ThursdaySounds like Brandon Miller
Brandon Miller is an ‚indie folk‘ artist originally from Philadelphia, USA and has been based in Berlin performing as a musician since 2009, at first indie-alt-rocking the old world as Sarsaparilla and now performing solo under his own name. His singing and song-writing are in the warm-hearted melancholic vein of Elliot Smith, Modest Mouse, Jeff Buckley, JIm O’Rourke, Thom York etc.
He makes noise across various genres including singer-songwriter, folk, experimental, indie-rock, ambient, drone and film music. He has collaborated with many artists across various sectors in the Berlin music, theater, film and performing arts scene. His latest banjo-synth-folk-poetry-ballad album ‚Stable as a Horse‘ is out on Bandcamp along with all his other distinct albums.
Back on February 24th 2022 he released a full length album Lagerfeuer der Apokalypse (Campfire of the Apocalypse) at the Theater im Kino in Berlin with the support of the GVL Stipendium and Neustart Kultur. He recorded most of the album by himself in his bedroom in Berlin during the pandemic and also in a former late 1800’s slaughterhouse turned into a dance studio with a very tall ceiling and long natural reverb in Rixdorf, Berlin, then sent to Kawari Sound in Philadelphia (The Districts, War on Drugs) and mixed and mastered by producers/musicians Zach Goldstein and Karl Rieders.
The song ‚Utopia for Sophia‘ on the album features Los Angeles based drummer Kyle Crane of (Daniel Lanois, Bill Frisell, Conor Oberst, Neko Case, Kurt Vile, M. Ward ) Brandon and Kyle spontaneously got together one afternoon in November 2019 before going to the Black Pumas show and they recorded Brandon’s song ‚Utopia for Sophia‘ in one live take and with just two microphones in the ex-slaughterhouse/dance studio. The character Sophia in the song is referring to the artificial intelligence robot Sophia created by Hanson Robotics that sang the Bjork song ‚All is Full of Love‘ at the Clockenflap festival in Hong Kong in 2016. The song ‚Utopia for Sophia‘ was originally composed for the theater project Gog Magog which Brandon composed the music for and performed with the Internil performing arts group between 2016 and 2019.
Miller has toured, performed, shared the stage and worked with so many artists it is hard to count, including William Elliot Whitmore, August Diehl, Jessica Einaudi, Nina Nastasia, Federico Albenese, Aaron Embry, Kyle Crane, Kitty Solaris, Rayland Baxter, Ezra Furman, Stanley Brinks, Freschard, Drunk at your Wedding, Ailsa and the Seahorses, The Ocelots, Pink Mountaintops, Diane Cluck, Martha Rose, The Burning Hell, Stray Dog, and on and on..and is no stranger to playing festivals including Fusion, Down by the River, Reeperbahn, and the lovely Berlin folk fest Villapalooza.
https://brandonmiller.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jogi_the_cat/
https://www.facebook.com/Jogi.the.Cat
https://www.youtube.com/@brandonmillermusic/videos
https://linktr.ee/brandon.john.miller
THURSDAY SOUNDS: – Singer/Songwriter Konzerte im Tik, ab 21.00 Uhr
Jeden Donnerstag ein Konzert mit einem Singer/Songwriter oder einer kleinen Band.
Wer aufmerksam durch Berlin stolpert, hat es mitbekommen, die Stadt ist ein Magnet für junge, verrückte, talentierte und interessante Musiker. Mit etwas Glück sieht man auf der Warschauer Brücke oder in einem Kneipenhinterzimmer an einem Abend mehr Talent als das ganze Jahr im Fernsehen.
Wir wollen diesen Musikern eine Bühne geben.
Every Thursday we have a concert with a Singer/Songwriter or a small band.
It’s Berlin nowadays: The City has become a magnet to musicians from all over the world or from just around the corner. Creatvity and talent is on the street playing for small change, on the stages of open mics or maybe in the bar in your street.
The Tik has a stage for these musicians, every thursday.