21st Century Girl

The Clouds in Camarillo

The Clouds in Camarillo is a name of the radio-single released by Brazzaville in 2007. The song was included to the album 21st Century Girl.

The Plot and Minerva's addition

Camarillo is a city in California, United States. Located nearby was Camarillo State Mental Hospital, a psychiatric facility that treated patients with mental illnesses. The mother of Brazzaville frontman David Brown was a patient at the hospital. The song's lyrics are based on a poetic interpretation of one of her letters.

Original song, "Top of the World" was written by Mikhail Galper (ex Korneev) an Ivan Korolyov in 2006. David Arthur Brown heard this song in summer of 2007 during his visit in Moscow for Siberian tour. He did his remake version in August, and in September, Mikhail made a suggestion to record his voice.

Music video

In 2007 for the song was filmed video, which was loaded on YouTube by Minerva's profile. The video shows David Brown and Mikhail Korneev in the city of Camarillo dressed in white clothes for the mentally ill. The most attention is paid to the woman, which is dancing on the road and playing with teddy baby in a pram. Also the singers are shown closed in a cage with the woman.

At the end of the video the woman walks into the sea and disappears into it.

The video was shown on popular TV Channels of United States, Russia and Ukrainian channel M1.

Personnel

Richie Alvarez – keyboards

Paco Jordi – guitars, backing vocals

Brady Lynch – bass

David Brown – synthesizer, guitar, keyboards, tambourine, vocals, shaker, audio production, cover photo

Janet Brown – photography

Narcis Coromina – saxophone

Maria Pi Sunier De Gispert – vocals

Juan Fortea – electric guitar, vocals

Rick Hake – synthesizer

Ivan Knight – bongos, drums, shaker, hi hat

Mikhail Korneev – vocals

Erik Radloff – drums

Todd Richard – synthesizer, guitar, audio production, hammond B3

Marina Sala – accordion, vocals

Natauko Sugao – trumpet

Naomi Wedman – violin