After a long and varied career on the skins, Bruce Braybrooke has downed drum-tools, picked up a guitar and gone solo. He released his debut album in 2017, ‘Radiance Of Shedding Skin’, playing all instruments and recording the whole thing himself.
“Making my own music is to me like painting a work of art. A painter doesn’t bring in a team of tradies to help them. Creation is very personal; it takes time to explore the nooks and crannies and limits of what you want and can do. It’s a different process to making music as a band, it’s probably more personally satisfying in terms of creating a purer singular vision.”
The title ‘Radiance Of Shedding Skin’ refers to the changes Bruce has gone through in recent years, switching instruments and work focuses, and not least starting a family.
“All of life is and should be a constant back-and-forth between being and doing what you know; interspersed with periods of reassessment, reflection and learning, hopefully – so you can remain true to where you’re at in the here and now.”
Braybrooke’s music falls loosely under the Alt-Blues-Folk-Groove-Rock category. The songs are lyrical explorations of the bottomless depths of our inner lives. Songs of questioning; of life and love and anger and yearning and frustration and determination and dreaming.
Bruce has wielded sticks for The Beautiful Girls, Frenzal Rhomb, Angus Stone, Custard, Lachy Doley Group, The Fantastic Leslie, Felix Riebl, Katy Wren, Chico Seeds, Studley Lush & His Teenyboppers From Hell, and a Hungarian Oompah Band.
His debut album ‘Radiance Of Shedding Skin’ was recorded, mixed and mastered by Bruce at his laketreemountain studio in the Blue Mountains, and is out now.
