Brian Castillo

Who is Brian Castillo?

Brian Castillo is an American musician/producer, and photographer born in Tacoma, Washington. Best known for his work with The Living Jarboe and In Gowan Ring, sometimes in a musician role and sometimes as a producer/engineer. In the 1990s he sometimes recorded under the name pFrenz-C, but he no longer uses the pseudonym.

After moving to Seattle in the early 1990s he was involved in a variety of different groups with no particular style in common: Prayers for the Raven, Hooo, Rosa Luna, Salon Betty, Absinthee, Faith and Disease, Euclid, Purr Bats, Shadow Light and several psychedelic performance art groups.

The risqué performances of Salon Betty were often referred to as “The Big Hair Sex Circus” and offered a sharp contrast to Seattle’s “grunge” scene at the time. While working with iMusic they created the internet’s first “interactive paper-doll” and started an early internet reality show in 1996 called “The Surreal World” winning awards for their work.