Brandon Seabrook with Cooper-Moore & Gerald Cleaver - Exultations (2020)

Brandon Seabrook is a guitarist, banjoist, and composer living in New York City where he has established himself as one of the most unique and volatile guitarists of his generation. He has also made a name for himself as a powerful banjo innovator, described by Spin Magazine as “An apocalyptic, supersonic general of the banjo…” His work focuses on the juxtaposition of fragmented soundscapes, angular composition, and a massive dynamic range that can change in a nanosecond. He has released seven albums as a leader covering everything from pulverizing art-metal to chamber jazz. Rolling Stone Magazine noted, ”The fiercely dexterous musician has lunched a number of bands combining serious chops with manic intensity and a left- field compositional vision.”

Seabrook honed his guitar skills at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He has since performed extensively in North and South America, Mexico and Europe, as a solo artist, bandleader, and collaborator. He has been called upon by titans such as Anthony Braxton, Nels Cline, Cecile McLorant Salvant, and Joey Arias for his idiosyncratic physical performance style and technical prowess. He has been profiled in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Premiere Guitar, Downbeat, Rolling Stone, NPR, The Chicago Reader, and The Wire.

Seabrook Power Plant, the nuclear trio donned “a manic clusterfuck of merciless banjo torture” by the Village Voice, is Brandon’s brainchild, blending the brutal energy of punk-rock with the intricate execution of through-composed avant jazz. The band has released two albums to much critical acclaim. Time Out New York praised the band’s eponymous debut as “not only one of the most baffling experimental releases of the year it's also one of the best.”

Brandon is an accomplished solo artist, named Best Guitarist in New York City by the Village Voice 2012. In 2014, New Atlantis Records released his first solo album titled “Sylphid Vitalizers.” Noisey called the album a “dissonant guitar army…(with) mind-blowing prog-rock complexities – all at mind-numbing breakneck speed.” Brandon has presented his solo work at Pioneer Works, Sonic Transmissions Festival, Secret Project Robot, NK Berlin, The Smell, Lawrence University, and the Ruidismos Festival in Lima, Peru.

In 2017 Brandon released his large ensemble recording "Die Trommel Fatale.” This work is a poly-rhythmic exploration of the dark side of the drum, layering cello, bass, electronics, voice and guitar against dichotomous drummers. The NY Times commented on the album "it passes you through a gauntlet of anxiety promising you little more than cataclysm at the other end.” In September 2018 Astral Spirits released the debut album "Convulsionaries" from the Brandon Seabrook Trio featuring Daniel Levin on cello, and Henry Fraser on bass. Rolling Stone Magazine added, “ The intensely thorny written passages and gritty improv tangles fly at the listener in disconcertingly stark fashion.” His latest release via Astral Spirits “Exultations” features living legends Gerald Cleaver on drums and Cooper-Moore on diddley bow.



Track List:
01. Flexing Fetid and Fecund (03:45)
02. Dark Bogs (06:08)
03. Behavioral Tub (07:02)
04. Essential Exultations (06:10)
05. Cudgel Majik (04:37)
06. Dank Esseintes (03:51)
07. Along Comes Diddley (05:01)
08. Absurdities in Bondage (02:32)

Brandon Seabrook - Guitar
Gerald Cleaver - Drums
Cooper-Moore - Diddley Bow

Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves, September - December 2019


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