Following their critically-acclaimed 2022 album Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey, where they collided a hip-hop album with big band jazz, Solar Music demonstrates the essence of Butcher Brown down to its core. The album draws its name from a descriptor the band has come to use to categorize their music, the scope of which is decidedly broad and defies categorization altogether. Solar Music demonstrates the band’s dynamic approach to the jazz format and incorporating their own rich lineage of musical influences from their upbringing in Richmond, fusing elements of soul, funk, rock, and hip-hop, into music that is universal. Incorporating longtime friends and new, unexpected guests into their approach, the album features the likes of Pink Siifu, Charlie Hunter, Braxton Cook, Jay Prince, Nappy Nina, Keyon Harrold, Michael Millions and more.

Reflecting on their latest project the band shares: “Solar Music is everything under the sun. We get asked so often what type of genre we fall into, and at the end of the day, we play all of our influences. It’s not genre specific… It’s all types, & this album is a true representation of that. Solar Music is for everybody.”

Artists

Butcher Brown, Morgan Burrs (guitar, drum machine, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, electric guitar), DJ Harrison (piano, drum programming, vibraphone, organ, synthesizer, baritone guitar, samples, keyboards, bass guitar, clavichord), R4ND4ZZO (bass guitar, moog bass, upright bass, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, percussion, whistle), FONVILLE (drums, percussion, drum machine, bongos, triangle), Charlie Hunter (guitar), Tennishu (trumpet, percussion, tenor saxophone, vocals, piano), Vanisha Gould (vocals), Jay Prince (vocals), Julia Shuren, Pink Siifu (vocals), Keyon Harrold (trumpet), Nappy Nina (vocals), Braxton Cook (alto saxophone), Michael Millions