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RELEASE DATE: 12/5/2025
**New Press w/ 16 Page Booklet!
jaimie branchs FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise, originally released in the fall of 2019, was hugely anticipated in its time. A year before that, following the success of her first Fly or Die album, branch whisked her incredible quartet across Europe where they stretched their songbook to its limit, improvising en modo deconstructivo, tugging at the musics edges and relentlessly morphing the sound of a four-fold liberation machine that included branch (trumpet), Chad Taylor (drums), Jason Ajemian (bass), and newcomer Lester St. Louis (cello), who had recently replaced Tomeka Reid.
The continued rise of branchs star coincided with an increasingly deep connection to International Anthem as the label formed tighter and tighter bonds with friends across the pond, particularly in London, where most of bird dogs of paradise was recorded (in studio at Total Refreshment Centre over three days in November 2018, and live at Caf OTO over two nights that same week).
FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise also introduced the wider world to branchs singing voice.
So much beauty lies in the abstract of instrumental music, branch says in the albums original notes, but being this aint a particularly beautiful time, Ive chosen a more literal path. The voice is good for that.
The IA11 Edition of FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise comes on classic black 140-gram vinyl LP inside a heavyweight reverse-board jacket, with a 16-page 11×11″ insert booklet with previously-unpublished photos two sets of new liner notes (the first by jaimies mom Soledad Sally Branch, and the second by Jason Ajemian), IARC 2025 obi strip and printed poly-lined inner-sleeve. Pressed at Pallas in Germany, with lacquers cut by Daniel K at SST.
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