New album and CD release show for Omaha's Little Brazil

photo from www.littlebrazil.net 

            If sitting down and actually reading a book doesn’t interest you, perhaps Omaha indie band Little Brazil’s new album released Tuesday will.

On March 28^th the band will celebrate its third full-length record with a CD release show at The Waiting Room Lounge.

            The new CD titled “Son” deals with fictional and non-fictional concepts, said guitarist Greg Edds,  Songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Landon Hedges said it is like one big storybook that deals with many family oriented situations.  “Son” covers the good of falling in love, children and marriage, but doesn’t leave out the bad of adultery, divorce and death.

            “It’s the very high highs of family issues - and the lows,” Hedges said.

            Right now, the band is in the middle of a three-and-a-half-week tour playing throughout the U.S. and winding down the tour with their release show in Omaha.

            Nebraska bands Eagle Seagull and Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship, and Missouri band The Life and Times will be opening for Little Brazil’s night. 

            “We’ve got a pretty eclectic line up of bands that’ll be sure to bring a lot of energy,” Edds said.  “We’ll be excited to be playing all of our new material to everybody that comes out; it’ll be fun.  Homecoming shows are always interesting – we’ll be tired, but we’re always looking forward to it.”

            UNO sophomore Ryan Moore is also looking forward to the show.

            “From what I have heard on their Myspace page, I expect it to be a pretty good show,” Moore says.  “It sounds like their sound has matured a bit and its making their new music sound great.  Just going off of their Myspace, this will be by far their best CD yet.”

            This third time around, the band focused on writing the concept of the songs, Edds said.  Before, they were writing material as a band that “were just rock songs – just basic.”

            The songs on “Son” are quicker with heavier story lines.

            “It was more focus from the beginning, which before we really didn’t have,” Edds said.  “We were having fun, but we weren’t really concentrating on the writing material.”

            Little Brazil began writing the new album about a year and a half ago, and worked with AJ Mogis who, Hedges said, “had a good hand in producing this album this time.”

            The band decided to release with Anodyne Records from Kansas City, Mo. this time, as apposed to past releases with Mt. Fuji Records from Seattle, Wash.

            “It was just kind of time for us to take another step and we felt like Anodyne was the right step to take – not a huge step, but a step nonetheless,” Hedges said.

            Little Brazil also took a step this January at the Omaha Entertainment Awards, where they won the award for Best Rock Group.  The year before, in 2008, they received the award for Best Alternative/Indie band.

            “We were all pretty surprised,” Edds said.  “We did not expect it at all – we were really thankful.”

            This summer, Little Brazil will be hitting the east coast and will continue touring throughout the rest of 2009.

            The release show on the 28^th will surely show just how far Little Brazil has come, and how far they will continue to go.

            “I’m just stoked to play the show just because it marks another one down,” Hedges said.  “We’ve accomplished a lot, and it just marks another step in the direction that we’re moving.  I’m expecting, I don’t know, a good rock ’n’ roll night.”