Samuel Claiborne has been writing and performing Experimental, Shamanic, Rock, Neo-Classical, and Electro-Acoustic Improvised music, on instruments ranging from keyboards to guitar, to viola, since the late 1970s.

A former member of several feisty NYC ‘No Wave’ bands, including the much-loved Things Fall Apart, Samuel cut his teeth gigging at places like CBGBs. But during that same period, he was also busily composing strange, extremely experimental shamanic soundscapes, using both acoustic and electrified instruments.

From 1984 to 2009, he was also one half of the Electro-Acoustic improvisational duo Loons in the Monastery, with synthesist Jennifer Lowman.

He has released several CDs, including the NYFA award-winning suite of solo acoustic piano improvisations, ‘The Annunciation’, and the political and personal rock and experimental album, Love, Lust, and Genocide, both on Sonotrope Recordings and available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, etc.