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2455 (Music For The Future)

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Billie Davies

Label: Cobra Basement
Released: 2025
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Tracks

Everything Flows; Blue Moon Dance; TizWaditIz; Origins; On'nOn'nOn; Love And Peace;

Personnel

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Billie Davies: electronic drums and percussion, electronic piano Branden James Lewis: digitized trumpet sounds, digital keys, synth waves, loops Featuring Damani Butler (Electronic Loops and Waves) on TizWaditIz

Album Description

"What music, what kind of music, what styles will be played in the 25th century? What new music will people in the 25th century be listening to? How will music evolve into the future?"
These questions are what made Billie Davies start this project she called No Boundaries, Music for the 25th century, Music For The Future. An ever evolving free improvisation from a deeply natural, instinctive, intuitive perspective. A spontaneous expression through sound, exploring new landscapes, new forms, free from any constraints. The avant-garde of two great musicians, Billie Davies and Branden Lewis, expressing human nature.

About The Recording

An Avant-garde, Free Improvisation, Beyond Jazz, Electronic studio recording that is experimental in nature.
Produced by Cobra Basement, 10/11/2025 and to be released for Digital distribution, Vinyl and CD on demand on 12/10/2025.
The recording in 2021 and the re-mixing and re-mastering in October of 2025 was done by Mike Davies.
This first in a series of releases has Billie Davies playing electronic drums, percussion and electronic piano with Branden Lewis playing trumpet, digitized trumpet sounds and digital keys, synth waves and loops and featuring Damani Butler playing Electronic Loops and Waves on TizWaditIz.

A little less than a year before Billie Davies left New Orleans for the Florida beaches in 2022, she had started working on a project with Branden Lewis and Damani Butler. This music was created late October 2021 as a proof of concept for Billie Davies' project "No Boundaries, Music For The 25th Century", a demo, recorded the second day of a 2 two day session where all musicians were together, feeling each other out, experimenting with sound and equipment. The mixing was done to provide sound balance n clarity, nothing was changed to the intensity, composition or what or how something was played... and Billie did the cutting and Mike did the remixing and remastering of the pieces that now have become the album "2455 (Music For The Future)" to be released and distributed Digital (streaming and download) and on Vinyl and CD on demand.
After listening to all the freely improvised music created spontaneously in the original demo suite for a few years, she had called it "Pandemos", Billie Davies could not ignore the fact how very special certain tracks of this music were, she also heard the influence of the Covid pandemic of 2020/2021 in how it was played, and that it needed to be released and distributed so all people would be exposed to it.

The tracks:
01. Everything Flows - 03:08 - Billie Davies, Branden Lewis
All things in the universe are in a constant state of flux and change. In this universe we live our own life according to our own individuality. We are always connected to the universe and are a part of the overall flow of nature and life and the universe.
02. Blue Moon Dance - 07:15 - Billie Davies, Branden Lewis
Imagine the full moon, a bonfire on the beach and it's a blue moon!! The music starts, the rhythm catches your ears, the energies just flow and you start dancing...
03. TizWaditIz - 04:14 - Billie Davies, Branden Lewis, Damani Butler
It is what it is ... the past has been, we cannot change it, and the future still has to happen so we cannot do anything about that either, we can only move toward it, but we have no guarantees that we will like what will happen. All there is... is today, now, this moment, therefore ... It is what it is.
04. Origins - 11:03 - Billie Davies, Branden Lewis
The point at which something begins its course or existence. The origins of human life, of our universe. The origins of us, the one thing we wonder about in so many different ways, the one big question in life that eventually becomes an answer, so we know what makes us what we are.
05. On'nOn'nOn - 04:02 - Billie Davies, Branden Lewis
Life moves on and on and on and does not wait for us to be in a certain position or feel a certain way to start living. Life moves on and on and on.
06. Love And Peace - 03:24 - Billie Davies, Branden Lewis
Surrender to the universal energy and nature, surrender to peace and harmony and live your life. Surrender and accept yourself, who you are and who you should be all along. Live, be you, embrace your life and surrender to the universal energy that only wants who you truly are.

About The Musicians

Billie Davies (electronic drums and percussion, electronic piano)
Named one of the Iconic Female Jazz Drummers on Jazz Fuel in 2022, Billie Davies, an American female jazz drummer and composer, is best known for her free improvisation, avant-garde and avant-garde jazz music since the mid-1990s, and her improvisational drumming techniques she has performed in Europe and in the United States. Billie Davies is a well-known jazz performer who is a compelling presence in the world of avant-garde jazz. Davies's technique pushes the limits of traditional jazz, and her adventurous exploration of new sound landscapes astounds her audience. She draws inspiration from a rich musical history and imbues her works with an intense feeling of improvisation and raw energy. Compelling harmonies, adventurous rhythms, and complex melodies combine to create Davies' music. Her innovative take on jazz encourages listeners to embrace the unexpected and explore unknown musical horizons. She easily crafts a dynamic and ever-evolving atmosphere that enthralls the senses with her mastery of the drums. Through the fusion of free jazz, experimental sounds, and classic jazz influences, Davies pushes the boundaries of what jazz may be. She explores emotions through her music, taking the listener on an exciting and unpredictable trip. All who experience Davies' music are left with a lasting impression as a result of her expressive and emotive playing style, which elicits a variety of emotions from enthusiasm to introspection. Billie Davies is a great visionary in the world of avant-garde jazz, constantly pushing the limits of what is conceivable in the style. Her music is a tribute to the value of creative expression and the virtually limitless potential of jazz. Every time she performs, Davies asks the crowd to go on a sonic journey with her, one in which the rules are meant to be broken and the unexpected is welcomed. There have been many outstanding jazz performers from the United States, but Billie Davies' contribution to the avant-garde jazz world is genuinely extraordinary.
http://www.billiedaviesmusic.com/

Branden James Lewis (trumpet, digitized trumpet sounds, digital keys, synth waves, loops)
Branden played trumpet on the recording of "Hand In Hand In The Hand Of The Moon" by Billie Davies in New Orleans in 2015 and performed with her band Billie Davies and The Bad Boyzzzz in the horn section around New Orleans in 2015/2016.
Branden Lewis has been leading the world-renowned Preservation Hall Jazz Band since 2022. He has music in his heart and soul, and although he never planned on playing music for a living, he always loved playing the trumpet. His grandfather, James Victor Lewis, is a Grammy award-winning sax player famous for his role in one of New Orleans’ most iconic R&B bands, Li’l Millet & His Creoles. James moved to Los Angeles around 1960 to escape some of the bitter realities of being a black man in Louisiana at that time. Despite growing up in Los Angeles, Branden's grandfather never let the family forget their New Orleans roots.
Branden was raised playing trumpet in church, marching band, and for one of the top youth orchestras in Los Angeles. In 2012, he moved to New Orleans to truly discover his career as a musician.
Immediately taken under the wing of Delfeayo Marsalis, with regular gigs on Frenchman Street’s “modern jazz proving ground” Snug Harbor, Branden quickly worked his way up to collaborating with artists like Dee Dee Bridgewater and recording on the Grammy-nominated Bobby Rush ft. Dr. John album “Decisions” in 2014. He is a co-creator of the international Trumpet Mafia collective based in New Orleans and began touring with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra in 2015. After joining the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in 2016 and recording the album “So It Is”, Branden recorded his first album as a bandleader entitled ‘BLQ’ at the historic Esplanade Studios in 2017.
https://www.brandenlewis.com

Damani Butler (Electronic Loops and Waves) on "TizWaditIz".
Damani Butler recorded the "Whadeva" album with Billie Davies and Maude Caillat in 2020.
Damani is an experimental, multi/mixed media artist, lyricist and music producer from Oakland, California now living in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, specializing in interactive audio, visual and physical object art with a focus on up- cycled electronics and unique furniture. He has spent the last 25 + years informally training and educating himself in all areas of creative and technical interest, developing and evolving his skill-set by way of volunteering for skilled professionals in exchange for knowledge and guidance, watching instructional videos, attending workshops and training programs, reading and studying books, manuals, instructions and other literature on all subjects relative, watching and asking questions as well as good, old fashioned DIY practice, trial and error. He has independently completed a library of works in the fields of art, experimental music and lyricism often combining the three as he feels. His accomplishments include Audio productions in the genres of underground hip hop, experimental electronic music, audio art, sound experimentation projects and even coining and naming his own genre, "Crack Rock". Short and medium length video productions in the categories of music video, installation and project documentation/presentation, video art and he’s presently working on a documentary called "Adventures in Art and Music".

Cobra Basement has since 2012 been behind the production, album releases, distribution, PR and behind the scenes representation of the artist Billie Davies, a jazz drummer, a pianist and a composer best known for her instinctively avant-garde compositions and improvisational drumming techniques. https://cobrabasement.blogspot.com/

Global copyright 10/27/2021
The recording date of the music, 10/27/2021, establishes copyright over the respective musical works of Billie Davies and Branden Lewis for the album "2455 (Music For The Future)", and for Damani Butler on "TizWaditIz".