Brant Bjork & The Bros

Brant Bjork (Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Mondo Generator) hails from Palm Desert, California where he began playing live gigs at thirteen. By high school Brant begun Kyuss with local bros Josh Homme, Nick Oliveri, and John Garcia. In 1991 Kyuss was signed to Elektra and became the first desert rock band to achieve international success by spearheading a musical movement that brought heavy and psychedelic sounds back into rock and served as a prototype for all "desert/stoner rock". In 1993 Brant left Kyuss and moves to Humboldt County to flip pizzas and play soccer. Too much rain moved him back to his natural habitat where he started an independent record label, El Camino Records (now DUNA records); played drums in hardcore punk band De-Con; and played guitar with desert legend Mario Lalli in Fatso Jetson; only to come full circle and hook up with old friend, Josh Homme, to begin the critically acclaimed DESERT SESIONS sage. It was at this time that Bjork and Homme began working "a new thing" which became Queens Of The Stone Age. However, Brant decided to take the road less traveled and took an offer to rock with his old surf buddies Fu Manchu, a rock adventure that took him into the studio for five records and around the world in four years. Feeling the need to embark on his own personal musical journey, in 199 Brant released his first solo record, JALAMANTA. This landscape record certainly has underlying rock elements, but is more an embodiment of fluidity in motion between bebop jazz, break beats and Rasta grooves. Bjork plays all the instruments on the record and sings with such unbridles soul and conviction it not only confirms Bjork as one of the baddest rock drummers of our time, but also legitimizes him as a premier talent on all levels. Bjork's follow-up record, CH'E was recorded and mixed in three days with Alfredo Hernandez on drums and Dave Dinsmore on bass. CH'E is the heaviest of Bjork's solo rock albums to date, and truly captures Brant's classic rock & roll roots. In 2000 Brant released his third solo record, BRANT BJORK AND THE OPERATORS on DUNA records. The Operators' record once again demonstrated Brant's capabilities indicative of his formative years being spent in the 80's underground and creates a low-brow, hi-fi approach to traditional new wave. One of the BROS is Mike Johnson, ex-DINOSAUR JR and also playing in MARK LANEGAN's band. If Cheech & Chong and The Cars had a love child, it would be Brant Bjork. With the momentum of three highly diversified albums under his belt it is clear the artisit has covered so much ground, he has come full circle with his fourth solo record to be released in the Summer of 2003. Brant combines the strait forward rock and roll approach of CH'E, the stoner pop feel of the Operator's first record, and the loopy grooves of Jalamanta that once again has Brant Bjork leading the most innovative fast-forward throw back rock & roll since the Ramones.