Brandon Seabrook

Brandon Seabrook is a NYC-based guitarist, banjoist, performer, and composer. As a guitarist, his work feeds off tactile sensations; rapid tremolo picking, contorted clusters, and a hyper-physical performance style. Described by the New York Times as “a man apparently hellbent on earning the title of World’s Least Rustic Banjo Player” he has been devoted to transforming an instrument largely associated to country and bluegrass, into a tool for rebellious exploration.

As a composer and band leader Seabrook has released eight albums of original music. Most recently, his octet Epic Proportions released "brutalovechamp" on Pyroclastic records. Bandcamp Daily noted " this is a meticulously pieced-together, intimate sprawl of blissed-out, proggy maelstroms alongside playfully eccentric stretches that place Seabook’s freakishly inventive compositional mettle at center stage."

As a sideperson he has collaborated with “downtown demimonde” Joey Arias, jazz icon Anthony Braxton, and vocalist Cecile Mclorin- Salvant. He has been profiled in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Premiere Guitar, Downbeat Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Bandcamp Daily, Jazz Times, and The Wire.

Brandon is an accomplished solo artist, named Best Guitarist in New York City by the Village Voice 2012. His 2014 solo release "Slyphid Vitalizers” paired his 1920 Bacon and Day tenor banjo with the blasting beats of a 1980’s Oberheim drum machine, bridging epochs with ambient tranquility and dense sound scapes.