Bright Brown is sonic cinema. Bittersweet layers and textures abound, and beautifully crafted songs exist at the core. Alex Nahas’ verse boldly chooses to sit “between the meager and the mundane” elevating the everyday. He generates a broad sonic palette on his rarely seen tapping string instruments, the Chapman Stick and the Dragonfly acoustic, conjuring up a filmic landscape.
Originally hailing from San Francisco where he formed the critically acclaimed art rock ensemble, Laughingstock, Nahas has collaborated in the studio and on the road with John Vanderslice, Zoe Keating, DJ Shadow, Mates of State, and Jill Tracy amongst other artful denizens of the SF music scene. He's also shared the stage with the likes of Death Cab For Cutie, Richard Buckner, Spoon, Frank Black, and Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins
After moving to New York and benefitting from collaboration with innovative New York and California musicians, Alex Nahas aka Bright Brown has evolved over the course of four LPs, one EP and, most recently, the all acoustic release, “Whispering Gallery”.
Nahas has carved out a niche that slots into the same lineage as Bon Iver, Nick Drake, David Byrne, David Bowie, and Daniel Lanois: all one-of-a-kind artists who shoehorned unorthodox approaches into highly digestible songwriting. Thoughtful and reflective with a knack for rendering outside-world concerns in the landscape of the personal, Bright Brown continues to venture into new musical frontiers.
