Chris Brokaw

Chris Brokaw (born August 1, 1964[2]) is an American musician, mostly known for
Chris Brokaw
his work with the bands Come and Codeine, in addition to his many collaborations
and original soundtracks. His outlier, underground status, in addition to his constant
touring, abundant collaborative projects, and prolific musical output, have resulted
in Brokaw being repeatedly described as 'one of the hardest-working musicians in
anti-show-business.'[3]

Contents
Life and career
Soundtracks and scores
Collaborations and Session Work
Discography
Solo
Original soundtracks
With Codeine
With Come
Chris Brokaw performing with The
With Pullman
With Snares & Kites
Lemonheads in Boston 2014
With The New Year Background information
With Empty House Cooperative
Birth name Christopher Jon
With Consonant
Brokaw[1]
With Dirtmusic
With Wrekmeister Harmonies Born August 1, 1964
With Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina New York City
With Martha's Vineyard Ferries Genres alternative rock,
With Hidden Tooth (w/David Michael Curry)
slowcore, post-
As Ryley Walker & Chris Brokaw
rock, folk,
As Sunset to the Sea (w/Jeff Barsky)
experimental
See also
Occupation(s) musician
External links
Notes
Instruments guitar, drums
Years active 1989present
Associated acts Come, Codeine,
Life and career Dirtmusic, Steve
Wynn,
While studying at Oberlin College, Brokaw met many people who became figures
Consonant,
on the American indie rock scene of the 1990s, among them Stephen Immerwahr,
Pullman,
with whom Brokaw formed Codeine, as well as Sooyoung Park of Bitch Magnet and
Bedhead, The
Seam, John McEntire of Tortoise, and Liz Phair.
New Year, Geoff
Soon after graduating from Oberlin, Brokaw played drums for a number of bands, Farina, Martha's
including 7 Or 8 Worm Hearts[4] and G.G. Allin. He then joined Codeine and played Vineyard Ferries,
drums on their first two studio albums, as well as helping to kick-start Liz Phair's Snares & Kites, 7
career.[5][6] In 1990 he returned to the guitar, one of his two main instruments, and Or 8 Worm
teamed up with Thalia Zedek (Dangerous Birds, Uzi, Live Skull), a well-known Hearts, The
figure in New York's post-No Wave scene. The two formed Come, a band that never Lemonheads
gained much mainstream popularity, despite the critical praise they garnered
throughout their career.[7]

Brokaw and Zedek took a break from Come at the end of the decade, and the band never regrouped in the studio, though the pair has
since performed together on many occasions. In November 2008 the band convened for one performance at the Tanned Tin Festival
in Spain.

After Come, Brokaw has released several albums in his own name, from the instrumental Post-Rock of Red Cities, through the
composition and performance of the musical score for "i was born, but...", to the more straightforward song structure of Incredible
Love. Both Brokaw and Zedek were invited to participate in a limited edition series of albums by Normal Records, a German record
label. Brokaw recorded his contribution to the series,Wandering As Water, in a single day, playing all instruments on the record.

Additionally, Brokaw has played in the bands Pullman, Rivulets, Consonant, and The New Year and played as accompanist to such
artists as Thurston Moore, Evan Dando, Steve Wynn, Fan Modine, Christina Rosenvinge, Alan Licht, and Rhys Chatham. Brokaw
also participated as drummer 10 in the Boredoms 77 Boadrum performance which took place on July 7, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton
Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York. In addition to this, Brokaw was one of the guitarists performing Rhys Chatham's A Crimson
Grail at the Lincoln Center, New York, as part of the center's Out of Doors series on September 14, 2010.[8] The performance was a
200-guitar version of Chatham's work, which was commissioned by the city of Paris and premiered at the basilica of Sacr-Coeur in
2005, originally scored for 400 guitars.[9]

Between 2005 and 2006, Brokaw performed with the Chris Brokaw Band, which included Karate's Jeff Goddard on bass and Rodan's
Kevin Coultas on drums. Later, in 2011, Brokaw would perform again under the same moniker with Elisha Wiesner and Sal Esposito,
both formerly of Kahoots, on bass and drums respectively. In 2007, Brokaw formed Dirtmusic with Chris Eckman (Walkabouts) and
Hugo Race (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds). Named after Tim Winton's 2001 novel Dirt Music,[10] the band released their
homonymous debut album on Glitterhouse Records in November 2007. In 2008, Dirtmusic performed at The Festival in the Desert,
in Essakane, Mali, where they met the Touareg band Tamikrest, in collaboration with whom they would record they following album,
BKO. BKO, their second album, was recorded in January 2009 at Ali Farka Tour's old studio in Bamako, Mali, and was released the
following year.

Brokaw formed his own record label, CAPITAN RECORDS, in 2008, through which he has released several solo albums of
predominantly instrumental music (Canaris and Gracias, Ghost of the Future), in addition to his collaboration with Wrekmeister
Harmonies, Live in NYC. Stemming from Brokaw's many musical projects and his enviable work ethic, DigBoston has called him
[11] Likewise, The Irish News has stated that "Chris Brokaw is one of
"one of the most prolific and active artists to call Boston home."
America's busiest musical talents."[12]

Soundtracks and scores

Brokaw has provided music for productions of two dance companies: the Daghdha
Dance Company (Limerick, Ireland), where Nicole Peisl commissioned him to
create new pieces, and Kino Dance[13] (Boston), where he collaborated with
playwright Rinde Eckert and director Robert Woodruff on Highway Ulysses, which
in 2003 The Boston Globe named "the best production of the year."[14] Brokaw has
also scored Roddy Bogawa's 2004 documentary "i was born, but..."[15] and Leslie
McCleave's 2005 feature film Road,[16] which won him the Best Original Score
award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival.[17] Brokaw has also scored
Brokaw at the 2014 Pop Conference
Roddy Bogawa's 2011 documentary Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson
at the EMP Museum, Seattle,
and Hipgnosis, for which he is also credited as co-producer.[18] More recently, he
Washington.
has -with Animal Hospital's Kevin Micka- scored Lana Z Caplan's 2011
experimental documentary Sospira[19][20] and Jason Cortlund's 2012 feature film
Now, Forager: A Film About Love & Fungi.[21] Brokaw also contributed a soundtrack to Holly Anderson's collection of flash fiction
and mesostic poetry The Night She Slept With a Bear (2012).[22] He has also contributed a song to the original soundtrack to the
German sci-fi thriller film Centerland, directed by Enko Landmanns.[23][24] In 2017, he composed the score to Julia Halperin and
Jason Cortlund's independent filmLa Barracuda.

Since 2013, Danish guitar pedal manufacturer Reuss has been developing, with Brokaw's input, prototypes for a pedal named CB-01
Recidivist, after the Come song from their final albumGently, Down the Stream.[25]

Collaborations and Session Work

Brokaw has been a member of several bands over the years, most importantly Come and Codeine, though the list includes The New
Year, Empty House Cooperative, Consonant, Dirtmusic, Hidden Tooth, Martha's Vineyard Ferries, Pullman, and GG Allin's solo
band. Aside from his collaborations with Geoff Farina, Ryley Walker, Jeff Barsky, Holly Anderson, David Michael Curry, and Kevin
Mikka, and split EPs with Bastro during his tenure in Codeine and Viva Las Vegas as a solo artist, Brokaw has worked with a number
of bands and recording artists, including Cobra Verde, Dave Derby and the Norfolk Downs, Tamikrest, Evan Dando, Fifty Bucks,
Gramercy Arms, Jumbo, Tara Jane O'Neil, Hugo Race, The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, Kahoots, Karate, Lemonheads, Loog,
Manta Ray, Molasses, 7 Or 8 Worm Hearts, Bedhead, Thurston Moore, Rhys Chatham, Rivulets, Christina Rosenvinge, Rosa Chance
Well, Snares and Kites, Via Tania/Tania Bowers, The Boredoms, Willard Grant Conspiracy, and Wrekmeister Harmonies, as well as
some of Thalia Zedek's and Steve Wynn's respective solo work, to name but a few.[26][27][28]

Discography

Solo
Chris Brokaw & Viva Las Vegas EP (Kimchee Records/Acuarela Records, 2002)Split release with Viva Las Vegas
Red Cities (12xu, 2002)
Wandering As Water (Return to Sender, 2003)
My Confidante+3 EP (Normal Records, 2004)
Incredible Love (12xu, 2005)
Forestry EP (I and Ear, 2007) 7" vinyl only, limited to 500 copies
Canaris (Capitan Records, 2008)CD only; reissued on vinyl by Omentum Records in 2017
Gracias, Ghost of the Future(Capitan Records, 2009)Vinyl only, limited to 100 copies
VDSQ Solo Acoustic Volume 3 (Vin du Select Qualitite, 2010)
Tundra (Capitan Records, 2010)CD only, limited to 40 numbered copies
I Ace Sociopathic King(Already Dead Tapes, 2011) Cassette only, limited to 200 copies. Reissued in 2014 for Cassette Store
Day.
Live At Porchlight (Capitan Records, March 2011)CDR, limited to 22 copies
Stories EP (Limited Appeal Records, 2012)
Gambler's Ecstasy (12xu/Damnably, 2012)
[29]
Tidal Mud (Robert & Leopold, 2012)CD, limited to 20 copies; cassette, limited to 100 copies
The Coyote of Deadhorse Canyon(Capitan Records, 2013)Cassette only, limited to 49 copies
With My Little Eye EP (Fear of Speed, 2013)CD only, limited to 150 copies
Avalanche EP (Mouca, 2013) Cassette only
Chambers of Light (Capitan Records, 2013)Cassette only, limited to 25 copies
Macanudo Avenues (Capitan Records, 2013)Cassette only, limited to 25 copies
Jukers Junction (Capitan Records, 2013)Cassette only, limited to 25 copies
Solo (Capitan Records, 2013)Cassette only, limited to 20 copies
Wages of Fear (Capitan Records, 2014)Cassette only, limited to 12 copies, each with handmade collages
The Periscope Twins (12XU, 2015) Vinyl only, double LP
The Hand That Wrote This Letter(Capitan Records, 2017)CD only, featuring classical guitar renditions of DavidBowie and
Prince songs
 Four Kings (Jellyfant Records, forthcoming 2018)Double LP, includes Tundra EP, Tidal Mud and the previously unreleased
"Central District Blues"
Title TK (Crack'd Rabbit, forthcoming 2018)CD only, limited edition, ambient music

Original soundtracks
"i was born, but..." - Original Film Score (Atavistic/12xu, 2004)
Road Original Film Score (Jellyfant Records, 2011)Vinyl only, limited to 300 copies
Sospira Original Film Score [with Kevin Micka] (Capitan Records, 2011)Limited to 100 copies
The Night She Slept With a Bear [with Holly Anderson] (Jank Editions, 2012 on CD; Jellyfant, 2017 on vinyl)
Book with
soundtrack
Now, Forager Original Film Score (Dais Records, 2014)[30] LP only
Music For Peter Hutton(Capitan Records, Forthcoming 2018)Cassette only, containing live film scores

With Codeine
Frigid Stars LP (Glitterhouse, 1990)
Barely Real EP (Sub Pop, 1992)

With Come
11:11 (Matador Records/Placebo, 1992)
Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Matador Records/Beggars Banquet Records,
1994)
Near-Life Experience (Matador Records/Domino Records, 1996)
Gently, Down The Stream (Matador Records/Domino Records, 1998)

With Pullman
Turnstyles & Junkpiles (Thrill Jockey, 1998)
Viewfinder (Thrill Jockey, 2001)

Chris Brokaw performing live with

With Snares & Kites Come in at Dingwalls in London,
23rd May 2013
Tricks of Trapping (Inbetweens Records, 1999)

With The New Year

Newness Ends (Touch & Go Records, 2001)
The End Is Near (Touch & Go Records, 2004)
The New Year (Touch & Go Records, 2008)
Snow (Undertow Music, 2017)

With Empty House Cooperative

Improvisational Preparation For Church Studio Recording(Self-released, 2001)
Half the Mixes from Nine Rectory Lane(Self-released, 2001)
Improvisational Dinner Music at Middle East Restaurant(Hinah, 2001)[31]
Improvisational Music (Hinah, 2001)[32]
Painted Plane (Sedimental, 2004)
With Consonant
Consonant (Fenway Recordings, 2002)
Love and Affliction (Fenway Recordings, 2003)

With Dirtmusic
Dirtmusic (Glitterhouse Records, 2007)
In the Desert (Glitterhouse Records, 2008)
BKO [with Tamikrest] (Glitterhouse Records, 2010)
The Tent Sessions [with Tamikrest] (Glitterhouse Records, 2010) Limited to 1000 copies

With Wrekmeister Harmonies

Live in NYC (Capitan Records, May 2009)LP only, limited to 100 copies

With Chris Brokaw & Geoff Farina

The Angel's Message to Me(Capitan Records/Damnably/Jellyfant, 2010)
The Boarder's Door (Damnably, 2010)
All Out & Down (Landland Record Label, 2016)Vinyl with digital download card. Also limited tour pres
sing in numbered edition
of 125

With Martha's Vineyard Ferries

In the Pond 12" EP (Sick Room Records, 2010) 4-song, one-sided 12" vinyl w/ an etching by Rosemary Hoeft on side B, limited
to 500 copies
MASS. GRAVE (Kiam Records, 2013)

With Hidden Tooth (w/David Michael Curry)

Lost Records (Capitan Records, 2010)CD only, limited to 100 copies
Hidden Tooth EP (Robert & Leopold, 2012)[33] 3-inch CD only, limited to 52 copies
Break the House (Capitan Records, 2013)Cassette only, limited to 25 copies
Bicoastal Arsonistas (Fear of Speed, 2013)CD only, limited to 100 copies

As Ryley Walker & Chris Brokaw

AM 982 "Strangled Pairs" Vol. Thirteen (American Tapes, 2014) One-sided LP, vinyl only, limited to 100 copies

As Sunset to the Sea (w/Jeff Barsky)

Sunset to the Sea (Tape Drift Records, 2016)TD81/C60, cassette only

See also
Stephen Immerwahr
Come
Codeine

External links
 Official website
Official Bandcamp site
Chris Brokaw interview Rocker Magazine 2012 - includes video
Chris Brokaw interview
Evan Dando & Lemonheads fan site plus forum on Chris Brokaw , Tom Morgan, Nic Dalton, Givegoods, Sneeze,
Smudge, Barefoot Bushmen and $talker records
77 Boadrum Site ProfileViva Radio, Sep 2007. (Flash)

Notes
1. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Chris+Brokaw
2. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Chris+Brokaw
3. Ted Drozdowski (Jan 1420, 2005)."Review of Chris Brokaw'sI Was Born, But... (Atavistic)" (http://www.portlandpho
enix.com/music/otr/documents/04393622.asp). Portland Phoenix. Retrieved 4 Dec 2016.
4. Neil Kulkarni (January 17, 2013)."A New Nineties Come On My Shirt, Come In My Ear: Neil Kulkarni Interviews
Come" (http://thequietus.com/articles/11151-come-interview-neil-kulkarni)
. The Quietus. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
5. Cortney Harding (2 October 2010).By the Horns (https://books.google.com/books?id=xGl78gyjknMC&pg=P
A31&dq
=Liz+Phair+Chris+Brokaw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T aCkUYGhGKv40gWM9YGQAg&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q
=%22Chris%20Brokaw%22&f=false). Billboard. p. 31. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
6. Chris Smith (9 July 2009)."Exile in Guyville" (https://books.google.com/books?id=G4mP7u6mPdkC&pg=P
A224&dq=
Liz+Phair+Chris+Brokaw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T aCkUYGhGKv40gWM9YGQAg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=L
iz%20Phair%20Chris%20Brokaw&f=false). 101 Albums that Changed Popular Music. Oxford University Press.
p. 224. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
7. The Wire (magazine). The Wire, Issues 263-268 (https://books.google.com/books?id=Afk4AQAAIAAJ&q=%22anoth
er+underrated+duo%2C+Chris+Brokaw+and+Thalia+Zedek+of+Come%22#search_anchor) . The Wire Magazine
Ltd. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
8. "Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail"(http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/a-crimson-grail). Nonesuch Records.
Retrieved 2013-06-01.
9. "Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail"(http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/a-crimson-grail). Nonesuch Records.
Retrieved 2013-06-01.
10. "Dirtmusic" (http://label.glitterhouse.com/artists.php?show=3)
. Glitterhouse. Retrieved 2013-05-29.
11. "digBoston: "Chris Brokaw" " (https://archive.is/20130410180350/http://digboston.com/listen/2008/03/10370/)
.
Archived from the original (http://digboston.com/listen/2008/03/10370/)on 2013-04-10. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
12. Scene - Still Working, Still Wandering. The Irish News. April 22, 2005.
13. "Kino Dance, "Collaborators" " (https://web.archive.org/web/20130917081242/http://kinodance.org/collaborators.htm
l). Archived from the original (http://www.kinodance.org/collaborators.html) on 2013-09-17. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
14. "Siegel, Ed, "A strong year on local stages large and small: From classics to premieres, quality abounded",
The
Boston Glove, December 28, 2003" (http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2003/12/28/a_strong_year_on_l
ocal_stages_large_and_small/?page=full). The Boston Globe. 2003-12-28. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
15. "IMDB, "i was born, but..." (2004)" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234936/). Retrieved 2013-03-24.
16. "IMDB, Road (2005)" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347884/). Retrieved 2013-03-24.
17. "Brooklyn International Film Festival, June 2-June 11, 2006"(http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000838/2006).
Retrieved 2013-03-24.
18. "Full cast and crew for Taken by Storm: The Art of Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis (2011)"(http://www.imdb.com/titl
e/tt1754570/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast). Retrieved 2013-05-14.
19. "IMDB, Sospira (2010)" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1788447/). Retrieved 2013-03-24.
20. "Lana Z. Caplan, Sospira (2010)" (http://lanazcaplan.com/sospira.html). Retrieved 2013-03-24.
21. "IMDB, Now, Forager (2012)" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1961447/). Retrieved 2013-03-24.
22. "The Night She Slept With A Bear by Holly Anderson" (http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/186). Retrieved
2013-06-01.
23. "JellyFant Records / CENTERLAND (OST)"(http://jellyfant.bigcartel.com/product/centerland-ost-cd)
. Retrieved
2016-04-18.
24. "Centerland" (http://www.centerland-movie.de/). Retrieved 2016-04-18.
25. Anders Marcuslund-Reuss (2013-07-17)."First Chris Brokaw pedal prototype complete"(http://www.reusseffects.co
m/blogs/news/8323792-first-chris-brokaw-pedal-prototype-complete)
. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
26. Allmusic. "Chris Brokaw - Credits"(http://www.allmusic.com/artist/chris-brokaw-mn0000774803/credits). Retrieved
2017-01-24.
27. Chris Brokaw. "Discography" (http://www.chrisbrokaw.com/discography.shtml). Retrieved 2017-01-24.
28. Discogs. "Chris Brokaw Discography - All Credits"(https://www.discogs.com/artist/53516-Chris-Brokaw?filter_anv=0
&type=Credits). Retrieved 2017-01-24.
29. Robert & Leopold (http://robertandleopold.com/out-of-print/). Out of Print releases. Retrieved 2013-02-05.
30. Dais Records (http://www.daisrecords.com/site/soon/). Dais Records - Soon. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
31. "Empty House Cooperative's "Improvisational Dinner Music at Middle East Restaurant
" " (http://www.hinah.com/catal
og/?l=en&t=g&ref=hinahgift001). Hinah Records. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
32. "Empty House Cooperative's "Improvisational Music
" " (http://www.hinah.com/catalog/?l=en&t=s&ref=hinah005).
Hinah Records. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
33. Robert & Leopold (http://robertandleopold.com/out-of-print/). Out of Print releases. Retrieved 2013-02-05.

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