Ahhh... Brant Bjork. Some serious skill if I ever heard it. I wouldn't say so much in his ability to rock the fuck out, but more in his ability to pull out the tastiest tracks there ever were. This man, hailing from Palm Desert California, has played with and within the likes of stoner/desert bands Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Che', Unida and Kyuss, and has had defining influence on stoner rock as we now know it. Lately he's been dabbling in some solo work, and holding together his newer band, Brant Bjork & the Bros. One of the more gifted drummer/guitarist/producers of our time, Bjork went to high school with John Garcia, and subsequently created and drummed for one of the first and most prolific stoner bands, Kyuss, but left soon after the release of their best album, Welcome to Sky Valley on which he co-wrote two of their best tracks, Whitewater and Gardenia. (If you wanna know more about that, check out the post on Kyuss.) After that he was pretty much set, and in 1999 he put together his first solo album Jalamanta. His sound is easy but structured; a little Hendrix, a little Jerry Cantrell, he knows how to work the tiniest of details, and we all know its the little things that count. Some of his more amazing stuff comes off of his first album (Jalamanta) and his band Brant Bork & the Bros with Bjork on guitars. Two songs in particular called Beautiful Powers and Defender of the Oleander, are sweet and mellow but engaging. Love is Revolution is power through and through, as well as Too Many Chiefs, Not Enough Indians.Go..
Get.
Now.
Posts
