bio
Lorn Potter is an electronic musician and singer/songwriter. Since 2003 he's been based on the Gold Coast, Australia, making psybient, psyjazz, and ambient electronica, under the moniker Brog (BRain fOG), the current chapter in a long, wandering musical life. His music is led by the heart and happenstance.
He grew up around Boulder, Colorado, and his sound has always drawn on folk rock, jazz, and new age electronic space music, carrying lyrics that are environmentally aware and driven by the passions of his heart.
The Colorado years were prolific. He sang on String Cheese Incident's cover of Johnny Cash and played bass in Telluride's Tribal Folk — a band Boyd Tinsley of the Dave Matthews Band once called "feel good inside, life-celebrating" music worth checking out. Tribal Folk also included Jamie Janover, who has played with zestfinger and toured Colorado with the Dude of Life (writer of Phish songs like "Fluffhead"). Lorn ran live sound at the 1999 Worldbeat Music and Dance Fest in Longmont for artists including Yaocan Chen, Colcannon, The New Land Balkan Band, Serfe', and the Planina Balkan Choir, and played the second stage at the 1996 Colorado Freedom Festival in downtown Boulder.
Earlier, in Marquette, Michigan, he recorded and did live sound for local bands Kicking Mr. Rogers — whose drummer, Scott Kusmirek, later drummed for the Gin Blossoms — and Acoustic Forum. He played coffee houses and bars in the group iO, engineering their 1995 self-released tape Maelstrom Osmosis, and produced several music videos.
Going further back: around 1986–1989 he started Intergalactic Spacefish with guitar virtuoso Dirck Nagy and drummer extraordinaire Thumper, playing parties and recording as they went. In 1984 he helped form the Boulder punk band Dead Silence, opening for 7 Seconds and T.S.O.L. before disappearing into the woods of Colorado, Alaska, and upper Michigan to find inspiration as a pizza cook and ski bum. That same year he'd started out in Alibi, a band of high school buddies that included Minneapolis' Rich Mattson (the Tisdales, the Bitter Spills) and Jamie McGregor, now the drummer for My Blue Sky. He's even done a stint as radio DJ on KDCD 90.7 Longmont. In 1981 he studied bass under Dave Hicks of the jazz/fusion band New Moon.
And before any of that, he banged on the furniture with two sticks, experimented with various electronic thingies, occasionally hacked the tip off his thumb with a hatchet while cutting wires, and once set the bed sheets on fire by sticking wires in the sockets — but don't tell his mom.