Brass Riot – The Never Acting Story – CD

Never Acting Story is an album by Brass Riot, released in 2023.

On the heels of their debut album “”Matschsafari”” (2018), their second studio album “”The Never Acting Story”” is now released on Fun In The Church. The album title, in critical allusion to the world-famous fantasy book by Michael Ende, sums up well what the music of BRASS RIOT is about at its core: the possibility to get a noisy outlet for all the fury about the failed politics of the last decades and the frustrations and fears that go with it, and to free oneself from it for a moment. That this path has produced the wildest live music on this crisis-ridden planet is an irony of history – and certainly not the first time it has happened. It’s no different in the jazz of Charlie Parker than in the songs of Patti Smith, the raps of Little Simz or the Afro-beat of Fela Kuti.

Musically, BRASS RIOT move more in the area of the melodic ska-pop of Madness, the fake jazz of the Lounge Lizards and contemporary rave brass ensembles like MEUTE between house music and electro beats. The fact that they have managed to politicize their sound so strongly over the years, despite all the party that goes with it, and without any song lyrics at all, is truly phenomenal.

1. Wake Up, Wtf?!
2. Make a Move
3. The Never Acting Story
4. Guitar Hero
5. Tight Spots
6. Voids & Riots
7. Raven
8. Stumble & Fly
9. What About?