About Les Brown

Multi-instrumentalist, performer, composer and producer Les Brown is unbound by music genre or style. His music includes elements of art rock, electronica, kraut rock, psychedelia, ambient and even contemporary jazz. A self-taught musician, Les creates music coalesced from the broad variety of genres he has listened to throughout his life. Les performs on all instruments for his recordings, from drum kits to guitars and bass, keyboards, samples and other instruments, while highlighting his technique and unique style on guitars and keyboards. Les released his first singles, Approaching Equinox and Meat Grinder Variations No. 1 in 2021. His first full-length album, The First One, was released in 2022, and contains a blend of jazz rock, jam rock, electronica, semi-ambient music, and the song "Amalgam," Les’s answer to "Revolution 9" by The Beatles. His latest album, The Next One, released in 2024, reveals influences of Brian Eno, King Crimson, John Zorn, Susumu Yokota, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and even a touch of guitar rock ala AC/DC. From ambient spaces to hard rock, casual toe tappers to psychedelic electronica, Les Brown offers us a selection from his "musical box of chocolates." You will want to try the whole box!

Biography

Leslie "Les" Brown was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania and graduated from high school in Fairview, Pennsylvania. Les took piano lessons in grade school and is self-taught on guitars, drums, synthesizers, and music production. While attending Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, Les performed on vocals, guitars and keyboards in several rock and blues bands in Erie, Pennsylvania and surrounding areas. Les met his wife, Kate, in Edinboro and they both graduated with M.S. degrees in Geology from The University of South Carolina Columbia in Columbia, South Carolina. After graduation they moved to Colorado to live and work, and Les created Uncle Bob, a rock and jam band power trio based in Denver, Colorado. After fronting Uncle Bob on voice and guitar, Les moved on to play drums in the rock/jam band Natchez Bound based in Evergreen, Colorado. In 2016, Les and Kate returned to Edinboro, Pennsylvania to be closer to family and friends in the serenity of rural western Pennsylvania. Since returning to Pennsylvania, Les has performed on lead guitar in a jazz trio and produced 2 singles and 2 full-length albums of his own music. Les is a very active musician, working on new music almost every day. Les currently lives, works, plays and produces music in Edinboro, Pennsylvania with his wife Kate, and at least 2 dogs and 2 cats.