Dan Brenner Explained

Dan Brenner
Birth Name:Daniel Abraham Brenner
Birth Date:19 December 1963
Birth Place:New York City
Genre:rock, Americana
Instrument:Guitar, Bass, Piano, Drums

Dan Brenner (born Daniel Abraham Brenner, December 19, 1963) is an American composer, musician, and psychiatrist. Brenner was a member of the band Magnet,[1] with Moe Tucker (former drummer in the Velvet Underground)[2] in the late 1990s, and of the rap/performance-art band Razor Magnet with his brother, filmmaker Evan Brenner from 1985-1988. He was a member of the Boston bands Green Fuse and Gunga Din in the early 1990s, and prior to that, while a student at Harvard College, The Love Monsters.[3] Brenner has written the scores for three feature films, including Rhythm Thief[4] [5] (Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, 1995),[6] Spare Me[7] (Priz Tournage winner Avignon Film Festival, 1993),[8] and The Riddle[9] (a.k.a. Sasha’s Riddle, winner Long Island Film Festival, 2010,[10] official selection Toronto Film Festival 1997). Brenner also co-wrote the script for The Riddle,[11] for which he was awarded the 2010 Mario Puzo Screenplay Award.[12] Some of Brenner's film composition is credited as "Danny Brenner." He was as Producer on the Foggy Notion CD Mission. In 2011, Brenner released a solo CD, Little Dark Angel,[13] produced by 12-time Grammy Winner Jay Newland.[14] Little Dark Angel featured Larry Campbell (guitar, pedal steel, banjo, fiddle, mandolin), Will Lee (bass),[15] Shawn Pelton (drums), Brian Mitchell (keyboard, harmonica, and accordion), and former Morphine member Dana Colley (saxophone, bass clarinet). In 2016, Brenner released Tough, also produced by Jay Newland.[14] Tough featured Dan Reiser (drums and percussion), Entcho Todorow (violin), Zev Katz (electric and acoustic bass), Adam Levy (acoustic, electric, baritone guitar), Dana Colley (clarinet), Glenn Patscha (piano, organ, accordion, harmonium, pump organ, backing vocals) Steve Williams: (additional percussion), Sherrod Barnes (guitar) Jay Newland (baritone guitar) and Dave Eggar (cello).

Personal life

Dan Brenner was born in New York City, attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, and graduated from Harvard College. Brenner later attended medical school, and was a resident in Psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital from 1995-2000. He was a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School from 1995-2010, and received psychoanalytic training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.[16] He is Medical Director of Cambridge Biotherapies, in Cambridge, MA. He is married to Heather Thompson-Brenner.[17]

Discography

Solo

Compilation

Magnet

Foggy Notion

Razor Magnet

Green Fuse

I Have a copy of this record and it is a double EP (7")The actual songs are "Dairy Queen", "Sleeping Sara", "Death Dirge", and "Summertime"AND the date on it is 1988

The Love Monsters

Filmography

Composer

Screenwriter

Acting

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Philadelphia CityPaper. 2012-06-26. 2019-12-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20191215221753/http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/050897/article077.shtml. dead.
  2. Web site: moebands. spearedpeanut.co. 2012-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20120723112143/http://www.spearedpeanut.com/tajmoehal/bands/moebands.html. 2012-07-23. dead.
  3. Web site: 'Love Monsters' Take First In Council's 'Battle' of Bands. GILBERT. FUCHSBERG. The Harvard Crimson. February 7, 1983.
  4. Book: Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film. 215.
  5. Book: Willis, John. Screen World 1996. 133.
  6. Web site: Sundance Prizes 1995.
  7. Book: Gale, Group. VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever. 2006. 718, 741, 803.
  8. Web site: Avignon Winners. https://archive.today/20130213064531/http://amazon.imdb.es/event/ev0000069/1993. dead. 2013-02-13.
  9. News: New York Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20081024120737/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/188763/Danny-Brenner . dead . Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2008. 2008-10-24 .
  10. Web site: Long Island Film Festival Winners.
  11. Web site: Shemaroo World Cinema.
  12. Web site: Mario Puzo Screenplay Award.
  13. Web site: Joe D'Ambrosio. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131021210825/http://www.jdmanagement.com/jaynewland/newlanddiscography.pdf. 2013-10-21.
  14. Web site: Grammy Winners.
  15. Web site: Will Lee Discography. 2012-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20120618122533/http://www.willlee.com/discography.php. 2012-06-18. dead.
  16. Web site: The Psych Drama Co.. 2012-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20130715191037/http://www.thepsychdramacompany.com/papers--presentations.html. 2013-07-15. dead.
  17. Web site: Thompson-Brenner. Heather. Personality Subtypes.
  18. Web site: An American's Movie, in Russian No Less. Barbara. Delatiner. The New York Times. July 20, 1997. September 19, 2020.
  19. News: New York Times Review. The New York Times . Stephen. Holden. November 15, 1995.
  20. Web site: Yahoo Filmography (partial).
  21. Web site: Woodlandpattern.org. 2012-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20101130012700/http://woodlandpattern.org/gallery/efv_mar06.shtml. 2010-11-30. dead.

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