Live in Japan 2010 photo: Makoto Ozaki

Brent Arnold is a cellist and composer. Much of his work centers around his unorthodox approach to the cello, incorporating amplification, guitar-like fingerpicking, electronics, and techniques derived from Arabic, Eastern, and African music. 

Brent has worked with DJ/Rupture, Eyvind Kang, Modest Mouse, Death in Vegas, Wayne Horvitz, Sleater-Kinney, Lia Ices, Filastine, among many others.

He composed the cello music for the first two seasons of Louis C.K.’s tv show Louie, and several films and shorts, most recently Jamie Hook’s Vacationland.

Brent studied the cello with Walter Gray of the Kronos Quartet and legendary jazz violinist Michael White. He resides in Brooklyn, NY.

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“Cinematic and lushly coherent.”  TIME OUT NEW YORK
“…most definitely a musician’s musician…” PITCHFORK
“…tremendous.” LOUIS C.K.
“…intricately arranged, emotionally charged…” ALLMUSIC
“Cinematic in scope, methodically surprising, and densely layered in sound…” POPMATTERS
“…a perfect mix of compositional genius and lo-fi charm.” ALTERNATIVE PRESS
“…more dynamic range in a single song than many bands achieve on entire albums…” THE STRANGER
“…the balance between the dramatic and fragile is perfect…” SENTIMENTALIST

Brent Arnold, An Albatross and a Half. Audiofriction CD 2010

Brent Arnold, Cinema Deep Crush. Audiofriction CD 2007

Brent Arnold, Sweetness / Perversion Up Records 7″Single 1999

Yeasayer, Ambling Alp (remix)  Secretly Canadian 2010

Modest Mouse, This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About  Up 1997

Nettle, El Resplandor (the Shining in Dubai)  Sub Rosa 2011

Sleater-Kinney, One Beat  Kill RockStars 2002

Death in Vegas, Trans-Love Energies  Portobello 2011

Kalup Linzy & James Franco, Rising b/w Turn It Up  Dutty Artz 2011

Lia Ices, Grown Unknown  Jagjaguwar 2011

DJ /rupture, Uproot  Uproot/Agriculture 2008

DJ /rupture, Solar Life Raft  Uproot 2009

Eyvind Kang, Theater of Mineral NADEs, Tzadik Records CD 1998

Eyvind Kang, 7 NADEs, Tzadik Records CD 1997TZ7013

Filastine, Dirty Bomb  Post World Industries 2009

Hotel Lights, Girl Graffiti  Bar None Records 2011

Brent Arnold and the Spheres, Last Boat Up Records CD 2004(UP101)

Brent Arnold, Thickness RGI CD 1999

Brent Arnold, Music from BlueCoatedStory (unreleased) CD 2000

Shoup/Makihara/Arnold, Confluxus, Leo Records CD 2004

Project W, Obliquity, Shrat Field Recordings LP 1999

The Go-Betweens, Friends of RachelWorth, Jetset CD 2000

Various Artists, Sing a Song for You (a tribute to Tim Buckley), Manifesto Records CD 2000

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