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UMR-001 is on streets today!


This Is Your Brain on LIVE, recorded in-studio at Rancho Recordo, is an eight-track album featuring crushing live renditions from RARE FUTURES' This is Your Brain on Love and Happy Body Slow Brain's Dreams of Water. The collection, which is engineered, mixed, & mastered by Marc Jacob Hudson and co-released by the band's own Cerebral Music Group and Umbrella Man Records, will bring fans of Happy Body Slow Brain into the RARE FUTURES universe.

The live album features Fazzi on vocals, guitar and keys; Ari Sadowitz on guitar and vocals; Rich Bozek on drums and vocals; and Alex Marans on bass and vocals.

About the Band

RARE FUTURES is a groove-rock band from New York City founded in 2007 by journeyman and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Fazzi, under the original moniker Happy Body Slow Brain. RARE FUTURES tips their hat to groups like Tears For Fears, Jellyfish, Mutemath, Sade, The Spinners and Soundgarden meshing heavy prog-rock groove with 80's synthesizers, a sprinkle of R&B/soul and rich creamy layers of melody and harmony.

The band has self-released two full-length albums, This is Your Brain on Love (2016), Dreams of Water (2010) and two EPs, LIVE (2014) and SLEEPY EP (2012).

In between releases, Fazzi has in written, performed, and toured in Taking Back Sunday, RX Bandits, The Dear Hunter, Atlas Genius, Gavin Castleton Band, Envy On the Coast, NK, The Movielife, Into It. Over It., Great Big Pile Of Leaves, and Facing New York (founding member).

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