Brian Buta

Brian began playing guitar at the age of 13. He began writing music immediately after learning a few chords, making barely audible recordings using a cassette deck with a built-in microphone. In high school and college, he played in numerous punk and rock bands, and expanded his recording know-how to use multi-track tape machines. In 2005, Brian started the Baltimore indie rock band FFHH with several friends, and simultaneously began exploring digital recording. Over the past year, he has honed his skill as a guitarist, a performer, a songwriter, and an amateur recording engineer. Brian’s release of his first full-length solo album, False Colors, is the culmination of years of writing, performing and recording.

Brian’s musical interests and ideas have followed many paths over the past decade. Though he started out playing simple acoustic songs, his musical output has spanned many styles, from punk to rock to electronic pop, to many points in between and beyond. Brian aims to make songs that are both engaging as well as unexpected; to pull the listener in with something strange yet familiar. As Music Monthly wrote about his 2003 EP, Ineffigy, “His music may loosely fall into the category of modern rock, but there is a dark industrial underbelly to Buta's songs that makes them different.”