About

Bryan Blaisdell is anything but your average songwriter. By age ten, he had spent most of his childhood life within forty miles from the Canadian Rockies, two blocks from London’s worldfamous Harrods department store, and fifteen miles from Aberdeen, Scotland, where he lived in the west wing of a magic castle called Cluny along with an upright piano and a tapedeck.

Years later, Bryan found himself learning to play the trumpet in school and, on the side, he began to explore the world of midi, using an old sheetmusic program that is now only sold in Germany. Trial and error was his method of choice. Gradually, images and stories surfaced, told over various notes and meters: a castle march, a woodwind quartet, an elaborate bank heist, a medieval battleground, a cigarette-smoking mafia boss, a mutiny of sailors. Over several years, many attempts at writing music died prematurely, while others evolved to become entire symphonies and big-band pieces. After trying out one genre, Bryan pushed along to the next, testing his limits and exploring different styles.

His interest as a composer stuck with him throughout college but took an unexpected turn after writing a score for an animated student-film. Looking for more control over the creative process, Bryan took to the performing arts and picked up the guitar. He began singing and writing songs and eventually merged his poetic license with his experience in writing music. The result is an ecletic mix of instrumental and lyrical compositions, all written, recorded, and produced by Bryan himself. His latest project, an acoustic EP entitled All Those Ways, will be his first collection of songs to be released as an album.

Bryan is 24 and currently resides in San Antonio, Texas. He is a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering and a B.A. in Plan II Honors. Among other things, he also enjoys graphic design, flashless photography, traveling by train, skipping rocks, pasta al dente, good bridge hands, and referring to himself in the third person.

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