B R A N D O N R o s s

“Off The End” “…At this point, the density is thick, further escalated by Ross’ distorted surges. The piece culminates in a mystery redolent of Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks film score.” - Jazz Trail jazztrail.net
Label: Sunnyside Records, 2024

Personnel - Brandon Ross: electric guitar, soprano guitar, vocals; Graham Haynes: cornet, electronics; David Virelles: piano, keyboards; JT Lewis: drums; Hardedge: sound design.
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“It’s deep, it’s different, it’s unique and definitely original—the music of guitarist Brandon Ross & Phantom Station. ‘Off The End.’ - ALL ABOUT JAZZ March 11, 2024
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New Record Drops on 4/19/2024, “Off The End” and a preview release concert on 3/16/2024 w/ & … A run up to the March 22nd concert in Knoxville,Tennessee w/ See you sooner or later!

Anthony Cedras and I in India, OCTOBER 1995. We were there starting Henry Threadgill’s then new, and now Legendary band (which too few musicians seem aware of) MAKE A MOVE. We rehearsed for 3 weeks, days and evenings, Tony on accordion and harmonium, hearing sounds from around the corner and down the hill, so to speak. A beautiful being, who LIVED and left us on January 28th, back home, in Cape Town. We were scheduled to play at BIG EARS Festival in March. The original line up with filling in for Threadgill. I was SO looking forward to seeing and playing music with him, and again…
He left us with a lot to listen to, to understand, to remember. Light on your way dear brother! Love, Light and Sound.💜💫🎶🙏🏽💐🥂

01/13/24 11:15pm/23:15

“… Sometimes I Stand Behind You”.
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Spring 2024

Lessons.
Ways of doing things.
Online.
In person.
Interested?
Lemme know…
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Coming Soon… 💫

“Glyph/Sonic” part 3 01/27/23

Glyph/Sonic part 2…. 01/27/23

12.08.23 8:00/20:00 trio
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Day job… night job.
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Portland, OR with last weekend. 💐Portland needs some 💜💫

“About a friend…”

I met Butch Morris in probably 1983, at Sweet Basil, in NYC. I was performing there with violinist Leroy Jenkins's band, "STING!" I have this very vivid and yet almost vague recollection of Butch coming up to me and asking me if I wanted to play in a band he was forming. I said yes… I played music with Butch (on and off) from then until he did what he had a (sometimes irksome) talent for doing… left, too soon. He was abruptly and sadly gone, after becoming a close friend, mentor and colleague over those 29 years we played, discussed, appreciated, debated, delighted in music together. Musicians have a sartorial 'thing' - a taste for hipness, and the extraordinary (at least the ones I know) and Butch and I shared a true enthusiasm for clothes of a personal vision of style and taste - Butch could turn a table napkin into the most elegant clothing accessory, causing you to ask him where he bought that beautiful scarf. Just like his orchestral innovation, Conduction, he created unseen beauty  out of the ordinary. I share the honor of having been in the ensemble for Conduction #1. The series reached number 189, touched several thousand musicians, touched multiple continents, graced a broad and stellar array of cities, and has, (as will be seen more and more) changed the way music is thought of and made in real time. Butch is loved by so many people in so many places… he had that rare quality of being able to relate with just about anyone, make them feel as important to him as anyone else he cared about. One winter in the 90's, Butch and I developed a tradition of talking on the phone every night at around 2:00 in the morning. I'd call him to talk about some recording or performance I'd heard, or just to say hi. We'd talk for a long time about musicians we dug; Conduction; Alice Coltrane's Hammond B3 playing; Joni Mitchell, ways of playing, life and each other. Those were what are called Bright Moments. Loud or soft, they're indelible. Just like my dear friend, the "Skyscraper", Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, who on January 29, 2013, did what he was always doing - went on AHEAD, leaving yet again, too soon.

Alhambra 55th Anniversary Edition Flamenco! 2020/21 NEVER left home. MINT. case/certificate/etc. Beautiful, just not the voice I’m looking for. :) It should be PLAYED! Get in touch. Spread the word. 🙏🏽💯
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NYGF moment with host Jon Schafer. & me. Lovely event with .frisell

For Living Lovers w/ plays the June 13, in
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New release 02.03.23 on “Of Aight and Sound”. Music from the film by Maia Wechsler documenting my collaboration with Neo Symbolic Abstract painter Ford Crull.
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…”Watch That Star”… DURO in a day… with … to a planet near you.
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“MY spirit to yours, dear brother;
Do not mind because many, sounding your name, do not understand you;
I do not sound your name, but I understand you, (there are others
also
I specify you with joy, O my comrade, to salute you, and to salute
those who are with you, before and since—and those to come
also,
That we all labor together, transmitting the same charge and
succession;
We few, equals, indifferent of lands, indifferent of times;
We, enclosers of all continents, all castes—allowers of all
theologies,
Compassionaters, perceivers, rapport of men,
We walk silent among disputes and assertions, but reject not the
disputers, nor any thing that is asserted;
We hear the bawling and din—we are reach'd at by divisions,
jealousies, recriminations on every side,
They close peremptorily upon us, to surround us, my comrade,
Yet we walk unheld, free, the whole earth over, journeying up and
down, till we make our ineffaceable mark upon time and the
diverse eras,
Till we saturate time and eras, that the men and women of races, ages
to come, may prove brethren and lovers, as we are.” - Walt Whitman

Lineup:
Breath Of Air
Brandon Ross – electric guitar
Charlie Burnham – violin
Warren Benbow – drums

For Living Lovers
Brandon Ross – acoustic guitars, voice
Stomu Takeishi – acoustic bass guitar

Phantom Station
Brandon Ross – electric & acoustic guitars
David Virelles – keyboards
Hardedge – soundesign
Eric McPherson – drums
Mauro Refosco – percussion, electronics

“Ross is a one-man atmosphere factory, availing himself of all the sounds—cries, squeaks, cracks, fuzz, whispers, organ-like echoes—that an electric guitar, in the hands of a master, can produce.” —Adam Shatz, The Paris Review

“… this music seems to exist on the edge of one’s consciousness; the pieces insinuate themselves into your brain as if in a dream. All of a sudden, one realizes Ross is playing banjo or creating feedback or that the piece you think might be a Delta blues song is actually Satie’s ‘Danse de Travers I'” —Richard B. Kamins, The Step Tempest

“BREATH OF AIR”
7/31/22
“... Ross, Burnham, and Benbow merge their influences in a seamless fashion. Besides creative jazz, there is more than a hint of blues and perhaps a bit of funk as well. Ross plays with heavy distortion while Burnham provides circular motifs and soaring themes. Benbow has a knack to do the unexpected, throwing in short repeating patterns amongst otherwise unstructured beats.

At first blush Breath of Air seems to be freely improvised, but after a while even that notion can be called into question. Case in point, the repeating riff ending No One On Earth Can See You Anymore and clearly-defined melodies that pop up now and again throughout the recording. Indeed, Spare the World (Your Good Ideas) exhibits not a small amount of tension. Ross speeds and slows his riffs to staggered rhythms from Benbow over which Burnham solos. Toward the end, they create a cooperative, abstract soundscape with subtle ambient and post-rock touches.” - MIKE, Avant Music News
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