Biography

Since he was a landlocked Dallas, Texas kid, beach culture has held a tropical mystique for pianist/composer Frank LoCrasto. Family trips documented by camcorder videos, featuring slinky jazz-fusion soundtracks are etched in the Brooklyn-based artist’s memory. In his mind, there will always be a fantasyland replete with wicker furniture, pristine beaches, and the smell of vanilla-scented suntan lotion. These days, LoCrasto uses his imagination, evocative musicality, prodigious chops, and eclectic sonic palette to create dreamy musical locales. His transporting compositions are genre-defying, but loosely informed by the feel of jazz, ambient music, Latin, vibey 1960s and 1970s B-movie film scores, and exotica. Upcoming, LoCrasto will release his soundtrack to the 2012 comedy-drama, 'Sandbar', and, later in 2021, he will issue his fifth solo album. To date, the Texas-born, Brooklyn-based artist has released four solo albums, composed and recorded music for three feature length films and has had songs placed in the 2014 movie, Obvious Child, and the 2020 HBO series, How to With Jon Wilson. In addition, LoCrasto has recorded and toured with Cass McCombs, Pat Martino, Jeremy Pelt, James Iha, Parquet Courts, Fruit Bats, Nicholas Payton, Greg Osby, Okkervil River, and Wallace Roney. He has also appeared as a sideman on over 70 albums. Prior to the pandemic, LoCrasto was actively touring with his band, Cass McCombs, the Fruit Bats, and Grateful Shred.