Brian Castillo

Brian Castillo
Also known as pFrenz-C
Born (1968-11-22) November 22, 1968
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Genres Psych folk, experimental, film score
Years active 1991–present
Labels Tragick, Bluesanct

Brian Castillo (born November 22, 1968) is an American musician/producer, and photographer born in Tacoma, Washington. Best known for his work with The Living Jarboe and In Gowan Ring, sometimes in a musician role and sometimes as a producer/engineer. In the 1990s he sometimes recorded under the name pFrenz-C, but he no longer uses the pseudonym.

After moving to Seattle in the early 1990s he was involved in a variety of different groups with no particular style in common: Prayers for the Raven (Seattle’s seminal goth band), Hooo (texture noise), Rosa Luna (i.e. Mazzy Star, Low), Salon Betty (punk-polka-death lounge spearheaded by Betty X), Absinthee (with Gordon Raphael of The Strokes fame & Sky Cries Mary), Faith and Disease (ethereal pop), Euclid (Americana), Purr Bats (disco fluff), Shadow Light (synthy-goth) and several psychedelic performance art groups.

The risqué performances of Salon Betty were often referred to as “The Big Hair Sex Circus” and offered a sharp contrast to Seattle’s “grunge” scene at the time. While working with iMusic they created the internet’s first “interactive paper-doll” and started an early internet reality show in 1996 called “The Surreal World” winning awards for their work.

In the late 1990s Brian began recording and co-producing with Jarboe. Their first collaborative project together was for the compilation on Vhuz music called “Vomit Veritas” and later on Jarboe’s first post-SWANS recording “Anhedoniac”. He has also recorded and appeared on many of Jarboe's compilation contributions and a few of her other albums.

As of 2009, Brian started producing video motion graphics, animation and stop motion work.

Some of Brian’s soundtrack work can be heard on the films “Debbie Does Damnation” by Eric Brummer, “Children of Chernobyl” on PBS, “Scratch Merchants” by Patrick Phillips, and “In Your Blood” by Jeffro Brunk.

Brian continues to compose, record and animate in Olympia, Washington. The first Waterwitch album was released in July 2009 with Elizabeth Hummel. Both Elizabeth and Brian made a small appearance on the new album "Sweet Meat Love and Holy Cult" by Jarboe, her new psycho-hippy project.

Discography

Albums and EPs

Year Title Format, Special Notes
1992 pFrenz-C – Partially Here cassette featuring Donald Glaude
1994 pFrenz-C – Euphoria Toilet cassette
1995 Shadow Light – Within the Shadow Light CD
1996 Salon Betty and the Big Hair Sex Circus cassette featuring Betty X, iMusic
1997 Hooo – Veil Static CD Bluesanct Records
1998 Jarboe – Anhedoniac CD
1999 pFrenz-C – Dopamine Quest CD featuring Jarboe
2001 Jarboe – Disburden Desciple CD
2003 Euclid – Carthage CD
2007 w/Elizabeth Hummel – The Turning Point CD Brew Records
2009 Waterwitch – Waterwitch CD/download Brew Records
2013 w/Jarboe - THE SWEET MEAT LOVE AND HOLY CULT -

MYSTAGOGUE

CD
2014 w/Elizabeth Hummel – It's About Time CD Brew Records

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