Artist Info: Arron Dean

Meet the musically and geographically nomadic Arron Dean. The South Africa-via-Brooklyn songsmith has kept several homes and musical identities in his lifetime, but only on the full-length MPLS does Dean showcase a unique and intimate sonic persona.

Raised on a small farm in an area called Knoppieslaagte outside of Johannesburg, amid the country’s political upheaval, Arron followed his muse stateside to play jazz in Boston. Disheartened by the general apathy people have to the genre [read more...]