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Brian Allen

Piano, pencil and paper were Brian Allen’s first instruments. He uses them, plus a camera and trombone, to create his own multimedia world of film, books and music. He has performed his films at Austin Experimental Film Festival, Theertha Festival (Sri Lanka), Webster University Film Series (St. Louis), Ftarri (Tokyo), Fonoteca Nacional (Mexico City), Cruce (Madrid), LangstrassenKultur (Zurich), Brooks Museum Film Series (Memphis), UCLA, American Trombone Workshop and The Outpost (Albuquerque). He has made six films, each with an acoompanying book and album, and three documentaries. Brian studied with jazz and creative music legends Roswell Rudd and Milford Graves and attended the Banff Institute, meeting and forming “Brainkiller” with Jacob Koller, releasing two albums on RareNoise Records

Burn The House Down

By Ghalia Volt

Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: No Ice Please; Mine; Ride; Where Do We Go; Wrong Horse; Lucifer’s Grip; Wreckin’ & Rollin’; Burn the House Down; River Song; Let Yo’ Hair Down: Black and White.

Detroit Jazz Festival 2026: A Gathering in a Great Jazz City

by Paul Rauch
September 15, 2026

Detroit Jazz Festival 2026 Hart Plaza Detroit, MI September 4-7, 2026 Thursday evening is when artists, media and event staffers begin to file into the Detroit Marriott, arriving from points around the globe. The common purpose is the 47th annual Detroit Jazz Festival, an annual tradition on Labor Day weekend. The ...

Fiends

By Brian Allen

Label: Braintone 22
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. REPROJECTED 2. UHUH 3. CONSUSNESS 4. GUIDE FOR THE FRACTAL MINDGAZE HUT 5. 80% 6. ALWAYS SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT 7. LUCKY MACHETE 8. SLOTH VS. TENORGALACTIC 9. BROWNFIELD 10. NOW HE LEAVES A MESSAGE 11. 29N 95W 12. AANDERUD AND R. RUDD 13. NOW SHE BOWS A STRING 14. FOUR LETTER ANIMAL 15. WHERE YOU B 16. ANAGRAM CITY 17. HYPOTHETICAL 18. COOKING WITH KNOERNSCHILD 19. BALLAD OF THE PROBLEM FOR ALL YOUR ANSWERS 20. PUSHING A ROPE 21. RADIO OMNI 22. NOT BEFORE TIME 23. THE PART THAT’S ALWAYS LEFT OVER 24. OTAKU’S RHOMBUS 25. BLUESGNOSIS 26. THE CONFIGURATION INSIDE THE SITUATION

Ciclico

By Benjamin Garcia

Label: Colectivo Noon
Released: 2018
Track listing: Nevado; Cíclico; Aphex; Licht Lacht; Sangre suero grasa y cebo; Jack; Move; Nog

Brainkiller: Colourless Green Superheroes

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 26, 2014

Al secondo album dopo il pirotecnico debutto di The Infiltration, il trio denominato Brainkiller colpisce ancora (in senso figurato, s'intende...) licenziando un album che definisce ulteriormente la loro schizofrenica e multicolore visione musicale. Colourless Green Superheroes, è un frullatore dove tutto è concesso, dove gli ingredienti base--il gusto per l'improvvisazione del jazz, l'energia epidermica e immediata ...

Guitar Legend Robben Ford Announces Guitar Dojo Camp with Sonny Landreth

February 17, 2014

Few guitarists have simultaneously shattered the boundaries of blues guitar with the eloquence and melodic invention of Robben Ford and slide guitar visionary Sonny Landreth. From August 4 – 8, 2014, at the elegantly rustic Full Moon Resort in the Catskill Forest Preserve (about 30 miles west of Woodstock, N.Y.), enthusiasts and guitarists of all skill ...

Brainkiller Pushes The Envelope On Genre-defying Second Album Colourless Green Superheroes

June 18, 2013

On the creative instrumental music scene today there are a plethora of fresh-sounding new bands that artfully blend jazz, classical, rock, electronica and the avant-garde. Add to that list the renegade trio Brainkiller, which has been flying under the radar with a potent sound that is steeped in structure while pushing the envelope on audaciousness. With ...

The Infiltration

By Brian Allen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1. U Can't Stop Z Train; 2. Casketch; 3. Spider; 4. Gilberto's Fantastic Safari; 5. Ice Fishing; 6. Pianer; 7. Eepy; 8. Michaelsketch; 9. Vindicator; 10. Unfiltered; 11. Last Mask. Tutte le composizioni sono firmate Brian Allen, Jacob Koller, Hernan Hecht.

Brainkiller: The Infiltration

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 1, 2012

Se come diceva Zappa il jazz non è morto ma ha solo un buffo o strano odore, gli aromi, o meglio i profumi, che emanano da The Infiltration sono davvero unici. E non poteva essere diversamente visto che ci troviamo di fronte a un trio formato da trombone, tastiere elettriche, percussioni varie ed elettronica. Qui i ...