Nacosta is a psychedelic folk rock band from Los Angeles, CA whose music bridges a gap between Nick Drake’s fingerpicked introspection and Sonic Youth’s in your face noise collages. Nacosta was created by brothers, Shane and Brandon Graham in 2011 and its lineup was expanded with the addition of Brent Rowley and Kévin Baudouin in fall 2011 and Rafi Pena in 2012.
Shane, who received his Bachelor’s of Music degree from CA State University, Northridge in May 2011, plays drums and percussion in Nacosta, drawing his drumming influences from jazz and experimental music genres. Brandon, Nacosta’s lyricist, singer and guitarist, studied music composition at the same university and draws his influences from folk, ambient and psychedelic music. Nacosta’s harmony laden, textured psychedelic rock sound is a nod to the vocal harmony driven music of the 60’s and the shoegaze, effects-heavy music of the 90’s-00’s.
In September 2011, after months of recording, Nacosta self-released their debut EP, “Wilderness City,” on their own record label, Ancient Conductor Records. In March 2012, Nacosta will release their second EP and go on a southwest tour to Austin for SXSW.