will be performing with the Miles From India project in Paris on November 2nd (while on tour with Brave New World).

AWESOME RECENT PROJECTS!!!!

This past July adam performed and taught at the Veneto Jazz workshop in Bassano del Grappa, a program put together in connection with the New School University. "The students were all really cool and very talented." Adam also had a great time playing with the excellent faculty musicians; Dave Glasser on sax, Ron Horton on trumpet, Dave Stryker on guitar, Amy London on vocals, Cameron Brown on bass, and Jeff Hirshfiled on drums. And a shout out to coordinator Teri Lucas! One of Adam's totally favorite things in Italy: spaghetti vongole!

SOLO SYNTH CONCERT



In addition to the workshop Adam also did a Solo Synth Concert in conjunction with Veneto Jazz's sister festival, the NU Fest, an electronic music festival. Adam performed an hour of improvised and composed solo electronic pieces, using mostly Moog gear supplied by synthesizer expert Enrico Cosimi (thank you Enrico!). The concert, in the medieval courtyard of the Museo Civici, was received extremely well by both the public and the press. Adam hopes to do more Solo Synth concerts in 2010.

AWESOME JAMS IN THE ALPS In August Adam was at the Outreach Music Workshop in Schwaz, Austria, teaching and performing. This year the theme was "Miles ...And More," so Adam was involved with most of the special events. Especially exciting was a performance of the Miles' complete "Tribute To Jack Johnson" album, with Franz Hackl on trumpet, Mike Kenneally on guitar, Brian Beller on bass, Lorenz Hargassner on sax and Abe Fogle on drums. Other concerts included a cool recreation of the entire "Doo Bop" album featuring Austrian beat-boxers Bauchklang, and the complete "Bitches Brew" performed by the Outreach Orchestra. The events were a big success, and it is possible a CD of the "Jack Johnson" performance might be made available soon. So hang tough, bub.

NOW THIS IS REAL RETRO!



While in Austria Adam also played with Franz Hackl, master trombonist Dave Taylor, legendary french horn player John Clark and recorder virtuoso Winifried Hackl at a very famous ancient monastary, Stifts Stams. This place was built in like 1100 AD! For this special private event Adam played harpsichord!! (they call it a 'cembalo' in Europe...) The music was a sort of baroque-meets-jazz concept, and the concert was very successful. Repetoire ranged from medieval music to "Billie Jean."

ALSO!!!!

DROID
Adam will be performing with Droid, the 'live' drum n' bass project led by Amir Ziv and Jordan Mclean, at a Special Loft Concert on October 10th in the Lower East Side. Click here for details. This particular configuration of Droid will be a trio with Adam covering the bass AND keys, plus special guest vocalist Sissy Clemens. So get a grip, pal!

BELEDO
Adam just played a very cool gig with Uraguyan master guitarist Beledo at the Yonkers Riverfest. We played Beledo's original material, he has some really good tunes. On bass was Lincoln Goines, with Kim Plainfield on drums. The band was killing, and Adam hopes to do more gigs with these guys.

JAMMING WITH THE ROOTS!
Adam has also been playing off and on at the Roots Jam at the Highline Ballroom in NYC. "What a killer band. It's a great revue of rappers and instrumentalists. Mos Def sat in a few weeks ago!"


Adam hangin' with Tariq of the Roots

Last June Adam visited the Moog factory in Asheville, North Carolina. "It was a blast! Everyone was so nice. What a great place." A big shout out to MoogFolks Mike Adams, Linda Lafferty and Chris Stack!! Thank you! While down there Adam picked up his new Voyager OLD SCHOOL, one of the last available! This synth is Truly Pure Analog; no midi, no patch memory, no digital elements. It has the same voice architecture as the regular Voyager, but without any 1's and 0's confusing the issue. This baby SINGS! Sound just floats out of it like water. Of course I will probably use the regular Voyager on most gigs (it still sounds great, of course); program memory has pretty much become a necessity in this day-and-age. But I will be using this sucker in the studio constantly! Check out Adam jamming in Frankfurt at the Moog Booth!

"ALIVE" GOES ONLINE!!



Check out these killer jams from our recent gig at Joe Zawinul's Birdland in Austria! Free downloads! Click on a riff, Turn up the Volume, Chug some coffee and Blow out your Optical Vortex.

Free MP3 Downloads:

Orange Lady is a Joe Zawinul song from the late 60's that Aaron and I performed as a dedication to him at his club, Birdland.

Captain Wax/the Grim Reaper is our 1-2 punch opening we played to begin the 2nd set.

Produced by Bob Belden, Adam co-produced and performed on some of the tracks on this exciting new double CD concept album featuring renowned Indian musicians collaborating with Miles alumni. The Miles alumni include John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Ron Carter, Jimmy Cobb, Lenny White, Mike Stern, Pete Cosey, Michael Henderson, Benny Reitveld, Vince Wilburn, Robert Irving and many others! The Indian musicians are all exceptional, but there is one track, "Ife (fast)," where Adam plays some Minimoog alongside this amazing female violinist, Kala Ramnath, that is a particular favorite. Wow. There will be a few select performances with some version of this project in New York and L.A. Adam will be performing with the Miles From India project at Town Hall in New York City on May 9th, 2008." The album will be released in April.

Chick and Adam chilling at Midtown Sound, NYC, July 2007

The latest recording by Adam Holzman & Brave New World has been a great success!! Many thanks to all our fans for buying the cd and to our German label, Nagel Heyer for promotion. The album is available at Amazon.com and also Abstract Logix and CD Universe.

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