Daniel Brummel

Daniel Gorciak Brummel (born September 15, 1981, in Pasadena, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed and recorded with various musical groups including Ozma, Sanglorians, Scott & Rivers, Weezer, Nada Surf, Spain, Gowns, Monstro, and The Elected. He also helped compose the music for the Lifetime network television series American Princess.
==Biography==
Brummel graduated from the Los Angeles County High School For The Arts in 1999, received his Bachelor of Arts degree in music composition from UCLA in 2006 (where he studied orchestration with Paul Chihara, voice with Don Neuen, and guitar with jazz legend Kenny Burrell and his Master of Music degree in commercial music from CSULA in 2016. As a singer, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, and drummer, Brummel has performed consistently on international tours with his various projects since 2001, when The Michigan Daily dubbed him a "pop-culturally aware songsmith" at age 19. He has also led interfaith community music events, sang protest songs, and performed experimental folk music at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Norton Simon Museum, the Los Angeles Central Library, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. In March 2011, Brummel was artist-in-residence at Machine Project Gallery in Los Angeles, where he hosted Skylike Notdoings, a series of events exploring the connection between music, meditation, Eastern spirituality, and dreamwork.
Brummel recorded and performed with The Elected during hiatus. Andrea "Dre" Babinski and he overlapped as touring musicians with the band for a period.
More recently, Brummel co-wrote the song “Eulogy For A Rock Band” with Rivers Cuomo and Ryen Slegr for Weezer’s 2014 album Everything Will Be Alright in the End. He then served as music director and touring member (guitar, keyboards, percussion) for Weezer’s fall 2014 album release tour, coordinating and conducting a new 18 person fan choir in each city. In 2016, he joined Nada Surf as touring bassist for the North American dates of the “You Know Who You Are” album release tour, substituting for original bassist Daniel Lorca and garnering praise for being “as talented of a musician as the band could have asked for to fill in.” In academia, he served as the Dean of the California College of Music from 2015-2019, achieving the institution's initial accreditation through the National Association of Schools of Music, and he currently serves as the Chief Academic Officer for Point Blank Music School in Silver Lake.
==Equipment==
*Dan's original P-Bass was nicknamed "The Delorean."Daniel Brummel fan correspondence 2021 https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Dan_proves_Im_not_insane.png OzmaFans Forums 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20211023233923/https://www.ozmafans.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=c4mj3rs9vqki5a4nmjjmtbjdqp&topic=3367.msg152533
*Dan occasionally wore a blue jumpsuit to Ozma shows during the band's early days. He can be seen wearing one in the unedited photo of Rock and Roll Part Three's album art.Unedited Rock and Roll Part Three artwork https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/File:Uneditedrrp3.jpg
==Collaborations with Weezer/Rivers Cuomo==
*Is the 1645th member of the Weezer fan club.
*Appears on the 1996 single release of The Good Life's cover art.
*Under the alias "Chee Chee Boyz", contributed a cover of the Weezer song "You Gave Your Love to Me Softly" for the 1996 compilation album Weezer Fanclub Cover Compilation Vol. 1.
*As Daniel Brummel and the Contraband, contributed a cover of the Weezer song "Devotion" for the 2001 compilation album Making Noise: A Tribute to Weezer.
*Credited performer/producer on the eponymous album by Scott & Rivers:
**"おかしいやつ" - performer, producer
**"朝は近い" - performer, producer
**"遠く離れても" - performer, producer
**"I Need Somebody" - performer, producer
**"Butterfly" - performer, producer
*Filled in on drums for Weezer drummer Pat Wilson at a Weezer concert in 2013.
*Credited co-writer on the song "Eulogy for a Rock Band" from Weezer's 2014 album Everything Will Be Alright in the End alongside Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and Ozma member Ryen Slegr. Brummel also performed keyboards and piano on the song.
*Songs from the sessions in which Brummel and Slegr demoed with Cuomo were released in December of 2020 as Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers
*Helped fill in drums for Weezer during a live acoustic show in which Patrick Wilson could not make it due to a family emergency. During this show fellow Ozma member Ryen Slegr helped play guitar on Eulogy for a Rock Band.Weezer Eulogy for a Rock Band https://youtu.be/CNmMvyQp7H0 WEEZER PERFORM "EULOGY FOR A ROCK BAND" LIVE AT FINGERPRINTS RECORDS - 10/8/2014 https://youtu.be/LwHHXBqZL-s
*Appeared alongside the Weezer members and Lizzy Plapinger to provide additional instrumentation in a live acoustic rendition of Go Away.Weezer "Go Away" // SiriusXM // Alt Nation https://youtu.be/kTSAIcpHFog
*Appeared alongside Weezer during a set played at the end of a fan karaoke contest.[Kia] Weezer, "Da Vinci" (Kia - The Shhhow) https://youtu.be/nidRmfbmf58?si=XBYftkq_AUgu6h_g
*Accompanied Weezer on guitars and keyboards during the Everything Will Be Alright in the End Tour in 2014. Brummel dressed as the EWBAITE character Joe Laffoley, while Rivers Cuomo dressed as Sebastian.
*Played piano during "The Waste Land" at KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas in 2014
*Performed clarinet, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, and piano on the Weezer song "Sweet Mary" off the 2017 album Pacific Daydream.
*In 2019, Brummel wrote a piece in the anthology book, "GO ALL THE WAY: A Literary Appreciation of Power Pop", discussing how Weezer's Blue Album is power pop.
==Discography==
===Ozma===
*Rock and Roll Part Three (2000) - songwriter, bass, vocals
*The Doubble Donkey Disc (2001) - songwriter, balalaika, bass, vocals
*Spending Time on the Borderline (2003) - songwriter, guitar, bass, saxophone, synth, vocals
*Pasadena (2007) - songwriter, bass, vocals 
*Boomtown (2014) - songwriter, bass, engineer, vocals
===Weezer===
*"Eulogy for a Rock Band" (2014) - co-writer, keyboards, piano
*Weezma: Daniel, Ryen & Rivers (2020)
=== Sanglorians ===
*Initiation (2013)
*Odalisque (2020)
*"Haul Away Joe" (2024)
*Family of Origin (2024)
===Daniel Brummel and the Contraband===
*A Network To Take Care (1999)
*Sound Mind (1999)
*Making Noise: A Tribute to Weezer (2001) "Devotion"
===Commuter Music===
*Commuter Music I: Kick The Tires, Light The Fires (2000)
===Monstro===
*Ocean Floor Demos (2003)
===Gone with the Ghosts===
===Jose Galvez===
*Jglp2 (2016) - bass
===Only Me===
*1984 (2018) - writing/performance
=== As a Solo Artist ===
*Weezer Fanclub Cover Compilation Vol. 1 (1996) "You Gave Your Love to Me Softly" - Released under the alias "Chee Chee Boyz"
*Speak Easy (Coptic, 2005)
*Devour by End Transmission (2009)
*Switched-On Scarlatti (2019, 2023)
*"Living On The Fringes" (2024)
===Nada Surf===
*Live on KEXP (Acoustic) (2016)
===Spain===
*The Soul of Spain (Glitterhouse Records, 2012)
*The Morning Becomes Eclectic Session (Glitterhouse Records, 2013)
*Sargent Place (Glitterhouse Records, 2014)
===The Elected===
*Me First (2004)
*Sun, Sun, Sun (Sub Pop Records, 2006)
===Brandon Wiard===
*Painting a Burning Building (2004) - backing vocals and piano (3, 4, and 15) Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/9997204-Brandon-Wiard-Painting-A-Burning-Building/image/SW1hZ2U6Nzg0NDg4OTI=
===Gowns===
*Broken Bones (Southern Records, 2008)
===Bad Dudes===
*Eat Drugs (2008) - Writing and Guitars (7, 8, and 9)
===Jorge Huaman===
*In Need Of In-Between (2010)
===Irma===
*Letter To The Lord (My Major Company, 2011)
===We Are Me===
*Living In Transit (Atmosphériques, 2014)
===Sofa City Sweetheart===
*Super(b) Exitos (2019)
===Manisha===
*All My Sunsets EP (2020)
===Imogen Clark===
*"Found Me" (2020) - remo soundshapes, tambourine
===Jonathan Mann===
*Jewish Family Christmas Tree! (2020)
===David Prince===
*No Hard Feelings (2021)
===The Easy Button===
*Lost On Purpose (2021)
===Hit the Shark!===
*The Surprise Button! (2023)
===Bungalow Heaven===
*"Nuestro Barrio" (2023)
*"Chavez Ravine" (2023)
== Film/TV Soundtracks ==
*That Darn Punk (2001)
*Zoey 101 (2008)
*iCarly (2008)
*Türkisch für Anfänger|Turkish for Beginners (2008)
*Still Waiting... (2009)
*Kick-Ass 2 (2013)
*Geek USA (2013)Geek USA Trailer https://youtu.be/4RuLQxHQZDs
*(Romance) in the Digital Age (2017)
*American Princess (2019 TV series) (composer, 10 episodes)
==See also==
*Ozma
==References==
Category:Ozma
Category:Ozma members
Category:Weezer song co-writers
Category:Musicians
Category:People who have sat in with Weezer
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Category:Guitarists