Mom and Dad paid for piano lessons and wanted me to learn an old filipino folk song that they loved, and my teacher Fred was happy to oblige. This preceded 20 odd years of them begging me to do anything with my life besides play piano, which I eventually did 🙂
Contains samples from “Sarung Bangii” sung by Nora Aunor.
 #NoraAunor #Piano #Synth #Pinoy #FilipinoFolk #TeenageEngineering #OPXY #CM15 #TP7 #TX6
I’ve owned a few drum machines in my time, but I recently sold the last of them to make room for Roland’s new TR1000 – and I haven’t even picked up the manual yet, but I couldn’t resist a little soundcheck while scrolling through some of the presets tonight. What an exciting time to bleep and bloop in the basement!
#Roland #TR1000 #BlackCorporation #ISENIN #Minimoog #Geddymoog #FactoryPattern #LittleByLittle #Synthesizer #EventideH90 #MerisLVX
Before the table was set this year I got out some things. Sampled our piano then added some live EP. Was a lovely thanksgiving this year, and I was grateful for the chance to jot down some of this meditation from the day before straight to tp7.
#teenageengineering #opxy #tp7 #yamahareface #refacecp #pianosolo #sampler #sequencer
So… surprising nobody that knows me… I love a long keyboard solo. I love listening to them when other people do them well and I love taking them. It’s tough doing them without a band; Ableton Live can open some interesting doors and make it a little less tough. Last fall while rehearsing for a live solo performance I recorded some video that I finally got around to watching – thanks for checking it out 🙂
This song was written with Sonar way back in the oughts and recorded for my 2024 EP “Post,” linked below. Recorded here in one take straight to stereo on the TP7, no overdubs, no remixing – but a touch of mastering, I am not a barbarian.
https://drbrianjuan.bandcamp.com/albu…
#Nord #Stage3 #Moog #Sirin #MF104M #Ableton #Push3 #SynthSolo #ClavSolo #OrganSolo
After the last encounter gets charted, and the all clear is given, and the inbox is empty, and staff is clocked out… usually I am long gone but today I stayed a little late for an entry level minor punch-in effects procedure.
21 Nov, 2025 @ Kaiser Permanente, Longmont CO
For my wife’s birthday this year we road tripped, day hiked, and swam to one of her favorite spots from her college days in the beautiful Arizona sunshine. Took some light instruments in my backpack and messed around with a quick sequence and a synth solo – because why wouldn’t I?
Hiking loops and sequenced loops. 3.5 miles in and 3.5 miles out from the parking lot to the Crack at Wet Beaver Creek, where my wife took me on a pilgrimage to revisit some of the magic she had been exposed to during her time at Prescott college, which sounds to me when she talks about it sometimes like four years of back to back field trips. While we were there a group of 8 young brodudes very respectfully jumped into the freezing cold water from increasingly daring heights, harkening back to the energy of the people that she had traveled there with last over 20 years ago.
When we pulled up to the parking lot there was a sign imploring us not to leave valuables in our car – so I packed our laptops and the Teenage Engineering field system into my backpack and rucked it into the wilderness. The OPXY plays a sequence that’s only about 2 bars long but I can diatonically change the key on the fly, and I worked through a bunch of possibilities before this one came out. The OP1 field has a simple synth dialed up with a teeny amount of delay. It’s all recorded into the TP7 while my wife does yoga a few feet away.
I haven’t posted any play, because I haven’t filmed it. I always want to write a song and record and mix it and cut together funky video. Lately have been contemplating lowering my standards a little:) This was a ton of fun!
Recorded Monday, 27 October 2025 @ the Crack at Wet Beaver Creek outside Sedona, AZ, the day before Rebecca celebrated another trip around that blazing hot Arizona sun.
Remember this? Circa Nov 2020, put together when Robot Revival was released. A new release is coming out on leap day and I’m having another look at what I’m putting out there; I’m ok rebranding a little but I liked this and I felt like it needed to be preserved for posterity.
Self promotion is ballsy. One must have swagger to brag, and self promo is all about swagger. Who cares about your music? Who should care? To answer these questions without swagger is to stare into the abyss and then instead of opening Microsoft Word to write your bio (or Pages, if you’re a Mac guy) you play video games instead.
Brian Juan is a Mac guy.
He has had years of people caring, and then not caring, about his music. He spent the 90s playing in vans with bands traveling from coast to coast, earning just enough money to quit his day job and hanging out with like minded hopefuls checking out live music in dark clubs night after night. He has put out albums before but never his own.
Robot Revival is Brian Juan’s first solo release. It spins into the clusterfuck of 2020 with as much fanfare as one man with no agent and no publicist can muster. Recorded at home, it consists of new songs and material originally brought to life at the dawn of the millennium by likely forgotten once-bright Boulder luminaries Chupacabra and Sonar.
When music venues reopen you might catch Dr. Juan on stage with Otis Taylor, with whom he has recorded and performed for 20 years. In the meantime he is a family doctor in primary care who is elbows deep in the Coronavirus pandemic.
Enjoy the record!
Original music performed live at home on June 5 2022.
This song’s about a fight; what about not so important as what it feels like to be in one. In lieu of the live performance that was cancelled this weekend here it is right on time for my 48th birthday :). It’s all done in one take with no added effects or overdubs, on one keyboard (I’m trying to simplify). I’m pressing lots of buttons with my feet – starting and stopping loops, adding harmony effects, messing with the synth’s filter – which in retrospect might have been cool to show everyone but also, the internet doesn’t need more feet.guaranteed profits
Original music is available for purchase at Bandcamp: https://drbrianjuan.bandcamp.com/rele…
For the nerds: Nord Stage 3 Compact 73 Boss RC-600 Loop Station TC-Helicon Perform-VK Mackie Mix12 FX
I don’t know that anyone’s watching, and I certainly have not given anyone a reason to, since the last post on this vanity “blog” was last December, I dunno, anyone? Bueller?
It’s been the pandemic, the pandi, the ‘demi, and I moved and started working at a new clinic and said goodbye to my kiddo who moved to LA to be a movie star and a college student (probably not in that order).
I’ve been itching to play some live music. I got to do some shows with Otis as the world flirted with opening this year, but I haven’t put my songs in front of a crowd since polishing off my debut solo record from the socially distanced depths of my keyboard cave.
I’ve been wondering how to make this happen – no agent, no publicist, no street cred – and then a couple of days ago found a great venue for showing this stuff off!
I’ll be live all by my lonesome at Copper Sky Distillery at 1115 Colorado Ave in my new hometown of Longmont, Colorado on Friday Nov 12 at 6pm, right when you get off work. Come down and check out what I’ve been up to, I’m very excited to share it with everyone 🙂
