[Cover photo credit to Julian Lona Urquidi, @lonajulian]
Virginia-bred collective Butcher Brown have announced their new album, Letters From the Atlantic, which will arrive on March 28th, 2025 via Concord Jazz, offering a blend of Jazz, Rock, Funk, R&B, Soul, bossa nova and more.
The new record features female guest artists Yaya Bey, Melanie Charles, Leanor Wolf, Mia Gladstone, Victoria Victoria, along with Nicholas Payton & Neal Francis. Butcher Brown have also shared the new single and video “Ibiza,” which follows last month’s “Montrose Forest.”
Tapping into House Music influences, “Ibiza” weaves a saxophone line through instrumental songscapes.
Butcher Brown says of the new single:
We recorded that joint with the idea of it tapping into something you’d hear in a dance club in New York or the UK. We’re all producers, so we’re thinking of the samples a DJ would find and chop up into a groove – but do it all live, no samples, reimagining it in our own way. There was something magical about the recording of this song, cosmic is the only way to describe that feeling. The excitement and joy everyone felt listening back in the control room was a clear sign we should get this out to the world. We hope ‘Ibiza’ takes you somewhere warm and offers a level of comfort.
Following the group’s Solar Music (2023), Letters From The Atlantic “takes listeners on a musical journey through destinations and influences from the Chesapeake Bay to New York, down the East Coast to Florida and overseas in Europe.”
The band says about the album:
We want this full record to feel like you’re floating on a trip – it’s taking you on a journey, and you can determine what each song reminds you of. It’s a story of everything we listen to, capturing nostalgia for Virginia, the East Coast and overseas. We’re pulling sounds from across the Atlantic.
2025 TOUR
Mar 29 Chicago, IL SPACE
Apr 2 Boston, MA Brighton
Apr 4 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bowl
Apr 5 Philadelphia, PA Milkboy
Apr 11 Charlottesville, VA The Southern
Apr 12 Virginia Beach, VA Elevation 27
Apr 18 Portland, OR The Get Down
Apr 19 Seattle, WA Nectar Lounge
Apr 20 Vancouver, BC The Biltmore Cabaret
Apr 22 Boise, ID Neurolux
Apr 23 Salt lake City, UT State Room
Apr 26 San Francisco, CA The Independent
Apr 27 Santa Cruz, CA Kuumbwa
Apr 29 San Diego, CA Casbah
Apr 30 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
