Sasha Brown is a musician based in Los Angeles, CA.
[2025 Recordings In The Works]- Contributing guitar and co-writing for the debut album from Rachel Siegel (Billboard Top 10 Songwriter)
- Collaborating on several improvised music albums with drummer Neal Evans (Dopapod) and trombonist Scott Flynn (Pretty Lights, Odesza)
- Improvised music album with drummer Jason Nazary and saxophonist Matt Nelson (Tune Yards)
- Contributing guitar and songwriting to an upcoming album by Kid Again from producer/singer/songwriter Aaron Newberry
- Contributing guitar to an upcoming release by Juel Taylor
Since 2008, Brown has also collaborated extensively with composer/performer Heather Christian, both as a member of her band (Heather Christian & the Arbornauts) and as part of the band performing her scores for theater, film, and TV.
Following the release of the band’s debut studio album Cabinet in 2011, the band released House / Hymn I in 2014, a live record *7 Toy Pianos (*which featured Christian’s music arranged for toy pianos and vocals, featuring fellow Arbornauts Chris Giarmo (American Utopia) and Amber Gray (Hadestown), followed by four EPs in 2016, and House / Hymn II in 2017. In 2024, the band completed recording a double record that is slated to be released in the near future.
Brown has created orchestrations for guitar and bass for the upcoming theater adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time. The show has its world premiere at Arena Stage in DC in June 2025. Additional productions are also in the works. Brown crafted all of the sounds for the guitar role using the Neural DSP Quad Cortex, which allows every production to utilize his unique approach to sound design.
Brown was a member of the cast of *Animal Wisdom,* a theater work, folk-blues requiem in the form of a gothic catholic mass created by and starring Christian. The show had a 4 month run of sold out shows at the Bushwick Starr in 2017. Brown was credited as a co-creator of the show, for which he orchestrated and played guitars, in addition to singing and playing cello. The show received wide acclaim in the NY Times and was named among the top theater shows of the year by New York magazine and several others. In 2021, Wolly Mammoth and American Conservatory Theater produced a film adaption of the show. After debuting that year, the film is currently being shopped for wider release. **
Brown contributed guitar on Christian’s score for Lemon, an indie feature film released in 2017 and directed by Janicza Bravo that stars Brett Gelman, Judy Greer and Michael Cera. The film is now streaming on Max after a long run on Netflix.
In 2016, Brown arrived at Christian’s doorstep having just learned of the tragic shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Miami. In two days, they co-wrote and released *Long Arc,* an acoustic EP dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr (”the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”). 100% of the proceeds from the album sales were donated to the GoFundMe for the victims of the shooting and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Christian tapped Brown to contribute sound design for the pinnacle moment in Bravo’s short film Gregory Go Boom, starring Michael Cera and Bret Gelman. The film debuted at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Short.
[with Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds]Brown was a member of Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds from its inception in 2008 until his final show with them at Irving Plaza in New York on Nov 12, 2016. While he was with the Dirty Birds, the band released 3 full-length studio albums, an EP produced by Randy Jackson, and a live concert DVD/double album. He toured extensively with the band – six years on the road for 250 days a year, performing over 1,000 shows in 47 states, as well as The Venetian in Macau (China), Guatemala, and Canada. The band performed everywhere from Madison Square Garden to the Fillmore in San Francisco, as well on the Today Show and NPR’s Tiny Desk. The band was a fixture on the festival circuit, performing at Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Mountain Jam, Summer Camp, and Firefly, among many others. They shared the stage and toured with such acts as Gov’t Mule, The Revivalists, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dr. John, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Soul Rebels Brass Band, and many others. Brown wore many hats in the band, playing electric, acoustic, and slide guitar, singing background vocals, and sharing co-writing roles for the songs Don’t Be Jealous, Dirt, Borderline, Catch Me If You Can, Boogie Man, Lasso, as well as the instrumentals This Crazy Torpedo, Feather of a Queen, and several live show interludes.
[with Myth of Mitch]In 2005, Brown founded the band Myth of Mitch alongside vocalist/composer Sunny Kim, drummer Jason Nazary, pianist David Bryant, and bassist Kim Cass. Sunny Kim created 60-min experimental multi-media performance called Android Ascension involving live music, dance, and martial arts which premiered in Boston in 2005. The band recorded the soundtrack for that work in 2007, which also featured contributions by Darius Jones.
[with Andrew D’Angelo‘s DNA Orchestra]Brown performed with the Andrew D’Angelo DNA Orchestra in 2012-2013. The band’s recording was released in 2020. Brown is featured on the track Egna Ot Waog.
Andrew D’Angelo – Compositions, Arrangements, Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Voice, Director
Bill McHenry – Tenor Saxophone
Jeremy Udden – Alto Saxophone
Joshua Sinton – Baritone Saxophone
Ryan Snow – Trombone
Bryan Drye – Trombone
Josh Roseman – Trombone
John Carlson – Trumpet
Jacob Wick – Trumpet
Kirk Knuffke – Cornet
Nicole Federici – Viola
Trevor Dunn – Bass
Chris Tordini – Bass
Dan Weiss – Drums
Sasha Brown – Guitar
Eric Biondo – Beat Box
Brown has toured with Soul Brass Band, founded by drummer/vocalist, Derrick Freeman (Kermit Ruffins) since 2014, alongside a cavalcade of New Orleans musicians including Miles Lyons (New Orleans Nightcrawlers, California Honeydrops), James Martin, Aurelian Barnes, Mark Levron, Stephen Walker, Khris Royal, Michael Watson, and others.
[with Krystle Warren]Brown has performed and recorded with Krystle Warren, joining her band The Faculty on the album Love Songs. Brown can be heard playing lap steel guitar on the song I Worry Less.
[with Ryan Snow’s Pull]Brown was a member of fellow Dirty Birds and Andrew D’Angelo DNA Orchestra band member Ryan Snow’s band Pull. The band’s record Suffer Some was released in 2013. They band also live-improvised score to the animated short The Hungry Boy.
[with Deshawn D’Vibes Alexander’s Watermelon Funk]Brown played with Deshawn Alexander’s band Watermelon Funk, which held down a weekly residency in Denver for a year and half in 2018-2019.
[Schooling]
Brown is a 2005 graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he graduated with a degree in Professional Music (that’s literally what it’s called), although he was semester shy of graduating with 3 BFAs (in Performance, Composition, and Business). He was a World Scholarship Tour recipient and received the school’s top award for guitar players, the Jimi Hendrix Award, in his freshman year. While at Berklee, he studied extensively with Mick Goodrick, Jon Damian, Wayne Krantz, and David Tronzo.
Brown was born in New York City in 1982 and grew up in Lexington, MA. In 2005, he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland with the Lexington High School Jazz Nonet, where they performed a suite of music he wrote and arranged for the ensemble. In 2005, his band TesseracT (with saxophonist Nick Videen, bassist Kendall Eddy, and drummer Eric Doob performed a set of his original music for the first Early Set at the infamous 55 Bar in New York, opening for guitarist Wayne Krantz’s trio with bassist Tim Lefebvre (David Bowie), and drummer Keith Carlock (Steely Dan, John Mayer, Sting).